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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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Snoop
by Gordon Korman
If Carter hadn't been checking his phone, he might have seen his brother coming down the ski slopes in his direction. And if Carter had seen his brother in time and avoided the crash, he might not have two broken legs right now. Oops. Now Carter is stuck at home for weeks, with both his legs in casts. Bored, he starts checking out the live feeds from police cams around his town. Before he knows it, he's obsessed-- watching his classmates when they don't know he's looking, and discovering some other very strange things going on that no one else is noticing.
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Second to None
by Destiny Howell
Twelve-year-old DJ has a reputation at his middle school for being able to solve just about any problem, so when somebody starts systematically sabotaging the kids who are the usual first-raters, it's up to DJ and his crew to get to the bottom of what's happening.
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Old School
by Gordon Korman
Twelve-year-old Dexter Foreman has lived at The Pines Retirement Village with his grandmother since he was 6 years old, homeschooled by the residents until he's forced to attend middle school, where he sticks out like a sore thumb.
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Miss Camper
by Kat Fajardo
Sue is heading to Camp Willow this summer. She's looking forward to hiking, archery, and making comics in the fresh air. She's especially excited about LARPing (live-action role-playing) and can't wait for the freedom of being away from home. But she won't be far from family because her big sister Carmen is a camp counselor and her little sister Ester is a fellow camper and won't give her any space. All Sue wants is to make memories with her friends, but they're assigned to only a few of the same activities. To make matters even worse, her best friend Sam has a best camp friend named Marisol? And Sue's good friend Izzy has a crush on Sue? This summer isn't at all going as planned!
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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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On Thin Ice
by Jessica Kim
Told in alternating voices, this novel follows twelve-year-old fraternal twins Phoebe and Dexter, who reluctantly partner up for Phoebe's figure skating competition when Dexter is cut from the hockey team.
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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, 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 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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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
Oliver and Nathan, determined to get to the bottom of their new homeroom teacher's fishy behavior, discover Mr. Aidact is actually an AI robot from a secret experimental program.
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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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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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