Middle School Battle of the Books 2017-2018

Amina, a Pakistani American Muslim, has entered middle school. She is happy hanging with her friend Soojin, a Korean American, but things have started changing, especially when Soojin starts hanging out with popular Emily. When Soojin says she might change her name to something more American, Amina starts to wonder if she will have to change to fit in, too. However, when her local mosque is vandalized, Amina realizes that it is better to be herself....

While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates.

Thirteen-year-old Felix Yz chronicles the final month before an experimental procedure meant to separate him from the fourth-dimensional creature, Zyx, with whom he was accidentally fused as a young child.

Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.

"Kidnapped by alien pirates, Holly Farb must face bounty hunters, giant worms, perky holograms, and more as she tries to find the real princess and get home before her big test"--Provided by publisher.

In a world devastated by an invasion of giant alien blobs that devour electrical devices wherever they find them, Strata and her brother live with their family in a roving caravan of digital rescuers, searching for robots and technology wherever they can find them. When Strata finds a special robot pony, she and her brother get separated from the caravan and have to escape both the aliens and human outlaws.

At Armstrong School, three heroes--Scrap, Yoshi, and Clinton--battle a zombie horde and pirates at recess.

Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?

Twelve-year-old Harper Raine suspects her house is haunted. And when her four-year-old brother begins acting strangely, she gets a strange sense of dâejáa vu and realizes she must unlock certain memories to understand and stop the dangerous sensations in the house.

Dani is the biracial granddaughter of black scholar and writer Ruth Beans, a former civil rights activist who is now succumbing to Alzheimer's. Dani's friend Mac is the white grandson of Ruth's estranged friend and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Avadelle Richardson. When Dani's grandmother gives her a mysterious envelope and a key, the middle-school friends set off on a quest to unravel the mystery of what drove a wedge between their grandmothers...