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Title
The Strange Case of
Origami Yoda
Author
Tom Angleberger
AR Level
4.7
Dear Dumb Diary: The
super-nice are superannoying : by Jamie
Kelly
Jim Benton
5.2
Tales of a Fourth Grade
Nothing
Judy Blume
3.3
Frindle
Andrew Clements
5.4
The Odd Squad: Bully
Bait
Michael Fry
3.5
Flashcards of My Life
Charise Mericle Harper
5.4
Middle School is Worse
Than Meatloaf
Jennifer Holm
4.7
Swindle
Gordon Korman
4.9
Summary
Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends
describe their interactions with a
paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by
their weird classmate Dwight, as they
try to figure out whether the puppet
can really predict the future.
Middle school student Jamie Kelly
writes all the strange and sometimes
not-so-wonderful things that happen
to her in her diary and promises that
everything she writes is as true as it
needs to be.
Peter Hatcher finds his demanding
two-year-old brother an everincreasing problem.
When Nick Allen decides to turn his
fifth-grade teacher's love of the
dictionary around on her, he cleverly
invents a new word and begins a chain
of events that quickly moves beyond
his control.
When his school counselor insists that
he needs better socialization skills
after being stuffed into a locker by a
bully, middle-schooler Nick finds
himself, along with two other misfits,
joining the school's lamest club: Safety
Patrol.
Emily uses the journaling flashcards
her aunt gave her as a birthday gift to
help her sort out her friendships,
attitudes, and family oddities.
Ginny makes a To Do list for her
seventh grade year, which includes
landing a role in the school play,
making friends, ignoring her
horoscope, and going to see Grandpa
Joe in Florida, but she always seems to
come up short in accomplishing any of
these.
After unscrupulous collector S.
Wendell Palomino cons sixth-grader
Griffin Bing out of a valuable baseball
card, Griffin puts together a band of
How I Survived Middle
School [‘Can You Get
an ‘F’ in Lunch?’,
‘Madame President’
and ‘I Heard a Rumor’]
I am a genius of
unspeakable evil and I
want to be your class
president
Nancy Krulik
4.0, 3.9
Josh Lieb
5.1
Timmy Failure:
Mistakes Were Made
Stephan Pastis
3.8
I Funny
James Patterson
3.9
Middle School: The
Worst Years of My Life
James Patterson
4.5
Lawn Boy
Gary Paulsen
4.3
Big Nate and Friends
Lincoln Peirce
2.4
The Adventures of
Captain Underpants
Dav Pilkey
4.3
How to Eat Fried
Worms
Thomas Rockwell
3.5
misfits to break into Palomino's
heavily guarded store and steal the
card back.
A collection of three Nancy Krulik
novels about Jenny McAfee and her
sixth grade experiences.
Twelve-year-old Oliver Watson has
everyone convinced that he is
extremely stupid and lazy, but he is
actually a very wealthy, evil genius,
and when he decides to run for
seventh-grade class president, nothing
will stand in his way.
Meet Timmy Failure, the founder,
president, and CEO of the best
detective agency in town, probably the
nation. And his lazy sidekick, total, a
1,500-pound polar bear.
Jamie loves to tell jokes, but will he
choke in the spotlight of a comedy
contest, or worse, get the sympathy
vote because of his wheelchair? The
coauthor is Chris Grabenstein.
When Rafe Kane enters middle school,
he teams up with his best friend, "Leo
the Silent," to create a game to make
school more fun by trying to break
every rule in the school's code of
conduct.
Things get out of hand for a twelveyear-old boy when a neighbor
convinces him to expand his summer
lawn mowing business.
Equipped with only a #2 pencil and the
unshakable belief that he is #1, Nate
fights a daily battle against
overzealous teachers, undercooked
cafeteria food, and all-around
conventionality.
George and Harold have created the
greatest superhero in the history of
their elementary school, and now
they're going to bring him to life.
Billy accepts the challenge to eat
fifteen worms in fifteen days when his
Dork Diaries: Tales
From a Not-SoFabulous Life
Rachel Renée Russell
5.4
The Fourth Stall
Chris Rylander
5.1
Sideways Stories from
Wayside School
Louis Sachar
3.3
There’s a Boy in the
Girls’ Bathroom
Potterwookiee
Louis Sachar
3.4
Obert Skye
4.7
My Life as a Book
Janet Tashjian
5.2
Smile
Raina Telgemeier
2.6
Justin Case: School,
Drool, and Other Daily
Disasters
Rachel Vail
5.2
friend bets fifty dollars that he cannot
do it.
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell
writes and sketches in her diary about
her struggle to be popular at her
exclusive new private school, and
about giving up on being part of the
elite group, before figuring out a way
to simply be herself.
Chicago Cubs fan "Mac" Barrett, a
fifth-grade "Godfather" who runs a
favor-granting business out of the
fourth stall of the boys' bathroom, is
challenged by the bullying teenaged
leader of a gambling ring.
Humorous episodes take place in the
classroom on the thirtieth floor of
Wayside School, which was
accidentally built sideways with one
classroom on each story.
An eleven-year-old misfit struggles to
get along in school and make friends.
The latest creature to emerge from
Rob's closet is a cross between
Chewbacca and Harry Potter. Rob
names him "Potterwookiee," and soon
Rob finds himself treading water as he
tries to figure out how to care for his
mixed-up friend.
Dubbed a "reluctant reader" by his
teacher, twelve-year-old Derek spends
summer vacation learning important
lessons even though he does not
complete his summer reading list.
In graphic form, the author relates her
experiences after she injured her two
front teeth and had to have surgeries
and wear embarrassing braces and
headgear, all the while also dealing
with the trials and tribulations of
middle school.
Justin is very nervous about starting
third grade and must make the best of
things when he does not get the
teacher he wanted, his best friend is in
another class, and his favorite stuffed
animal disappears.
Secret Identity
Wendelin Van Draanen
3.3
Dragonbreath
Ursula Vernon
4.3
Stick Dog
Tom Watson
4.5
Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being
called names by the class bully, has a
secret identity--Shredderman!
Danny Dragonbreath and his friend
Wendell get an up-close underwater
tour of the Sargasso Sea from Danny's
sea-serpent cousin, encountering giant
squid and mako sharks, and learn
about standing up to bullies in the
process.
Stick Dog and his four friends - Stripes,
Mutt, Poo-Poo and Karen - will do
anything to steal some sweet-smelling
hamburgers from a family at Picasso
Park.