How to Survive Middle School

Books about the Middle School experience found in the Juvenile fiction collection

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Book cover for "Amelia's middle-school graduation yearbook"
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Average Rating:
2.8 stars
Description:
"Long before there was Diary of a Wimpy Kid or The Dork Diaries, there was Amelia's Notebook, the original handwritten diary format with a mix of words and pictures on every page. On the 20th anniversary of Amelia's Notebook, Amelia finally graduates from middle school!"--Back cover.
Book cover for "Big Nate"
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4.6 stars
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Supremely confident middle-school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement. Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
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Hank Zipzer volume 17.
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As he is preparing to attend middle school, Hank, who has learning differences and academic difficulties, gets an unexpected opportunity to audition for a performing arts school where his creativity and humor will be appreciated and nurtured.
Book cover for "Charlie Joe Jackson's guide to not reading"
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5 stars
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Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far.
Book cover for "Diary of a wimpy kid"
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4.4 stars
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Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Book cover for "The double life of Danny Day"
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Danny Day, age eleven, lives every day twice, which allows him to skip class, play video games for hours, and try to bring down bullies at his new middle school.
Book cover for "Elle Campbell wins their weekend"
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Elle Campbell is a non-binary seventh-grader who is excited their hero non-binary star Nuri Grena is coming to their town for a book signing--it was Nuri's story that inspired Elle to declare themselves and they are not about to let detention stop them and their friends from meeting Nuri.
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Geeked out volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In a post-apocalyptic world, AV (Anti-Violence) Club members Tip, Mindy, Owen, and Xen develop semi-super powers and use them to try to save their middle school.
Book cover for "Henry Hubble's book of troubles"
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5 stars
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"Meet Henry Hubble. He's in a world of trouble. From class-trip bathroom breaks to Halloween-costume catastrophes to lunchroom-table love drama, Henry is always in the middle of a debacle. That is . . . until this journal (yes, the very journal you hold in your hands) makes Henry a media mogul and one of the most popular sixth graders in the world"--
Book cover for "Honest June"
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Honest June volume 1.
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Eleven-year-old June Jackson has always been good at making the people around her happy, even if that means avoiding telling them what you really think, but as she starts middle school her fairy godmother puts a spell on her that forces her to speak only the truth--even to her friends and family.
Book cover for "Join the club, Maggie Diaz"
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Maggie Diaz volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"Maggie Diaz of Miami is excited to start seventh-grade with her best friends, Zoey and Julian, and finally getting a cellphone of her own; but after school her friends are wrapped up in their various clubs, her mother is attending college, and her older sister Caro has her sports and tutoring, so Maggie decides that she will find a club to join as well--but trying out ALL the different clubs while still juggling school work is exhausting and confusing--and...
Book cover for "Katie Friedman gives up texting! (and lives to tell about it)"
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"Charlie Joe Jackson's best friend Katie Friedman is tough, but can she convince her fellow middle schoolers to give up their phones for a week?"--
Book cover for "Lights, camera, middle school!"
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4.3 stars
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Babymouse joins the school Film Club and writes the greatest cinematic masterpiece of all time! But when the movie gets shown to the entire school, will it be a box office hit or a flop?
Book cover for "Middle-school cool"
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1 stars
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Reporters for an experimental middle school's student newspaper face an ethical dilemma when they uncover a shocking secret about their eccentric principal that could tarnish the reputation of their beloved Kaboom Academy if revealed.
Book cover for "Second to none"
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Twelve-year-old DJ has a reputation at his middle school for being able to solve just about any problem, so when somebody starts systematically sabotaging the kids who are the usual "first-raters," it's up to DJ and his crew to get to the bottom of what's happening.
Book cover for "Six kids and a stuffed cat"
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Six misfits get stuck together in a middle school restroom and discover friendship. Includes playscript of the story. Six misfits get stuck together in a middle school restroom and discover friendship.
Book cover for "The smartest kid in the universe"
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Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.
Book cover for "Strangeville School is totally normal"
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"Harvey Hill's first day at Strangeville Middle School doesn't go quite as expected when he discovers it's full of various creatures and odd happenings, including a particularly nefarious supply clososet"--
Book cover for "The Tapper twins run for president"
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Series:
Tapper twins volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
A humorous oral history that chronicles twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper's heated competition to become sixth grade class president of their New York City private school, through text messages, photographs, screenshots, and more.