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21) The dirt diary
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Sixth-graders Perry and Venice, photographers for their middle-school yearbook, are frustrated to learn that only pictures of popular students are welcome, but when Venice gets involved with a boy Perry doesn't like, Perry puts their friendship at risk by siding with Anya, the editor-in-chief.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
When scholarship student Nikki Maxwell, whose father is the school exterminator, decides to enter the talent show at her expensive private school, her nemesis MacKenzie threatens to reveal Nikki's status to the rest of the school.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 4
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
When her crush Brandon reveals that the animal shelter where he volunteers is in danger of being closed, Nikki and her friends enter an ice skating competition to help raise money, an effort that is compromised by an interfering Mackenzie.
Author
Series
Teen Titans (Garcia) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Garfield Logan finally impresses the social elite at his high school, but popularity comes at a price when he undergoes sudden physical changes as the dares from his new friends escalate.
26) The wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
When granted her wish to be the most popular girl in school, Wilma, an eighth grader, forgets that she will graduate in three weeks and her popularity will vanish.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Picking up where What My Mother Doesn't Know leaves off, this is the story of what happens next-told from the perspective of Murphy, Sophie's new boyfriend. And even though Murphy's thrilled to be with Sophie, the consequences of their relationship-and the temptations outside of it-force him to consider everything he knows about love. Told in free verse and brimming with authenticity, this novel provides unique insight into the mind of a young man"--...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
When eleven-year-old David Greenberg's best friend makes the start of middle school even worse than he feared it could be, David becomes friends with Penny, who shares his love of television shows and posts one of their skits on YouTube, making them wildly popular--online, at least.
30) The Gossip File
Author
Series
Dirt diary volume 3
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Rachel Lee has looked forward to relaxing for two weeks at a Florida resort with her father, but when his girlfriend asks her to help in a cafe, Rachel adopts a "cool" new persona, Ava, to fit in with her older co-workers, until they ask her to help with their Gossip File.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
Greg records his experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
Author
Series
Amelia rules! volume 6
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Amelia Louise McBride, having survived her parents' divorce and a move from Manhattan to a small town, hopes her eleventh birthday will mark the start to a good year, and while her surprise party seems promising, things quickly go downhill.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook.
34) FaceSpace
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Danny McBride is not the coolest kid in school, not in his wildest dreams. And if the other kids knew he spent his Saturday nights playing Parcheesi with his mom and working on a city made of Lego, he'd be even less cool. Danny wants more than anything to be popular. He creates a fictional British rocker named James and befriends him publicly online, hoping his make-believe friend's cool will rub off. It works. Danny starts making...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 71
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Summary: Wishing that she had a boyfriend, Claudia starts a personals column in the school newspaper in the hope of finding the "perfect boy."
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Returning for her senior year at an exclusive private school and poised to become the new "Master of the Universe," a teenaged girl falls from social glory and must scrabble her way back to the top using strategic effort and the help of her best friend.
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 21
Pub. Date
c2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Katie's mom asks Katie for a huge favor: will she spend some time with Emily, her boyfriend's daughter? Katie agrees and brings Emily to a Cupcake Club meeting. Things go well--almost too well. Everyone likes Emily so much, Katie wonders if her friends like Emily more than they like her! And if her mom marries Emily's dad, will Emily become her favorite daughter? Katie is an only child, so all this sibling stuff is new to her. She's starting from...
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Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"When Rafe Khatchadorian is sent to Camp Wannamorra, he teams up with his bunk mates to fend off the more "popular" kids' plans to ruin their summer"--
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Nikki Maxwell's favorite fairy tales get dork-tastic twists in the eighth book of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! After a bump on the head in gym class on April Fool's Day, Nikki has a wild dream in which she, her BFFs Chloe and Zoey, her crush Brandon, and mean girl Mackenzie all end up playing the roles of some familiar classic fairy tale characters. Of course, the stories don't go quite as expected - because they each have...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
After winning a coveted spot on the high school cheerleading squad, sixteen-year-old newcomer, Jess Parker, is still treated as an "outsider" by the majority of the student body thanks to the harassment campaign led by the popular cheerleader she displaced.