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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The assignment: pick a single object to save in an emergency. Each student has an answer. For one, it's a photograph. For another, it's his trading cards - no, his whole bookcase. Wait! Is that even allowed? Students talk, argue, stand by their choices, and change their minds as they discover unexpected facets of one another and of themselves. With insight and humor, Linda Sue Park captures the voices of an inclusive classroom in verse inspired by...
2) Like magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Three ten-year-old girls find a mysterious box in the school library and put some of their own precious things inside. The treasures may lead them to something more: true friendship.
4) Linked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
5) Squint
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Language
English
Description
Flint Minett has keratoconus, an eye disease, but desperately wants to win a comic book art contest so that he and his new friend McKell Panganiban will be better accepted at middle school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Natty copes with her parents splitting up, moving in with her grandparents, and starting a new school by maintaining and spreading a positive attitude, but she soon realizes it is more important to feel her feelings than it is to be eternally peppy.
8) Dear friends
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Eleni is the kind of person who's always had a BFF--an automatic, guaranteed by-her-side person--at home, at school, and at camp. And since before she was even born, her very best friend has been Sylvie Bank. But when Sylvie's end-of-summer birthday party becomes the end of their friendship, Eleni can't picture starting middle school without her BFF by her side"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she's the only Indian American student, and home, with her family's traditions and holidays. But Reha's parents don't understand why she's conflicted--they only notice when Reha doesn't meet their strict expectations. Reha feels disconnected from her mother, or Amma, although their names are linked--Reha means "star" and Punam means "moon"--but they are a universe apart. Then Reha finds out that her...
11) The new Ashley
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ashley is thrilled with fashionable Sophie, a new girl from Los Angeles, but her friends are not impressed and consider her a stuck-up intruder on their friendship--will a spa sleepover at Sophie's house break the ice or cause a blow-up?
Author
Series
Picture perfect volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Molly Larsen has a plan to avoid being friendless in her new middle school--immediately identify and befriend the IT girl--but Molly's plan isn't foolproof, and her scheme may result in her being embarrassingly branded THAT girl instead"--
Author
Series
Pages between us volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disappointed to learn that they will not be in many classes together when starting the sixth grade, best friends Piper and Olivia stay in touch by sharing a journal only to realize that their respective goals are taking them further apart.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighth grader Jayson Linden has had a stutter his whole life. Though his fellow classmates can sometimes be mean, Jayson tries not to let it get to him; he enjoys playing basketball and spending time with his friends. Then Jayson's best friend, Gloria, is kicked off the debate team because of her stutter and Jayson starts to notice other injustices happening at their school. In order to make their middle school a more inclusive place and to stand...
15) You first
Author
Series
Picture perfect volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixth-grader Gigi worries that her best friend Finn is replacing her with her new friends on the soccer team, she thinks that their friendship is over--but both girls learn that growing up means staying close despite new interests.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delaney takes her position as the sixth-grade representative on her middle school student council seriously, and when she discovers that her lab partner is being cyber-bullied she enlists the help of the other sleepover girls, Maren, Ashley, and Willow, to shed some light on the problem, and expose the bullies.
17) Best frenemies
Author
Series
Picture perfect volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Side by side by side? Alice Kinney shouldn't be nervous about starting middle school. She's got her best friend, Cassidy, by her side, so it can't be that bad, right? Except, Cass isn't at her side. For the first time since kindergarten, Alice and Cassady aren't in any of the same classes, and Alice is stuck with a brand-new crew in honors class! The girls try to stay in touch from across the hallway with the help of a shared notebook--but when Alice...
18) Missing Okalee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When Pheobe's sister, Okalee, drowns in the river during their annual spring celebration, Phoebe is wracked with guilt to the point that she loses her singing voice"--
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