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Laughter can improve your mood, so pick up one of these giggle-inducing novels today. These titles are classified as Teen Middle School (TM) and can be found in the Teen section of the library.
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Eighth Grade vs. the Machines
by Levy, Joshua
The entire population of Earth's solar system has been kidnapped by aliens. It's up to Jack and his classmates and teachers aboard the PSS 118 to rescue the rest of humanity.
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How to Train Your Dad
by Paulsen, Gary
Tired of his dad's single-minded pursuit of an off-the-grid existence, 12-year-old Carl adopts the principles set forth in a randomly discovered puppy-training pamphlet to“retrain” his dad's mindset—with unintended consequences.
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Running in Flip-Flops from the End of the World
by Reynolds, Justin A.
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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Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Time Loop
by Levy, Joshua
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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The House on Yeet Street
by Norton, Preston
Sleeping over at the haunted Yeet mansion with his friends, 13-year-old Aidan, searching for his secret journal, meets an actual who is a huge fan of his writing and vows to free her from the house, but when his secrets are revealed, his friendships are threatened.
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The Superteacher Project
by Gordon Korman
Determined to teach their new teacher who's boss, Oliver Zhan and his best friend Nathan realize that Mr. Aidact is not what they expected and, suspecting something is fishy, must get to the bottom of the mystery.
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Winter Blunderland
by James Patterson
When Rafe Khatchadorian goes on a trip to Alaska, he's in for a blundering adventure that includes building igloos, racing across icebergs, and coming face-to-face with a polar bear.
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Miss Quinces
by Kat Fajardo
A funny and heartfelt coming-of-age story about navigating the expectations of family and cultural tradition. Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. They live way out in the country, which means no texting, no cable, and no Internet! The trip takes a turn for the worse when Sue's mother announces that they'll be having a surprise quinceaänera for Sue, which is the last thing she wants. She can't imagine wearing a big, floofy, colorful dress! What is Sue going to do? And how will she survive all this "quality" time with her rambunctious family?
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The Sister Split
by Auriane Desombre
To stop their parents from getting married, soon-to-be stepsisters Autumn and Linnea join forces to secretly sabotage everything from date nights to wedding planning until they both realize that having a sister is not the worst thing after all.
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Sneaks
by Catherine Egan
When Ben Harp sees his teacher's watch crawling across the hallway, he thinks he must be dreaming. But no, he's just seen his first Sneak, an interdimensional mischief-maker that can borrow the form of any ordinary object. He figured this school year would be bad...and he's stuck doing a group project with two similarly friendless girls, Charlotte and Akemi. Now Ben, Charlotte, and Akemi are trying to understand a book that seems to contain a coded map while being pursued by violent clothes hangers, fire-spitting squirrels, and more.
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Join the Club, Maggie Diaz
by Nina Moreno
Maggie Diaz of Miami is excited to start seventh-grade with her best friends, Zoey and Julian, and to finally get a cellphone of her own. But after school her friends are wrapped up in their various clubs, her mother is attending college, and her older sister Caro has her sports and tutoring, so Maggie decides that she will find a club to join as well. Trying out ALL the different clubs while still juggling school work is exhausting and confusing, and soon it seems like everybody is mad at her, and the cellphone of her dreams is getting further and further away.
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Super Troop
by Bruce Hale
Cooper just wants to spend the summer before 7th grade drawing and having adventures with his best friend, Nacho. But when one of his adventures with Nacho goes too far, Cooper's parents freak out. Either he joins the Boy Rangers, a dorky club that's all about discipline and rules, or the cartooning camp he's dreamed of will get erased. At first it's not so bad--the troop is a disorganized mess. But then a new scoutmaster starts. Mr. Pierce is a gruff ex-Marine who's never worked with kids before, especially not a ragtag team of misfits like Troop 19. As he tries turning them into a lean, mean, badge-earning machine, Cooper longs for freedom. He doesn't want to break the rules, but the rules are going to break him!
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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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High Score
by Destiny Howell
My name's Darius James, but everyone calls me DJ. At my old school, I was the go-to guy for all kinds of tricky problems that needed creative solutions. But at my new school, Ella Fitzgerald Middle, I'm just trying to blend in. Well, I was, anyway, until my best friend Conor got himself transferred to the Fitz too. Now Conor owes 100,000 arcade tickets to the biggest bully around--and he only has two weeks to make it happen. Impossible? Not with my head in the game.
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Weird Kid
by Greg Van Eekhout
Jake Foster, a shapeshifting alien of goo disguised as a human, and his spunky friend Agnes investigate the mysterious takeover of their neighbors by "imblobsters" and uncover the reason Jake is losing control of his ability to keep his human shape.
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The Boys in the Back Row
by Mike Jung
Before Eric moves away, he and his best friend Matt sneak out for a final adventure during a marching band competition.
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The Losers at the Center of the Galaxy
by Mary Winn Heider
Two years after their father disappeared, Winston and Louise wrestle with their grief while investigating mysterious teachers, innovative science, and a captive bear.
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Oh My Gods!
by Stephanie Cooke
When Karen leaves New Jersey to spend time with her enigmatic father on Mount Olympus, she is shocked to learn that her junior high classmates are gods and goddesses, and that one of them is turning people to stone.
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24 Hours in Nowhere
by Dusti Bowling
Gus, who has big plans to get out of his hometown of Nowhere, is rescued from a bully by Rossi Scott, who gives up her dirt bike as a result, and Gus and his friends go into Dead Frenchman Mine to search for gold to buy a new bike for Rossi before her big race.
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Tyrannosaurus Wrecks
by Stuart Gibbs
The local police prove unhelpful when a 500-pound dinosaur skull vanishes from a secret excavation on the Sage family's ranch, so Teddy and his friends conduct their own investigation.
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