Freak
Twelve-year-old Miriam, poetic, smart, and quirky, is considered a freak by the popular girls at her middle school, and she eventually explodes in response to their bullying, revealing an inner strength she did not know she had.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: identity (philosophical concept) [X], bullying [X], middle schools [X], sisters, identity [X], identity (psychology), bullies, schools, individuality, school stories
The Best At It
Twelve-year-old Rahul Kapoor heads into seventh grade armed with advice his grandfather gave him: to find a thing he's good at and become the best at it.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 42
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: individuality, anxiety, middle schools [X], school stories, bullies, east indian americans, family life, juvenile fiction / social issues / adolescence, juvenile fiction / social issues / bullying, realistic fiction, indiana, identity (philosophical concept) [X], identity [X], schools, identity (psychology), indian americans, domestic fiction, bildungsromans, domestic fiction, bildungsromans, electronic books, bullying [X], families