Catalog Search Results
21) Radio silence
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Frances and Aled spend the summer collaborating on her favorite podcast, they realize they understand each other in a way no one else does.
23) The campaign
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Maddie runs her babysitter Janet's campaign to become mayor of their city and protect arts funding. --
24) Baseball great
Author
Language
English
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Read A Book with a Red Cover
Funny Children's Books
Summer Reading 2022: 4th to 5th Grade
Funny Children's Books
Summer Reading 2022: 4th to 5th Grade
Description
"A Indian American boy endures a family move from Hawaii to frigid Minnesota and, with the help of three life-changing books he reads in school, he learns to like reading, and ultimately, himself"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Nikola Kross's world is turned upside down when her father is abducted by aliens and she is suddenly transported to a special boarding school for geniuses, but things get even stranger when she realizes she has certain abilities that put her entire school in grave danger.
29) Stay gold
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Told in two voices, Pony, who is concealing his transgender identity at his new Texas high school, and Georgia, a cisgender cheerleader counting the days until she graduates, develop a complicated relationship.
30) Crave
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Grace's world changed when she joined the academy. At the academy she is a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. She can't decide which faction she should join, or if she should join any of them. The one thing that unites them is their hatred of her. Then there's Jaxon Vega, a vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. Jaxon has walled himself off for a reason. Does someone want to wake the sleeping monster in him? Is...
33) 11 before 12
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kaylan and her BFF, Arianna, have a foolproof plan for surviving middle school. 1. Make a list of eleven things they need to do to become amazing before they turn twelve. 2. Show off their brand-new selves with the best joint birthday party in the history of West Brookside Middle School. But between cafeteria drama, crushes gone wrong, and some major misunderstandings, Kaylan and Ari lose sight of the one thing they forgot to put on their list: "Keep...
34) Deephaven
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When Guinevere "Nev" Tallow receives an acceptance letter to the exclusive Deephaven Academy, they know it's the fresh start that they've been looking for. But things are strange from the moment they arrive--the house itself seems to breathe, students whisper secrets in dark corridors, and the entire east wing of the academy is locked away for reasons no one wants to explain. And Nev knows something ragged stalks the shadowy corridors, something...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2023 Summer Reading Challenge: Read A Book With A Human Who Doesn't Look Or Live Like You
2024 Nutmeg Book Award Intermediate Nominees
2024 Nutmeg Book Award Intermediate Nominees
Description
When a racist incident rocks her small Michigan town, eleven-year-old Lekha must decide whether to speak up or stay silent, even as she struggles to navigate her life at home, where she can be herself, and at school, where she is teased about her culture.
37) Honestly Elliott
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest.
38) Zero tolerance
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grade honor student Sierra Shepard faces expulsion after accidentally bringing a paring knife to school, violating the school's zero-tolerance policy.
Borrow from another library
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Darien Library can be requested from other libraries via our interlibrary loan system (ILL).