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Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 11
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nikki and her friends team up for another adventure.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When scholarship student Nikki Maxwell, whose father is the school exterminator, decides to enter the talent show at her expensive private school, her nemesis MacKenzie threatens to reveal Nikki's status to the rest of the school.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother's remarriage takes her family into a much wealthier neighborhood, thirteen-year-old Kristy finds herself surrounded by snobbish girls who compare clothes, make fun of the Baby-sitters Club, and insult her aging dog.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 2
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Mia arrives at her new school, her goal is to be open to and friendly with everyone, but everyone at Park Street School fits into a clique. When the Popular Girls Club takes an interest in Mia's awesome fashion style and wants to recruit her, Mia must decide between them and her great new Cupcake Club friends. It's like choosing between her divorced mom and dad and her old house and new house. Is it always going to be Mia in the middle, or can...
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Rafe Khatchadorian is sent to Camp Wannamorra, he teams up with his bunk mates to fend off the more "popular" kids' plans to ruin their summer"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her crush Brandon reveals that the animal shelter where he volunteers is in danger of being closed, Nikki and her friends enter an ice skating competition to help raise money, an effort that is compromised by an interfering Mackenzie.
10) The dirt diary
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.
Author
Series
Amelia rules! volume 6
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amelia Louise McBride's eleventh birthday party is fabulous, but soon her friends are fighting all the time, she gets a terrible report card, and when she summons the courage to tell a boy how she feels about him, she learns why it is called a "crush."
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a small, Virginia town, sixth-grader Jessie Lou Ferguson has a crush on the hugely popular Conrad Parker Smith, and when he suddenly develops a medical problem and the teacher asks Jessie Lou to help him, they become friends, to her surprise.
Author
Series
Barftastic life of Louie Burger volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After a video of ten-year-old Louie Burger is aired on a comedy television show, Louie hopes that he will no longer be a Boy Used to Ridicule and Put-downs (B.U.R.P.), but his popularity is very short-lived.
15) Awesome Dog 5000
Author
Series
Awesome Dog 5000 volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When video game fanatic Marty, ten, arrives in a new town, his worst fear is being labeled a "dork" until the robotic dog he found catches the attention of a mad scientist."--
16) Brave
Author
Series
Berrybrook Middle School novels volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In his daydreams, Jensen is the biggest hero that ever was, saving the world and his friends on a daily basis. But his middle school reality is VERY different - math is hard, getting along with friends is hard...Even finding a partner for the class project is a big problem when you always get picked last. And the pressure's on even more once the school newspaper's dynamic duo, Jenny and Akilah, draw Jensen into the whirlwind of school news, social...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old David Greenberg's best friend makes the start of middle school even worse than he feared it could be, David becomes friends with Sophie, who shares his love of television shows and posts one of their skits on YouTube, making them wildly popular--online, at least.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nikki and her bandmates are looking forward to an AWESOME summer on tour as the opening act for the world famous Bad Boyz! Nikki is a little worried when her frenemy, MacKenzie Hollister, weasels her way into a social media intern position with the tour. But she has a total MELTDOWN when she learns that MacKenzie is her new roommate! Will Nikki survive her dream tour as it quickly goes from AWESOME to AWFUL?!" --
Author
Series
Amelia rules! volume 5
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amelia McBride and company are about to embark on their most daunting mission yet: navigating the promises and pitfalls of popularity at Joe McCarthy Elementary. A tricky task when you consider an unmatched pair of socks alone can cause ridicule for years to come. Really, though, all the gang wants is to not be unpopular. Rising and falling through the ranks of nerd, geek--and cheerleader?--Amelia and her friends encounter riotous mobs, unfortunate...
20) Best friends
Author
Series
Friends (Hale) volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When she becomes part of the in-crowd, Shannon begins to question whether she wants to remain there, in a story about popularity, first boyfriends, and finding a path in life."--Provided by publisher.
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