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Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop
by Joshua Levy
Discovering they're both trapped in a bar mitzvah time loop, reliving their celebrations in the same New Jersey hotel over and over again, Finn and Ezra team up to break the loop, and as their schemes become desperate, they must figure out how to move forward.
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Rewind
by Lisa Graff
As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. But when the Time Hop rolls around, nothing goes as planned. In fact, it's the biggest disaster of McKinley's life. Before she knows what's hit her, McKinley somehow finds herself in the real 1993--and it's not all kitschy parachute pants and Jurassic Park. All McKinley wants is to return to the present, but before she can, she's going to have to make a big change--but which change is the right one?
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Running in Flip Flops From the End of the World
by Justin A. Reynolds
When everyone in town disappears without a trace, 12-year-old Eddie and his friends, with no parental supervision, must figure out what happened to their families, but as they each deal with their fear differently, their friendships begin to fracture.
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Dinner at the Brake Fast
by Renee Beauregard Lute
While working at her family's roadside diner, Tacoma Jones sets out to steal his prized possession back from their most unpleasant customer in an effort to brighten her dad's bad day, embarking on a rollicking road trip that results in an unexpected friendship.
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The School for Invisible Boys
by Shaun David Hutchinson
While at St. Lawrence's Catholic School for Boys, Hector Griggs, who has the ability to turn invisible, teams up with a mysterious new classmate to stop a terrifying creature preying on students' loneliness and fear and discovers that sometimes it takes disappearing to really be seen.
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Virtually Me
by Chad Morris
Attending a three-dimensional, simulated school while interacting as avatars, three students who have been hiding behind their online personas as they get know each other in their virtual environment learn what true friendship means and the difference between fitting in and belonging.
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Jawbreaker
by Christina Wyman
Forced to wear painful (and totally awkward) orthodontic headgear called “the jawbreaker,” Max Plink finds following her dreams of entering the journalism competition complicated by a required video component, which means showing her face to her classmates and possibly the whole city.
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The Superteacher Project
by Gordon Korman
Oliver and Nathan are determined to get to the bottom of their new homeroom teacher, Mr. Aidact's, fishy behavior.
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Pack Your Bags, Maggie Diaz
by Nina Moreno
Excited for her first overnight trip away from her overprotective parents with her two best friends Zoey and Julian, Maggie finds her plans falling apart when everyone splits in twos, leaving her to wonder where, and with whom, she still fits.
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Confessions of a Class Clown
by Arianne Costner
Joining the new afterschool Speed Friendshipping Club to find a collaborator for his wacky MyTube channel, Jack Reynolds wonders if his quest for internet fame will cost him a real friend.
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Middle School Cool
by Maiya Williams
Nine misfits from the staff of an alternative middle school's newspaper make astonishing discoveries about how Kaboom Academy really works and who is actually in charge.
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The Worst Class Trip Ever
by Dave Barry
When the eighth grade civics class of Miami's Culver Middle School goes on a trip to Washington, D.C., Wyatt Palmer finds himself in deep trouble before the plane even lands because his best friend, Matt, has decided the men sitting behind them are terrorists and it is up to the boys to stop them.
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The Principal's Underwear is Missing
by Holly Kowitt
Becca Birnbaum, a sixth-grade nobody, must team with Selfie St. Clair, the most popular girl in school, to track down a missing shopping bag that holds the principal's intimate garments.
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Girl Stuff.
by Lisi Harrison
Seventh graders Fonda, Drew, and Ruthie develop a friendship strong enough to tackle whatever middle school--and puberty--throws at them next.
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Hundred Percent
by Karen Romano Young
Christine Gouda, called Tink, and her best friend Jackie are entering sixth grade and suddenly everything seems awkward and just plain wrong. Boys are behaving differently, clothes do not fit the way they should, long term friendships suddenly seem tenuous, and most of all she needs a new nickname because "Tink" just does not fit anymore.
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Danny Constantino's First (And Maybe Last?) Date
by Paul Acampora
Surprised when a Hollywood star who was once his close friend accepts his invitation to the homecoming dance, Danny is surrounded by neighbors, television crews, and fans who gossip about their romance before a pep rally goes terribly wrong.
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The Secret Language of Girls
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
When best friends Kate and Marylin find themselves going down different paths in life, their friendship comes to an abrupt halt, but when they begin to miss one another, neither of the girls seem to know exactly how to repair the damage that has been done.
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All of Me
by Chris Baron
Thirteen-year-old Ari faces what it is to be a man while dealing with a cross-country move, his parents' separation, being bullied for his weight, and belatedly starting bar mitzvah preparations.
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Clean Getaway
by Nic Stone
For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane.
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Jessie Elliot is a Big Chicken
by Elise Gravel
During the summer before high school, Jessie Elliot vows to never change her fun-filled, dorky ways--that is until her best friend starts hanging out with the cool kids.
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