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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling · 1998 · ★ 4.4 · 346p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Throughout the summer holidays after his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter has been receiving sinister warnings from a house-elf called Dobby. Now, back at school to start his second year, Harry hears unintelligible whispers echoing through the corridors. Before long the attacks begin: students are found as if turned to stone. Dobby’s predictions seem… Shares Escuelas, Ficción juvenil, Spanish language materials, Schools

Get Ready for Second Grade, Amber Brown Paula Danziger · 2002 · ★ 3.9 · 48p · ≈ 1h · Light Amber Brown is starting second grade, but there is a new teacher this year. Nobody knows what Ms. Light will be like, and Amber is worried. Will she be mean? Will she like the class? Armed with her new teddy-bear backpack, Amber marches off to school, ready to face the scary newness of 2nd grade. Shares Escuelas, Ficción juvenil, Spanish language materials, Schools

Stage Fright Peter Bently · 2011 · 92p · ≈ 3h · Light When Miss Gargoyle's class stages "Snow Fright and the Seven Dwarfs" and the lead actress loses her voice, young vampires Lee, Bella, and Billy concoct a plan to save the day. Shares Theater, Schools

Blue Boy Rakesh Satyal · 2009 · ★ 3.7 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Meet Kiran Sharma: lover of music, dance, and all things sensual; son of immigrants, social outcast, spiritual seeker. A boy who doesn't quite understand his lot—until he realizes he's a god...As an only son, Kiran has obligations—to excel in his studies, to honor the deities, to find a nice Indian girl, and, above all, to make his mother and father proud—standard stuff for a boy of his… Shares Lambda Literary Award Winner, Lambda Literary Awards

Groosham Grange Anthony Horowitz · 1988 · ★ 3.8 · 196p · ≈ 6h · Moderate After being expelled from school, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is sent to Groosham Grange, a spooky and sinister boarding school where nothing seems quite right. Shares Escuelas, Ficción juvenil, Schools

Phantom of the Auditorium Robert Lawrence Stine · 1994 · ★ 4.5 · 126p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Hey, that's an awesome book. It talks about a girl and her best friend, who learn that there is a phantom haunting their school over the years and begin to explore that. R.L. Stine here, promises an amazing twist ending. What I liked the most about this book is that besides being spooky and extremely creepy, it is also interesting with small details. Thank God for its one of the best Goosebumps… Shares Theater, Schools

Love, Splat Rob Scotton · 2008 · ★ 4.1 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Light Splat the cat has a special valentine for a certain someone in his class. Shares Escuelas, Spanish language materials, Schools

Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space Dav Pilkey · 1999 · ★ 4.2 · 144p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Only Captain Underpants can stop the three evil space aliens who have invaded Jerome Horwitz Elementary School and turned everyone into lunchroom zombie nerds. Shares Escuelas, Ficción juvenil, Schools

Autonomous Annalee Newitz · 2017 · ★ 3.6 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate When anything can be owned, how can we be free Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they… Shares Lambda Literary Award Winner, Lambda Literary Awards

Trouble and her friends Melissa Scott · 1994 · ★ 3.8 · 379p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Gay cyberpunk, baby! Shares Lambda Literary Award Winner, Lambda Literary Awards

The Big Catch Anastasia Suen · 2009 Robot and Rico are off to the beach! While Rico is busy fishing, Robot is bored. Rico wants to catch the biggest fish, but Robot may end up with a bigger surprise. Shares Ficción juvenil, Spanish language materials

No more dead dogs Gordon Korman · 2000 · ★ 3.8 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Nobody understands Wallace Wallace. This reluctant school football hero has been suspended from the team for writing an unfavorable book report of Old Shep, My Pal. But Wallace won't tell a lie -- he hated every minute of the book! Why does the dog in every classic novel have to croak at the end? After refusing to do a rewrite, his English teacher, who happens to be directing the school play Old… Shares Theater, Schools

Gender Queer Maia Kobabe · 2019 · ★ 4.3 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of… Shares Gender Identity, Stonewall Book Awards

Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants Dav Pilkey · 2000 · ★ 4.2 · 151p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Por burlarse del nombre del profesor Pipicaca, Jorge y Beto están a punto de hacer que su nuevo maestro de ciencia enloquecido de rabia se apodere del planeta entero. Pero Capitán Calzoncillos viene al rescate. When Professor Pippy P. Poopypants comes to Jerome Horwitz Elementary School to teach science, and he goes off the deep end because students make fun of his name, only Captain… Shares Escuelas, Ficción juvenil, Schools

Ramona the Brave Beverly Cleary · 1975 · ★ 4.1 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Ramona the Brave is a children's novel written by Beverly Cleary. It is the third book in the Ramona series, and follows Ramona Quimby and her classmates (some of them were in her kindergarten class for the previous year) going into first grade. Ramona the Brave was first published in 1975, seven years after Ramona the Pest. It was originally illustrated by Alan Tiegreen. ---------- Also… Shares Escuelas, Ficción juvenil, Schools

Princess Daisy and the Dazzling Dragon (Tiara Club) Vivian French · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Light A timid young princess is afraid of dragons until she sees one for herself, then has the opportunity to prove her newfound courage to the entire school. Shares Escuelas, Ficción juvenil, Schools

Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse Kevin Henkes · 1996 · ★ 4.2 · 32p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later. Shares Escuelas, Ficción juvenil, Schools

Emily's First 100 Days of School Rosemary Wells · 1999 · ★ 3.9 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Emily is ready for her first day of school. There's so much to do: learning the alphabet, singing, reading books, dancing, and counting, starting with the very first day. One hundred days feels very far away, but day by day, Emily and her classmates see they're getting closer. And as the lessons they learn begin to add up, their world expands. Chock-full of surprising discoveries, age-appropriate… Shares Escuelas, Ficción juvenil, Schools

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