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Middle School Summer Reads Middle School Summer Reads Front Desk New Kid Hello, Universe Kelly Lang Jerry Craft Erin Entrada Kelly After emigrating from China, Mia Graphic novel. After his parents The lives of four misfits are Tang's parents take a job managing send him to a prestigious private intertwined when a bully's prank a rundown motel, despite the school known for its academics, lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a nasty owner, Mr. Yao, while she Jordan Banks finds himself torn well. Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band works the front desk and tries to between two worlds. together in an epic quest to find cope with fitting in at her school. and rescue him. Alabama Moon The Crossover How to (almost) Ruin Your Watt Key Kwame Alexander Summer Taryn Souders After the death of his father, Moon Twin basketball stars Josh and Chloe wants to earn money for a leaves their forest shelter home Jordan wrestle with highs and lows new bicycle, so when she is sent to and is sent to an Alabama on and off the court as their father career camp, she decides to learn institution, becoming entangled in ignores his declining health. cake decorating but nothing goes the outside world he has never according to plan. known and making good friends, a relentless enemy, and finally a new life. Camp Amina’s Voice Spirit Hunters Kayla Miller Hena Khan Ellen Oh Graphic Novel. When Willow and Amina, a Pakistani-American Feeling uncomfortable from the Olive go off to summer camp, Olive Muslim girl, struggles to stay true moment she arrives in her new makes quick friends with the other to her family's culture while home, Harper is dismayed by local campers while Willow struggles to dealing with the vandalism of the rumors that her house is haunted form connections and latches on to local Islamic Center and mosque and that every family that has ever the only person she knows, leaving and her best friend Soojin's new lived there has suffered terrible Olive stretched thin. friendship with their former tragedies, a situation that turns nemesis. sinister when her cheerful little brother begins acting in alarming ways. House Arrest Ghost Shouting at the Rain K.A. Holt Jason Reynolds Lynda Mullaly Hunt Timothy is sentenced to house Ghost, a naturally talented runner Delsie loves tracking the weather, arrest after impulsively stealing a and troublemaker, is recruited for living with her grandmother, and wallet, and he is forced to keep a an elite middle school track team. the support of friends and journal into which he pours all his He must stay on track, literally and neighbors, but misses having a thoughts, fears, and frustrations. figuratively, to reach his full "regular family," especially after potential. her best friend outgrows her. The Season of Styx Malone Merci Suarez Changes Gears Pinned Kekla Magoon Meg Medina Sharon Flake Caleb Franklin and his younger Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth- Adonis is smart, intellectually brother, Bobby Gene, spend an grader Merci Suarez navigates gifted, and born without legs; extraordinary summer with their difficult changes with friends, Autumn is strong, a great wrestler, new, older neighbor, Styx Malone, family, and everyone in between. and barely able to read in ninth a foster boy from the city. grade--but Autumn is attracted to Adonis and determined to make him a part of her life whatever he or her best friend thinks. Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak The Unteachables Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy Spanish Gordon Korman Rey Terciero Pablo Cartaya After a fight at school leaves The Unteachables never thought Graphic Novel. An adaptation of Marcus facing suspension, they’d find a teacher who had a the coming-of-age novel features Marcus's mother takes him and his worse attitude than they did. And the four March sisters as they younger brother, who has Down Mr. Kermit never thought he struggle with school woes, health syndrome, to Puerto Rico to visit would actually care about teaching issues, boy troubles, and personal relatives they do not remember or again. Over the course of a school identity. have never met. While there, year, though, room 117 will Marcus starts searching for his experience mayhem, destruction— father who left their family ten and maybe even a shot at years ago and is somewhere on the redemption. island. We Are All Made of To Night Owl From Dog Fish Tight Molecules Holly Goldberg Sloan & Meg Torrey Maldonado Susin Nielsen Wolitzer Brilliant but socially-challenged Unhappy about being sent to the After his quick-tempered father Stewart and mean-girl Ashley must same summer camp after their gets in a fight and is sent back to find common ground when, two fathers start dating, Bett and jail, sixth-grader Bryan, known for years after Stewart's mother died, Avery, eventually begin scheming being quiet and thoughtful, snaps his father moves in with his new to get the couple back together and follows new friend Mike into girlfriend--Ashley's mother, whose after a break-up. Told entirely trouble. gay ex-husband lives in their guest through emails. house. The Miscalculations of No Slam Dunk Other Words for Home Lightning Girl Mike Lupica Jasmine Warga Stacy McAnulty Lucy Callahan was struck by In Annapolis, Maryland, seventh- Sent with her mother to the safety lightning. She doesn't remember it, grader Wes is a good teammate of a relative's home in Cincinnati but it changed her life forever. The but this basketball season has been when her Syrian community is zap gave her genius-level math challenging because of his ball hog overshadowed by violence, Jude skills, and ever since, Lucy has teammate Dinero, who is worries for the beloved family been homeschooled. Now, at age determined to steal the spotlight, members who were left behind 12, she's technically ready for and Wes's army veteran father and forges a new sense of identity college. She just has to pass 1 who is suffering from PTSD. shaped by friends and changing more test--middle school! perspectives. Surrounded By Sharks Scythe Small Spaces Michael Northrop Neal Shusterman Catherine Arden On the first day of vacation Davey In a world where disease has been After Ollie's school bus Tsering wakes up early, slips out of eliminated, the only way to die is mysteriously breaks down on a his family's hotel room without to be randomly killed (“gleaned”) field trip, she has to take a trip telling anyone, and heads for the by professional reapers through scary woods, and must beach and a swim in the warm (“scythes”). Two teens must use all of her wits to survive. Floridian waters--and a fateful compete with each other to meeting with a shark. become a scythe - a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't. Lizzie Legend I Am Alfonso Jones The Wrong Train Matthew Ross Smith Tony Medina Jeremy De Quidt Unhappy at not being allowed to Graphic Novel. The ghost of 15 A treasury of scary stories about play on the boys' basketball team, year old Alfonso Jones travels in a the experiences of a train Lizzy Trudeau, age 13, wishes to New York subway car full of the passenger who becomes subject to never miss another shot and soon living and the dead, watching his the nightmarish elements in stories finds herself playing in the NBA family and friends fight for justice told by a mysterious stranger, who against her hero, the greatest after he is killed by an off-duty demands a terrible price to make player of all time. police officer while buying a suit in the stories end. a Midtown department store. Doll Bones The Agony House The Unfortunates Holly Black Cherie Priest Kim Liggett In the attic of the old house her After getting away with murder, Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends mother plans on turning into a Grant Tavish plans his own form of from a Pennsylvania middle school bed-and-breakfast, high schooler justice, but before he can act upon who have long enjoyed acting out Denise finds a mysterious comic it a cave system collapse traps him imaginary adventures with dolls book that may hold the answer to and four other teenagers miles and action figures, embark on a why terrifying things are below the surface, where they real-life quest to Ohio to bury a happening in the house. soon discover that they aren't doll made from the ashes of a dead alone. girl. Dorothy Must Die Grenade Rot & Ruin Danielle Page Alan Gratz Jonathan Maberry Whisked to Oz by a Kansas twister, On April 1, 1945 with the Battle of After the zombie apocalypse, teens Amy Gumm discovers that the Okinawa beginning, Hideki, drafted must find work by the age of 15 if magical land has been destroyed into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, they want to keep their food by Dorothy's tyrannical rule, a is handed two grenades and told to go ration. And that’s why Benny situation that compels Amy to kill American soldiers. Small for his reluctantly leaves the safety of join an order of deposed age, Hideki does not really want to kill home and joins his bounty-hunting magic-wielders who seek to put an anyone, he just wants to find his brother Tom in the zombie-riddled family. His struggle across the island end to Dorothy's reign. wilds of the Rot and Ruin. Benny will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle-- begins to question his and the choice he makes then will understanding not only of Tom, change his life forever.
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