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501) Willy the scrub
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Scrub series volume 1
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English
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Willy and his friends have just started 5th grade and they want to be part of the 'in' crowd, the jocks. The fall football season leaves Willy a benchwarmer, or scrub, but he goes out for wrestling in the winter and things begin to change.
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Middle school confidential volume 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses being who you want to be and feeling good about it with six teens sharing their thoughts.
503) Astrológica
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Series
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Español
Description
It's almost the end of sixth grade, and Abby's first year at her new school is ending on a high note -- she's a star on the track team, she gets good grades, and she has a great best friend, Chelsea, who knows everything about middle school. So when Chelsea recommends reading her daily horoscope, Abby gives it a try.
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Blood on the tracks volume 14
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English
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"Seiichi is back home for the first time in ages to inter his father's remains in the family grave. After that, he'll be finished, nothing left to hold him in this world...until he happens to bump into Fukiishi, resurrecting all the feelings he had buried along with his past-- Will Seiichi finally find peace in death? Or will the specters of the past keep him here against his will...?"--
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English
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"Now that Yutaka has officially decided to join the city opera, he's cast in a leading role in the ghost story The Turn of the Screw. Meanwhile, school choir president Betsuyaku struggles to prove that he and his choir are capable of winning the gold prize in the NHK All-School Choir Competition. But can he bring the choir together to achieve greatness, or will he alienate all of its members?"--
507) River of crows
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English
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"Ty Baxter just wants to survive seventh grade without dying of boreom or getting flattened by the school bully. But when he tries to help an injured crow, his ordinary life is suddenly upended. Now trapped in a secret, magical world, Ty finds himself at the center of a cryptic prophesy, and the target of a brutal emperor who will stop at nothing to protect his power. In a desperate gamble, Ty struggles to control his emerging magical Talent so he...
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"The Kawami Higashi Middle School choir has won the district competition and is moving on to regionals, but the choir just isn't the same without Yutaka's soprano voice. In her eagerness to bring Yutaka back, Mariko must learn to speak for herself. Will she find a way to remind Yutaka of the joy of singing?"--
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English
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One woman's memoir of coming of age while being bused to largely black schools after a Virginia legal battle forced integration in the 1970s.
This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. As a white student sent to predominantly black schools in Richmond, Virginia, Clara Silverstein tells a story that pulls us into the forefront of this great social experiment....
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English
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"Take a large group of kids in puberty, send them to a new school, and add a generous dose of tests, homework, and hormones, not to mention diverse personalities, bland food, and unpleasant odors. That's middle school, and it can be a little...weird."--Page 4 of cover.
516) The Creeps
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English
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"At Pumpkins County Middle School weird things happen every class period, not to mention during lunch, but nobody ever makes a fuss. Principal Garish thinks what's weird and ... well ... creepy is how fascinating the mysterious goings-on are to Carol, a big-city girl new to Pumpkins County, who finds kindred spirits in Mitchell (monster expert), Mark (military brat with logistics know-how), and Rosario (girly girl on the outside, muscle underneath)....
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Hikaru no Go volume 15
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English
Description
Hikaru ignores Sai's pleas to let him play go, and then Sai vanishes! Where has he gone? Will he come back? Can Hiraku play with Sai's coaching?
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English
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"Phil Abrams wants what any sixth-grade boy wants: fit in with classmates; get along with teachers; stay out of trouble; play by the rules. In short, survive his first year of middle school. No such luck. Instead, from day one, Phil is plunged into a wacky whirlwind of wrestling matches, stuck zippers, exploding chili, errant spitballs, sagging gym shorts, barfing cheerleaders, worm sandwiches and belligerent bullies. He discovers survival calls for...
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English
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"Phil Abrams returns to Lost Creek Middle School with his two best friends and learns a new set of survival rules. Along the way, Phil acquires more valuable life lessons. The Rules of Never, Year Two is the second book in the series. This fun-loving series is meant for fourth and fifth graders, middle schoolers, reluctant readers and adults who enjoy traveling down memory lane. Phil Abrams wants what any seventh grader wants. Make new friends. Do...