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Skateboard Sibby /
By Clare O'Connor. 2019
Eleven-year-old super skateboarder Sibby Henry liked her life just fine until her father quit his job and forced her family…
to move from Charlottetown to Halifax. Now she's living with her Nan and Pops, starting at a new school and missing her super best friend Vera. On top of all that, Sibby is without the one thing that helps her feel confident and grounded: her skateboard. Within minutes of arriving at her new school, Sibby knows she will have a hard time following Vera's two rules for making new friends. First rule, stay chill. Second, ignore trouble. It's hard to be chill when you see a brand new super dope skate park but you no longer have a skateboard. And, when a kid named Freddie starts to push Sibby's friend around, Sibby knows she's found the kind of trouble that can't be ignored. Grades 5-8. 2019.And nothing but the truth (Whole Truth #02)
By Kit Pearson. 2012
Polly, the endearing heroine from The Whole Truth, is now thirteen and following in her sister’s footsteps to a boarding…
school in Victoria. The adjustment is difficult—all those rules!—and Polly often escapes into her dreams of becoming an artist. At least her family is intact again, and there are no more dark and difficult secrets to be kept hidden -- until her teenage sister, Maud, makes a dramatic confession. Sequel to "The whole truth". For junior high readers. 2012.Berani
By Michelle Kadarusman. 2022
From the Governor General’s Award-nominated author of Music for Tigers and Girl of the Southern Sea, a passionate story about…
environmental activism, difficult choices, and the cost of doing the right thingThe Undercover Book List
By Colleen Nelson. 2021
From the award-winning author of Harvey Comes Home, a middle-school story about a girl in need of a friend, a…
boy in need of a chance, and the secret book club that brings them together.Miss Small is off the wall! (My Weird School Ser. #5)
By Dan Gutman. 2005
A. J. and the other second graders do everything except play sports when they go to "Fizz Ed" class with…
their new teacher, Miss Small. However, A. J. reluctantly learns a thing or two about dancing and balance. Uncontracted braille. For grades 2-4. 2005Cheat (Orca currents)
By Kristin Butcher. 2010
While covering the cheating scam for her high school newspaper, Laurel discovers the down side to investigative reporting: nobody likes…
a snitch. Even her basketball-star brother Jack wants her to back off. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. Uncontracted braille. For junior and senior high readers. 2010What my girlfriend doesn't know
By Sonya Sones. 2007
Robin, Sophie's boyfriend from What My Mother Doesn't Know (BR 14156), relates in free verse his perspective on love and…
heartache. Robin fears that Sophie may dump him because he is a social outcast and she catches him kissing another girl. Uncontracted braille. For senior high readers. 2007Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal (Harry Potter Ser. #Year 1)
By J. K. Rowling. 1999
Al cumplir once años Harry Potter se entera de que es ms que un huérfano indesable. El Colegio Hogwarts de…
Magia y Hechicería le alista porque tiene habilidades innatas de magia. Anticipando su nueva vida en el colegio, Harry se prepara comprando túnicas negras, una varita de magia, un sombrero puntiagudo y una lechuza mensajera. Para grados 4 a 7Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter Ser. #2)
By J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPré. 1999
Despite a warning not to return to Hogwarts for his second year of wizardry studies, Harry shows up. But Harry…
is in danger from the opened Chamber of Secrets as well as from his would-be protector. Sequel to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (DB 47260). Bestseller. For grades 4-7The homework machine (Homework machine #01)
By Dan Gutman. 2006
Trouble ensues when four fifth-graders devise a plan to have a secret machine do their homework for them. Before long,…
unexpected complications arise and they must race to fix the problem before their scheme gets out of control. For grades 4-7The Superteacher Project
By Gordon Korman. 2023
It’s The Unteachables meets I, Robot in another funny middle school tale from Gordon Korman!It’s the start of a new…
school year and Oliver is looking forward to a seventh-grade year full of spitballs, jokes and pranks with his friend Nathan. And their new homeroom teacher, Mr. Aidact, looks like a prime target. He’s an odd duck with a weird, stilted vocabulary, an unusual way of looking at things, and a strangely old student teacher constantly in tow. He also has a seemingly superhuman ability to detect and defuse almost every one of Oliver’s schemes.But that’s not all of it. Mr. Aidact seems to be teaching pretty much every subject. He’s willing to take over jobs no other teacher will, like supervising detention and coaching the field hockey team. Oliver and Nathan are determined to find out what is up with this guy.What they uncover is out of this world!Mr. Aidact is, in fact, superhuman — he’s an android, a secret project of the Department of Education. And when the secret leaks out, the school and the PTA are in an uproar, and calls for his “deactivation” are loud and clear.Can Oliver and his friends turn this plan around and save the teacher they’ve grown to love and appreciate?