"Five tweens navigate the pandemic by attending an experimental virtual reality school"--

Substitute middle-school history teacher Rush Revere takes his students back in time to explore the night The Star-Spangled Banner was written.

"You've got to know where you stand to survive sixth grade, and Nate Wright's found the perfect spot: right next to Sherman, the class gerbil. Can Nate's furry friend bail him out of his latest homework jam with Mrs. Godfrey? Or will there be a paper trail leading straight to detention?"--back cover. The thrilling next installment in the enormously popular Big Nate series. Dating an older lady has its challenges, and Nate isn't sure he's cut out...

Twelve-year-old Riley steps out of her older brother's protective shadow and behind the Dungeon Master's screen, running D&D campaigns for her friends and learning to be independent and self-reliant.

"For the first time in her life, Natalie feels confident. Her talents are being recognized, she has supportive friends, and she's spending a ton of time with her crush, Derek! But when Derek tells Natalie that he just wants to be friends, Natalie's self-confidence quickly changes to self-doubt. As she tries to recover from her broken heart, Natalie casts aside her talents and even her friends. With no one to turn to, Natalie will have to pull herself...

As one of the only Asian Americans in her school, Christina confronts both well-meaning ignorance and cruel racism, but in middle school fitting in is important, which is why she and her best friend Megan are both excited and nervous to try out for the popular cheerleading squad.

When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, Leo the Silent, to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.

Eighth-grader Jewel has all the usual middle school problems (crush on an unattainable boy, ex-BFF), but the thing that is making life a torment at school is the horn growing out of her forehead, which cannot be removed simply; she has two friends she can depend on and an invisible unicorn companion, but she would really like to be normal in time to read her essay in regional French speaking competition--and maybe she has found a doctor who can do...

Missy already defeated her former best friend, the supervillain Melvira, in an epic showdown--so how hard can making friends at middle school be? Well--boot camp leader Gru is the new principal, and she's ready to kick Missy out at the first sign of trouble. Then Melvira enrolls at Missy's school, and she's being much too nice. Melvira wants to run for student-body president, and Missy doesn't trust her. Missy starts to seem like the paranoid one...

In the midst of adjusting to middle school and having a girlfriend, Franklin Ike Saturday's life becomes even more complicated when he writes a letter to Benjamin Franklin as an extra-credit assignment and gets a reply, beginning a correspondence that could change history.