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1) Showing off
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Upside-down magic volume 3
Description
The Dunwiddle Magic School (fifth to eighth grade) is intended for children whose magic is "upside-down" like Dory (who turns into a combination of a kitten and dragon) and Pepper (whose uncontrollable "fiercing" terrifies everyone around her)--so the Show Off, where fifth grade students are supposed to showcase their skills, does not really seem like a good idea.
2) Wonder
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Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
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House of robots volume 1
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"Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student"--
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 13
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
It's Nikki's birthday, and it is up to her whether it is a blast or a bust.
7) Awkward
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Series
Berrybrook Middle School novels volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
210 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Description
After shunning Jaime, the school nerd, on her first day at a new middle school, Penelope Torres tries to blend in with her new friends in the art club, until the art club goes to war with the science club, of which Jaime is a member.
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Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
After her home is attacked by shapeshifting vampires, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng is sent to live with her aunt and cousin in Maryland, but the aspiring vampire hunter discovers that middle school is harder than it appears on television, especially whenshe has to avoid detention and turn her classmates into warriors before they become vampire food.
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Series
Winnie Zeng volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Armed with her fledgling powers, a magic cookbook, and the mentorship of a talking rabbit, sixth-grader Winnie Zeng must embrace her heritage and the powers of her ancestors to save her town from an evil spirit of Chinese legend.
10) Star-crossed
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When Mattie is cast as Romeo in an eighth-grade play, she is confused to find herself increasingly attracted to Gemma, a new classmate who is playing Juliet.
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Series
Dork diaries volume 10
Description
Nikki tries to be a pet sitter, but realizes it's harder work than she thought.
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Series
Dork diaries volume 3.5
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
184 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Nikki Maxwell has been writing in a diary since the start of the school year, and she usually takes it everywhere she goes - so she can't believe it when one morning she can't find her diary! The hunt is on, and while she looks, pursuing various theories about where it could be, Nikki can't help putting together a list of important diary-keeping lessons to remember in case of missing diary emergencies like this one. How to Dork Your Diary is chock...
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Series
Tapper twins volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
261 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
An oral history that reports, through transcribed recordings, text messages, photographs, illustrations, screenshots, and more, on the First (and last) Annual Culvert Prep Middle School Scavenger Hunt For Charity, and the adventures of twelve-year-old twins Reese and Claudia Tapper as their highly competitive teams scour New York for treasure.
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Theodore Boone volume 6
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When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a suspicious increase in scores at another local middle school, Theo finds himself thrust in the middle of a cheating scandal. With insider knowledge and his future on the line, Theo must follow his keen instincts to do whats right.
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Series
Dork diaries volume 12
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
As Nikki plans how she's going to spend her summer, things get more complicated after she starts hanging out with a visiting student.
17) Slacker
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Series
Slacker volume 1
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
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