Middle School Reads!

by Nicola Yoon Lexile:  610 Genre:  Realistic Fiction Madeline is seventeen and she has never left her house.  She is basically allergic to the world so her mom and her nurse Carla are the only two people she is allowed to see.  Madeline has made the best of her situation.  She attends an online high school and uses books as a way to see and experience the world. This is enough for her until Olly moves in next door.  The moment Madeline sees him, she knows that she is going to fall in love, and she knows that it can only lead to disaster.

by Dean Pitchford Lexile:  830 Genre:  Realistic Fiction Sam Brattle is having the worst Christmas ever.  His dad's business is nearly bankrupt, his mom has remarried and cancelled his Christmas visit, and because he damaged his neighbor's house, he has to spend the entire winter break working off his debt.  But working for his neighbor, Mr. Wells, turns out to not be the experience he expected. In fact, meeting Mr. Wells, just might be one of the best things that has ever happened to him.

by Cece Bell Genre:  Memoir, Graphic Novel Cece Bell is starting a new school and she is worried about what others will think about her.  Cece is deaf and has to wear hearing aids that are clearly visible to everyone else and her teacher has to wear a special microphone that works in conjunction with her hearing aid.  Cece feels like everyone looks at her strangely and she isn't sure if kids will want to be friends with her.  All Cece wants is to fit in and make new friends.  Will it be possible or will she need to develop a superpower to overcome her problems?

by Jeri Watts Lexile:  920 Genre:  Historical Fiction Kizzy Ann Stamps loves to go to school even if her teacher Mrs. Warren says she is sometimes a troublemaker.  But now change has come to town and schools are being integrated.  It is 1963 and Kizzy Ann is going to have to go to a new school with white students and a white teacher.  In order to support this transition, Mrs. Warren asks her students to write to their new teacher.  So Kizzy Ann does...and discovers that she really likes to write.  Her new teacher, Miss Anderson, gives her a journal and she writes letters all year long about the triumphs and challenges of being a student in her new school.

by Roland Smith Lexile:  640 Genre:  Mystery Vespers One still has seven of Amy and Dan Cahill's relatives held hostage and he has issued more demands that they must comply with if they ever want to see their family members again.  This time they have been asked to steal one of the world's largest diamonds, known as the Golden Jubilee.  Will they find it in time to keep everyone alive?