Kids Books - Skills
Middle School: Born to Rock (Middle School Book 11)
By James Patterson, Chris Tebbetts
Three, two, one, GO! Like in Big Fat Liar, Rafe Khatchadorian's book is in Georgia's hands. She starts off by writing about her egg "throwing" competition, which is basically just throwing eggs off a roof and seeing which one won'y crack. She puts an egg in a box, while her brother, Rafe, puts it in a bunch of bubble-wrap. Her egg fell nicely, and so did Rafe's. However, Rafe's egg shell bounced. And that amazed the entire class, including Georgia's crush, Sam Marks. She is later assigned with a Rube Goldberg machine project, along with a group known as the Princess Patrol, AKA Missy Trillin and her friends. But the one other thing she is looking forwards to is her band, We Stink. When her absolute favorite band, Lulu and the Handbags, is pulling up a competition where the BEST band gets to sing with Lulu, Georgia is determined to win. She puts out websites, a Wikipedia article, an account for every social media platform EVER, and even sang for elementary schools! Her life goes up to the sky when she wins the contest! But it immediately goes down when she falls down the stage of Lulu's concert. Her brother records it, and she goes insanely viral on YouTube. So viral that she even was chosen to be at a parade- to fall down! Then, even MORE troubles come, and her friends are in dojo with her. Will she fight the troubles of her friendship and memes? Or will We Stink finally get its name? Read the book to find out!
Keep Out, Claudia! (Baby-Sitters Club)
By Ann M. Martin
This book is really good! New clients are always welcome at the BSC. So, when the Lowell's, new clients, ask the BSC to babysit their three children, the girls are excited. When Mary Anne sits for the kids, they are angels and extremely bright and helpful, but when Claudia sits for the children, they treat her terribly and wouldn’t obey her at all! Worst of all, next time Mrs. Lowell contacts the Babysitter’s Club, she asks for any sitter but Claudia! Preferably, Mrs. Lowell would like a "blue-eyed, blonde hair girl" instead. The girls are confused and worried. Who wouldn’t want Claudia as a babysitter? This book is amazing. It mixes fun with real life problems. I thought this book was very interesting and incredibly fun to read. This book opens the door for more in depth conversations about racism, prejudices ideology, etc. I suggest it if you like babysitting and friendship. Happy reading!
No More Dead Dogs
By Gordon Korman
Everyone treats Wallace Wallace like a hero. People congratulate him because he scored the winning touchdown for the football team. In truth, Wallace is a pretty bad player. Aside from the one touchdown, he has never been much but a benchwarmer. Wallace cannot tell a lie. Even when his neighbor asks him if her cake tastes good, he says it tastes "like vacuum cleaner fuzz" because it is the truth. So when his teacher Mr. Fogelman asks him for a review about Old Shep, My Pal, he needs to tell the truth. Wallace hates the book because, in books like that, the dog always dies. As punishment, Mr. Fogelman orders him to be in the play, which is Old Shep, My Pal until he writes a proper review. Wallace stubbornly refuses to praise the book, so the detention drags on for one month. During that time, Wallace begins to change the "unrealistic" play. Soon, the play is hardly recognizable, but better. Just when it is going smoothly, Someone starts sabotaging the play. Who would do it? Wallace suspects one of his teammates, but is he correct? This book made me laugh out loud., and that is not a lie. I recommend this book to anyone who likes funny stories.
Pack of Dorks
By Beth Vrabel
Even though this book is a lot about kissing love in the beggening the author of this book is very descriptive about the wirds they use to describe what the character is feeling I reccomend this to people who like diary of a wimpy kid because not only is it descriptive it is also funny.
The Princess in Black and the Hungry Bunny Horde
By Shannon Hale, Dean Hale
Princess in black is quite the hit. LOL IT IS SO RAD
My New Team (Little Rhino #1)
By Ryan Howard, Krystle Howard
This is amazing and I like that his enemies torn into a plot twist.
Lights, Camera, Middle School! (Babymouse Tales from the Locker)
By Jennifer L. Holm
BabyMouse is a really good book series. This graphic novel is about how BabyMouse signed up for film club for a chance to be famous. While making the film some bad stuff happened such as: becoming a monster directer that means bossing everyone around and thinking it's just her film. (read the book to know all the bad things that happened). This book inspired me to make my own movies! Did BabyMouse and her film crew get the movie done in time? Did the movie make BabyMouse famous or did it make her and her crew the laughing stock in Middle School?
Just as Long as We're Together
By Judy Blume
This was a great book about three best friends who are starting their first year of junior high together. They go through some tough times and they always have each other's back. This was a great book to read and I would totally recommend it for girls ages 11-13.









