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Quick Reads for Teen Middle |
These books contain great stories without a lot of pages. These titles are classified as Teen Middle School (TM) and can be found in the Teen section of the library. |
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Liar & Spy
by Rebecca Stead
Moving into an apartment when his father loses his job, Georges befriends Safer, a twelve-year-old coffee-drinking loner and self-appointed spy, who recruits Georges into the world of espionage so that they can investigate a mysterious neighbor who lives on the top floor.
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The Good War
by Todd Strasser
There's a new after school club at Ironville Middle School. Ms. Peterson is starting a video game club where the students will be playing The Good War, a new game based on World War II. They are divided into two teams: Axis and Allies, and they will be simulating a war they know nothing about yet. Only one team will win. But what starts out as friendly competition, takes an unexpected turn for the worst when one player takes the game too far. Can an after school club change the way the students see each other and how they see the world?
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Carry Me Home
by Janet S. Fox
When their father goes missing, 12-year-old Lulu and her younger sister must take care of themselves until they learn that trusting new friends and the community will help them find their true home.
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The Renegade Reporters
by Elissa Brent Weissman
After getting kicked out of their school’s new show, reporter Ash and her friends start their own news show, getting a big lead when they discover the educational company providing their school’s software is recording their every move.
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Ali Cross
by James Patterson
Published to coincide with the release of the 25th entry in Patterson’s best-selling Alex Cross thrillers, this series debut starring Alex’s son, Ali, follows his desperate search for a missing friend and clues proving his father’s innocence against a backdrop of neighborhood burglaries.
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Belly Up
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Stuart Gibbs
Believing that a dead hippopotamus at a new zoo has been murdered, 12-year-old Teddy Roosevelt Fitzroy and his friend Summer McCracken investigate the zoo's animal-hating head of operations and Summer's father, the zoo's money-minded owner.
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Chirp
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Kate Messner
Moving to Vermont after breaking her arm in seventh grade, Mia makes new friends and spends time with a beloved grandparent, a stroke patient who is experiencing progressive impairments.
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Look Both Ways : A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
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Jason Reynolds
This is a whimsical exploration of the role detours play in life follows a group of students who become so engaged in everyday activities while taking 10 different routes home from school that they fail to notice a school bus that has dropped from the sky.
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Roll with It
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Jamie Sumner
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather who has Alzheimer's Disease.
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You Don't Know Everything, Jilly P!
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Alex Gino
Realizing she has a lot to learn when her baby sister is born with a hearing impairment, Jilly tries to connect with fellow reader Derek, a hearing-impaired African-American ASL communicator who helps her understand how to see life in different ways.
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Scar Island
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Dan Gemeinhart
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other. When a lightning strike kills all the adults, the boys find themselves suddenly free but trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
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The Midwife's Apprentice
by Karen Cushman
In a small village in medieval England, a young homeless girl acquires a home and a new career when she becomes the apprentice to a sharp-tempered midwife.
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The Kite Rider
by Geraldine McCaughrean
After his father dies and his family is thrown into poverty, Haoyou is offered a position as a kite rider by the Great Miao. Despite the opportunity he is given, Haoyou's family wonders if this is the best thing for him as they fear that the Great Miao may be planning to use him in some dangerous plot.
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The Usual Suspects
by Maurice Broaddus
Tired of being labeled as a "Special Ed" kid, Thelonius Mitchell is wrongly implicated when a gun is found at his neighborhood hangout. This prompts his effort to clear his name with the help of his computer geek best friend.
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Ghost
by Jason Reynolds
Aspiring to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school's track team, gifted runner Ghost finds his goal challenged by a tragic past with a violent father.
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Karma by Cathy OstlereAfter the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, Maya and her father are separated and she must rely on Sandeep to reunite them.
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The Pigman
by Paul Zindel
Two teenagers who lead unhappy lives at home form a strange relationship with a lonely old man.
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Kick
by Walter Dean Myers
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
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House Arrest
by K. A Holt
Required to keep a journal as well as report to a probation officer and therapist, a young man who is on probation for one year has difficulty staying out of trouble when he is compelled to take drastic measures to help his struggling family and sick brother.
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