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Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After!

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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 FormatFairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeFunny
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My Pants Are Haunted

Jim Benton · 148 pages

Jamie is crushing on Hudson. Someone too-gross-to-be- named is crushing on Jamie. And Hudson is crushing on ... Princess Turd of Turdsylvania (a.k.a. The Prettiest Girl in the World). Middle school may be grim, but it's no fairy tale. And crazy doesn't even begin to cover it. Jamie Kelly writes in her diary about her crush on Mr. Prince, the new student teacher at Mackerel Middle School, and she f

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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Diary of a Fairy Godmother

Esme Raji Codell, Rachael Lillis · 170 pages

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The Popularity Papers

Amy Ignatow · 206 pages

Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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Half Upon a Time

James Riley

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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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.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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Of Mice and Magic

Ursula Vernon

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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The Unusual Suspects

Michael Buckley · 290 pages

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No Place for Magic

E.D. Baker · 250 pages

When Emma and her beloved frog-turned-prince Eadric travel to Upper Montevista to ask for Eadric's parents' blessing on their marriage, they find his homeland in chaos: Eadric's annoying little brother Bradston has been kidnapped by trolls! Worse, his mother won't let Emma use magic, even to rescue Bradston, and Eadric seems suddenly a bit too fond of the girls from his past. But as they travel th

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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If the Shoe Fits

Sarah Mlynowski · 171 pages

In this fresh, funny new middle grade series, bestselling YA author Sarah Mlynowski writes for a younger audience for the first time! In each book, Abby and her younger brother Jonah visit the magic mirror in their basement at night, and the mirror transports them inside a different fairy tale. In the second magical adventure, Abby and Jonah are thrown into in Cinderella's story. But a broken foot

Fairy Tale RetellingMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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Sixsational

Meg Cabot · 238 pages

The novel that inspired the hit movie!Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise. First Mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultur

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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Double Down

Jeff Kinney · 224 pages

The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wnats her son to put down the controller and explore his "creative side". As if that's not scary enough, Halloween is just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When he discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can Greg get his mom off hi

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFunnySeries
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Rapunzel's Revenge

Shannon Hale, Dean Hale · 144 pages

Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother . . . or the woman she thought was her mother. Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the garden wall . . . a rather enormous garden wall. And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she

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Flunked

Jen Calonita · 256 pages

Tossed into Cinderella's stepmother's reform school for fairy-tale villains after stealing a hair clip, twelve-year-old petty thief Gilly meets fellow students Jax and Kayla, who reveal the school's true evil purpose. Book #1 When petty thief Gilly, who lives with five younger brothers and sisters in a run-down boot, gets caught stealing, she is sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform Scho

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The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777

Kristiana Gregory · 173 pages

Eleven-year-old Abigail Jane Stewart records the despair and hope of the difficult winter between 1777-1778--when she witnessed George Washington readying his young soldiers on the frozen fields of Valley Forge.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFemale LeadSeries
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Anastasia Krupnik

Lois Lowry · 128 pages

Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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Catherine, Called Birdy

Karen Cushman · 218 pages

¨Catherine's mother wants to teach her the skills of the lady of the manor and to prepare her to be a gentle and patient wife. Her father only wants her to be married off, and profitably. Catherine herself hopes to become a painter, a Crusader, a maker of songs, a peddlar, a monk, a ministrel, a wart charmer... Of all the possibilities, she has ruled out only one: being sold like cheese to the hig

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The Lottie Project

Jacqueline Wilson · 203 pages

I don't want to do a boring old project. Who wants to be like everyone else? I'm doing a diary ... Hi! I'm Charlie (DON'T call me Charlotte - ever!). History is boring, right? Wrong! The Victorians weren't all deadly dull and drippy. Lottie certainly isn't. She's eleven - like me - but she's left school and has a job as a nursery maid. Her life is really hard, just work work work, but I bet she'd

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFunnyFemale Lead
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The Brilliant World of Tom Gates

Liz Pichon · 256 pages

“Tom Gates can easily be seen as a British cousin to Jeff Kinney’s Greg Heffley.” —Publishers Weekly Meet Tom Gates. When his teachers don’t have their beady eyes on him, he likes to draw pictures and write about stuff. Tom’s teachers think he is easily distracted and “lacks focus,” but that’s a bit harsh—can he help it if his grumpy big sister, Delia, made him late for school (again), or that

Diary FormatMiddle GradeFunnySeries
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The Last Ever After

Soman Chainani · 677 pages

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Lost

Ron Vitale · 190 pages

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