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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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Death by Whoopee Cushion
by Vicki Grant
Twelve-year-old Manya isn't like most kids. She's not interested in the cheap laughs at Pranks a Million. She loves science. She wants to save the world. The only thing she finds even vaguely interesting about her parents' shop is the science behind the pranks. When a whoopee cushion explodes, actually killing an innocent bystander, things become very serious indeed: Manya's parents are arrested for murder. It's up to Manya to prove their innocence--and she may have to use some of the science behind the pranks to do so.
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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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Busted
by Dan Gemeinhart
Twelve-year-old's Oscar and Natasha assist an ex-mobster retiree bust out of his retirement community in exchange for money to help Oscar and his grandfather to stay in their home.
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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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Finn and Ezra's Bar Mitzvah Tme 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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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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