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What makes your school stand out? The friends and friendships built inside of it! You would love the characters of the Mitchell School in Ali Benjamin's The Next Great Paulie Fink!

When Caitlyn Breen enters the tiny Mitchell School she is a complete outsider: the seventh grade has just ten other kids, and they’ve known each other since kindergarten. Her classmates are in for a shock of their own: Paulie Fink–the class clown, oddball, troublemaker, and evil genius–is gone this year. 

As stories of Paulie’s hijinks unfold, his legend builds, until they realize there’s only one way to fill the Paulie-sized hole in their class. They’ll find their next great Paulie Fink through a reality-show style competition, to be judged by the only objective person around: Caitlyn, who never even met Paulie Fink. Who was this kid, anyway–prankster, performance artist, philosopher, or fool? Caitlyn’s quest to understand Paulie is about to teach her more about herself than she ever imagined.

Your school will be filled with laughter, fun, art, and joy: you would love Newell's middle school adventures in Jason Platt's debut graphic novel!

Newell is always getting into trouble–whether it’s showing up tardy for most of the year, or mocking his teachers while authoritarian Mr. Todd is standing right behind him. When disaster strikes and Newell finds himself on track to summer school, he’s given one last minute option to get out of it–participating in the upcoming Talent Show. The only problem is that he doesn’t technically have a talent to show. Yikes. 

In this fun and imaginative full-color graphic novel, Jason Platt sends a fast-talking, daydreaming, middle school kid on a desperate quest to pull off a great show and save his summer.

Your school will have adventures, quests, and action around every corner–so you should try Wade Albert White's The Adventurer's Guide series!

Anne has spent most of her thirteen years dreaming of the day she and her best friend Penelope will finally leave Saint Lupin’s Institute for Perpetually Wicked and Hideously Unattractive Children. When the big day arrives, a series of very curious happenings lead to Anne being charged with an epic quest. Anne, Penelope, and new questing partner Hiro have only days to travel to strange new locales, solve myriad riddles, and triumph over monstrous foes–or face the horrible consequences.

Packed with action, humor, and endless heart, this is an irresistible and original fantasy series!

Your school is filled with charm, magic, and wonder: you should join Morrigan Crow and her friends at the Wondrous Society in Jessica Townsend's middle grade series!

Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on the unluckiest day, she’s blamed for all local misfortunes, and the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday.

But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears and whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor.

It’s then that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a place in the city’s most prestigious school: the Wundrous Society. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan will need to find a way to pass the tests–or she’ll have to leave the city to confront her deadly fate.

If it was up to you, Halloween would be all year round. Mysteries and spooky adventures are everywhere at your school, just like at the School of Fear in Gitty Daneshvari's middle grade series!

Madeleine Masterson is deathly afraid of bugs, especially spiders. 

Theodore Bartholomew is petrified of dying. 

Lulu Punchalower is scared of confined spaces.

Garrison Feldman is terrified of deep water. 

With very few options left, the parents of these four twelve year-olds send them to the highly elusive and exclusive School of Fear to help them overcome their phobias. But when their peculiar teacher, Mrs. Wellington, and her unconventional teaching methods turn out to be more frightening than even their fears, the foursome realize that this just may be the scariest summer of their lives.