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Swanson, Matthew

Summary: After getting a fortune cookie with the message, "Practice makes perfect," Ben meets new student Darby, who claims to be perfect and offers to teach Ben his secrets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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Kelly, Erin Entrada

Summary: The twelve kids in the seventh grade at Fawn Creek K-12 have been together all their lives so when graceful Orchid Mason arrives, with exotic clothes and glorious hair, the other seventh graders do not know what to think.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEL

Yee, Lisa

Summary: After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass his summer-school class, keep his failure a secret from his friends, and satisfy his academically demanding father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEE

Simon, Coco

Summary: Cupcake Club founder Katie Brown's stepsister Emily enters a baking contest at her new school and discovers her own way to bake.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE SIM

Cleary, Beverly.

Summary: Ramona Quimby is ready to start the fourth grade, even though her spelling could use a bit of work. Despite her woes, she has written a pretty good essay about her new baby sister. She even has a new friend named Daisy. But along with her spelling, there are many challenges and adventures ahead for Ramona as the year goes on.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Childrens 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC CLE

Sass, A. J.

Summary: Shai, a thirteen-year-old nonbinary homeschooler, attempts to find a "new normal" post-pandemic as they start public school, meet new friends, and learn about their Jewish identity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAS

Becker, Suzy.

Summary: Fifth-grader Kate faces a challenge when her mother asks her to be especially nice to Nora, a classmate and fellow flute player who is sometimes mean.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BEC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BEC

Shovan, Laura

Summary: Told in separate voices, sixth-graders Mikayla, a wrestler like her brothers, and Lev, part of the Fearsome Threesome, become good wrestling partners and friends, but there can be only one winner at the State competition.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SHO

Pennypacker, Sara

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC PEN

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Pennypacker 2007

Miller, Kayla

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Summary: Spring Break is full of possibilities...but not for Olive. This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city. Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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Lopez, Loretta

Summary: As Elisa, Lucia, and Alice grapple with internal struggles and hidden challenges while navigating middle school in New York City, they find unexpected friendship and support when they let go of their preconceived notions of each other.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square Books for Young Readers / Seven Stories Press 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOP

Wells, Tina

Summary: While eleven-year-old June is preparing for the school musical, her secret blog containing her innermost thoughts is released to the whole school, forcing her to deal with consequences of her dishonesty.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WEL

Myracle, Lauren

Summary: Winnie's celebrates her unique style through her first year with a double-digit age as she has many new experiences, from the high of spending time in New York City with her aunt and big sister, to the low of her two best friends suddenly becoming interested in boys.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Childrens Books 2011

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MYR

Hanlon, Abby

Summary: Dory, a highly imaginative youngest child, makes a new friend at school but her brother and sister are sure Rosabelle is imaginary, just like all of Dory's other friends.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HAN

Mills, Claudia

Summary: "Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MIL

Blecher, Jennifer

Summary: Told from two perspectives, Lily and Will deal with the tumult of seventh grade including secrets, rumors, shifting friendships, overbearing parents, and a first dance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BLE

Green, D. L. (Debra L.)

Summary: Thirteen-year-old Kaitlyn Perez is a very professional and well organized babysitter, but suddenly she finds herself in competition with a boy and the only thing she knows about him is that his nickname is Doc, he lets the kids he is babysitting run wild, and he is probably in her class--and that is only the beginning, as the stress causes her to quarrel with both her best friend, Piper, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAB

Schreiber, Gretchen

Summary: Ellie, a high schooler with a rare genetic condition, navigates the divide between her "hospital-life" and "home-life," as a hospital stay brings her closer to Ryan, who challenges her perspective and makes her consider the extraordinary possibilities of her life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SCH

Jenkins, Emily

Summary: Harry Bergen-Murphy does not feel ready when he starts first grade, but by day 100 he has become an expert on several important things, including being a first-grader.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JEN

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JEN

Lord, Cynthia

Summary: On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LOR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LOR

Pennypacker, Sara

Summary: With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion Books 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction Pennypacker 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED PEN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC PEN

Myracle, Lauren

Summary: Winnie's thirteenth year brings many joys and challenges as she negotiates her relationship with her first boyfriend and realizes that change is inevitable in her friends, family and even herself.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2009

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MYR

Meyerhoff, Jenny.

Summary: Third-grader Anna has had trouble making friends since her family moved from a small town in New York to Chicago, but a group project at school leads to new opportunities, including friendships, a club, and a garden she can work in, just like in her last home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FG 1

Mahoney, Kristin Mary

Summary: Fifth-grader Annie writes lists to keep track of changes in her life when her family moves from Brooklyn to the small town of Clover Gap.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAH

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