"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Publisher

After trying and failing to break her years-long curse of bad first days of school, eighth grader Vivian Lantz wishes for a do-over--and gets stuck reliving this year's horrible first day over and over again.

"A hot-headed cynic befriends the new kid--a shy trans boy--when she takes on a bet to get him elected student body president"--

"When his best friend Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to a robbery--Theodore Boone must work to prove his innocence"--

Twelve-year-old Shai hates having to move to America and is determined to find a way get back home to Israel--until she starts opening up to new experiences and friendships.

"A grab bag of deliciously dark short fiction set in middle school that explores anxieties and twists them into funny, resonant, and reassuring psychological thrills"--

Amerlia thought that the only thing better than a best friend was two best friends. But then they come together and she's not sure if any of them are friends. Will Amelia be able to have more than one best friend?

Essie is not excited about moving to North Carolina for her dad's visiting professorship, and counts the days until she can return home. Then she meet Ollie, who is nonbinary. Ollie is smart and confident, and begins to juggle their passion for queer advocacy with their other interest. Can the two untangle their feelings before their time together is done? -- adapted from jacket

Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to experience American history as it happens aboard the Mayflower and on Plymouth Plantation.

"As a new Mat Mom of the Pioneer Middle School (PMS) Wrestling team, Jen Dixon finds herself thrown in the middle of the "guerrilla war against so-called perfect mothers," armed only with her cutting wit and acerbic sense of humor (New York Times Book Review). Handling a whole host of new challenges, from the dreaded seventh-grade science fair to a school fundraiser (again!), Jen faces the somewhat-terrifying new social dynamics of the wrestling moms...