Amelia's Middle-School Graduation Yearbook

Amelia's Middle-School Graduation Yearbook
Author: Marissa Moss
Publisher:
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1939547091

Though she is excited about graduating from middle school, Amelia is sad that her best friend Carly won't be joining her in high school, so she reminisces about her earlier years and notebooks.

A Month of Mondays

A Month of Mondays
Author: Joëlle Anthony
Publisher: Second Story Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2017-03-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 177260027X

This can’t be good! Suddenly Suze’s mom wants back into her life, and her teacher wants her to “try harder”?! As if middle school wasn’t hard enough, Suze Tamaki's life gets turned upside down when her mother reappears after a ten-year absence. Once Suze gets over her shock, she thinks it might be cool to get to know her mom. But her older sister Tracie is determined not to let her back into their lives. At school things aren’t much better. One of her teachers decides the way to cure Suze’s lack of motivation is to move her into Honors English – a development Suze finds both inspiring and distressing. When she's paired with straight-A student Amanda on an English assignment, she finds herself caring about people’s expectations like she’s never done before.

Amelia's Notebook

Amelia's Notebook
Author: Marissa Moss
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1442435291

When Amelia’s mom gives her a journal for her birthday, she finally has a place to share her truest feelings at last! Nine-year-old Amelia’s mother gives her a blank notebook to write down her thoughts and tells her it will make her feel better. Why would a dumb notebook make me feel better, Amelia thinks. The only thing that will make Amelia feel better is going back to old house, her old school, and her old friends. Amelia does not—do you hear this!—want to move. But no one is listening to Amelia.

First Year Letters

First Year Letters
Author: Julie Danneberg
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1580890849

"In this sequel to FIRST DAY JITTERS, Sarah Jane Hartwell has gotten up her courage and has gone to teach school. And as every first year teacher knows, a classroom full of second graders can be alarmingly unpredictable. The key to eventual success is the classroom post office Sarah Jane establishes. The letters the children write to Mrs. Hartwell are sympathetic ("I figured you might be a little scared, just like me"); informative (" ost kids don't eat cauliflower"); encouraging ("Yesterday was THE BEST!"); and apologetic ("I'm sorry about throwing up all over your shoes"). Even the custodian and the principal write to Sarah Jane. Teachers and children alike will identify with Mrs. Hartwell as she navigates her first year. And many classes will be inspired to write letters about their own experiences."

Amy Price for President!

Amy Price for President!
Author: Charley Pickle
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2019-02-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1538382040

It's the first day of middle school. Amy Price knows that's the most important day for making an impression on people. With her stutter, Amy has a hard time making friends. She has one dream, to be the class president. If only people could see her as a leader. Amy might be stuck sitting alone at lunch the first day. That is, until she find the Weirdo Table. They are all very different, but Amy finds a friendship in this unlikely place, and perhaps, the courage to launch her presidential campaign.

No! Yes!

No! Yes!
Author: Harriet Ziefert
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781402734137

As he gets up in the morning and goes to school, a boy alternates between saying "Yes" and "No" to everything he is asked.

Dunces Anonymous

Dunces Anonymous
Author: Kate Jaimet
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554694604

Josh Johnson's mother wants him to run for class president. Josh just wants to run and hide. If only there were a club to help downtrodden eleven-year-olds escape their parents' ambitions! But since no such club exists, Josh has to invent one—he calls it Dunces Anonymous, and before he knows it, the membership is up to three. Magnolia and Wang help Josh lose the school presidential election, but that's just the beginning of the club's activities. Magnolia, pressured by her mom into trying out for the role of Juliet in the school's play, finds herself fending off the advances of an overly amorous Romeo. Wang's father has forced him to join the school chess club, but Wang desperately wants to take fencing lessons instead. As the three friends try to free Magnolia from the school play, liberate Wang from the chess club and get rid of horrible Stacey Hogarth, who has vowed to become the new president of Dunces Anonymous, they realize that they all have talents—if only their parents could see them.

Driftwood

Driftwood
Author: Valerie Sherrard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781554553051

On the 2014 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award shortlist New middle-grade fiction from the award-winning author of The Glory Wind Adam's summer is off to a disappointing start. His so-called "best friend" has bailed on him, choosing to stay behind to care for a sick dog, instead of joining Adam and his family at the seaside campground as planned. Adam is furious with Billy for abandoning him, impatient with his mother for her artistic obsessions, and embarrassed by his dad's lame attempts at being funny. At least an ever-changing cast of new summer friends proves to be an entertaining distraction: Joey, the shoe-thief with the cute sister; the mischievous Linden twins; enigmatic Nevin; and Ethan, the adventurer. But it is Theo, the blind gentleman up on the hill, with his magical stories of driftwood, who helps Adam to see the true nature of friendship -- and forgiveness.

Scared in School

Scared in School
Author: Roberta Simpson Brown
Publisher: august house
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005-12-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780874834963

A collection of contemporary scary stories set in school, including "Creature Teacher, " "Extinguished Educators, " and "Student Bodies."

When I Am Happiest

When I Am Happiest
Author: Rose Lagercrantz
Publisher: Gecko Press USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Accidents
ISBN: 9781927271896

A standalone follow-up to the acclaimed and beloved chapter books My Happy Life and My Heart is Laughing. Dani is very happy-it's the second-to-last day of school, and summer is about to start. But then there's a knock on the classroom door, and Dani is told her father has been in an accident. He's in hospital! How can she possibly be happy? A warm and heartfelt story about Dani's love for her dad and her ongoing friendship with Ella. It's a story about sorrow and joy-and how life really is.