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Every Boy's Got One

Meg Cabot · 332 pages

"When cartoonist Jane Harris is asked by her best friend Holly to accompany her on a trip to the Italian Riviera where she is eloping with her long term boyfriend, Mark, Jane jumps at the chance: she gets to be maid of honour and to see Europe."--- Back Cover.

Never Do Anything, Ever

Jim Benton · 132 pages

A hilarious middle-schooler's diary about her stinky beagle, mad best friend, disgustingly lovely rival and unrequited crush on the eighth-best-looking boy in the class.

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.

Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages

Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas

Louise Rennison · 183 pages

The saga of fourteen-year-old Georgia Nicolson continues as she travels to Scotland on a nightmarish family vacation, confesses her anxiety over being the girlfriend of a sex god, and tests the limits of true friendship.

Luv Ya Bunches

Lauren Myracle · 335 pages

Four friends--each named after a flower--navigate the ups and downs of fifth grade. Told through text messages, blog posts, screenplay, and straight narrative.

The Bully Book

Eric Kahn Gale · 230 pages

In this story told alternately through journal entries and instructions from a bullying manual, sixth-grader Eric embarks on a quest to find the reason why he is being teased and tormented in middle school.

P.S. Longer Letter Later

Paula Danziger, Ann M. Martin · 237 pages

Twelve-year-old best friends Elizabeth and Tara-Starr continue their friendship through letter-writing after Tara-Starr's family moves to another state.

Rose Under Fire

Elizabeth Wein · 414 pages

When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

Judy Blume · 149 pages

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are pink. She’s just moved from New York City to Farbook, New Jersey, and is anxious to fit in with her new friends—Nancy, Gretchen, and Janie. When they form a secret club to talk about private subjects like boys, bras, and getting their first periods, Margaret is happy to belong. But none of them can b

Rodrick Rules

Jeff Kinney · 224 pages

Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.

Cover Story

Susan Rigetti · 368 pages

Love, Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli · 288 pages

LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing, Stargirl mixes memories of her bittersweet time in Mica, Arizona, with involvements with new

Dear Pen Pal

Heather Vogel Frederick · 406 pages

Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.

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

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.

Tom Gates is Absolutely Fantastic [at Some Things]

Liz Pichon

Tom Gates is really looking forward to his school activity trip. He makes a new art, banana doodles. He also wants to find out where his sister, Delia, works and if he is really getting new neighbours.

Nell of Gumbling: My Holiday Diary

Emma Steinkellner

The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie

Jaclyn Moriarty · 424 pages

Thea Stilton and the Star Castaways

Thea Stilton · 176 pages

The Misfits

James Howe · 274 pages

Four students who do not fit in at their small-town middle school decide to create a third party for the student council elections to represent all students who have ever been called names.

Click Here: To Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade

Denise Vega · 217 pages

Seventh-grader Erin Swift writes about her friends and classmates in her private blog, but when it accidentally gets posted on the school Intranet site, she learns some important lessons about friendship.

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Lemony Snicket · 224 pages

A Warning from the Publisher: Many readers have questions about Lemony Snicket, author of the distressing serial concerning the trials of the charming but unlucky Baudelaire orphans, published under the collective title A Series of Unfortunate Events. Before purchasing, borrowing, or stealing this book, you should be aware that it contains the answers to some of those questions, such as the fol

Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue!

Tom Angleberger · 224 pages