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While working on a school project about Bolingbroke's supernatural history, best-friend eighth graders Val and Laurie accidentally unleash a demonic presence connected to a series of mysterious tragedies throughout their town's sordid history and must find a way to return things to normal.
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Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.
3) Virtually me
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Shadow Mountain Publishing
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English
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"Five tweens navigate the pandemic by attending an experimental virtual reality school"--
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Scholastic Inc
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English
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"Seventh graders Owen, Gemma, Ally, and Todd, who have nothing in common and barely know each other, must work together and follow the instructions of an anonymous blackmailer. None of them want to go along with the blackmailer's instructions, but each of them has a secret they must protect at all costs"--
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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English
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Lovelock, Nevada. A boy walks into the fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery. By day's end, the body burning in the desert hills is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel. A seemingly unremarkable man, he left a university professorship in Reno to teach middle school, but connected with just one of his students: Sal Prentiss, a lonely sixth grader who lives with his uncles on a desolate ranch in the hills. Sal found Adam's...
6) Invisible
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2023-2024 Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees
Back to School
Little Maverick Graphic Novels 2023
Watauga Middle School 2023-2024 TX Star List
Back to School
Little Maverick Graphic Novels 2023
Watauga Middle School 2023-2024 TX Star List
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How can you be yourself when no one sees the real you? Five students meet in the school cafeteria when they're forced to complete their school community service hours. There's George: the brain Sara: the loner Dayara: the tough kid Nico: the rich kid And Miguel, the jock. They immediately know that they have nothing in common with each other... even though their school administration has decided that they all belong together. None of the kids wants...
10) The prettiest
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When a list appears online ranking the top fifty prettiest girls in the eighth grade, everything turns upside down. Eve Hoffman, ranked number one, can't ignore how everyone is suddenly talking about her looks. Sophie, the most popular girl in school, feels lower than ever when she's bullied for being ranked number two. Nessa Flores-Brady didn't even make the list, but she doesn't care -- or does she? The three girls ban together to find out who made...
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Kingdoms and empires volume 4
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Levine Querido
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English
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Publisher Annotation: During a sleepover, a letter comes to five children begging for the urgent assistance of Esther Mettlestone-Staranise; she must arrive before 10am on Monday to save an entire town of elves trapped under layers of silver. And a regular-size boy who, soon after seeing the children, dies. Oscar is that boy who skipped school in our world on Monday to skate, and found himself in the city of the elves at just the wrong moment: He...
12) Lemonade Day
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[Page Turner Publishing]
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English
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Sixth-grader Sophie and friends learn lessons about entrepreneurship, team work, and friendship when they sign up for a city-wide Lemonade Day event.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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First edition.
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English
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"Discover the ins and outs of middle school in this guide from an older sister to her younger sister. From tackling a new building to meeting new people like the assistant principal, the class pet, the Huggers, the renegade, the tomato kid, your old best friend's new best friend, this is a [novel meant] for everyone starting middle school"--Provided by publisher.
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Cupcake diaries volume 5
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Simon Spotlight
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English
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"Katie's Cupcake Club friends all have other activities besides making cupcakes. Mia and Alexis are on the soccer team and Emma plays the flute. So Katie sets out to find her sport. Sure, Katie can whip up a great cupcake, but can she cook on the field too? When Katie makes the softball team, it's batter up. . . but is this the kind of batter Katie really wants to be dealing with? What if she makes a mistake? What if her team loses? Katie starts to...
15) Fuzzy mud
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If you go down to the woods today... Well, every child knows NOT to, don't they? Tamaya is on a scholarship to the prestigious Woodridge Academy and every day she and seventh-grader Marshall walk to school together. They never go through the woods. And when they arrive at school they stop talking to each other - because Marshall can't be seen to be friends with a little kid like Tamaya. Especially not with Chad around. Chad-the-bully, who makes Marshall's...
16) Queen bee
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Graphix
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1st ed.
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English
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Haley is smart, funny, nice, and determined to be super-popular in her new middle-school.
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Pippa Park volume 2
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Fabled Films Press
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First edition.
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English
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"Korean American Pippa Park picks up right where she left off . . . trying to balance basketball, school, friends, working at the struggling family laundromat, and fitting in. Eliot, her math tutor--and the cutest boy at school--is finally paying attention to her. And Marvel--her childhood friend--is making her required volunteering much more interesting. But things with the Royals, her new friends and teammates who rule the school, still feel a bit...
18) Squad goals
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Hearts and crafts volume 1
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Scholastic Inc
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English
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A story of family, friendship, and making life work -- no matter what it throws at you! Mackenzie Miller has big goals For instance, conquering 7th grade -- with projects. There's the Mom Project (finding her a boyfriend -- even if she says she's not interested), the Friend Project (win back the BFFs who dumped her and make a new friend), and the Band Project (so what if she's never planned a fundraiser? How hard can it be?). But finding real-life...
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Gifted volume 2
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Kingfisher
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1st American ed.
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English
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"Tough rebel Jenna Kelley secretly dreams of a conventional life with normal parents. When her mother ends up in rehab, Jenna is shocked by the sudden reappearance of her long-lost dad. Jenna can usually read anyone's mind, but this stranger is a total mystery. Before long, streetwise Jenna finds herself walking straight into danger..."--p. [4] of cover.
20) Class retreat
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[Page Turner Publishing]
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English
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Sophie and her classmates are on their way to Camp Glowing SPirng for a class retreat. It'll be two full days of swimming, eating smores around a fire, tug-of-war, archery, and more! Sophie's been looking forward to the trip all year and can't wait to spend extra time with her friends. Once the kids arrive at the retreat site things are as exciting as Sophie imagined. Then the kids see a giant footprint during a nature hike and the adventure really...
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