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Starring Tracy Beaker (Tracy Beaker ; #3)
By Jacqueline Wilson. 2006
Tracy Beaker is back ...and she's just desperate for a role in her school play. They're performing A Christmas Carol…
and for one extremely worrying moment, the irrepressible Tracy thinks she might not even get to play one of the unnamed street urchins. But then she is cast in the main role. Grades 3-6. 2006. (Tracy Beaker ; 3)Stealing princes (Calypso chronicles. #2)
By Tyne O'Connell. 2005
Back at her elegant English boarding school for another term, Californian Calypso Kelly continues her pursuit of Prince Freddy with…
style. For junior and senior high readers. Sequel to "Pulling princes" (DC28228). Followed by "Dueling princes". 2005. (The Calypso chronicles ; 2)Special Edward (Orca currents)
By Eric Walters. 2009
Slacker Edward fakes a learning disability to gain a special-education designation in school. But instead of lowering his parents' expectations,…
Edward ends up working harder than ever. A high-interest, low-vocabulary book. Grades 5-8. 2009.Shane (Degrassi ; #12)
By Susin Nielsen-Fernlund. 1989
After his girlfriend, Spike, becomes pregnant, 14-year-old Shane must prove to his parents that he is not irresponsible. But Shane's…
new sense of independence backfires, and before he knows it, he is in trouble again. For junior and senior high readers. (Degrassi Junior High). 1989.Spike (Degrassi Junior High ; #11)
By Ken Roberts, Loretta Castellarin. 1988
Fourteen-year-old Spike discovers that she is pregnant. There are so many questions and so many decisions -- not to mention…
dealing with Shane, her mum, and her friends at Degrassi Junior High. For junior and senior high readers. 1988.Stephanie Kaye (Degrassi Junior High ; #10)
By Ken Roberts. 1988
In her last year of Degrassi Junior High, Stephanie takes on a new glitzy image. With this, and her position…
as president of the student council, she believes she will have a terrific year. But things do not work as she planned. For junior and senior high readers. 1988. (Degrassi Junior High ; 10)Straight punch
By Monique Polak. 2014
Tessa McPhail has a bad habit—tagging—that lands her at New Directions, an alternative school in Montreal’s toughest neighborhood. The school…
is far from Tessa’s home and full of troubled kids. To make matters worse, half of every school day is devoted to boxing. The other students think boxing is cool. Not Tessa, who cannot handle violence of any kind. But when a neighbour starts a petition to have New Directions closed down, Tessa discovers something worth fighting for, both in and out of the ring. For junior and senior high readers. 2014.Story time
By Edward Bloor. 2004
Brainy sixth-grader George and sassy eighth-grader Kate have to go to a strange new school, in a haunted library, where…
they take standardized tests all day alongside green-tinged "Mushroom Children". They hate the school, the tests, and dealing with the weird adults who run it. When a series of demonic possessions and grisly deaths occur, Kate and George get on the trail of a creepy paranormal mystery spanning generations. Edgar Award finalist 2005. Grades 5-8. 2004.Slacker
By Gordon Korman. 2016
Cameron Boxer is very happy to spend his life avoiding homework, hanging out with his friends, and gaming for hours…
in his basement, until he gets so caught up in one game that he almost lets his house burn down. It's time for some serious damage control, so Cameron and his friends invent a fake school club that will make it seem like they're doing good deeds instead of slacking off. But some kids think the club is real--and Cameron is stuck being president. Soon Cameron is part of a mission to save a beaver named Elvis from certain extinction. Along the way, he makes some new friends--and some powerful new enemies. The guy who never cared about anything is now at the centre of everything, and it's going to take all his slacker skills to win this round. Grades 4-7. 2016.Song Lee in room 2B (Song Lee. #1.)
By Suzy Kline. 2017
Everyone in Room 2B knows that Song Lee is shy, but Horrible Harry and his classmates soon find that quiet…
Song Lee is also full of surprises. Join the students is Room 2B in four adventures starring Song Lee. Johnny Heller's narration highlights all the fun. Grades 2-4. 2017.Song Lee and the leech man (Song Lee. #3.)
By Suzy Kline. 2017
Although some students in classroom 2B don't like each other, Song Lee is everyone's friend. Today, she is excited about…
the class field trip to a pond. But even before the students get on the bus, Sydney has made Horrible Harry angry. While Song Lee tries to be nice to Sydney, Harry waits for his chance for revenge. When they get to the pond, however, Harry's plan backfires. Now he is covered in trouble! Song Lee will have to think quickly to save him. The Song Lee series is the perfect companion to Suzy Kline's popular Horrible Harry books. The gentle Song Lee is always ready to find something good. Johnny Heller's narration is pure fun as he voices each member of Song Lee's class. Followed by "Song Lee and the I Hate You Notes". Grades 2-4. 2017.Song Lee and the I hate you notes (Song Lee. #4.)
By Suzy Kline. 2017
Everyone in Mrs. Mackle's class knows that Horrible Harry likes to do horrible things. That's how he got his nickname.…
He likes gross things, too, like the dead flies Song Lee brought in to feed the class water frog. But when someone sends Song Lee two "I hate you" notes, no one thinks of Harry. He wouldn't send such mean notes to the nicest person in the class. All the students wonder who wrote them-and what Song Lee is going to do. Beginning readers love each visit to Horrible Harry's classroom, where there are always interesting new things to see and hear. This time, Song Lee is preparing a big surprise, too. Johnny Heller's exuberant narration captures all the energy of this popular series. School Library Journal comments on one of the Horrible Harry books: "Another perfect chapter book for transitional readers." Sequel to "Song Lee and the leech man". Grades 2-4. 2017.Stitches
By Glen Huser. 2003
When Travis transfers to a new school, he becomes a big target for his old nemesis Shon and his thug…
friends. Maybe it's because Travis lives in a trailer park with his gentle aunt, his uncle Miserable Mike, and lots of little cousins while his country-and-western singer mother is on the road. Or maybe it's because he loves to sew, wants to be a professional puppeteer, and his best friend is a girl, Chantelle, who comes from an even stranger family than he does. Some strong language. For junior high readers. Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature. 2003.Slumming
By Kristen D Randle. 2003
Three Mormon high school friends, perky Nikki, studious Alicia, and football player Sam, make a pact of the Pygmalion style…
-- they decide to help the "untapped" students at their school. Their plan is to transform three classmates and take them to the prom. But the experiment doesn't go exactly as planned. They slowly begin to realize that there is more to most people than meets the eye. Junior High readers. 2003.Slam!
By Walter Dean Myers. 2000
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give…
him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. Junior and Senior High. 2000.Speechless
By Jennifer Mook-Sang. 2015
Jelly is as surprised as anyone when he decides that he’s going to win the annual sixth grade speech contest.…
Just like that, Joe Alton Miles, better known as Jelly (because his initials are J.A.M. and his best friend’s are P.B.), is faced with overcoming not only his terror of being in the spotlight, but also the wrath of smart, popular Victoria, who believes that the prize (like all prizes) is rightfully hers. At first, Jelly only cares about winning the awesome prize (a new tablet), but as Victoria escalates her campaign against him, Jelly begins to realize that it’s not only the prize that’s at stake, but also his reputation, his self-respect and the friendship he values most. Jelly must dig deep inside himself to find out if he’s strong enough to stand up to Victoria and show everyone what he’s really capable of. Grades 5-8. 2015.Stand tall, Molly Lou Melon
By Patty Lovell. 2001
Soup for president
By Robert Newton Peck. 1978
Rob manages Soup's campaign for class president in their small Vermont town, but they wind up in trouble as usual.…
Sequel to "Soup & me." Followed by "Soup on ice." Grades 4-7. 1978.Someday Angeline
By Louis Sachar. 1983
Angeline could read the first time she picked up a book and play the piano without lessons. But being smart…
means that the mean kids in school call her a freak, her teacher finds her troublesome, and even her own father doesn't know what to do with her. Angeline just wants the chance to be herself, but it's only when she makes friends with a boy the kids call "Goon" and the teacher they call "Mr. Bone" that she gets that chance. Grades 4-7. c1983.Some girls are
By Courtney Summers. 2009
High-school senior Regina Afton has been what she believes is an important part of the most popular girls' clique during…
middle and high school. But when she's nearly raped by her best friend's boyfriend and she tells, she pays for it by being victimized in a hate campaign. Only her deceased psychiatrist's teenaged son seems to really care, and when she tries to take revenge on his behalf after her former friends bully him as well, things spins out of control. Explicit descriptions of sex and violence, explicit strong language. For senior high readers. 2009.