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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