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2) Jawbreaker
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
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.
3) Sparkle
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When she starts losing her hair, Sparkle, a 12-year-old budding superstar, hides her condition from her friends until she realizes she must come to terms with the changes in her life and show her classmates and her family what she can do, with or without hair.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Everything seemed to be changing at once. But sometimes, Violet tells herself, change is okay. That is, until Violet sees her new room. The attic bedroom in their new house is shadowy, creaky, and wrapped in old yellow wallpaper. And then, after moving in, Violet falls ill-and does not get better. As days turn into weeks without any...
5) Shark teeth
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Kita embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
Author
Series
Tegan and Sara volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Before Tegan and Sara took the music world by storm, the Quins were just two identical twins trying to find their place in a new home and new school. From first crushes to the perils of puberty, surviving junior high is something the sisters plan to face side by side, just like they've always faced things. But growing up also means growing apart, as Tegan and Sara make different friends and take separate paths to understanding their queerness. For...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Eighth grader Jayson Linden has had a stutter his whole life. Though his fellow classmates can sometimes be mean, Jayson tries not to let it get to him. Then Jayson's best friend, Gloria, is kicked off the debate team because of her stutter and Jayson starts to notice other injustices happening at their school. In order to make their middle school a more inclusive place and to stand up for his friends, Jayson decides to run against the most popular...
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