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Crash

Jerry Spinelli · 162 pages

Take a look behind the bully in this modern classic from Newbery medalist Jerry Spinelli that packs a punch. And don't miss the highly anticipated new novel, Dead Wednesday. Cocky seventh-grade super-jock Crash Coogan got his nickname the day he used his first football helmet to knock his cousin Bridget flat on her backside. And he has been running over people ever since, especially Penn Webb,

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Twerp

Mark Goldblatt

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Liar & Spy

Rebecca Stead · 196 pages

When seventh grader Georges (the S is silent) moves into a Brooklyn apartment building, he meets Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy. Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Tracking the mysterious Mr. X, who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: how far is too far to go for your only fri

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Restart

Gordon Korman

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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Reel Life Starring Us

Lisa Greenwald · 320 pages

Dina is used to being popular but starting a new school in eighth grade is difficult, especially where cliques rule, and although working with "queen bee" Chelsea on a video project should help, Chelsea is hiding huge family problems that could mean trouble for both girls.

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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The Fourth Stall

Chris Rylander · 304 pages

Chicago Cubs fan "Mac" Barrett, a fifth-grade "Godfather" who runs a favor-granting business out of the fourth stall of the boys' bathroom, is challenged by the bullying teenaged leader of a gambling ring.

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Out of My Mind

Sharon M. Draper · 305 pages

Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school, but no one knows it. Most people — her teachers and doctors included — don't think she's capable of learning, and until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lesso

BullyingMiddle GradeFriendship and BetrayalFirst Person Narrator
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Holes

Louis Sachar · 240 pages

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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The Ugly Truth

Jeff Kinney · 219 pages

###German-language description: Greg hat´s offenbar eilig, schnell älter zu werden. Aber ist das wirklich so eine gute Idee?Jedenfalls muss er feststellen: Erwachsenwerden ist gar nicht lustig! Denn plötzlich soll Greg "mehr Verantwortung" übernehmen, mehr duschen und Deo benutzen, in der Schule peinliche Aufklärungsvideos ansehen und Bücher über die Pubertät lesen. Und dann verkündet seine Mutte

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Freak the Mighty

Rodman Philbrick · 176 pages

At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak with a leg disability because his, birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, When the two meet they become close friends and they figure out that when they are combined they create a powerful force and team

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Blubber

Judy Blume · 153 pages

Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

Robert Dugoni · 448 pages

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalFirst Person NarratorHeartwarming
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Wonder

R.J. Palacio · 330 pages

## **Don't judge a boy by his face.** ## Auggie is a kid who just wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things, like play on his Xbox and watch TV and eat. But ordinary kids don't make people stare just by walking down the block. They don't scare kids by looking at his face. They *definitely* haven't had over 20 surgeries by age 10. But when Auggie starts going to school for the first time in h

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson · 144 pages

The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeMale Lead
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Bad Girls

Jacqueline Wilson · 177 pages

Mandy has been picked on in school for as long as she can remember so she is delighted when cheeky, daring Tanys wants to be her friend, but Tanya has a secret that scares Mandy as much as the girls who bully her.

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Geography Club

Brent Hartinger · 226 pages

Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School.Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students, too. There's his best friend Min, who reveals that she is bisexual, and her soccer-playing girlfriend Terese. Then there's Terese's politically active fr

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalFirst Person NarratorHeartwarming
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Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life

Rachel Renee Russell · 282 pages

Nikki Maxwell is starting eighth grade at a new school—and her very first diary is packed with hilarious stories and art in this SUPER SQUEE updated edition of the first book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! Nikki confesses all in her first diary ever: her epic battle with her mom for an iPhone, meeting her new soon-to-be BFFs Chloe and Zoey, falling for adorably sweet

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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Awkward

Svetlana Chmakova · 210 pages

Penelope Torres (or Peppi, for short,) is a new student at a new school. Unfortunately, the first day didn't turn out so good. She trips and drops her stuff, and a nice boy, Jaime Tompson, was so kind to pick up her stuff and hand it to her. The bullies made fun of Jaime, and called him "Nerder," and as Peppi didn't want to look bad, especially on her first day, she took her stuff and ran. For wee

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeHeartwarming
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The Clique

Lisi Harrison · 220 pages

Enter the world of the clique - where the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.

BullyingFriendship and BetrayalMiddle GradeContemporary Fiction
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Cloud Busting

Malorie Blackman · 172 pages

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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.

BullyingMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorMale Lead
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Don't Call Me Ishmael!

Michael Gerard Bauer · 272 pages

By the time ninth grade begins, Ishmael Leseur knows it won't be long before Barry Bagsley, the class bully, says, "Ishmael? What kind of wussy-crap name is that?" Ishmael's perfected the art of making himself virtually invisible. But all that changes when James Scobie joins the class. Unlike Ishmael, James has no sense of fear—he claims it was removed during an operation.Now nothing will stop Jam

BullyingMiddle GradeFirst Person NarratorMale Lead
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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.

Friendship and BetrayalBullyingMiddle GradeFirst Person Narrator
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