middle schools

Elle quit her basketball team midway through the season after feeling burned out. After joining the volleyball team and learning to have fun, Elle decides she wants to bring that mentality to her basketball team, that is, if she can convince the coach and her former teammates to take her back.

"Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.".

Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.

Elizabeth and Jessica are starting middle school together, but the twin sisters soon realize they have different interests and it is good to become their own person.

Big Nate. Revenge of the Cream Puffs: 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.

The only thing sixth grader Lucy has in common with her eighth grader sister GiGi is their interest in fencing, and they haven't been able to get along ever since their dad died. On the first day of school, GiGi humiliates Lucy, and Lucy challenges her to a duel. As the sisters prepare for their fencing bout, the girls must come to terms with their grief and the effect it has had on their relationship.

"Two choices, two storylines--one surprise ending! Will Sarah be brave enough to ask out her crush or will she lose her nerve? Both stories play out in this funny and heartfelt seventh book in the New York Times bestselling Emmie & Friends series. Secrets. Surprises. MIDDLE SCHOOL. Sarah and Leo have been BFFs since they were little. They share everything... until Sarah starts crushing on Leo's friend Ben. Then one day Sarah is suddenly faced with a big choice -- ? ask Ben to the school dance! OR-- ? chicken out. Either way, Sarah and Leo's friendship will be put to the test. Which one would you choose?"--.

"Heidi is settling in at Broomsfield Academy. She and Melanie are trying to get along and Heidi is getting used to her classes, all her new friends, and her very first crush, Hunter! The problem is: Hunter is really popular. How will Heidi get him to notice her? Her friends tell her to just be herself, but that sounds so boring! After all, Heidi is a witch-in-training. What good is having magic if you can't use it? She knows she can find the perfect love spell to make Hunter fall in love with her. What could possibly go wrong?"--.

When he is magically transported back to the seventh grade before he and his best friend had a falling out, science nerd Mason gets a chance to stop the chain of events that made his previous life implode.

When the popular girls club takes interest in Mia, she has to decide between being popular and her new cupcake club friends.