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Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2025]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jina's school is getting new playground equipment with no plans to include students in the decision on which equipment to get, so Jina decides to start a protest movement, leading to a climbing wall and a zip line for their school.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2025]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Jina sees how much food gets thrown away at school and even notices wasting food at home, she and her friends start a Share Table so kids can donate their uneaten food instead of throwing it in the trash.
Author
Series
Jo Jo Makoons volume 4
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Jo Jo and her classmates are excited that the Elders' Tribal Center has changed the rules for the talent show to invite the whole tribe to perform. But the rules have also changed in Jo Jo's classroom, where instead of their teacher, they have a substitute. Since Jo Jo has a knack for being helpful, she puts her mind to helping her classmates decide on their talents--but can she manage to follow the substitute teacher's rules? Even if no one else...
Author
Series
Sona Sharma volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sona's class is excited when Miss Rao announces that there will be an election for class leader. But when Pradeep, who is always boasting, says he would be the best choice, Sona knows she doesn't want him to win. So Sona stands up and volunteers to be a candidate, too! Strangely, her best friends, Joy and Renu, don't seem happy about it--in fact, they stop talking to Sona altogether. When it turns out that Joy also wants to run for class leader,...
Author
Series
Graveyard Girls volume 1
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As the 100th anniversary of the electrocution of the town's most infamous killer approaches, an anonymous text message lures five twelve-year-olds to the cemetery, inspiring the first meeting of the Graveyard Girls and setting the stage for a terrifying tale from Whisper that they will never forget.
Author
Series
Chronicles of a lizard nobody volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"When Principal Wombat makes monitor lizards Zeke, Daniel, and Alicia hall monitors, Zeke gives up on popularity at his new school. Brought in as part of a district blending program, the monitor lizards were mostly ignored before. Reptiles aren't bullied any more than other students, but they do stick out among zebras, ostriches, and elk. Why would Principal Wombat make them hall monitors? Alicia explains that it's because mammals are afraid of being...
Author
Series
Scare School diaries volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Bash is a young ghost who has never been good at scaring people is nervous about his first day at scare school, where he will learn to master the necessary skills to become a successful ghost.
10) Truly Tyler
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Tyler started getting into art and hanging out with Emmie, his friends and teammates have been giving him a hard time. He wonders why can't he nerd out on drawing and play ball. Emmie is psyched that she gets to work on a comics project with her crush, Tyler. But she gets the feeling that his friends don't think she's cool enough. Maybe it's time for a total reinvention"--Provided by publisher.
11) Barakah Beats
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder around the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
Author
Series
Bad food volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For years Slice, Scoop. and Totz have heard the spooky stories of the zombie food that walk the halls of Belching Walrus Elementary, but never thought anything of it. When Richard the dictionary and Spex pay an unexpected visit to the cafeteria, our trio of foodie friends know something is up. Someone (or something) is trailing ketchup all over the library! Could this be the legendary zombie food? Well, they are certainly going to find out."--Back...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Siena decides to stay with Patrick, her high school sweetheart, after he moves to Austin thinking their relationship will naturally fizzle out, but after visiting him throughout the year, Siena begins to see a different side of Patrick--one that has her falling in love with him all over again.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Penny Purple taught us how to be a purple person. A person who finds common ground with others while celebrating what makes them unique! Now Penny and her pals will put their purple skills into action in their very favorite place--their classroom! How do you make a purple school? It will take curiosity, sharing, hard work, and lots of laughs"--
Author
Publisher
James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When an Indigenous group demands the local schools name be changed, rifts are formed within the community and the legacies of who we honour from history are challenged. This mystery/adventure set in a small BC lumber town is a fictional account of an event that is similar to many across the country - a sudden conflict over a school name and the historic figure it recognizes."--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This laugh-out-loud debut romance introduces perfectly imperfect Payal Desai, whose plan to get her long-time crush to finally notice her is destined for success, but only if she ignores her budding feelings for her archnemesis...Payal Desai has had a crush on popular, athletic, all-around perfect Jonathan Slate ever since he smiled at her in freshman year Spanish class. At a party during the spring break of her junior year, Payal finally works up...
17) Out for blood
Author
Series
Middle school bites volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Tom the Vam-Wolf-Zom is juggling the daily routines of middle school life while also trying to explore his newly acquired powers, but Darcourt, the werewolf who bit him, and Tanner Gantt, his archenemy, are not making it easy.
Author
Series
Mars Patel volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When Mars Patel's friend Aurora goes missing, he and the rest of his detention crew band together to find her. But a talent for practical jokes and avoiding their school's numerous surveillance cameras will only take the friends so far. Kids all over the world are going missing, and it soon becomes clear that that the disappearances have something to do with Pruitt Prep, the elite school created by tech billionaire Oliver Pruitt, who happens to be...
Author
Publisher
Bright Light, Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Ravi, who eats aphids for breakfast and brushes his mandibles instead of his teeth, is certain that ladybugs don't go to preschool, but with his mother's gentle encouragement, he discovers several new bug-loving friends.
20) Slouch
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As the tallest girl in the seventh grade, twelve-year-old Stevie receives unwanted attention that weighs on her self-esteem as she navigates family issues and struggles to stand tall on the debate team.
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