Alexis Cool As A Cupcake
Giving up her role as leader of the Cupcake Club when she feels her organizational skills aren't appreciated, Alexis discovers valuable lessons about leadership and asking for help in the face of disorder, missed deadlines, and dwindling supplies.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 26
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: money-making projects for children, friendship, middle schools, dating (social customs), school stories [X], leaders, popularity [X], schools [X]
Accidentally Fabulous
Amy Flowers can't wait to start the seventh grade at Allington Academy, but when she gets on the wrong side of the most popular girl in school, Amy fears she will never be accepted.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
How Not To Be Popular
Seventeen-year-old Sugar Magnolia Dempsey is tired of leaving friends behind every time her hippie parents decide to move, but her plan to be unpopular at her new Austin, Texas, school backfires when other students join her on the path to "supreme dorkdom.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: families, schools [X], popularity [X], high schools, school stories [X], austin (tex.), moving, household, family life, hippies
The Long-distance Dispatch Between Lydia Goldblatt & Julie Graham-chang
Best friends Lydia and Julie, armed with the notebook in which they recorded lessons about the behavior and taste of popular girls at their elementary school, feel as ready as they will ever be to start middle school, but they face a crisis when Lydia's mom moves her family to London for six months, leaving the girls to face the challenges of middle school alone.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
Accidentally Famous
Seventh-grader Amy Flowers, new at Allington Academy, gains recognition from the other students after appearing in a fashion show and risks letting her Academic Challenge team down when she starts caring too much about being popular.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: popularity [X], seventh grade (education), schools [X], interpersonal relations, fashion, middle school students, school stories [X]
The Laura Line
When Laura Dyson's seventh grade history teacher schedules a class trip to the slave shack on her grandmother's farm, Laura is forced to come to terms with her family's past and what it means for her future.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: school stories [X], self-perception, popularity [X], grandmothers, african americans, schools [X], overweight persons, slavery
The Abc's Of Kissing Boys
When sixteen-year-old Parker Stanhope takes kissing lessons from the freshman across the street as part of her plan to get on the varsity soccer team, a relationship blossoms that threatens her popularity at school and must be kept secret from their feuding fathers.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: popularity [X], interpersonal relations, soccer, neighbors, high schools, schools [X], kissing, school stories [X], soccer stories
If You Really Loved Me
Destini Fletcher is thrilled when popular Tyron Becker asks her out, thinking their relationship will help her become more accepted at Tubman High, but as Tyron belittles Destini's friends and good grades, she wonders if he is as perfect as she thought.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: abusive men, man-woman relationships, schools [X], popularity [X], high school students, african american teenagers, man-woman relationship, school stories [X], electronic books, electronic books
Viral
Mike and Lindsay's friendship is ruined by a simple misunderstanding, but when Lindsay is caught in a compromising position and the footage goes viral, Mike knows he has to put aside any hard feelings and help Lindsay in her time of need.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 430
subjects: teenagers, internet videos, rape, friendship, video recordings, high schools, sex, schools [X], popularity [X], school stories [X], young adult fiction, electronic books
Julep O'toole
Eleven-year-old Julep feels invisible. At home, sandwiched between perfect older sister, Harmony, and obnoxious younger brother, Cooper, she is only noticed when her parents want something from her--such as when they want her to trade her nice, uncarpeted bedroom for asthmatic Cooper's disgusting one (aka the Chicken Coop), with its dirty carpet and "snot green" walls.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: parties, popularity [X], middle-born children, schools [X], birth order, school stories [X], diaries, friendship
Joshua T. Bates Takes Charge
Eleven-year-old Joshua, worried about fitting in at school, feels awkward when the new student he is supposed to be helping becomes the target of the fifth grade's biggest bully.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: schools [X], popularity [X], bullies, school stories [X], bates, joshua t. (fictitious character), bates, joshua t. (fictional character)
Caught In The Web
When Jenny's friends start their own webcast, and it becomes popular, the Pops start a rival show and begin a ratings war, starring the Pops' fashion show against Jenny's friends' karaoke contest.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: popularity [X], telecommunication, middle school students, school stories [X], webcasting, schools [X]
If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever?
Alan, a popular senior high school student, faces painful changes after a new student, Duncan "Doomed" Stein, comes to town and starts an influential underground newspaper.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: schools [X], school stories [X], fathers and sons, dating (social customs), newspapers, popularity [X], new york (n.y.)
Beat The Band
Paired with the infamous "Hot Dog" Helen for a health class presentation on safe sex, tenth-grader Coop tries to regain his "cool" by entering his musically challenged rock group in the "Battle of the Bands" competition.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: popularity [X], rock groups, high schools, schools [X], school stories [X], humorous fiction
Olivia Sharp
Perfect Desiree seeks the help of wealthy problem solver Olivia Sharp in becoming princess of the school.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 450