middle school students

Be-Ri manages to save the cat Doki, but still has no idea why Dan Mu-Ji and his family suddenly disappeared. When she discovers that his grandfather died, Be-Ri knows she will have to take decisive action to help her friend, but is not sure if she is ready to make that move.

Tsuyoshi, unwilling to return home after learning the truth about his past, winds up at an unplanned sleepover with Be-Ri, Erica, and Mi-Hyuk and ends the night with surprising consequences.

Tsuyoshi finds a Korean girlfriend even though he is still obsessed with Be-Ri and his grandfather will accept no one else. As he considers confessing his feelings to Be-Ri, Erica realizes that she may never receive the attention she desires from Tsuyoshi and begins to look for a new boyfriend.

Tsuyoshi's attempts to make a fresh start in South Korea, with the help of his neighbor and friend Be-Ri, hit a snag when Erica, a girl from his past in Japan, arrives on the scene, and matters get even more complicated when Mu-Hyuk, concerned about Tsuyoshi and Be-Ri's growing closeness, kisses her tying her insides in knots.

Boy-girl relationships are explored in this middle school drama involving Be-Ri, Tsuyoshi, Mi-Hyuk and others.

"When Jaden gets a call inviting him to Comicon to test out a new version of his favorite game, Cross Ups, he is thrilled . . . sort of. He'll get to go with his best friend, Cali, they'll be in New York City, and best of all, he'll meet his idol and the greatest gamer of all time, Yuudai Sato. But he's got no time to practice, and worse, his signature moves no longer work. His trip starts to feel less and less exciting, and more and more like one big problem. Jaden has to come up with some solutions--fast. He looks to some older gamers for guidance, but is JStar willing to change who he is for the sake of a game?"--Provided by publisher.

"The first eight years of Penelope 'Pipi' McGee's education have been a curriculum in humiliation. From her kindergarten self-portrait as a piece of busty bacon to fourth grade when she peed her pants on a field trip (thanks, vile Kara Samson) to seventh grade where . . . well, she doesn't talk about seventh grade. Ever. Eighth grader Pipi--fearing that her humiliations will follow her into the halls of Northbrook High School next year--decides to use her last year in middle school to clear the slate and to save other innocents from the same picked-on, laughed-at fate. Pipi McGee is seeking redemption, but she'll take revenge, too"--Dust jacket flap.

A reprinting of the "Big Nate" comic strip, that follows the adventures of eleven-year-old Nate Wright and his baseball team the Cream Puffs.

"Hazel knows a lot about the world. That's because when she's not hanging with her best friend, taking care of her dog, or helping care for the goats on her family's farm, she loves reading through dusty encyclopedias. But even Hazel doesn't have answers for the questions awaiting her as she enters eighth grade. What if no one at her new school gets her, and she doesn't make any friends? What's going to happen to one of her moms, who's pregnant again after having two miscarriages? Why does everything have to change when life was already perfectly fine? As Hazel struggles to cope, she'll come to realize that sometimes you have to look within yourself--instead of the pages of a book--to find the answer to life's most important questions"--OCLC.

"Adele is a star soccer player with a rotten family, an aching heart, and an impossible frenemy. As pressures at school and home mount, will she overcome all or will she crash and burn? When everything collapses, Adele realizes she can only rely on herself in this feminine take on the soccer world, being a teenager, and figuring out who you are"--Publisher.