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Nell of Gumbling: My Holiday Diary

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Gravity Falls: Journal 3

Alex Hirsch, Rob Renzetti

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFantasySeries
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Genius Ideas [Mostly]

Liz Pichon

One of my favourite Tom Gates books, 10 stars.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeSeriesIllustrated Book
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The Awesomely Awful Melodies of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang

Amy Ignatow · 203 pages

Lydia and Julie decide to start a rock band with their friends, unfortunately, none of them are very good musicians and suddenly the whole school knows about their band and wants to hear them play.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeIllustrated BookSeries
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The Quillan Games

D.J. MacHale · 496 pages

With more questions than answers about Saint Dane, Bobby travels to the territory of Quillan and is forced to play games where only the winner survives.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFantasySeries
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David's Diary #3: The Big Bully

Bunmi Laditan; illustrated by Elisa Rocchi

Diary FormatMiddle GradeIllustrated BookSeries
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The Third Wheel

Jeff Kinney · 224 pages

Love is in the air - but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on the big night. His best friend, Rowley, doesn't have any prospects either, but that's a small consolation. An unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves Ro

Diary FormatMiddle GradeIllustrated BookSeries
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From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess

Meg Cabot · 182 pages

Twelve-year-old Olivia is a half orphan who's never met her father. Everything changes when Mia Thermopolis, Princess of Genovia, invites Olivia to finally meet her father.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeIllustrated BookSeries
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Dork Diaries Box Set (Books 1-6)

Rachel Renee Russell

Diary FormatMiddle GradeIllustrated BookSeries
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Diary of a Fairy Godmother

Esme Raji Codell, Rachael Lillis · 170 pages

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFantasyFunny
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Black Maria

Diana Wynne Jones · 223 pages

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFantasyFunny
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Diary of a Mad Brownie

Bruce Coville · 241 pages

In a story presented through diary entries and creative documents, Angus the magical brownie inherits a particularly messy human to look after and resolves to break the curse that binds them together. By the best-selling author of My Teacher Is an Alien.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFantasyFunny
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Luv, Amelia Luv, Nadia

Marissa Moss

Ten-year-old Amelia exchanges letters and postcards with her long-distance friend Nadia. Includes actual letters folded and inserted into envelopes.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeIllustrated BookSeries
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Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time

James Gurney · 159 pages

Professor Denison, the intrepid 19th-century explorer, is back! Some time ago, the professor discovered a lost island where humans and dinosaurs dwell in harmony. Now the professor and Bix, his dinosaur companion, have been summoned to the forbidden empire of Chandara. But when they lose their invitation from the emperor, the adventurers must cross the border penniless and in disguise. A vivid

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFantasyIllustrated Book
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The Seeing Stone

Kevin Crossley-Holland · 340 pages

In late twelfth-century England, a thirteen-year-old boy named Arthur recounts how Merlin gives him a magical seeing stone which shows him images of the legendary King Arthur, the events of whose life seem to have many parallels to his own.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFantasySeries
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The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

Anne Mazer · 128 pages

Diary FormatMiddle GradeSeriesFunny
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Star Wars: Jedi Academy, The Phantom Bully

Jeffrey Brown · 176 pages

Diary FormatMiddle GradeSeriesFunny
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Adventures from the Land of Stories: The Mother Goose Diaries

Chris Colfer · 128 pages

Get a front row seat to the adventures of the mischievous Mother Goose, a fan favorite character in the #1 New York Timesbestselling series, The Land of Stories. Mother Goose has had centuries of thrilling adventures and finally she's allowing her favorite readers to take a peek at all her secrets. Who else gossiped with Queen Elizabeth I, taught geography to Napoleon, marched for equal rights

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFantasyFunny
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The Magic Thief

Sarah Prineas · 419 pages

A young thief is drawn into a life of magic and adventure after picking the pocket of the powerful wizard Nevery Flinglas, who has returned from exile to attempt to reverse the troubling decline of magic in Wellmet City.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFantasySeries
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Big Nate: In a Class by Himself

Lincoln Peirce · 224 pages

Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeSeriesIllustrated Book
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Pirate Invasion

Marcus Emerson, Noah Child, Sal Hunter · 128 pages

Diary FormatMiddle GradeSeriesFunny
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Hate That Cat

Sharon Creech · 164 pages

Jack is back at school and thankfully Miss Stretchberry is his teacher again. Jack likes her! But he disagrees with her about one thing ... CATS. Jack hates cats. Or at least he does until he gets to know some kittens and reads some poetry about cats.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeSeriesFunny
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Bullies and Buddies

Zack Zombie, Herobrine Books

Diary FormatMiddle GradeSeriesFunny

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