Genre: Middle School

{Deep Down Popular: Phoebe Stone}

{Deep Down Popular: Phoebe Stone}

{Synopsis} – 6th-grader Jessie Lou is deeply, madly, passionately in love with Conrad Parker Smith. Too bad she’s a tomboy with only one on-again, off-again friend, and hair so short you can’t spit on it. Too bad he’s the most popular boy in their small-town school. But then Conrad hurts his leg and suddenly can’t […]

Posted April 26, 2018 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Ungifted: Gordon Korman}

{Ungifted: Gordon Korman}

{Synopsis} – The word gifted has never been applied to a kid like Donovan Curtis. It’s usually more like Don’t try this at home. So when the troublemaker pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he’s finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of […]

Posted April 11, 2018 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Restart: Gordon Korman}

{Restart: Gordon Korman}

{Synopsis} – Chase’s memory just went out the window. Chase doesn’t remember falling off the roof. He doesn’t remember hitting his head. He doesn’t, in fact, remember anything. He wakes up in a hospital room and suddenly has to learn his whole life all over again . . . starting with his own name. He […]

Posted April 3, 2018 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Wonder: R.J. Palacio}

{Wonder: R.J. Palacio}

{Synopsis} – I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse. August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his […]

Posted January 17, 2018 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{Skeleton Tree: Kim Ventrella}

{Skeleton Tree: Kim Ventrella}

{Synopsis} – “When Stanley Stanwright finds a bone poking out of the earth in his back garden, he is determined to take a picture of it and send it to the Young Discoverer’s Competition, thinking it will help bring his dad back home. But the bone begins to grow, reaching up out of the ground […]

Posted December 16, 2017 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review} / 0 Comments
{No Way Out: Dan Poblocki}

{No Way Out: Dan Poblocki}

{Synopsis} – Shadow House always wins . . . Poppy, Dash, Azumi, and Dylan may have made it out of Shadow House–but the grounds are a whole new nightmare. Someone they thought was a friend is hunting them, and there’s no place that’s safe now that they’ve woken the shadow creature. If they want to […]

Posted October 22, 2017 by zapkode.marie in {Book Review}, {New Release} / 0 Comments