The One In The Middle Is The Green Kangaroo
Second-grader Freddy hates being the middle one in the family until he gets a part in the school play.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 98
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 310
subjects: family life, brothers and sisters, siblings, theater, school stories [X], humorous stories, family, families, middle-born children [X]
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, middle-born children [X], schools, birth order, school stories [X], diaries, friendship
Zeke Meeks Vs The Super Stressful Talent Show
Zeke's class is having a talent show, and Brassy Glass, from America's Next Superstar, will be coming to the show as the judge--but Zeke cannot figure out what talent he actually has and, as usual, his sisters are no help at all.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 480
subjects: siblings, humorous stories, schools, talent shows, middle-born children [X], elementary schools, school stories [X], humorous fiction
Zeke Meeks Vs. The Pain-in-the-neck Pets
Zeke wants to bring home the class hamster, so to prove that he is responsible, he promises his mother that he will take care of the family dog for a whole week--after that it is one disaster after another.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 530
subjects: guinea pigs, school stories [X], pets, humorous fiction, responsibility, birth order, humorous fiction, middle-born children [X]
Zeke Meeks Vs. His Big Phony Cousin
As if coming up with a school project at the last minute is not enough trouble, Zeke also has to deal with his cousin Sam--who is just too perfect to be completely believable.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 490
subjects: cousins, siblings, school stories [X], humorous fiction, birth order, humorous fiction, middle-born children [X]
Zeke Meeks Vs The Crummy Class Play
Zeke's third grade class is putting on a play and Zeke is unhappy and annoyed with what he sees as too small a role--until his mother teaches him the meaning of the saying "there are no small parts, only small actors.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 490
subjects: children's plays, acting, elementary schools, middle-born children [X], brothers and sisters, theater, school stories [X], siblings, humorous fiction
Face The Music
Victoria Torres is the fifth chair out of nine flutes in her middle school band, so when the director asks for a someone to play the new piccolo, Victoria sees it as her chance to stand out--but her best friend Bea has also volunteered, and their friendship may not survive the competition when they audition for the part.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: best friends, bands (music), middle-born children [X], hispanic americans, schools, musical instruments, competition (psychology), middle schools, hispanic american children, musical instuments, friendship, school stories [X], electronic books, electronic books
The Homework Strike
Now in seventh grade Gregory K. is frustrated by all the homework that leaves him no time for writing, which is what he loves to do--so he decides to go on a homework strike, and with his history teacher's encouragement he learns a valuable lesson in civics and standing up for what you believe in.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: children's rights, families, homework, middle schools, student protesters, conduct of life, family life, protest movements, middle-born children [X], schools, school stories [X]
Zeke Meeks Vs The Mother's Day Meltdown
Annoyed because his mother has been packing boring, healthy lunches, third-grader Zeke has not made either a card or a gift for Mother's Day--then at the last moment he has a change of heart and has to scramble to make both.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: mother's day, middle-born children [X], brothers and sisters, mothers and sons, elementary schools, schools, humorous stories, humorous fiction, birth order, siblings, mother-son relationship, school stories [X], humorous fiction
Vicka For President
Middleton Middle School is holding class elections and the sixth-grade's candidates are Henry, who is running on a dare, and super bossy Annelise, so Victoria decides to add her name to the election, hoping she can actually do some good for the school.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
subjects: student government, middle schools, hispanic american children, middle-born children [X], friendship, elections, schools, hispanic americans, school stories [X], latinos (u.s.), birth order, electronic books, electronic books
Curious Mccarthy's Power Of Observation
In her first week in fourth grade (exiled to a new school because of redistricting) Curious decides that she wants to be a scientist, and her first task is to sharpen her powers of observation by observing her large family, three older sisters and three younger brothers--and try and become effectively invisible in her new class.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570
subjects: scientists, middle-born children [X], brothers and sisters, families, elementary schools, family life, schools, siblings, school stories [X]
Curious Mccarthy's Electric Ideas
When the lights go out in her house fourth-grader and middle child Curious starts to consider the whole phenomenon of electricity and how it is created--but one of her younger brothers, John Glenn McCarthy, sees her scientific research as an opportunity for practical jokes.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: electricity, brothers and sisters, middle-born children [X], practical jokes, elementary schools, schools, siblings, school stories [X]
Curious Mccarthy's Not-so-perfect Pitch
Curious's hypothesis of the week is "the quieter you are, the more you can hear" and she plans to put it to work as her fourth-grade class is being tested for musical ability, because she really cannot sing, and she does not want to play the clarinet like her three older sisters.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 510
subjects: musical ability, musical instruments, middle-born children [X], brothers and sisters, families, elementary schools, family life, siblings, school stories [X], ability, schools
Fin-tastic Fashion
When Finley decides that fashion is just wearable art, she sets out to create a new fad with her friend Henry: a forklet, a bracelet you can both wear and eat with and only one dollar each for her classmates--unfortunately her parents do not appreciate the disappearing silverware, and Finley has to rethink her invention.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: fashion, bracelets, inventions, elementary schools, middle-born children [X], brothers and sisters, friendship, school stories [X], siblings, schools
Room To Bloom
Every year the fourth grade has to do a plan and complete a service project for the school and community, and after a particularly unappetizing school lunch Finley suggests that they should plant a vegetable garden--but when the radishes she and her friends Henry and Olivia plant take too long to sprout she gets very frustrated.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580