Social Themes - Adolescence & Coming of Age
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Emily’s Quest
$7.99 Read moreEmily knows she’s going to be a great writer.She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together.But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become a… [more below]
- Series: Emily Novels #3
- Author: Montgomery, L. M.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553264931
- Language: English
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Recipe for Disaster
$16.99 Read moreIn this heartfelt middle school drama, Hannah’s schemes for throwing her own bat mitzvah unleash family secrets, create rivalries with best friends, and ultimately teach Hannah what being Jewish is al… [more below]
- Author: Lucido, Aimee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0358386918
- Language: English
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Criss Cross: A Newbery Award Winner
$9.99 Read moreWinner of the Newbery Medal – New York Times Bestseller – An ALA Notable Book – An ALA Best Book for Young Adults – School Library Journal Best Book – Booklist Editors’ Choice – Kirkus Reviews Editor
- Author: Perkins, Lynne Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0060092742
- Language: English
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La Luna Dentro de MÃ (the Moon Within)
$7.99 Add to cartA dazzling story told with the sensitivity, humor, and brilliant verse of debut talent Aida Salazar.
La vida de Celi Rivera es un torbellino de preguntas… por los cambios en su cuerpo, por sentirse a… [more below]
- Author: Salazar, Aida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1338631063
- Language: Spanish
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The Places We Sleep
$9.99 Read moreA family divided, a country going to war, and a girl desperate to feel at home converge in this stunning novel in verse.
Selected for Kids Indies Introduce List AND Kids Indie Next List It’s early Sep- Author: Brooks DuBois, Caroline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0823451305
- Language: English
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Jiu-Jitsu Girl
$14.99 Read moreWhat’s more terrifying than being forced into a coed combat wrestling martial art by your own mother? Sixth grade. Angie Larson hates Jiu-Jitsu. Like many twelve-year-old girls, she fails to find the … [more below]
- Author: Dutton, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1631636928
- Language: English
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J.R. Silver Writes Her World
$16.99 Read more★ “Fans of E. L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler will particularly enjoy. “―Booklist, starred review
J.R. struggles to navigate the torments of middle sch- Author: Dassori, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0316331457
- Language: English
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Tbh #8: Tbh, I Don’t Want to Say Good-Bye
$12.99 Read moreWhen summer break brings BIG changes, these BFFs 4EVA may end up saying good-bye 4EVA in the eighth and final book in this popular middle-grade series told entirely in text messages, emojis, and passe
- Series: Tbh #8
- Author: Greenwald, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0062991833
- Language: English
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Tenmile
$20.95 Read moreLife in 1880 Tenmile, Colorado, isn’t easy. But it’s all that 12-year-old Sissy Carlson knows. She’s lived here her whole life, watching her father, the local doctor, tend to the town’s citizens. And … [more below]
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 153411162X
- Language: English
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Rare Birds
$16.99 Add to cartJeff Miller’s heartbreaking, coming-of-age middle-grade novel–inspired by his personal experience living through his own parent’s heart transplant–invites readers into the world of a twelve-year-old… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1454945044
- Language: English
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TBH, This Is a Box Set: This Is So Awkward, This May Be TMI, and Too Much Drama
$29.97 Add to cartCapture every LOL and OMG moment in the first three books of Lisa Greenwald’s totally relatable TBH series with this paperback box set. Perfect for fans of Dork Diaries and Invisible Emmie.
OMG! When
- Series: Tbh
- Author: Greenwald, Lisa
- Binding: Boxed Set
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0062942077
- Language: English
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Chasing Redbird
$9.99 Add to cart“Intriguing, delightful, and touching.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“Creech’s best yet.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
It started out as an ordinary summer. But the minute thirteen-
- Author: Creech, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0064406962
- Language: English
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?Viva El Aguacate!: (Spanish Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartThe Spanish text is like a beautiful poem, with the father’s words bringing calm and patience to Muriel when she needs them most. . . A magical Spanish picture book that is a must have.-School Library… [more below]
- Author: Levi, Taltal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0735845654
- Language: Spanish
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Trino’s Choice
$9.95 Read moreFiction.Latino/Latina Studies. “A dramatic and realistic contemporary novel about a Latino boy struggling to grow into manhood and somehow make the right choices in the absence of adult guidance” –Bo… [more below]
- Author: Bertrand, Diane Gonzales
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1558852689
- Language: English
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The Chronicles of Viktor Valentine
$18.99 Read moreA perfectly average boy uncovers a supernatural secret about his family that could put his whole town in grave danger–if it doesn’t make him die of embarrassment first–in this mysterious and funny m
- Author: Brewer, Z.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063245728
- Language: English
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What My Mother Doesn’t Know
$12.99 Read moreAn utterly authentic story of first (and second and third) love, told in accessible free verse and featuring a new cover and larger trim size.
It’s not that I’m boy crazy.
It’s just that even though
I’m- Author: Sones, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1442493852
- Language: English
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The First Magnificent Summer
$8.99 Add to cartJudy Blume meets Barbara Dee in this tender and empowering middle grade novel told in journal entries and poetry about a young writer on the verge of becoming a woman whose summer with her estranged f… [more below]
- Author: Toalson, R. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1665925507
- Language: English
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Boy vs. Shark
$14.99 Add to cartA hilarious middle-grade graphic memoir about boyhood, toxic masculinity and a shark named Jaws. For fans of Guts and New Kid.
In the summer of 1975, 10-year-old Paul Gilligan doesn’t have a whole lot- Author: Gilligan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1774880466
- Language: English
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Banned Books, Crop Tops, and Other Bad Influences
$17.99 Add to cartPerfect for fans of Star Fish and From the Desk of Zoe Washington, a nuanced middle grade from the author of The Prettiest about two girls–one “bad” and one “good”–who join forces against book bann
- Author: Young, Brigit
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1250901510
- Language: English
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Clara Poole and the Wrong Way Up
$18.99 Read moreSoaring to the top is one thing. Staying there is quite another. The warm and the winning second book in the engrossing middle grade adventure Clara Poole series.
Fresh off winning WOOBA’s One-Hundred- Author: Tyng, Taylor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1645951626
- Language: English
