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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After a fight at school leaves Marcus facing suspension, Marcus's mother takes him and his younger brother, who has Down syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit relatives they do not remember or have never met, and while there Marcus starts searching for his father, who left their family ten years ago and is somewhere on the island.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harassed at her middle school, not taken seriously at home, and with a "perfect" older brother, Matthew, to live up to, thirteen-year-old Claire has always felt like her life was cursed--then one morning, when she are her beloved father are talking at breakfast, her father suddenly falls over with a stroke, and suddenly everything changes.
5) The good war
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Ms. Peterson starts a video game club, the students are divided into two teams and simulate a war they know nothing about, but what starts out as friendly competition, takes an unexpected turn for the worst when one player takes the game too far.
6) Lucky
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Phoebe and her clique of privileged girlfriends get ready to graduate from eighth grade, a financial scandal threatens her family's security--as well as Phoebe's social status--but ultimately it teaches her the real meaning of friendship.
7) If only
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
From the beginning of eighth grade to the start of ninth, Maryland thirteen-year-old Corinna grieves for her mother, who died of cancer, and struggles to cope with changes to all aspects of her life brought on by her loss.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Wealthy Massie is determined to exclude middle class Claire, the daughter of her father's old friend, from her seventh-grade clique at a very exclusive private school in Westchester, New York, but after Massie steals her only friend, Claire strikes b
11) Goodbye stranger
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"
13) Mascot
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Six eighth graders outside Washington, DC, navigate through conflict and division focused on their school district's Native American mascot--Provided by publisher.
Six eighth graders in Washington, DC, navigate through the conflict and division sparked by a school assignment focused on their town's Native American mascot.
14) Dress coded
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion--
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