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Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf: A Year Told Through Stuff

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Love and Other Fiascos with Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-Chang

Amy Ignatow · 202 pages

Junior-high girls Julie and Lydia deal with romance issues as Julie and Roland become an official couple and Lydia's mom announces she is getting married. Book #6

Middle GradeIllustrated BookBlended FamilyFunny
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Smile

Raina Telgemeier · 213 pages

Middle GradeIllustrated BookFirst Person NarratorFunny
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Dork Diaries Box Set (Books 1-6)

Rachel Renee Russell

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The Super-Nice are Super-Annoying

Jim Benton · 125 pages

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Just Grace

Charise Mericle Harper · 141 pages

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Clarice Bean Spells Trouble

Lauren Child · 189 pages

Clarice Bean, aspiring actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she attempts to help a friend in need by following the rules of the fictional, "exceptionordinarily" spy, Ruby Redfort.

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Kristy's Big Day

Ann M. Martin · 153 pages

When her mother gets married, Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club have their hands full taking care of fourteen children at the wedding.

Middle GradeBlended FamilyFirst Person NarratorFunny
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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.

Middle GradeIllustrated BookFunnyFirst Person Narrator
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Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze

Alan Silberberg · 1,525 pages

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My Life as a Book

Janet Tashjian

Dubbed a "reluctant reader" by his teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends summer vacation learning important lessons even though he does not complete his summer reading list.

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Bounce

Natasha Friend · 192 pages

Thirteen-year-old Evyn's world is turned upside-down when her father, widowed since she was a toddler, suddenly decides to marry a woman with six children, move with Ev and her brother from Maine to Boston, and enroll her in private school.

Middle GradeFunnyFirst Person NarratorBlended Family
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Clementine, Friend of the Week

Sara Pennypacker · 161 pages

With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.

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A Very Merry Christmas

Geronimo Stilton · 115 pages

While Geronimo Stilton is on his way to New York City to meet his family for the holidays, his luggage gets switched with another mouse's, and he must scurry all over the Big Apple trying to find all his presents.

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I Even Funnier

James Patterson, Chris Grabenstein · 356 pages

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Dory Fantasmagory

Abby Hanlon · 160 pages

Dory, the youngest in her family, is a girl with a very active imagination, and she spends the summer playing with her imaginary friend, pretending to be a dog, battling monsters, and generally driving her family nuts. As the youngest in her family, Dory really wants attention, and more than anything she wants her brother and sister to play with her. But she's too much of a baby for them, so she'

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The List of Things That Will Not Change

Rebecca Stead · 240 pages

EIGHT STARRED REVIEWS! The reassuring book kids and families need right now."An absolute original . . . a story that kids will love." --R. J. Palacio, bestselling author of WonderAt a time when everything is changing for Bea and her family, the important things will always stay the same. A soon-to-be classic by the Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me.After her parents' divorce, Bea's

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How to Survive Summer Camp

Jacqueline Wilson · 174 pages

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Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Kate DiCamillo · 240 pages

It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw it coming - the vacuum cleaner, that is. As for self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, she has read every issue of the comic book 'Terrible Things Can Happen to You!' so she is just the right person to step in and save him. What neither can predict is that Ulysses (the sq

Middle GradeIllustrated BookFunnyFemale Lead
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Big Nate: In the Zone

Lincoln Peirce · 216 pages

Nate always on a bad strike, but when he touches Chad's lucky foot, everything comes together. The question is, "How long will this strike last?" Find out in Big Nate in the Zone.

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Girls Acting Catty

Leslie Margolis · 179 pages

Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.

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Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!

James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts, Laura Park · 281 pages

Rafe croyait que la 6e avait été la pire année de sa vie. Mais avec cette année de 5e qui commence, il s'apprête à connaître le pire du pire ! Sa mère perd son emploi et la famille doit déménager. Voilà Rafe inscrit dans le collège d'une grande ville où, comme il dit, les élèves tels que lui finissent immanquablement en chair à pâté ! Heureusement, grâce à son ancienne prof d'anglais, Rafe est à l

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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

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Amber Brown Is Green With Envy

Paula Danziger · 151 pages

Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.

Middle GradeBlended FamilyFunnyFemale Lead

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