Barshaw, Ruth McNally.  Ellie McDoodle : new kid in school.  J Fic Barshaw
Ellie writes and doodles in a journal of her family's move to a new home and her struggle to make friends, which gets a lot easier as she leads a nonviolent protest about long lunch lines at school.

Birney, Betty G.  The Princess and the Peabodys. J Fic Birney
When a medieval princess appears out of a rusty box bought at a yard sale, fourteen-year-old tomboy Casey Peabody and her family are stuck with her royal snobbiness until the young wizard who had trapped her there figures out the spell to send her home.

Bowe, Julie.  My New Best Friend.  J FIC Bowe (SERIES)
After her best friend moves away, fourth-grader Ida May is determined not to make another best friend, despite the efforts of a new girl in her class.

Byars, Betsy Cromer. Summer of the Swans.  J FIC Byars
A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost.

Cohen, Tish. The invisible rules of the Zoë Lama. J Fic Cohen
Twelve-year-old Zoë, famous for advising other people using her unwritten rules, has her hands full with chairing a school dance committee, training a new student to fit in, keeping her grandmother out of a nursing home, and trying to find a husband for her mother.

Cooper, Rose.  Gossip from the Girls' Room: a Blogtastic! Novel.  J FIC Cooper
Sixth-grader Sofia Becker writes a blog about everything she overhears in the girls' bathroom, especially mean things about the super-popular Mia, but comes to realize that gossip has consequences and popularity is hard to achieve.

Dee, Barbara.  Solving Zoe.  J FIC Dee
Zoe's sixth-grade year at a Brooklyn school for gifted students is marked by changing relationships with her fellow students and teachers, recognition of her talent for cryptography, and a greater awareness of her passion.

Delaney, Michael. The Great Sockathon.  J Fic Delaney.
During the summer between fifth and sixth grades, Sabrina hears a voice coming from her town's 275-year-old balm of Gilead tree and believes it to be the
ghost that supposedly haunts it.

Deriso, Christine Hurley. Do-over.  J Fic Deriso
Seventh-grader Elsa moves to a new town and starts a new school where, with the help of her recently deceased mother and a magic locket that allows her to redo the last ten seconds in any situation, she attempts to become popular.

Donofrio, Beverly.  Thank you, Lucky Stars. J Fic Donofrio
Ally has looked forward to a new school year, especially since she and her best friend, Betsy, have planned since kindergarten to sing in the fifth grade talent show, but Betsy has a new best friend and Ally, shy and prone to cry, is targeted by bullies and a strange new student who is looking for a friend.

Farrar, Susan Clement. Samantha on Stage. J FIC Farrar
Eleven-year-old Samantha has always been the best in her ballet class, but when she sees the new Russian girl dance she begins to wonder who would get the coveted lead in the school's production of the Nutcracker ballet.

Ferber, Brenda A.  Julia's Kitchen. J Fic Ferber
When her mother and younger sister are killed in a house fire, eleven-year-old Cara struggles to find a way to deal with her emotions and to reach out to her grieving father.

Fitzhugh, Louise. Harriet the Spy.  J FIC Fitzhugh
Eleven year old Harriet, who is a spy and plans to be an author keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she observes on her afterschool spy route, but when some of her classmates read the notebook, they seek revenge.

Frederick, Heather Vogel.  Once Upon a Toad.  J FIC Frederick
When her mother goes on a NASA mission, Cat Starr is sent to live with her father, stepsister Olivia, and younger brother Geoffrey, but interference by her inept fairy godmother causes toads to appear when Cat speaks and gems to fall from Olivia's mouth,bringing one to the attention of jewel thieves and the other to a secret government laboratory.

Gephart, Donna.  Olivia Bean, Trivia Queen.  J FIC Gephart
Wanting to bolster her geography knowledge so that she can try out for kids' Jeopardy and visit her father in California, trivia enthusiast Olivia Bean receives more help than she expected and breezes through audition rounds while wondering if her father will show up to support her

Giff, Patricia Reilly. Love, from the Fifth Grade Celebrity. J FIC Giff
Casey enjoyed Tracy's company during summer vacation but becomes increasingly jealous of her irrepressible new friend when she joins Casey's fifth-grade class.

Gifford, Peggy Elizabeth.  Moxy Maxwell does not love Stuart Little. J Fic Gifford
With summer coming to an end, about-to-be-fourth-grader Moxy Maxwell does a hundred different things to avoid reading her assigned summer reading book.

Hurwitz, Michele Weber.  Calli Be Gold.  J FIC Hurwitz
Eleven-year-old Calli Gold is the quiet third child in a family of loud overachievers. In fact, the family motto is Be Gold. Calli's sister is on an ice-skating team, and her brother's a basketball star. Her parents are sure she has a hidden gift for something. They just have to figure out what it is! But Calli has flopped at everything she's tried. She sure doesn't feel like a Gold.  Until a new person enters her life. Second grader Noah Zullo might seem strange to some people, but Calli can't help liking him, and they become partners in their school's Peer Helper Program. When they create a booth for the Friendship Fair, they fill it with secrets and surprises. And as Calli and Noah work and learn together, they even surprise themselves.

Little, Kimberley Griffiths.  Circle of Secrets.  J FIC Little.
A year after her mother has deserted the family, eleven-year-old Shelby goes to stay with her, deep in the Louisiana bayou, where they both confront old hurts and regrets.

Martin, Ann M.  Ten Rules for Living with My Sister.  J FIC Martin
Nine-year-old Pearl and her popular, thirteen-year-old sister, Lexie, do not get along very well, but when their grandfather moves in and the girls have to share a room, they must find common ground.

Myracle, Lauren. Twelve. J Fic Myracle
Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.

Odell, Kathleen. Agnes Parker... Happy Camper .  J FIC Odell
Science camp brings pranks, fun, rivalries, and a new and somewhat unsettling view of a longtime best friend.

Paterson, Katherine.  The Great Gilly Hopkins.  J PB P/ J Fic Paterson
An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.

Repka.  Janice.  The Clueless Girl's Guide to being a Genius.  J FIC Repka
When Aphrodite Wigglesmith, a thirteen-year-old, Harvard-educated mathematics genius, returns home to teach remedial math to middle school students, both she and her students end up getting unexpected lessons.

Schaefer, Laura.  The Teashop Girls.  J FIC Schaefer
Fourteen-year-old Annie, along with her two best friends, tries desperately to save her grandmother's beloved, old-fashioned teashop in Madison, Wisconsin, while she also learns to accept the inevitability of change in life. Includes proverbs, quotations, and brief stories about tea, as well as recipes.

Schroeder, Lisa.  It's Raining Cupcakes.  J FIC Schroeder
Twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of seeing the world but has never left Oregon, and so when her best friend, Sophie, tells her of a baking contest whose winners travel to New York City, she eagerly enters despite concerns about her mother, who is opening a cupcake bakery. Includes recipes.

Simon, Coco.  Mia in the Mix.  JPB S (SERIES: Cupcake Diaries)
When the popular girls club takes interest in Mia, she has to decide between being popular and her new cupcake club friends.

Skolsky, Mindy Warshaw.  Love From Your Friend, Hannah : a novel.  J FIC Skolsky / J PB S
From her home in back of the Grand View Restaurant in rural New York, Hannah writes letters to her best friend, a pen pal, and even to President and Mrs. Roosevelt.

Summy, Barrie.  I so Don't do Spooky.  J FIC Summy
Thirteen-year-old Sherry helps her mother, a ghost, to investigate who is stalking Sherry's stepmother, but Sherry is also very busy with school and friends, while her mother is also striving for a gold medal in the Ghostlympics.

Taylor, Sydney. All-Of-A-Kind Family. J Fic Taylor
The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.

Trueit, Trudi Strain.  Julep O'Toole : what I really want to do is direct.  J Fic Trueit
Just as she's about to quit the play altogether, Julep suddenly finds herself promoted to assistant director!  But just weeks before the play is set to open, everything comes crashing down.  Can Julep find a way to puther newly discovered talent to work?

Van Draanen, Wendelin.  Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief.  J FIC Van Draanen
Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation
of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.

Warner, Sally. It's Only Temporary. J Fic Warner
When Skye's older brother comes home after a devastating accident, she moves from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to California to live with her grandmother and attend middle school, where she somewhat reluctantly makes new friends, learns to stand up for herself and those she cares about, and begins to craft a new relationship with her changed brother.

Wilson, Jacqueline. Candyfloss. J Fic Wilson
When her mother plans to move to Australia with her new husband and baby, Floss must decide whether her loyalties lie with her mother or her father, while at the same time, her best friend begins to make fun of her and reject her.

Yee, Lisa.   So totally Emily Ebers. J Fic Yee
In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.

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