Middle School Reads!

 by Tony Weaver, Jr. illustrated by Jes and Cin Wibowo Tony Weaver loves comic books, superheroes and video games, but not everyone in 7th grade feels the same way.  Some kids think he is a weirdo and they bully him every chance they get.  His parents have tried several different schools in hopes that he will find one where the kids will accept him just the way he is.  With the help of his family and a therapist, Tony begins to feel more confident in showing the world who he is and being seen for the amazing person that he is now and hopes to be in the future.

 by Anton Treuer Genre:  Realistic Fiction Ezra Cloud wishes that he could like in Canada with his grandparents.  He is very unhappy with his life in Northeast Minneapolis.  He would much rather be out in the wilderness learning how to trap and hunt.  His dad is a professor of Ojibwe language so he has to live in the city where the college he teaches at is.  Ezra is struggling with school and with one student in particular, Matt, who is known throughout their high school as a bully. After yet another fight with Matt, his home suspiciously burns down and Ezra becomes a prime suspect.  Ezra's dad decides that the safest place for Ezra right now would be on the reservation with his grandparents in Canada.  Ezra can't believe his good luck.  No more Matt and no more Minneapolis!  Will life in the Canadian wilderness be as fantastic as Ezra thinks it will be?