18 books like Reluctantly Alice
Alice in Lace
While planning a wedding as part of an assignment for her eighth-grade health class, Alice thinks about her father's and older brother's love lives and learns that you cannot prepare for all of life's decisions.
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Alice in April
While trying to survive seventh grade, Alice discovers that turning thirteen will make her the Woman of the House at home, so she starts a campaign to get more appreciated for taking care of her father and older brother.
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The Meanest Thing to Say
When a new boy in his second grade class tries to get the other students to play a game that involves saying the meanest things possible to one another, Little Bill shows him a better way to make friends.
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Spaceheadz
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
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Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash
Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm.
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A fine, fine school
When a principal loves his school so much that he wants the children to attend classes every day of the year, it is up to his students to show him free time is a good thing, too.
Gallery WINNER: voted the favorite Gallery Book for the year in the Triple Crown Children's Book Award program, advancing uplifting, wholesome, mainstream literature.
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Scarlett fever
Fifteen-year-old Scarlett, who is beginning to get over her break-up with Eric, stays busy as assistant to her theatrical-agent friend who is not only promoting Scarlett's brother Spencer, but also a new client whose bad-boy brother has transferred to Scarlett's school.
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Maxie, Rosie, and Earl- Partners In Grime
When their disciplinary meetings with the principal are postponed, three students skip school with humorous results.
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Loser
From renowned Newbery-winning author Jerry Spinelli comes a powerful story about how not fitting in just might lead to an incredible life. This classic book is perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Carl Hiaasen.
Just like other kids, Zinkoff rides his bike, hopes for snow days, and wants to be like his dad when he grows up. But Zinkoff also raises his hand with all the wrong answers, trips…
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Dead is a state of mind
When a gorgeous new student's prediction that a teacher will be murdered comes true, seventeen-year-old Daisy is determined to solve the crime, but when all signs point to the killer being a werewolf, she fears she is in over her head.
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There's a Girl in My Hammerlock
Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.
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Ghosts of Fear Street - Who's Been Sleeping In My Grave?
Shadyside Middle School's newest substitute teacher is a wandering spirit wondering who's been defiling her gravesite. But how can Zack Pepper destroy someone who is already dead?
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Boy Who Owned the School
Jacob Freisten's goal in life is to go about unnoticed. He's perfect at gliding past the jocks' lockers and sneaking into his English class. That was, until now. If Jacob wants to pass English, he must work for extra credit on the stage crew of the school production of The Wizard of Oz.
Jacob, who is usually in a fog anyway, has the the job of running the fog machine. The problem is that Maria…
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Tom Brown's School Days
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Almost Starring Skinnybones
Irrepressible, twelve-year-old Alex is convinced that he will be a star and impress his schoolmates when, as the winner of a cat food essay contest, he is asked to make a commercial for national television.
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The meaning of Maggie
Eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield is an A-plus student with big plans for herself, but at this moment she is also facing a lot of problems--like starting middle school and figuring out how to help her father who is out of work and in a wheelchair.
Eleven-year-old Maggie Mayfield is an A-plus student with big plans for herself, but at this moment, she is also facing a lot of problems, such as…
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The day the teacher went bananas
A class's new teacher, who leads the children in a number of very popular activities, turns out to be a gorilla.
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Because of Mr. Terupt
Because of Mr. Terupt is the 2010 debut children's novel by Rob Buyea. Told through the eyes of seven students, it is about one year in the life of a fifth-grade class and their new teacher at the fictitious Snow Hill School.
The novel was a 2011 Middle Reader Honor Awards book of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. It received the 2013 Young Hoosier Book Award (Intermediate).
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