How to Survive Middle School

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

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5 stars
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Twelve-year-olds Oliver Beane and Frankie Figge are starting middle school in their suburban town of Lake Grove Glen, but from the beginning things seem a little weird, starting with the mysterious girl Matilda Sandoval who seems to know a lot about the boys, and continuing with a series of apparently random events that may not be random at all; somehow it all leads back to Preston Oglethorpe, a former student genius at their school who won the Nobel...

22. Crushed

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"Twelve-year-old Sophie attempts to get her best friend back by infiltrating a group of bullies and agreeing to a serious of dangerous social media dares"--
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"Loretta and her twin brother, Waylon, are headed to middle school. Loretta has always been quick with her fists and her wits. Since Waylon is on the small side, Loretta doesn't let anyone mess with him. But now she worries he won't survive without her by his side. Her secret plan: bulk him up with muscle over the summer. Little does she know that Waylon has a plan of his own. He'll show his sister he can take care of himself. As each puts their strategy...
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2.5 stars
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"Eleni is the kind of person who's always had a BFF--an automatic, guaranteed by-her-side person--at home, at school, and at camp. And since before she was even born, her very best friend has been Sylvie Bank. But when Sylvie's end-of-summer birthday party becomes the end of their friendship, Eleni can't picture starting middle school without her BFF by her side"--Provided by publisher.
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4.5 stars
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"A girl with social anxiety becomes the secret voice of the advice column in her middle school newspaper"--
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4.3 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.
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5 stars
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When the evil Mrs. Stricker threatens to send Junior, Rafe Khatchadorian's dog, back to the pound, Junior and Rafe go to obedience school to learn how to follow the rules.
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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.
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3 stars
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Sixth-grader Emilia Torres struggles with ADHD, her controlling abuela, her mother's work commitments, her father's distance after returning from deployment, evolving friendships, and a conflict over school redistricting.
Book cover for "Eliza Bing is (not) a star"
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Eliza Bing does her best to conquer the sixth grade, new friendships, afterschool taekwondo, and a role in the school play.
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.
Book cover for "Ellie Engle saves herself"
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Ellie Engle volume 1.
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5 stars
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As twelve-year-old Ellie Engle navigates seventh grade and her changing relationship with her best friend, a freak accident occurs and gives Ellie the ability to bring things back to life through touch.
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"Emily is the Editor-in-Chief of her Middle School podcast and an aspiring social media influencer. Initially, Emily is thrilled to discover that actress and influencer, Asha Jamil, is coming to talk at her school, but she is horrified to discover her visit is part of a conspiracy to stop students from becoming involved in a climate change protest. Emily struggles to balance her conviction that drawing attention to the climate change march is the...
Book cover for "Emmy in the key of code"
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5 stars
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Sixth-grader Emmy tries to find her place in a new school and to figure out how she can create her own kind of music using a computer.
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4.8 stars
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"Isaac and Marco already know sixth grade is going to change their lives. But it won't change things at home--not without each other's help. This year, star basketball player Isaac plans on finally keeping up with his schoolwork. Better grades will surely stop Isaac's parents from arguing all the time. Meanwhile, straight-A Marco vows on finally winning his father's approval by earning a spot on the school's basketball team. But will their friendship...
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"Junie Kim just wants to fit in. So she keeps her head down and tries not to draw attention to herself. But when racist graffiti appears at her middle school, Junie must decide between staying silent or speaking out. Then Junie's history teacher assigns a project and Junie decides to interview her grandparents, learning about their unbelievable experiences as kids during the Korean War. Junie comes to admire her grandma's fierce determination to overcome...
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4.5 stars
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A middle school boy's life is changed when Jessica, a girl disfigured by burns, starts attending his Catholic school while receiving treatment at a local hospital.
Book cover for "The first rule of punk"
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4.4 stars
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Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
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Frazzled volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Nervous about middle school because her family does not get her and her friends know exactly what they want to do, Abbie Wu searches for her own passion before discovering a knack for leadership when injustices in the cafeteria come to light.
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"Helen and Gracie are pranking their way through middle school when a stinky stunt lands them in the front office--again. Because nothing else has curbed their chaos, the principal orders the best friends to do the unthinkable: care about something. So they join the school's Community Action Club with plans to do as little as humanly possible. But when Helen is caught unprepared by an early period and bleeds through her pants--they were gold lamé!--the...