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Amy Melissa Bentley
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Ann Braden
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Seventh-grader Zoey has her hands full as she takes care of her much younger siblings after school every day while her mom works her shift at the pizza parlor. Not that her mom seems to appreciate it. At least there's Lenny, her mom's boyfriend - they all get to live in his nice, clean trailer.
At school, Zoey tries to stay under the radar. Her only friend, Fuchsia, has her own issues, and since they're in an entirely different world than the rich kids, it's best if no one notices them.
Zoey thinks how much easier everything would be if she were an octopus: eight arms to do eight things at once. Incredible camouflage ability and steady, unblinking vision. Powerful, protective defenses.
Unfortunately, she's not totally invisible, and one of her teachers forces her to join the debate club. Even though Zoey resists participating, debate ultimately leads her to see things in a new way: her mom's relationship with Lenny, Fuchsia's situation, and her own place in this town of people who think they're better than her. Can Zoey find the courage to speak up, even if it means risking the most stable home she's ever had?
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The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at 13, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets 12-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys discover the true meaning of family and the sacrifices it requires.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Crushingly beautiful
- De M. en 03-20-16
De: Gary D. Schmidt
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The Thing About Jellyfish
- De: Ali Benjamin
- Narrado por: Sarah Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy was a rare jellyfish sting. Retreating into a silent world of imagination, she crafts a plan to prove her theory - even if it means traveling the globe alone. Suzy's achingly heartfelt journey explores life, death, the astonishing wonder of the universe...and the potential for love and hope right next door.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Highly Disappointed
- De Book Girl en 07-13-16
De: Ali Benjamin
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Starfish
- De: Lisa Fipps
- Narrado por: Jenna Lamia
- Duración: 3 h y 28 m
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Ever since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth-birthday party, she's been bullied about her weight. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules - like "no making waves", "avoid eating in public", and "don't move so fast that your body jiggles". And she's found her safe space - her swimming pool - where she feels weightless in a fat-obsessed world. In the water, she can stretch herself out like a starfish and take up all the room she wants. It's also where she can get away from her mom, who thinks criticizing Ellie's weight will motivate her to diet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfection!
- De JENNE ESTES en 07-02-21
De: Lisa Fipps
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The Wednesday Wars
- De: Gary D. Schmidt
- Narrado por: Joel Johnstone
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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Meet Holling Hoodhood, a seventh-grader at Camillo Junior High who must spend Wednesday afternoons with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, while the rest of the class has religious instruction. Mrs. Baker doesn’t like Holling - he’s sure of it. Why else would she make him read the plays of William Shakespeare outside class? But everyone has bigger things to worry about, like Vietnam.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Happy Book
- De David Tousey en 11-01-20
De: Gary D. Schmidt
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
- Life of a Cactus Series, Book 1
- De: Dusti Bowling
- Narrado por: Karissa Vacker
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
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The audio edition of the best-selling middle grade novel about a spunky girl born without arms and a boy with Tourette syndrome navigating the challenges of middle school, disability, and friendship - all while solving a mystery in a western theme park. Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is that she was born without them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ever wish a fictional character was real?
- De Audiobookaddict1 en 05-04-20
De: Dusti Bowling
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Simon Sort of Says
- De: Erin Bow
- Narrado por: Will Collyer
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
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Simon O'Keeffe's biggest claim to fame should be the time his dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. Or maybe the alpaca disaster that went viral on YouTube. But the story the whole world wants to tell about Simon is the one he'd do anything to forget: the story in which he's the only kid in his class who survived a school shooting. Two years after the infamous event, twelve-year-old Simon and his family move to the National Quiet Zone—the only place in America where the internet is banned.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Todays issues
- De Celeste en 01-26-25
De: Erin Bow
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Soul of an Octopus
- A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
- De: Sy Montgomery
- Narrado por: Sy Montgomery
- Duración: 9 h y 10 m
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Sy Montgomery's popular 2011 Orion magazine piece, "Deep Intellect", about her friendship with a sensitive, sweet-natured octopus named Athena and the grief she felt at her death, went viral, indicating the widespread fascination with these mysterious, almost alien-like creatures. Since then Sy has practiced true immersion journalism, from New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, pursuing these wild, solitary shape-shifters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eight legs and so much more!
- De Kirstin en 07-02-15
De: Sy Montgomery
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Dancing at the Pity Party
- A Dead Mom's Graphic Memoir
- De: Tyler Feder
- Narrado por: Amanda Dolan
- Duración: 2 h y 15 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Tyler Feder had just white-knuckled her way through her first year of college when her super cool mom was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. Now, with a decade of grief and nervous laughter under her belt, Tyler shares the story of that gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, extremely awkward time in her life. Dancing at the Pity Party is a frank and refreshingly funny look at what it’s like to grieve - for anyone struggling with loss who just wants someone to get it.
De: Tyler Feder
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The Probability of Everything
- De: Sarah Everett
- Narrado por: Jordan Cobb
- Duración: 7 h y 8 m
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Eleven-year-old Kemi Carter loves scientific facts, specifically probability. It's how she understands the world and her place in it. Kemi knows her odds of being born were 1 in 5.5 trillion, and that the odds of her having the best family ever were even lower. Yet somehow, Kemi lucked out. But everything Kemi thought she knew changes when she sees an asteroid hover in the sky, casting a purple haze over her world. Amplus-68 has an 84.7% chance of colliding with earth in four days, and with that collision, Kemi’s life as she knows it will end.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best to read without any info
- De Chance en 07-08-23
De: Sarah Everett
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One Crazy Summer
- De: Rita Williams-Garcia
- Narrado por: Sisi Aisha Johnson
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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Eleven-year-old Delphine and her younger sisters Vonetta and Fern travel to Oakland to meet their mother, Cecil, who abandoned their family years earlier. But even when Cecil gets them to her house, she shows no interest and seems to view them as nothing but a nuisance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great family road trip book!
- De Iris J. Scott Love en 03-16-16
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The Unteachables
- De: Gordon Korman
- Narrado por: Sarah Beth Goer, Oliver Wyman, Josh Hurley, y otros
- Duración: 6 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,237
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A hilarious new middle grade novel from beloved and best-selling author Gordon Korman about what happens when the worst class of kids in school is paired with the worst teacher. The Unteachables never thought they’d find a teacher who had a worse attitude than they did. And Mr. Kermit never thought he would actually care about teaching again. Over the course of a school year, though, room 117 will experience mayhem, destruction - and maybe even a shot at redemption.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Awesome story, thoroughly enjoyable!
- De Debbie en 04-22-19
De: Gordon Korman
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Alone
- De: Megan E. Freeman
- Narrado por: Gail Shalan
- Duración: 4 h y 50 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten.
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1 out of 5 stars
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WARNING
- De Cynthia A Samuels en 09-18-22
De: Megan E. Freeman
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Everything Sad Is Untrue
- (A True Story)
- De: Daniel Nayeri
- Narrado por: Daniel Nayeri
- Duración: 7 h y 48 m
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At the front of a middle-school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Could not get through it—2 out of 7 hrs
- De AbqRD en 09-13-20
De: Daniel Nayeri
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Code Talker
- A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
- De: Joseph Bruchac
- Narrado por: Derrick Henry
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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Although the mission school bans all that is Navajo, Ned secretly clings to his native language and culture. Proudly joining the U.S. Marines in 1943, he becomes a top-secret Navajo Code Talker. During bloody battles for Japanese islands, Ned and his brave band of code-talking brothers save thousands of lives using Navajo encryption the enemy never cracks.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible audio
- De Amazon Customer en 02-13-18
De: Joseph Bruchac
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Inside Out and Back Again
- De: Thanhha Lai
- Narrado por: Doan Ly
- Duración: 2 h y 30 m
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Written in rich, free-verse poems, this moving tale follows a young Vietnamese girl as she leaves her war-torn homeland for America in 1975. With Saigon about to fall to the communists, 10-year-old Hà, her mother, and brothers are forced to flee their beloved city and head to the United States. But living in a new country isn’t easy for Hà, and she finds adapting to its strange customs ever challenging.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Shouldn't be a children's book
- De SJC en 07-24-12
De: Thanhha Lai
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Fish in a Tree
- De: Lynda Hunt
- Narrado por: Kathleen McInerney
- Duración: 5 h y 44 m
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Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; after all, how can you cure dumb? However, her newest teacher Mr. Daniels sees the bright, creative kid underneath the trouble maker. With his help, Ally learns not to be so hard on herself and that dyslexia is nothing to be ashamed of.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great book but...not just dyslexia
- De Jennifer Hurst en 12-31-15
De: Lynda Hunt
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Restart
- De: Gordon Korman
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross, Laura Knight Keating, Ramon de Ocampo, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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New York Times best-selling author Gordon Korman harkens back to his No More Dead Dogs days in this stand-alone that takes a tone more serious than you've ever heard from him before. A boy who's been a bully and hanging out with the wrong friends gets a new start after a memory-loss-inducing accident. But can someone really change who he is, or will the old him merely come back over time?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ehhhh
- De James ODonnell en 07-03-18
De: Gordon Korman
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- Emma B.
- 02-03-22
it is for the ages it's recommended to
It has a age rating which is a good thing it was just to simple
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- Sean Linder
- 01-08-20
Great book with challenging subjects
Great book covering very difficult subjects. Definitely recommend for middle school students, not really appropriate for lower school students.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-02-19
Great Book
This was a great book for middle readers. I gave it five stars because I believe this book will help other kids view other people in a different light.
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- W. Swore
- 08-16-24
Tough topics handled brilliantly
This book has a lovely, sweet voice of a girl who comes to see the hard place her mom and siblings are in more clearly. She uses skills from school to help her mom escape from a bad situation and create a new beginning for her whole family.
I also loved that this author showed topics from multiple points of view and didn’t vilify people for what they believed or enjoyed. Definitely an exercise in empathy and understanding.
Very well done.
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- Cass
- 11-06-19
Great read
Can’t believe how this makes me connect to some of the students at our school
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- Pete Aragno
- 06-09-24
Narrator
Very nice storyline with happy ending, you learn a little about octopuses and a little about life. Very nice.
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- Avalon
- 02-26-20
really good book
I loved this book because it kinda gives you facts and has a story to go with it. And I like the story of a girl who became confident and the naratur is really good too. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-07-24
moving away part
it was just fun to hear and told a good story. this book is one of my favorites because of Zoe and her story
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- Pamela
- 09-12-24
Real life problems told in a great way.
Shows kids how to handle issues that are big in a real way, talks about real issues.
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- Prime user
- 08-03-20
An Amazing Book
This is a great book. I want to set a disclaimer that I’m in middle school and that this is a more mature book that anyone younger should probably not read because there is violence and mature topics that will probably trigger younger kids because there is talk and actions of gun violence and abuse . But besides that it is an amazing book to read and it has a very valid point of view!
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