junior high schools

Discusses the benefits of using trade book literature in middle school curriculum and profiles specific fiction, nonfiction, and picture books that can be used.

The Beacon Street Girls must decide what to do when one of them is not invited to Julie Farber's Hawaiian-themed birthday party.

After her family loses their cottage in the Los Angeles hills, junior high school outcast Weetzie Bat's father leaves her mother and Weetzie learns how to stand up for herself and to find beauty in even the most difficult situations.

Eighth-grader Brett McCarthy--once good student and best-friend-to-Diane, now suspended and friendless--faces school and family troubles as she grapples with her redefined life.

Life is confusing for seventh-grader Maggie, who must track down a missing person and find out who is behind a string of dog eggings at the local dog run, while also dealing with issues involving her brother and two of her friends.

A top supervillain offers rules and advice to readers on how to develop an evil plan to rule the school.

Lou finds it confusing and difficult to be thirteen, especially with her mother and Richard's romance heating up, being separated from her best friend Mina at school, and getting another letter from Paul when she never answered the first one.

In Brooklyn, New York, twelve-year-old dog-walker Maggie, aided by her twin brother Finn and best friend Lucy, investigates someone she believes is stealing pets.

Follows a group of five eighth-graders as they attempt to discover the cause of the strange goings-on at their school. Hampering their progress, however, is the school principal, who has framed them for a crime they didn't commit and confined them to a secret room deep within the school.

Only two months into his first year of junior high school, Markus has already fallen in love with all of the girls in his class.