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Courage for Beginners

by Karen Harrington – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (August 12, 2014)

Twelve-year-old Mysti Murphy wishes she were a character in a book. If her life were fictional, she'd magically know how to deal with the fact that her best friend, Anibal Gomez, has abandoned her in favor of...

Say Something: A Hate List Novella

by Jennifer Brown – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (January 07, 2014)

In Hate List, Jennifer Brown delivered a powerful story about grief, friendship, and forgiveness in the aftermath of a school shooting. Now, she explores an evocative new narrative while digging deeper into...

All the Things That Could Go Wrong

by Stewart Foster – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (September 04, 2018)

The Tapper Twins Go Viral

by Geoff Rodkey – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (April 04, 2017)

Told as a series of interviews, photos, texts, social media hits, and videogame screenshots, The Tapper Twins Go Viral is a laugh-a-page book with a serious lesson: never feed the internet trolls!

Claudia Tapper...

The Best Worst Thing

by Kathleen Lane – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (June 07, 2016)

Front door locked, kitchen door locked, living room windows closed.Nobody in the closet, nobody under the beds.

Still, Maggie is worried. Ever since she started middle school, she sees injustice and danger everywhere--on...

Lola Levine Is Not Mean!

by Monica Brown – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (November 03, 2015)

Lola Levine likes writing in her diario, sipping her mom's cafe con leche, eating her dad's matzo ball soup, and playing soccer with her team, the Orange Smoothies. So what if she doesn't always fit in?

Lola...

Everybody Sees the Ants

by A. S. King – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (October 03, 2011)

Lucky Linderman didn't ask for his life. He didn't ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. He didn't ask for a father who never got over it. He didn't ask for a mother who keeps pretending...

The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other)

by Geoff Rodkey – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (April 07, 2015)

This bestselling first book in the Tapper Twins series is a hilariously authentic showcase of what it's like to be in middle school in our digitally-saturated world, told as a colorful "oral history" with photos,...

If You Find This

by Matthew Baker – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (March 17, 2015)

Mixing mystery and adventure in the tradition of Louis Sachar, Avi, and E.L. Konigsburg, If You Find This is the story of unlikely friendships, unexpected bravery and eleven-year-old Nicholas Funes's quest to...

Burn

by Suzanne Phillips – Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (November 01, 2008)

"Are our schools safe?" It's hard to turn on the news without hearing this question, and the answer is typically "no." This novel explores what happens when bullying escalates to violence, and it challenges...