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Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Looking for a new beginning after her father's death, Eliza and her mother move to a backwater town in Missouri where Eliza's desperate attempts to be popular in her new school are thwarted by her growing friendship with the eccentric girl next door.
Author
Series
Teen Titans (Garcia) volume 2
Publisher
DC Ink
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Garfield Logan finally impresses the social elite at his high school, but popularity comes at a price when he undergoes sudden physical changes as the dares from his new friends escalate.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a remote area of Alaska, twelve-year-old Willow helps her father with their sled dogs when she is not at school, wishing she were more popular, all the while unaware that the animals surrounding her carry the spirits of dead ancestors and friends who care for her.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
During a summer visit, twelve-year-old Lucy must come to terms with both her grandmother's failing memory and how her mentally-challenged neighbor will impact her popularity when both enter the same middle school in the fall.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it. He has a chance encounter with Connor Murphy--just before Connor commits suicide. Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, and suddenly he isn't invisible anymore to the girl of his dreams--Connor's sister, Zoe, who believes Evan was Connor's only friend. As Evan goes from being a nobody to everyone's hero and a social media superstar, Evan is filled with confidence ... until things start unraveling.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the Portland suburb of West Knoll, Delta and her friends were the pretty, popular elite of the high school. That was fifteen years and a whole lifetime ago. Even then, backstabbing and betrayal erupted among the women in the group, a trio of which are now gathered around a hospital bed. And most of it revolved around the man lying close to death before them. To Delta, it feels as if a nightmare unfolds every time they get together. It started...
Author
Series
Winnie the early years volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale Kids, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Winnie is torn between being a good friend to her old horse, Chief, and unpopular friend, Simon, and wrangling an invitation to mean girl Tamson's birthday sleepover.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
Just before spending her sixteenth summer on Cape Cod, Sarah's boyfriend breaks up with her and, as a scientist whose focus is on winning a scholarship through her study of a comet, she designs an experiment to become more like her older sister to see if she, too, can be popular.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When scholarship student Nikki Maxwell, whose father is the school exterminator, decides to enter the talent show at her expensive private school, her nemesis MacKenzie threatens to reveal Nikki's status to the rest of the school.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Partly for the sake of his brother Sam, who is paralyzed, Adam decides to go from high school loser to god by selling completed homework assignments, buying alcohol, and arranging for fake IDs, but before the end of junior year, he realizes his quest for popularity has gone way too far.
14) Stargirl
Author
Series
Stargirl volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Leo se siente tan fascinado como intimidado por Stargirl, la nueva de la escuela, una chica especial e inmune a las duras críticas del resto y que además no hace más que llamar la atención, algo que jamás haría él. In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
15) Bully
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grade friends Lyla and Jamie, both new to their school, stand up for each other when a clique of popular girls bullies them online.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Rafe Khatchadorian is sent to Camp Wannamorra, he teams up with his bunk mates to fend off the more "popular" kids' plans to ruin their summer"--
Author
Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Georgia Khatchadorian plans to excel at Hills Village Middle School, in all the places her troublemaking brother failed.
Author
Series
Fartacus volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin MAX
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Chub and The Arch are accused of stealing a sculpture of their school mascot and will be expelled by the strict new principal if they, aided by misfit friends, old and new, cannot produce it in forty-eight hours.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
When seventeen-year-old Star Fuentez reaches social media stardom, her polar-opposite twin, Moon, becomes "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and the grumpy but attractive Santiago Philips.
When her twin sister reaches social media stardom, Moon Fuentez accepts her fate to be nothing more than her sister's camerawoman. Then Moon takes a summer job as the "merch girl" on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and her fate begins...