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1) Miss Quinces
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. They live way out in the country, which means no texting, no cable, and no Internet! The trip takes a turn for the worse when Sue's mother announces that they'll be having a surprise quinceera for Sue, which is the last thing she wants. She can't imagine...
Author
Series
Ancient magus' bride volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Great power comes at a price ... Chise Hatori's life has recently undergone shocking change. As a sleigh beggy--a person capable of generating and wielding tremendous magical power--she has transformed from an unwanted child to a magician's apprentice who has been introduced to fae royalty. But Chise's newly discovered abilities also mean a cruel fate awaits her."--Page 4 of cover
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bina faces her first summer without her best friend, Austin, who has left for soccer camp
Author
Series
Lumberjanes (Graphic novels) volume 10
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Yetis, greek gods, and grootslangs are old news to the Roanoke cabin but now the Lumberjanes face their most harrowing experience yet: Parents' Day! The Lumberjanes must try to keep their parents away from the supernatural, even as a mysterious force tries to intervene."--Page [4] of cover
Author
Series
Hereville volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Mirka Herschberg dreams of fighting dragons and spends her days honing her skills, even though there are no dragons in her Orthodox Jewish community, but when she accepts a challenge from a mysterious witch, Mirka just mightwin her dragon-fighting sword after all
9) The new girl
Author
Series
New girl volume 1
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Instagram sensation and Tapas webcomic superstar Cassandra Calin makes her long-form debut with this funny, feel-good middle-grade graphic novel about change. Goodbye, old life... Lia and her family are waiting to board a flight across the Atlantic, leaving behind family, friends, and Romania -- the only home Lia has ever known. But Lia's heartache is overshadowed by the discomfort of her first period. As if things weren't difficult enough! Now Lia...
10) Hungry ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help
Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend Jordan, knows that she has been binging and purging for years. But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself taking a good, hard look at her...
11) Smaller sister
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Maggie Edkins Willis's Smaller Sister is a debut middle grade graphic novel about body image, confidence, and the everlasting bond of sisterhood. Lucy's always looked up to her big sister, Olivia, even though the two are polar opposites. But then, Lucy notices Olivia start to change. She doesn't want to play with Lucy anymore, she's unhappy with the way she looks, and she's refusing to eat her dinner. Finally, Lucy discovers that her sister is not...
13) Sheets
Author
Series
Sheets volume 1
Publisher
Lion Forge Comics
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen-year-old in charge of the family laundry business, her daily routine features unforgiving customers, unbearable P.E. classes, and the fastidious Mr. Saubertuck who is committed to destroying everything she's worked for"--Provided by publisher
14) Love in focus: 3
Author
Series
Love in focus volume 3
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
15) Remarkably Ruby
Author
Series
Emmie and friends volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
" Pride. Popularity . . . Poetry? Middle school. Ruby and Mia are total opposites: Ruby is a little awkward, not a "joiner," and loves to write poetry. While Mia is type A, popular(ish), and wants to be class prez. They used to be friends. But now they have nothing in common anymore. . . . Or do they?" --Provided by Publisher
Author
Series
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 2
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Lunella Lafayette was a preteen super genius who wants to change the world, but learned the hard way that it takes more than just big brain. Fearful of the monstrous inhuman genes inside her, life is turned upside down when a savage, red-scaled tyrant is teleported from prehistoric past to a far-flung future we call today
17) Truly Tyler
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A story about being your truest self--and trusting your truest friends. Cliques. Crushes. Comics. Middle school. Ever since Tyler started getting into art and hanging out with Emmie, his friends and teammates have been giving him a hard time. He wonders why can't he nerd out on drawing and play ball? Emmie is psyched that she gets to work on a comics project with her crush, Tyler. But she gets the feeling that his friends don't think she's cool enough....
18) Measuring up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Having just moved to Seattle from Taiwan, twelve-year-old Cici enters a cooking competition to win the chance to see her grandmother again, but she only knows how to cook Taiwanese food."--Provided by publisher
19) Becoming Brianna
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows how much brainy Bri likes the spotlight (not). So why did she ever agree to something that forces her to learn a new language, give a speech, help organize a party, and juggle drama at school and home?! As the big event inches closer, Bri wonders if it's all worth it. . . .Told in alternating past and present chapters, Bri's heartwarming story unfolds over the eight months leading up to her bat mitzvah--as well as over the course of...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys in a really deep way, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing . . . until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for...
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