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2) Robo
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mitya is an imaginative twelve-year-old boy, who loves to draw comics of superheroes and dreams of becoming an artist. His parents have built and programmed a Universal Rescue Robot, aka ROBO, to rescue people from dangerous situations. Due to ROBO's alleged malfunction, the director of the research facility deems the fled robot as a menace to society. In his search for a family, ROBO meets Mitya, and the two form a true friendship while on the run....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
BETWEEN is a modern guide for parents of 8-13 year-olds -- also known as 'tweenagers'. Parenting expert and mother of four Sarah Ockwell-Smith will consider all the issues faced by parents and tweens today, with a focus on the biology, neurology, psychology and sociology of adolescence as well as plenty of practical parenting advice for common everyday situations.--
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
When changing times force tween girl Kristen to leave the city for the countryside, she struggles to deal with school friends and a handsome young ranch hand. But Kristen finds comfort in a new friend: a horse! By chatting telepathically with her faithful bronco Stanford, Kristen gains the confidence she needs to face the brave new world of adolescence.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Middle Zone Mysteries
Newbery Award Winners
Newbery Winners 1922-2023
Middle Zone Mysteries
Newbery Award Winners
Newbery Winners 1922-2023
Description
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Whitney Brown, a spoiled pre-teen from Philadelphia, is forced to move to the country when her parents feel the squeeze of economic hard times. A fish out of water, far from her comfort zone, she befriends an amazing horse, and undertakes a misguided journey back to her old life, only to discover that her family is her home.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
There's nothing Kate loves more than being around horses. But her best friend is allergic to them, so Kate has to take riding lessons without her. Kate's forced to navigate some of life's hardships--like the mean girls at the stable who tease her and her body insecurities--all on her own. To make matters worse, Kate is continually falling off her horse. To Kate, her tween years feel like one unfair punishment after another. Can she get over it all...and...
10) Vivo
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of a kinkajou, Vivo, who sets out to deliver a love letter in song from his beloved owner to his old partner with the help of an energetic tween, Gabi.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Mia is an awkward twelve-year-old who recently arrived at a new boarding school, where she is given a book and bracelet that are more than they appear to be on the surface. The items have the power to transport Mia to a magical storybook world, Centopia, where she becomes a flying elf who has the ability to talk to unicorns. In Centopia, Mia is given the task of saving the land's unicorns from an evil queen.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by the hate-filled gazes of her people, the selfish princess of the fallen Tearmoon Empire, Mia, takes one last look at the bleeding sun before the guillotine's blade falls...Only to wake back up as a twelve-year-old! With time rewound and a second chance at life dropped into her lap, she sets out to right the countless wrongs that plague the ailing empire. Lazy, selfish, and a complete coward, the ill-equipped princess of the Tearmoon...
13) Moonrise kingdom
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, the film tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
14) Monster house
Language
English
Description
A group of kids discover that a neighborhood house is actually a monster. To solve the mystery of the house they must go inside it, before it takes everyone that crosses its path.
15) Sounder
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of various people along the road.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
4a edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Tercer título de una serie alucinante y muy original, con más de 2 millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo. ARIOL es el burro y RAMONO es el cerdo. Uno es azul con largas orejas y grandes gafas. El otro es rosa con el morro en forma de enchufe. No puede decirse que se parezcan, pero son amigos. Tan amigos que, a veces, el cerdo hace burradas y el burro, cochinadas. ¡Y, entonces, es difícil saber quién es quién!" --
Third title of...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
1a edición.
Language
Español
Description
Cuarto volumen de la divertidísima serie que ha conquistado a los lectores en nuestro país. ¡Qué guapa es Pétula! ¡Y qué bien huele! En clase, Ariol se sienta detrás de ella. Se imagina que le dice cosas bonitas, que le dice que la ama ... Pero, curiosamente, cuando Pétula vuelve la cabeza y tiene que hablar con ella de verdad, ¿por qué no se le ocurre nada que decirle? ¡No le salen las palabras! Cuando eres un burro pequeño, es difícil...
Author
Series
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 8
Pub. Date
[2016]-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lunella Lafayette is an inhuman preteen genius who wants to change the world! THAT JOB would be a lot easier if she wasn't living in mortal fear of her latent inhuman gene. There's no telling what she'll turn into -- but Luna's got a plan. All she needs is an Omni-Wave Projector. Easy, right? That is, until a red-scaled beast is teleported from the prehistoric past to a far-flung future we call ... today! Together they're the most Marvelous Team-Up...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For fans of Ghosts and Hilo, New York Times bestselling author Cullen Bunn and acclaimed artist Cat Farris deliver a fun, spooky, full-color middle grade graphic novel about a supernatural adventure and friendships that go beyond the grave.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.
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