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Although this is a picture book intended for younger readers, I think middle school students could really get something out of this one. ...

Jerome tries to keep his nose clean. Sure, he's bothered by bullies at school, but when he makes a new friend from Texas, he's surprised...

Alden follow people. He doesn't mean to be creepy, but he wants to be an investigator when he gets older, so he's honing his skills....

Another serial killer on the loose and this time he or she is murdering people and doing almost perfect copycats of scenes left behind by...

Cassie isn't like most kids. Her mother disappeared when Cassie was younger but the scene was a bloody mess and her mother was presumed...

When Jeremy is nine, he begins a period in his life of selective mutism. He hasn't spoken a word in ten years. When Coach Johnson is...

I'm rating this as "it was ok" because I don't really know how I feel about it. I was really into it for the first 100 pages. Then it...

The Hunger Games is a dystopian novel set in the time of the future. A country, Panem, is separated into twelve different districts. ...

Whoa. In the time Tommy Lynn Sells was crossing America murdering so many people, I was growing up. For over twenty years, he spent his...

This psychological thriller will be a hit with teens who want to be right in the middle of the drama and mystery. These were the books I...

When Tessa's father dies, she has to leave the life she's led in Florida for the past ten years with her grandmother and travel back to...

This book is 100% relevant to what is going on in today's society. Kids stopped by the police for being black and one of them is shot...

Once again, Neal Shusterman has taken dystopian novels to a new level. In this world, Scythes hold ultimate power. Old age and death are...

Spooky tale of a haunted crossroads where a bus crash killed many people 50 years earlier. The spirit of the man who caused the crash is...