Until you’ve consumed all of the best Middle School books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond–and How Parents Can Help (2019)
- A Smart Girl’s Guide: Middle School (Revised): Everything You Need to Know About Juggling More Homework, More Teachers, and More Friends! (Smart Girl’s Guides) (2014)
- The Manual to Middle School: The “Do This, Not That” Survival Guide for Guys (2017)
- Middle School: Get Me Out of Here! (2018)
- Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life (2012)
- Middle School Makeover (2014)
- What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know, Third Edition (2014)
- All’s Faire in Middle School (2017)
- The Worst-Case Scenario School (Worst Case Scenario Junior Editions) (2009)
- Surviving Middle School: Navigating the Halls, Riding the Social Roller Coaster, and Unmasking the Real You (2016)
- Every Day Math Practice: 1000+ Questions You Need to Kill in Middle School | Math Workbook | Middle School Study Practice Notebook | Grades 6-8 (2018)
- Competition Math for Middle School (2009)
- Planet Middle School (2018)
Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond–and How Parents Can Help (2019)
Middle school is its own important, distinct territory, and yet it’s either written off as an uncomfortable rite of passage or lumped in with other developmental phases.
A Smart Girl’s Guide: Middle School (Revised): Everything You Need to Know About Juggling More Homework, More Teachers, and More Friends! (Smart Girl’s Guides) (2014)
Starting middle school can be scary. But knowing what to expect will make you feel more confident. Packed with tips and fun quizzes, here’s the inside scoop on topics like classes, lockers, homework, and getting involved in after-school activities. Get help deciding the best way to introduce yourself to those new classmates.
The Manual to Middle School: The “Do This, Not That” Survival Guide for Guys (2017)
The move from elementary school to middle school can be difficult for boys. Too big to be little yet too little to be big, they face the perfect storm of changing bodies, rushing hormones, and learning challenges. Many new to middle school guys find themselves struggling with grades, behavior, relationships with family, friends, and teachers.
Middle School: Get Me Out of Here! (2018)
Live large with James Patterson’s winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life.After sixth grade, the very worst year of his life, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. He’s been accepted to art school in the big city and imagines a math-and-history-free fun zone. Wrong!
Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life (2012)
Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he’s got an ace plan for the best year ever: to break every rule in his school’s oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class: 5,000 points! Running in the hallway: 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm: 50,000 points!
Middle School Makeover (2014)
Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school. The book helps parents, teachers, and other adults in middle school settings to understand the social dilemmas and other issues that kids today face.
What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know, Third Edition (2014)
Middle level researchers Dave Brown and Trudy Knowles have updated their bestselling classic What Every Middle School Teacher Should Know with more student voice as well as timely new research, strategies, and models that illuminate the philosophies and practices that best serve the needs of young adolescents.
All’s Faire in Middle School (2017)
Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she’s eager to begin her own training as a squire. First, though, she’ll need to prove her bravery. Luckily Impy has just the quest in mind—she’ll go to public school after a life of being homeschooled! But it’s not easy to act like a noble knight-in-training in middle school.
The Worst-Case Scenario School (Worst Case Scenario Junior Editions) (2009)
Homework, hormones, heartachemiddle school has no shortage of perils. Never fear, the authors of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series return with a survival guide for those who are facingor just about to facethis big transitional time in school and life.
Surviving Middle School: Navigating the Halls, Riding the Social Roller Coaster, and Unmasking the Real You (2016)
In this hilarious guide full of honest, real-life experiences, veteran teacher Luke Reynolds skillfully and humorously shows kids how to not only survive, but thrive and even enjoy the wild adventure that is middle school.Middle grade series like The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries bring an authentic voice and vision to fiction about middle schoolers.
Every Day Math Practice: 1000+ Questions You Need to Kill in Middle School | Math Workbook | Middle School Study Practice Notebook | Grades 6-8 (2018)
Prepare your child for middle school math with our award-winning Math Practice Workbook for Grades 6 to 8. Used by teachers, parents and students nationwide this workbook provides middle school children with comprehensive practice questions that cover a wide range of topics they will encounter in middle school.Created by certified middle school teachers, this workbook is the perfect supplementary workbook for any student in 6th grade, 7th grade or 8th grade.
Competition Math for Middle School (2009)
Written for the gifted math student, the new math coach, the teacher in search of problems and materials to challenge exceptional students, or anyone else interested in advanced mathematical problems.
Planet Middle School (2018)
For twelve years, Joylin Johnson’s life has been just fine. A game of basketball with the boys-especially her friend Jake-was all it took to put a smile on her face. Baggy jeans, T-shirt, and hair in a ponytail were easy choices. Then, everything suddenly seemed to change all at once. Her best girl friend is now flirting with her best guy friend. Her clothes seem all wrong.
Best Middle School Books Worth Your Attention
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The Speed of Green, Grade 8: STEM Road Map for Middle School
Author(s): Carla C. Johnson, Janet B. Walton, Erin E. Peters-Burton
ID: 3639103, Publisher: Routledge/Eye on Education, Year: 2023, Size: 13 Mb, Format: pdf
A Teacher’s Guide to Supporting Gifted Middle School Students
Author(s): DJ Graham
ID: 3646548, Publisher: Routledge/Prufrock Press, Year: 2023, Size: 7 Mb, Format: pdf
Everything You Need to Ace U.S. History in One Big Fat Notebook: The Complete Middle School Study Guide
Author(s): Workman Publishing
ID: 3708878, Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Year: 2023, Size: 485 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are really best-sellers according to Los Angeles Times, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.