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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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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. He will do anything to keep his mind off his dad's new girlfriend and his mom's announcement that she's going to start dating. 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 that dream cartooning camp at the end of his summer 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. Please note, this title can be found in the Teen Graphic Novel section of the library.
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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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The Swap
by Megan Shull
When seventh-grader Ellie, who is having best-friend problems, and eighth-grader Jack, who is under tremendous pressure from his father, switch bodies and lives, they learn a great deal about themselves and the opposite sex.
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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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The Class
by Frances O'Roark Dowell
No time in a person's life is more confusing than the sixth grade. Best friends aren't friends anymore, longtime enemies become partners in crime, and nobody is acting like they used to. But that's just the beginning of the things Mrs. Herrera's class has to deal with!
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Odds & Ends
by Amy Ignatow
While the Odds crew tries to manage their bizarre superpowers, several of their less-than-gifted classmates have become town celebrities thanks to their suspiciously good exam results, prompting Jay and Nick to investigate.
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The Worst Night Ever
by Dave Barry
Struggling to fit in when starting high school, one-time hero Wyatt Palmer finds himself at the mercy of two popular bullies who swipe his best friend's pet ferret and hide a dark family secret.
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The Next Great Paulie Fink
by Ali Benjamin
Led by new student Caitlyn, seventh-graders at a tiny rural school in Vermont create a reality show-inspired competition to determine who will replace the school's legendary class clown, Paulie Fink.
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The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
by M. T. Anderson
Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission - survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom.
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Squirm
by Carl Hiaasen
Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and try to save his own dad.
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Slider
by Pete Hautman
Entering the world's greatest pizza-eating contest after secretly putting thousands of dollars onto his mother's credit card, a young competitive eater finds his efforts complicated by family denial about his younger brother's autism.
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I Kill the Mockingbird
by Paul Acampora
When best friends Lucy, Elena, and Michael receive their summer reading list, they are excited to see To Kill A Mockingbird included. Not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm, so they hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about the well-known Harper Lee classic.
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Greetings from Witness Protection!
by Jake Burt
A foster-care girl is placed with a family in the Witness Protection Program where she discovers that hiding in plain sight can be complicated and dangerous.
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