Lisa Greenwald
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Rather than a summer of fun transforming her family's pharmacy into an eco-spa, Lucy Desberg must face her sister Claudia's new boyfriend Bean, investor Gary's irritating daughter Bevin, and a spa coordinator who is put in charge of the plans.
2) 11 before 12
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Friendship list volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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Kaylan and Arianna are new to middle school, and when they decide to make a list of eleven things that they want to accomplish before they turn twelve, including getting detention and helping humanity, they start to lose sight of their friendship.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem solving talents to come up with solution that might resuscitate the business, along with helping the environment. When a local homecoming queen shows up at Lucy Desberg's family's drugstore with a beauty disaster that Lucy helps to fix, word gets out, and suddenly Lucy has a line of makeover customers for every school dance and bat mitzvah in Connecticut.
4) 13 and 3/4
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Friendship list volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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"Ari and Kaylan aren't sure how they're going to survive their first summer apart. No pool. No sleepovers. No emergency late night chats on the porch. So as Ari returns to Camp Silver and Kaylan heads off to comedy camp, they come up with a new list of 13 and 3/4 ways to keep their friendship strong as they tackle everything from bias to batik and moping to matchmaking"--
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TBH volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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"TBH, sometimes boys say dumb things about girls. And Cece is sick of it! When she leads a super-successful event at school to raise awareness, everyone starts looking to her to take charge--of everything. Prianka needs ideas for National Poetry Month, Victoria wants advice on volunteer projects, and Gabby needs homework help. To be honest, being a leader is fun but the pressure is OOC (out of control)! Can Cece help her friends without totally losing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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When Dina starts at a new school, she is tasked with completing a video project with popular girl Chelsea. Dina thinks tracking down a famous former student of her school will be her ticket to success, but Chelsea also wants to find this celebrity for her own reasons, leaving Dina to wonder what's going on.
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Friendship list volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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"With winter break almost over and seventh grade spinning beyond their control, best friends Kaylan and Ari write a new list of 13 resolutions to make the New Year, middle school, and their friendship even more amazing before they go to separate camps next summer. But what happens when their bestie bucket list reveals issues in their friend group? Can they want totally different things and still be BFFs? Told in the alternating POVs of Ari and Kaylan...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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When a snowstorm keeps thirteen-year-old best friends Olivia, Kate, and Georgia inside their Brooklyn, New York, apartment building on Valentine's Day, they connect with their neighbors by distributing homemade fortune cookies and uncover one another's secrets along the way.
9) Dear friends
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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"Eleni is the kind of person who's always had a BFF--an automatic, guaranteed by-her-side person--at home, at school, and at camp. And since before she was even born, her very best friend has been Sylvie Bank. But when Sylvie's end-of-summer birthday party becomes the end of their friendship, Eleni can't picture starting middle school without her BFF by her side"--Provided by publisher.
10) 12 before 13
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Friendship list volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Inspired by the success of their first birthday bucket list, Ari and Kaylan set goals for the new school year but both face challenges that may threaten their friendship.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Natty copes with her parents splitting up, moving in with her grandparents, and starting a new school by maintaining and spreading a positive attitude, but she soon realizes it is more important to feel her feelings than it is to be eternally peppy.
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TBH volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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Told entirely in text messages, emails, and notes, best friends Prianka, Gabby, and Cecily find their friendship tested by busily planning a spring fair, bullying, and boys.
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TBH volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Best friends Cecily, Gabby, and Prianka face drama in the last days of school as a meme goes viral, their mothers take them bra shopping together, and Cecily develops her first crush. Told entirely in text messages, emails, and notes.
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The Seagate summers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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Seagate Island's centennial summer should be a huge celebration of beach traditions, but it is the rainiest summer on record and Remy, Micayla, Bennett, and the C Twins find that tempers are short, dogs are bored, and summer magic is hard to find.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Eleven-year-old Remy loves the traditions of Seagate, the island where her family spends every summer vacation, but after her grandmother and a special dog dies, and her relationships with best friends Bennett and Micayla change, Remy takes comfort in the company of Dog Beach--where she hatches a plan to bring her friends closer and recapture the Seagate magic.
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Ellie's family owns the town deli. Its official name is Lukshen Deli, but everybody calls it Ellie's Deli. When a restaurant group threatens to move in and take over, tenacious Ellie and her BFFs must prove that matzo ball soup and sour pickles are here to stay, in this adorable new middle grade fiction series with recipes and illustrations throughout.
When Ellie accidentally overhears that her family deli is most likely going to close, she does...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Three BFFs try to make new friends but keep the old in the fifth book in Lisa Greenwald's hilarious series told entirely in text messages, emojis, and notes. Perfect for fans of Invisible Emmie and the Dork Diaries books.
Making new friends is a good thing, right? Not when you barely see your besties!
Between swim team, the school play, and poetry club, BFFs Cece, Gabby, and Prianka are meeting different people and trying different things. But...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fans of Lauren Myracle and Rachel Renee Russo's Dork Diaries will adore the third book in this laugh-out-loud series about two BFFs who master middle school with a list of thirteen goals they MUST achieve before their first summer apart.
With winter break almost over and seventh grade spinning beyond their control, best friends Kaylan and Ari write a new list of 13 resolutions to make the New Year, middle school, and their friendship even more amazing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
It's no secret that Victoria's mom can be OTT overprotective! But lately her anxiety has been too much to handle. So even though Victoria is helping plan the school's Valentine's Day dance, she might not be allowed to go!
To be honest, she's going to need lots of help from her BFFs to mend this mother-daughter relationship—and it may mean sharing her most embarrassing secret ever!
The question is: Can you take back a secret once you've shared...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Three BFFs set out to have the BEST SUMMER EVER in the fourth book in this addictive series told entirely in text messages.
BFFAEs Prianka, Cece, and Gabby are ready to have an unforgettable summer-but they don't agree on what that means.
For Cece and Gabby, everything is CAMP, CAMP, CAMP! But Prianka wants to forget about sleeping in the woods and hang out at the pool before her big family trip to India. Gabby won't stop obsessing over the likes...