It's Not Easy Being Mean
Five girls in the Clique each face challenges during eighth grade -- from the soccer field to getting the key to the secret room at OCD from a Briarwood boy.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 30
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: interpersonal relations, cliques (sociology), friendship, middle schools [X], schools, westchester county (n.y.), school stories, westchester county (n.y.)
Sealed With A Diss
Five teenage girls with the power to see what boys are thinking about them must find dates for Skye Hamilton's "famous couples" costume party if they want to hang onto their popularity.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: friendship, cliques (sociology), dating (social customs), middle schools [X], westchester county (n.y.), society of friends, quakers, westchester county (n.y)
Invasion Of The Boy Snatchers
Following Christmas break, the girls are back together, but everything seems different with the addition of Alicia's cousin from Spain who is spending the semester at Octavian Country Day School.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: friendship, cliques (sociology), students, foreign, middle schools [X], westchester county (n.y.), schools, foreign students, school stories, westchester county (n.y.)
The Pretty Committee Strikes Back
While on a seventh-grade school trip, Claire attempts to mend her relationship with Cam while Massie seeks to maintain her high social standing and receive her first kiss.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 24
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: interpersonal relations, kissing, cliques (sociology), middle schools [X], westchester county (n.y.), school stories, westchester county (n.y.)
Trading Faces
Seventh-grade twins Payton and Emma decide to shake things up at their new middle school by switching places and taking on each other's lives, and their antics teach them that no one is exactly who the world thinks they are.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 460
subjects: twins, sisters, mistaken identity, cliques (sociology), middle schools [X], school stories, identity (psychology), identity, schools, identity (philosophical concept)
Confetti Girl
After the death of her mother, Texas sixth-grader Lina's grades and mood drop as she watches her father lose himself more and more in books, while her best friend uses Lina as an excuse to secretly meet her boyfriend.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 35
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: single-parent families, fathers and daughters, best friends, friendship, middle schools [X], texas, grief, father-daughter relationship, schools, father-child relationship, school stories, father and child
Girls Acting Catty
Sixth-grader Annabelle spends autumn coping with competing groups of friends at school, her mother's pre-wedding stress, learning to get along with a cute stepbrother-to-be, and such momentous events as wearing her first bra and learning to shave her legs.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
The Fruit Bowl Project
An admittedly "dork" middle-school teacher arranges for a rock superstar to teach her eighth-grade students, who each tell a story about the same topic, in the style of a rap, poem, monologue, screenplay, haiku, fairytale, and more.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: teachers, musicians, rock music, middle schools [X], schools, creative writing, school stories, music
Adam Canfield, The Last Reporter
When the school board shuts down the student newspaper, the Ameche Brothers, two budding entrepreneurs with a knack for refurbishing junk but a shaky command of journalistic ethics, step in to help.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
The Total Tragedy Of A Girl Named Hamlet
Hamlet's attempts to be a "normal" eighth grader become increasingly difficult when her genius seven-year-old sister and her eccentric Shakespeare scholar parents both begin to attend her school.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: shakespeare, william, sisters, interpersonal relations, self-confidence, middle schools [X], schools
After Ever After
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome after effects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 63
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: cancer, middle schools [X], schools, best friends, friendship, new jersey, school stories, family life, brothers, family, families
Brand New Emily
Tired of being picked on by a trio of popular girls, fourteen-year-old poet Emily hires a major public relations firm to change her image and soon finds herself "re-branded" as Em, one of the most important teens not only in her middle school, but in celebrity magazines, as well.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
Framed
Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 155
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: theft, middle schools [X], schools, friendship, stealing, adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, school stories, adventure fiction, adventure fiction, children's audiobooks
The Seventh Level
Twelve-year-old Travis is invited to become a member of The Legend, Lauer Middle School's most exclusive secret society, but first he must solve seven puzzles.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
The Defense Of Thaddeus A. Ledbetter
Twelve-year-old Thaddeus A. Ledbetter, who considers it a duty to share his knowledge and talent with others, refutes each of the charges which have sent him to "In-School Suspension" for the remainder of seventh grade.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 970