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2) Pizza face
Author
Series
Four eyes volume 2
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Late bloomer Rex navigates a low-income family, bullies, sports, and middle school, all while learning to have confidence with a body that refuses to stop changing.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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September 1984, Thornton College private school. After 15-year-old Zahabiya's father remarries, she can't wait to leave home and convinces him to send her away to boarding school. But will she fit in? She joins a clique of smart students but isn't sure if she measures up or how to read the mixed messages from a guy she's crushing on. Seventeen-year-old Leesa has been at Thornton since middle school after her parents' messy divorce. She's been climbing...
4) Jawbreaker
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier's Smile, a refreshingly honest middle-grade debut novel about toxic sibling rivalry, socioeconomic disparity, and dental drama. Max Plink's life is complicated. Her parents aren't getting along. The school bullies are relentless-and her own sister is the cruelest of them. Worst of all, her mouth is a mess. With a mismatched puzzle of a jaw, Max has a Class II malocclusion, otherwise known as a severe overbite....
Author
Series
Chronicles of a lizard nobody volume 1
Language
English
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"When Principal Wombat makes monitor lizards Zeke, Daniel, and Alicia hall monitors, Zeke gives up on popularity at his new school. Brought in as part of a district blending program, the monitor lizards were mostly ignored before. Reptiles aren't bullied any more than other students, but they do stick out among zebras, ostriches, and elk. Why would Principal Wombat make them hall monitors? Alicia explains that it's because mammals are afraid of being...
6) Four eyes
Author
Series
Four eyes volume 1
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"When Rex finds out he needs glasses, he's beyond miserable. Dealing with the bullies at school, his family being broke, and an embarrassing lack of friends, he has way too much on his plate already"--
8) Dust
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a boy with a terrible secret moves to town there is a sudden increase in dust storms, and asthmatic Avalyn theorizes the storms are linked to his emotions and tries to help as she struggles to breathe.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"French bulldog Billy the Kid was born with an ear for music. And not just any music. He loves barking to the beat of country music! So Billy sets out to Nashville to sing his heart out. But when he meets some big bullies at the Battle of the Bow-wows, Billy worries he's barking up the wrong tree. He'll need his favorite songs ('Jowlene' and 'I Will Pawlways Love You,' of course), a group of scrappy new friends, and his favorite country music star...
11) Daydreamer
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Split between two worlds, his real one, in which he's a lonely, bullied kid, and a magical realm called the Sanctuary, eleven-year-old Charles finds reality and imagination colliding when evil moves into his apartment building, and he must harness the power of his creativity to save both worlds.
12) Lunch from home
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Ray, Preeti, Mina, and Niki bring their favorite lunches to school, their classmates scrunch their noses and act disgusted, but the four children learn to stand up for their lunches and cultural backgrounds. Based on the real-life childhood experiences of chefs Ray Garcia, Preeti Mistry, Mina Park, and Niki Russ Federman.
13) The Gray
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Sasha has been bullied at his middle school and his anxiety, which he calls the Gray, is growing, so his parents and therapist suggest a summer in the country with his aunt might help him.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
In this contemporary retelling of Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, a queer, half-Japanese disco superfan, moves to a town that seems too small for her big personality and where she becomes embroiled in a series of dramatic and unfortunate events.
17) Virtually me
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Five tweens navigate the pandemic by attending an experimental virtual reality school"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Andy feels a little out of place when he moves to Gotham, feeling less excited about meeting Batman than he is about seeing his childhood hero, the wrestler Waylon Jones...a.k.a. Killer Croc, the super-villain who teaches him how to put the bullies in their place.
19) Kiki kicks
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At her first karate lesson, a young girl named Kiki regains her confidence and strength after being bullied at school.
20) Nowhere special
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Stan and Elpidia find hope in an unexpected friendship as they navigate challenging family circumstances and a dangerous local gang in the desolate Southern California desert.
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