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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Welcome to Bolingbroke. It's a small town just like any other . . . or so eighth graders Val and Lanie think. They're the best of best friends--they love the same comics, they watch the same shows, and they're always there for each other. Which is important when you're queer, like Lanie, or on the spectrum, like Val, and just don't seem to fit in anywhere. When a school project about their hometown's supernatural history leads to a for-real ghost...
1842) Black Sand Beach
Author
Series
Black Sand Beach volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]-
Description
Twelve year old Dash and his best friend Lily are spending the summer at Back Sand Beach, where Dash's family has a house. But nothing is as it seems from the beginning. The beach house is a shack, and Dash's weird relatives are there. But more alarming is the zombie ram that crashes through the front yard. Not to mention the ghosts that call out to Dash from the lighthouse.
1843) School statue showdown
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When an Indigenous group demands the local schools name be changed, rifts are formed within the community and the legacies of who we honour from history are challenged. This mystery/adventure set in a small BC lumber town is a fictional account of an event that is similar to many across the country - a sudden conflict over a school name and the historic figure it recognizes."--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Description
"Rebecca is spending time in the country with her father, and Ernest of course, when things begin to change. Rebecca befriends a boy who is her age, and she sees her sister leave to return to the city on her own. Will Ernest & Rebecca's friendship survive?" -- from publisher's web site.
1845) The tryout (Playaway)
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
As one of the only Asian Americans in her school, Christina confronts both well-meaning ignorance and cruel racism, but in middle school fitting in is important, which is why she and her best friend Megan are both excited and nervous to try out for the popular cheerleading squad.
Author
Series
PAWS volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Best friends Gabby, Priya, and Mindy's dog business, PAWS, is booming, but Mindy between her mom starting to date and a new classmate wanting to join PAWS, Mindy is having a hard time sharing her feeling with her friends
Author
Series
Alice in Borderland volume 4
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise, it's a...
Author
Series
Alice in Borderland volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise,...
Author
Series
Alice in Borderland volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise,...
Author
Series
PAWS volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Best friends Gabby, Priya, and Mindy's dog business, PAWS, is booming, but Mindy between her mom starting to date and a new classmate wanting to join PAWS, Mindy is having a hard time sharing her feeling with her friends
1852) The flower garden
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"After planting a seed packet in the backyard, things don't go as expected for best friends Anna and Tess. They fall asleep in the sun and wake up to blooms as tall as buildings! Did the seeds really grow that fast? All is explained when Anna and Tess meet May, a little garden gnome whose magic is responsible for the transformation. The girls are May's size now, and they follow her through the flower garden and into May's underground gnome home--discovering...
1853) Friends
Author
Series
Friends (Hale) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An incredible series about what it's like to grow up middle-class and female in the United States. Navigating friendships, struggling with self-image, having big emotions, being painfully awkward, middle school drama, making the grade-- all issues shared from Shannon Hale's childhood notes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Fast friends Yuna and Akari are complete opposites--Yuna is an idealist, while Akari is a realist. When lady-killer Rio and the oblivious Kazuomi join their ranks, love and friendship become quite complicated!... Love and friendship have become quite complicated for these four friends. Yuna has fallen in love with Rio, but he has feelings for Akari that he's never been able to express. While Yuna keeps his secret, Akari makes a move on the person...
Author
Series
Alice in Borderland volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise,...
1856) Which Witch Will Win?
Author
Series
Sugar sugar rune volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Two young witches are sent to the human world to collect and crystallize hearts. Whoever comes back with the most gets to be queen of the magical world. However, they must watch out and not give their own hearts away
1858) Cirque du Freak: 1
Author
Series
Cirque du Freak the manga volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Marisol Rainey's mother was born in the Philippines. Marisol's father works and lives part-time on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. And Marisol, who has a big imagination and likes to name inanimate objects, has a tree in her backyard she calls Peppina, but she's way too scared to climb it. This all makes Marisol the only girl in her small Louisiana town with a mother who was born elsewhere and a father who lives elsewhere (most of the time), the...
1860) Queen of Hearts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Two young witches are sent to the human world to collect and crystallize hearts. Whoever comes back with the most gets to be queen of the magical world. However, they must watch out and not give their own hearts away.
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