Hero

Author	Karen Cushman
ISBN	0618504559

Francine Green doesn’t speak up much, and who can blame her? Her parents aren’t interested in her opinions, the nuns at school punish girls who ask too many questions, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities is blacklisting people who express unpopular ideas. There’s safety in silence....

Author	Nikki Loftin
ISBN	1595146865

A dying girl gives a boy the strength to live in this lyrical novel that will break your heart and lift your spirit

Peter Stone’s parents and siblings are extroverts, musicians, and yellers—and the louder they get, the less Peter talks, or even moves, until he practically fits his last name....

Author	Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
ISBN	0545096766

In this terrific debut, a Brooklyn middle-schooler finds the superhero within himself thanks to old friends, new dreams, and a pair of magical "Dora the Explorer" sneakers.

Ever since a deeply unfortunate incident earlier this year, Reggie's been known as "Pukey" McKnight at his high-intensity...

Author	Thatcher Heldring
ISBN	0385733909

TOBY WHEELER LOVES basketball and playing pickup games at the local rec center. No coaches, no practices, just nonstop action with his best friend, JJ, at his side. But lately JJ's been acting like he's too busy for Toby, and Toby knows it will only get worse once basketball season begins at their junior...

Author	Marie Myung-Ok Lee (Marie G. Lee)
ISBN	0064471691

Chan Kim has never felt like an outsider in his life. That is, not until his family moves from L.A. to a tiny town in Minnesota--Land of 10,000 Lakes--and probably 10,000 hicks,too. The Kims are the only Asian family in town, and when Chan and his twin sister, Young, attend high school, it's a blond-haired,...

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T.C. Anderson

This was wonderful! I stayed up reading this till 5am in the morning. I just could not put this book down until I finished. I have not read a book that has affected me this much, in a long while. This book is tough to read. The abuse was brutal and absolutely breaks your heart. But this book is about so much more,...

Author	Janet Lee Carey
ISBN	0689856040

Zoe Flynn has a secret. She used to live in California, in a big old house -- the best house in the world really -- at 18 Hawk Road. It rambled and creaked and was full of good hiding places. She used to have a best friend named Kellen who lived right down the road, and a dog named Merlin who loved to play with her....

Author	Chris Crutcher
ISBN	0060598395

Dillon is living with the painful memories of his brother's suicide -- and the role he played in it. To keep his mind and body occupied, he trains intensely for the Ironman Triathalon. But outside of practice, his life seems to be falling apart.

Then Dillon finds a confidante in Jennifer, a star...

Author	John Coy
ISBN	0439870321

John Coy turns to the high-stakes world of high school basketball in this fast-paced YA novel.

Liam has just been bumped up to starter on the varsity basketball team, and the pressure's on. With the girls' team heading to State, the boys' team is under even greater scrutiny than usual in Liam's...

Author	Angela Johnson
ISBN	0590481428

Angela Johnson's Coretta Scott King Award winning novel that traces three generations of African American women as they learn one another's truths.

Three generations of African American women, each holding on to a separate truth. Their story -- encompassing racism and murder as well as...

Author	Todd Strasser
ISBN	0823420612

This book was okay. I thought the way it was written was interesting, as if you were experiencing all the events, although you know you're really looking through Lauren's eyes. Is was a pretty good book, but it just bothered me how obvious it would have been to me that Celeste was manipulating me. Also,...

Author	John Peel
ISBN	0590596802

Melayne and her young brother Sarrow are Talents, hunted by the King's relentless Seekers. If their Talent is discovered, they will be sent to their death. So they must hide...or die.
Melayne and Sarrow find refuge at Dragonhome, the mysterious estate of the shadowy Lord Sander. Lord Sander also...

Author	Jacques Couvillon
ISBN	1599900432

On his birthday, Don Schmidt spends the day waiting patiently for his big surprise--a cake, presents, maybe a Chinese clown . . . . But instead, his batty parents get into their monthly argument. This time it's because his mother has to feed the chickens. It ends with her shouting the same thing as always...

Author	Carl Deuker
ISBN	0380731045

When a hard ball is coming at you fast, and when it's dancing, too, every single nerve in your body is alert and ready. Your eyes are wide open, and the adrenaline is pumping. It's not a feeling you want to give up, any more than you want to get off a roller coaster.

In his senior year of high school,...

Author	Doug Wilhelm
ISBN	0374462437

Throwing light on a dark problem

Parkland Middle School is a place the students call Darkland, because no one in it does much to stop the daily harassment of kids by other kids. Three bullied seventh graders use their smarts to get the better of their tormentors by starting an unofficial e-mail...

Author	Elvira Woodruff
ISBN	0439677033

Award-winning author Elvira Woodruff has written a harrowing novel about an eleven-year-old orphan boy on a stormy sea -- and the charming daredevil who befriends him in England in 1695.

When a storm brings down his father's boat, Digory Beale is forced to leave home to discover his fate. For...

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Nancy E. Krulik

How I Survived Middle School presents everyday issues that only bestselling author Nancy Krulik can address with her humor and hands-on experience.

It's Career Day at school, and Jenny's favorite aunt, the art director at a greeting card company, comes to speak. When her aunt takes interest...

Author	Alice Mead
ISBN	0440412455

Reeve McLain, Jr.--Junebug--has a big dream that keeps him going. He dreams that someday he and his younger sister and mother will move from the awful housing project where drugs, gangs, and guns are part of everyday life. Junebug's 10th birthday is coming up, and he knows the gangs and drug dealers will...

Author	Gary Paulsen
ISBN	0440414822

An easy 'tween read, not worth an adult's hour. The way grandma teaches the girl a lesson borders on abuse, imo. I have no idea how Molly can forgive her even before dinner time, while exhausted, in pain, hungry, and hopped on caffeine. Molly obviously already has resilience and, erm, 'balls,' and if the...

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Samantha Gudger

Emma Wrangton knows how to play basketball. She knows when to pass, when to drive, when to shoot. She knows how to read the defense, how to adapt when a game takes an unexpected turn, and how to fearlessly face an opponent and fight for the win. Basketball is what she knows; basketball is what she’s good...

Author	Eric Walters
ISBN	0613502337

It's like I said, it isn't what you do with the shots you make,but the ones that don't go in. The rebounds.Sean vows that this year will be different: he_ll stay out of trouble and make the basketball team, even if it means ditching his old friends.David also needs to make a new start. A serious accident has...

Author	David Klass
ISBN	0060531711

Ryan rood
Ms.Bjerke
English 4
January 30 2014
Home Of The Braves
David klass book Home Of The Braves is something of a sportsie romance Drama. I thought the book was good it had some girly scenes in it. It talked about how Joe liked a girl but she was more interested in someone else…...

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Liz Ruckdeschel

After a year at Hillsdale High, Haley thinks she knows what she’s in for as she starts her junior year. She knows what to expect from the it girls, the brains, the rockers, and the artists. She knows how to handle drunken disasters, shoplifting scandals, IM warfare, and out-of-control false rumors....

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Darlene Ryan

Maddie is living on the streets, trying to protect herself and make enough money to get a place to stay and find a way to go back to school. When she meets Q, she is wary but welcomes his friendship. And then she meets Dylan, a six-year-old boy, living on the streets with his family. When Dylan's father asks...