Middle School Reads!

by Sarah Dessen Genre:  Realistic Fiction Louna thought she had found her happily ever after.  Even though they only spent about 12 hours together, she was convinced that Ethan would be with her for the rest of her life.  But then he wasn't. And now Louna is trying to rebuild a new future.  Her mother, the famous Natalie Barrett, is a wedding planner so Louna is spending her summer working for her mother where she is constantly around brides and grooms who are busily planning their perfect happily ever afters.  Then her mother hires Ambrose, and Louna takes an immediate dislike to him. Is this going to be the longest summer of her life?

by Rachel Vincent Lexile:  830 Genre:  Science Fiction, Dystopian Dahlia 16 is exactly like 4999 other 16s.  Their faces and their genetics are all exactly the same. Dahlia has never thought to question why her society works the way it does until one day when she meets Trigger 17.  The two meet by accident when the power goes off in the elevator.  Trigger 17 is unlike anyone that Dahlia has ever met.  When Trigger 17 talks to her, Dahlia is shocked at how he so brazenly breaks a number of rules.  Dahlia knows that if she breaks the rules and gets caught, she will be labled as flawed which means that she and all 4999 identicals will be destroyed.  Will Dahlia take that chance to find out more about what Trigger 17 has to share with her?

by Gordon Korman Lexile:  730 Genre:  Realistic Fiction Chase has no memory of falling off the roof or of the thirteen years before, but there are plenty of people in his life who do remember the kind of person he was.  Apparently, Chase was a troublemaker and had been responsible for bullying kids at school and had recently been given community service for a prank he pulled at school.  As Chase's memories return, he realizes that he has been given a second chance to be a different kind of person.  Will he be able to put his past behind him?

by Barry Lyga Lexile:  720 Genre:  Realistic Fiction Sebastian made a horrible mistake that he will never forgive himself for making.  It happened when he was four years old and his life has never been the same.  Ten years later, he thinks he knows what he should do to fix the problem.  And he will do it when the voice tells him that it is time.  This summer for sure...but then he meets a new friend, Aneesa.  Aneesa is new in town so she doesn't know about his past.  Could this be another way for Sebastian to start fresh?