Yang, Kelly
Summary: The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade she needs to earn a spot at journalism camp. But as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION KORKorman, Gordon
Summary: When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: Sixth-grader Alex really wants to make his middle school soccer team this year, but Jake, the class bully, keeps taunting him with his past failures--until Errol, a new student from Scotland, teaches him the importance of practice and teamwork.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Maddox 2015Peirce, Lincoln
Summary: "¡Nate el grande vive a tope ! Cuando le piden a Nate que se haga amigo de un nuevo alumno, se muestra más que dispuesto...hasta que lo conoce. ¿Tendrá Nate que aguantar a un aguafiestas? ¿O su nuevo compañero será el alma de la fiesta?"-- Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RBA / Lectorum 2018
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC PEIKorman, Gordon
Summary: Dedicated slacker Cameron Boxer thinks he has found gamer heaven: playing video games online for an audience (and money); but the Positive Action Group (the club he created to keep his parents off his back) keeps getting in the way with meetings and fund-raisers for worthy causes, and his friends keep turning to him for plans and girlfriend advice, plus Elvis the beaver is back chewing on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: Cuando tanto Nate Wright como el matón Randy Betancourt se enamoran de Ruby, los altercados entre los dos resultan en sesiones de asesoramiento de pares que conducen a la amistad y a convertirse en compañeros de equipo en el equipo de frisbee Mud Bowl definitivo de la escuela.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RBA Lectorum 2019
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC PEIGino, Alex
Summary: "Middle-grade superstar author Alex Gino returns to the world they began with MELISSA and RICK with GREEN, the story of a non-binary middle-schooler named Green who comes into their own in no small part by fighting for gender-free casting in their school's production of THE WIZARD OF OZ" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC GINMcDunn, Gillian
Summary: Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MCDBaptist, Kelly J.
Summary: "Spunky sixth-grader Zoe Sparks has discovered a unique way to get the laptop of her dreams--to win it! If Zoe can sell more tubs of cookie dough than anyone in her school, the laptop is hers. It's the first step to becoming a prize-winning journalist! But her win-at-all-costs attitude is starting to drive a wedge between Zoe, her best friend Felix, and her family. Zoe may be a top cookie-dough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAPKorman, Gordon
Summary: Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KORMills, 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MILBishop, Jenn
Summary: New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BISCooper, Abby
Summary: From the author of Sticks & Stones, a realistic middle-grade story with a dash of magic about a girl who sees other people's thoughts in bubbles above their heads. Twelve-year-old Sophie Mulvaney's world has been turned upside down after her mom loses her job and breaks up with Pratik, who Sophie adored. But then: Sophie starts seeing bubbles above people's heads that tell her what they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD COOPatterson, James
Summary: Rafe Khatchadorian's new year at middle school is starting to look depressingly like the old one, except that art class is going well--and when he joins the flag-football team and demonstrates some talent as a running-back, he discovers a way of dealing with his bullying nemesis and teammate, Miller the Killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION PATPeirce, Lincoln
Summary: "You can't win 'em all-- especially when you're slumping sixth-grader Nate Wright. Stuck in a cycle of misfortune, our hero finds an unlikely good luck charm... and suddenly, he can do no wrong! He finds a $20 bill, scores a C+ on his social studies test (nailed it!), and even lands a movie date with the captain of the cheer squad. But the high times can't last forever. Before long, Nate's epic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC PEIWyatt, Merrill
Summary: Seventh-graders Sloane and Amelia are devastated to be paired for a research project about long-lost jewels, but soon they are finding clues hidden for nearly a century--and realize they are being used.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WYAHolm, Jennifer L.
Summary: "Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2019
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Series Sunny HolmMaddox, Jake
Summary: Brian Worth Jr. plans on trying out for his middle school's basketball team, but the trouble is he has always relied on his height to give him an advantage and that is no longer enough--but at the local senior center, where he reluctantly volunteers, he discovers a friend in George, a former player, who sets out to teach him some of the skills he is missing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: J Fiction Maddox 2015Moss, Marissa
Summary: Starting her own all-girls mathlete team, Talia, who loves math puzzles and code-breaking, is determined to lead her team to victory while trying to break the social code of preteen life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MOSLloyd, Natalie
Summary: Twelve-year-old Olive suffers from brittle bone disease and has been homeschooled all her life. When she is finally allowed to attend school in person, she soon discovers fitting in is not that easy. Olive hopes to find the magical wish-granting hummingbird that supposedly lives nearby. If she can prove herself worthy, maybe her deepest wish will be granted. - adapted from run-on sentence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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Summary: "Melvin Robinson wants a strong, smooth, He-Man voice that lets him say what he wants, when he wants--especially to his crush Millie Takazawa, and Gary Ratliff, who constantly puts him down. But the thought of starting high school is only making his stutter worse. And Melvin's growing awareness that racism is everywhere--not just in the South where a boy his age has been brutally killed by two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC FRAScrivan, Maria
Summary: Natalie has never felt that she's enough -- athletic enough, stylish enough, or talented enough. And on the first day of middle school, Natalie discovers that things are worse than she thought -- now she's not even cool enough for her best friend, Lily! As Natalie tries to get her best friend back, she learns more about her true self and natural talents. If Natalie can focus on who she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020