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Publisher
Hyperion
Language
English
Description
Journalist Robbins explores the ways group identity theories play out among cliques--and the students they exclude. She reveals the new labels students stick onto each other today, the long-term effects of this marginalization, and the reasons students in these categories are often shunned. Then she celebrates them. The homogenization of the US education system has made outcasts more important than ever. In this conformist, creativity-stifling society,...
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Series
Sailor Moon volume 11
Publisher
Kodansha Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Edition
English edition.
Language
English
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Description
Usagi Tsukino is a normal girl until she meets up with Luna, a talking cat, who tells her that she is Sailor Moon. As Sailor Moon, Usagi must fight evils and enforce justice, in the name of the Moon and the mysterious Moon Princess. She meets other girls destined to be Sailor Senshi ('Sailor Scouts'), and together, they fight the forces of evil!--
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English
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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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Series
Publisher
BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
Language
English
Description
"Jamaal Charles shined as a two-sport athlete at the University of Texas. As a running back, he helped the Longhorns win the national football championship, and he claimed four All-American titles as a sprinter and hurdler. With a rare combination of speed and elusiveness, Jamaal is already the Kansas City Chiefs all-time leading rusher and owns a special NFL record: more yards per carry (5.5) than any other running back with at least 1,000 carries....
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English
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Provides guidance for new middle schoolers on a wide range of topics, such as combination locks, getting to class on time, what technological devices are allowed, how the teachers differ from elementary ones, and activities, as well as why friendships end, how to handle crushes and relationships, and getting along with one's parents, and includes a guide to getting through the first day.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, 15-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. The young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain: the...
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Publisher
First Second
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Dan's always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble. But being a good kid doesn't stop him from being bullied and feeling like he's invisible, which is why Dan has low expectations when his parents send him on a class trip to Europe. At first, he's right. He's stuck with the same girls from his middle school who love to make fun of him, and he doesn't know why his...
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Pub
Language
English
Description
Interactive, inviting, and fun, this book can ease common concerns and help tweens on the middle school roller coaster to enjoy the ride. Provides practical tips and tools for all kinds of situations--getting settled in at middle school, making friends, handling peer pressure, setting and reaching goals, and dealing with body changes and getting along better with family and adults.
Author
Series
Ultra maniac volume 2
Publisher
Viz
Language
English
Description
When Nina Sakura, a transfer student from a witch school in another dimension, enrolls at a middle school in Japan, she strives to improve her grades, make friends, and practice love spells on her unsuspecting classmates.
12) Free lunch
Author
Series
Memoir volume 1
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
"A distinctive new voice: Rex Ogle's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program is timely, heartbreaking, and true. Free Lunch is the story of Rex Ogle's first semester in sixth grade. Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The French have a name for the uniquely hellish years between elementary school and high school: "l'âge ingrat" or "The Ugly Age." Characterized by a perfect storm of developmental changes-physical, psychological, and social-the middle-school years are a time of great distress for parents and children alike, marked by hurt, isolation, exclusion, competition, anxiety, and often outright cruelty. Some of this is inevitable; there are intrinsic challenges...
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Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
"The inside scoop every middle school girl needs to know! Middle school is fun--and challenging. The Girls' Life Ultimate Guide to Surviving Middle School has the essential info you want on: What to expect the first day ; Making new friends and having fun with clubs, teams, and extracurrics ; Getting great grades...while still having a life ; And, of course, dealing with guy drama! This book has all the tips and tricks you need to make your middle...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Lifelong Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it's either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or lumped in with other developmental phases. Based on her many years working in schools, professional counselor Phyllis Fagell sees these years instead as a critical stage that parents can't afford to ignore (and though "middle school" includes different grades in various regions, Fagell maintains that the ages make more of...
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Series
Publisher
Barron's
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
"The authors take you through all parts of speech--nouns, pronouns, verbs, modifiers, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. They also tell you how to improve your English vocabulary and pronunciation, and they give you tips on how to recognize silent letters and homophones. The book's final chapters coach you in written English, advancing from simple rules of punctuation and sentence structure to writing essays and stories."--Cover.
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