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3) The wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
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
Dork diaries volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Everyone knows the cool beans. They're sooooo cool. And then there's the uncool has-bean . . . Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd--until one day the cool beans show him how it's done.
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...
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"It's a frenemy showdown and Nikki Maxwell has the worst luck. Of all the schools she could have been assigned to for the student exchange week program, she's stuck at North Hampton Hills, her arch nemesis MacKenzie Hollister's new school. Even worse, there might just be someone at NHH who can out-MacKenzie MacKenzie! At least Nikki can write about every moment of drama in her diary, so readers won't miss a moment of it. Can the queen of dorks survive...
9) Best Friends
Author
Series
Friends (Hale) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be perfect. Shannon’s got a sure spot in the in-crowd called The Group, and her best friend is their leader, Jen, the most popular girl in school. But the rules are always changing, and Shannon has to scramble to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and who she’s allowed to talk to. Who makes these rules, anyway? And does Shannon have to follow them? Shannon begins to question whether...
10) The girls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong, manipulative hold one of the group exerts on the others, and the hurt and self-doubt that it causes them.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 4
Formats
Description
New York Times best-selling author Rachel RenEe Russell has more than five million copies of her Dork Diaries books in print. In the series' fourth installment, Nikki Maxwell likes a boy, Brandon, who does volunteer work at an animal shelter. When Nikki learns the shelter may have to close, she convinces her friends to help raise money by entering an ice-skating competition! But soon- and not completely unexpectedly- pain-in-the-neck Mackenzie
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Series
Dork diaries volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Nikki's diary describes a frightful Halloween, on which she helps with her sister's ballet class party at the same time she is Brandon's date for their middle school Halloween dance, where she has promised to spend the evening with her two best friends.
13) House of robots
Author
Series
House of robots volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student"--
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
Dork diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
16) Supergifted
Author
Series
Ungifted volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Donovan Curtis has never been what anyone would call "gifted." But his genius friend Noah Youkilis is actually supergifted, with one of the highest IQs around. After years at the Academy for Scholastic Distinction, all Noah dreams of is the opportunity to fail if he wants to. And hes landed in the perfect place to do it-Donovans school. Almost immediately, Noah finds himself on the wrong side of cheerleading captain Megan Mercury and alpha jock Hash...
17) One kid's trash
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When his father moves them halfway across Colorado, eleven-year-old Hugo O'Donnell is surprised that his remarkable talent for garbology makes him popular for the first time in his life.
18) Diamond Willow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
Author
Series
Roscoe Riley rules volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Having gotten a pair of hard-to-find Walkie Talkie shoes, Roscoe is suddenly popular and wants his best friend, Gus, to join the fun, but before Gus's parents will buy him new shoes, he must wear out his long-lasting sneakers.
20) Mirrored
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
A modern, multi-generational tale of Kendra, the witch from "Snow White," who trains Violet, an ugly, lonely, and heartbroken girl in the 1980s who transforms herself into "the fairest one of all" but still cannot win Greg's heart, and Celine, Greg's daughter with Violet's high school rival, Jennifer.