Grades 6-9

Chronicle Books, 2009
Illustrator: Chuck Gonzalez
128 pages
Reading Level: 5.8
Middle School, PreTeen Life, Humor

"Provides advice for kids on how to deal with a variety of situations related to middle school, such as homework overload, problems with teachers, avoiding fights, getting a bad haircut, coping with cliques, and others." (Titlewave)

Cinebook, 2009
66 pages
Reading Level: 7.1

Scientists Fiction, Alien abduction Fiction, Space Warfare Fiction, Mystery and Detective Stories, Science fiction, Cartoons and Comics, Graphic novels.

"Blake and Mortimer are called to the United States to investigate the discovery of an 177-year-old body that seems to have died recently and is reported to be a British military officer who disappeared into a strange light beam shining down from the sky in 1777." (Titlewave)

Aladdin, 2011 (Set to release June 7, 2011)
320 pages
Reading Level: Unlisted to date (ages 9-12)

"When scholarship student Nikki Maxwell, whose father is the school exterminator, decides to enter the talent show at her expensive private school, her nemesis MacKenzie threatens to reveal Nikki's status to the rest of the school." (Titlewave)

Free Spirit Publication, 2010
179 pages
Reading Level: 7.4
Graphic Novel/Comic, Adolescent Psychology, Middle School Students, Life Skills

Provides information, advice, quizzes, and activities aimed at helping middle school students deal with physical and emotional changes, relationships, peer pressure, and other challenges.
Includes an index.

Ticknor & Fields, 1994
28 pages
Reading Level: 3.5
Suicide, Friendship, Teenagers

"An observer laments the lonely life of a teenage boy who commits suicide." (Titlewave) His neighbors never even knew the boy's name.

Houghton Mifflin, 1984
31 pages
Reading Level: 3.5
Mystery and Detective Stories, Plot-Your-Own Stories
Contains titles and captions with no other text

Harris Burdick had written 14 stories and had drawn many pictures to accompany each story. When he went to see Mr. Wenders, a children's book publisher employee, he had taken just one picture per story with him. Mr. Wenders asked that Harris return with the stories, and Harris agreed. However, he never returned, and all Mr. Wenders had was 14 titles, captions, and pictures. Harris's disappearance remains a mystery, and now published as Harris left them with Mr. Wenders, the titles, captions, and single pictures comprise The Mysteries of Harris Burdick book which leaves readers to use their imaginations to produce stories/text for each piece.