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Middle School
6th Grade can really Kill You by Barthe DeClements
The 6th Grade Nickname Game by Gordon Korman
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Adventures of Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey
All’s Fair in Love War and High School by Janette Rallison
Big Nate on a Roll by Lincoln Peirce
Bluford High Series by Various Authors
Circle of Magic (series) by Tamora Pierce (magic school)
The Clique (series) by Lisi Harrison
Crush by Ellen Conford
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series) by Jeff Kinney
Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Dork Diaries and Max Crumbly by Rachel Renée Russell
Driver’s Ed by Caroline B. Cooney
Efren Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Perez
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
How to Survive Middle School by Donna Gephart
I'd tell you I Love You, but then I'd have to kill you by Ally Carter (Spy School)
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos (ADHD)
Lawless: The right school for kids on the wrong side of the law by Jeffrey Salane
Loser by Jerry Spinelli
Matilda by Roal Dahl
Maybe he Just Likes You by Barbara Dee
Middle School The Worst Years of My Life (series) by James Patterson
Middle School Blues by Lou Kassem (starting middle school)
Mind Games by Jeanne Marie Grunwell
The Misfits by James Howe
Ms. Bixby's Last Day by John David Anderson
The New Boy by R.L. Stine
Nothing But the Truth by Avi
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Rated by Melissa Gray
Reaching Dustin by Viki Grove
Restart by Gordon Korman
So Hard to Say by Alex Sanchez
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The School of Good and Evil (series) by Soman Chainani
Schooled by Gordon Korman
Sideways Stories from Wayside School (series) by Louis Sachar
The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee
Stargirl & Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
The Teacher’s Funeral by Richard Peck
There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom by Louis Sachar
Trapped by Michael Northrop
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
Wayside School is Falling Down by Louis Sachar
The Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
It Happened at School (Title Credit - Mrs. ReaderPants)
High School
The A-List by Zoey Dean
After by Francine Prose (school shooting) (2004)
Amelia’s Notebook by Marissa Moss (starting a new school)
Avalon High by Meg Cabot (fantasy)
Behaving Bradley by Perry Nedelman
Beyond Dreams: True to Life Stories of Hamilton High by Marilyn Reynolds
The boy who owned the school: a comedy of love by Gary Paulsen
Blood on My Hands (The Thrillogy) by Todd Strasser
Breaking Rank by Kristen Randle
Breathless by Jessica Warman
Buffalo Brenda by Jill Pinkwater
Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier (bullies)
Click Here: To Find Out How I Survived 7th Grade by Denise Vega
Comedy High by Stephen Manes (new school in Nevada casino)
Crash Course by Nicole Davidson
CrashBoomLove: a novel in verse by Juan Felipe Herrera
Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book by Nat Hentoff
Deadline by Chris Crutcher
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, The by E. Lockhart
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler (self-image)
Flour Babies by Anne Fine
Freak Show by James St. James
Geography Club by Brent Hartinger
Ghostgirl by Tonya Hurley
Hate List by Jennifer Brown (Oct 5, 2010) school shooting aftermath
Hip Hop High School by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Juanita fights the School Board by Gloria Velasquez (discrimination)
Kiss Me Tomorrow by Susan Richards Shreve (popularity, relationships)
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Kill You Last (The Thrillogy) by Todd Strasser
Lemonade Mouth by Marc Peter Hughes
The Locker by Richie Tankersley Cusick
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Marked (House of Night Series) by P. C. Cast
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
Mousetraps by Pat Schmatz
Names Will Never Hurt Me by Jaime Adoff
The New Rules of High School by Blake Nelson
The Only Alien on the Planet by Kristen Randle
The Pack by Elisa Lynn Carbone
Pageant by Katherine Laskey
Perfect Chemistry (series) by Simone Elkeles
Players by Joyce Sweeney (basketball)
Princess Ashley by Richard Peck
Princess in Training by Meg Cabot
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
Right Behind You by Gail Giles
A Semester in the Life of a Garbage Bag by Gordon Korman
The School for Dangerous Girls by Eliot Schrefer
A Small civil War by John Neufeld
Secret Story of Sonya Rodriguez by Alan Lawrence Sitomer
Stotan! By Chris Crutcher
Strange Times at Western High by Emily Pohl-Weary (assault)
Truth or Dairy by Catherine Clark
Ttyl by Lauren Myracle
Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Vampire Academy (series) by Richelle Mead
Variant by Robison Wells
Wish You Were Dead by Todd Strasser
The Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
The Year they Burned the Books by Nancy Garden
Series:
Perfect Chemistry Novels
This trilogy made top 10 quick picks 3 years in a row. They are romance from a boy and girl's perspective. Lots of action, gangs, some sex HS only:
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles (Dec 23, 2008)
Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles (Aug 16, 2011)
Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles (Aug 16, 2011)
Various Authors: Night Fall Series
Atwood, Megan.Last Desserts. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.95. 978-0-7613-7811-2.
Can Ella use her baking skills to save herself and her best friend?
Carr, Elias.The Combination. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.95. 978-0-7613-7810-5.
The wrong locker combination can send you straight to hell!
Jasper, Rick.The Late Bus. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.95. 978-0-7613-7812-9.
Is the new school bus driver dead?
Harris, Ashley Rae.The Prank. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.99. 978-0-7613-7814-3.
Who’s next when practical jokes turn deadly?
Hoblin, Paul.Foul. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.95. 978-0-7613-7813-6.
Can Rhino make the shot when lives depend on it?
Springer, Kristina.My Fake Boyfriend is Better Than Yours. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. $15.99. 978-0-374-39910-8.
Tell me about your boyfriend.
Surviving South Side Series
Fontes, Justine.Benito Runs. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.95. 978-0-7613-6165-7.
Benny's father returns from Iraq with PTSD.
Korman, Susan. Bad Deal. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.95. 978-0-7613-6166-4.
Everyone wants what Fish is selling.
Simon, Charnan.Shattered Star. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.95. 2011. 978-0-7613-6168-8.
How far will Cassie go for fame?
Simon, Charnan.Plan B. 2011. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.95. 978-0-7613-6163-3.
When Lucy gets pregnant, will Luke do the right thing?
Weyn, Suzanne.Beaten. 2011. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.95. 978-0-7613-6164-0.
Paige's “perfect” boyfriend is not so perfect.
Weyn, Suzanne.Recruited. Lerner Publishing Group/Darby Creek, 2011. $7.95. 978-0-7613-6167-1.
Are the offers too good to be true?
Nonfiction:
92 CAR Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson
92 Pow The Girl From t he Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
92 VAN Popular: A Memior by Maya Van Wagenen
128 All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum
158 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey
155.9 Dealing with Stress
302.3 Books about Bullying
305.2 Freedom Writers Diary by the Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell
344.73 Brown vs. the Board of Education
370 GRA Going to School During the Civil War by Kerry A. Graves
370.917 FRI Education for All: Floating Schools, Cave Classrooms, and Backpacking Teachers by Ron Fridell
371.782 DAV School Conflict by Tish Davidson
371.82 FIN Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education by Norman H. Finkelstein
373.18 Middle School: The Real Deal by Juliana Farrell an d Beth Mayal
741.5 Drama by Raina Telgemeier
741.5 Guts by Raina Telgemeier
796 Friday Night Lights
920 We Beat the Streets by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, Rameck Hunt and Sharon Draper