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"When nerdy 12-year-old Charlie Drinkwater spontaneously morphs into a giant sea creature, the big question is: could this be his ticket to popularity at last?"--.

Ninth-grader Rawly Sanchez's life is hard--his brother is in prison, he works at his mother's restaurant to help make ends meet, he is failing algebra, and the girl he has a crush on does not know he exists--but when his dramatic and impulsive rescue of a wealthy celebrity from a flooded creek makes him famous, he does not know what to think about his newfound popularity.

Guided by his Mystic Board, Josh Jolly and his sixth-grade friends unwittingly bring fame and fortune to a town where nothing unusual had ever happened until the night of Josh's birth.

Describes a range of classroom-tested activities and strategies designed to help middle and high school teachers meet the needs of a diverse student population.

Cal became a hero as the only seventh-grader on his middle school football team, but now his former teammates are in high school and a popular new player is challenging him for the quarterback position by turning the coach and other players against Cal.

Sixth-grader Jackson has a rough start in middle school, with bullies on the bus, few classes with his friends, and changes at home, but, some good teachers, meeting a girl, joining a club, and playing football soon turn things around.

As twelve-year-old Madison struggles to decide which of her divorced parents to spend Thanksgiving with, she spends more and more time volunteering at the animal shelter and neglects her own dog.

When Far Hills Junior High kicks off class elections, Madison is put in charge of the school's election site.

When Aphrodite Wigglesmith, a thirteen-year-old, Harvard-educated mathematics genius, returns home to teach remedial math to middle school students, both she and her students end up getting unexpected lessons.

Usually preoccupied with his own concerns about hygiene and safety and with his crush on Glynnis, sixth-grader Franklin Delano Donuthead finds that he is unaccountably worried about his mother's feelings and his friend Sarah's difficult home life.

Provides guidance for new middle schoolers on a wide range of topics, such as combination locks, getting to class on time, what technological devices are allowed, how the teachers differ from elementary ones, and activities, as well as why friendships end, how to handle crushes and relationships, and getting along with one's parents, and includes a guide to getting through the first day.

In 1975, life is not fair for fourteen-year-old Charmaine Upshaw, who shares a room with her brother, tries to impress a handsome classmate, and acts as caretaker for a rambunctious six-year-old cousin who has taken over the family.

Six students at Milldale Middle School struggle to fit in with the other teens, questioning whether or not they measure up in looks, popularity, smarts, and athletic ability.

Two eighth-graders from very different backgrounds, Robeson "Crease" Battlefield and Pacino Clapton, discover in afterschool detention that they have a great deal in common.