Middle Grade: Baby-Sitters Club Read-Alikes | Carnegie-Stout Public Library

1) Real friends

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Series

Friends (Hale) volume 1

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Shannon and Adrienne have been best friends ever since they were little. But one day, Adrienne starts hanging out with Jen, the most popular girl in class and the leader of a circle of friends called The Group. Everyone in The Group wants to be Jen's #1, and some girls would do anything to stay on top ... even if it means bullying others. Now every day is like a roller coaster for Shannon. Will she and Adrienne stay friends? Can she stand up for herself?...

2) Best friends

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Friends (Hale) volume 2

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When she becomes part of the in-crowd, Shannon begins to question whether she wants to remain there, in a story about popularity, first boyfriends, and finding a path in life.

3) Making friends: 1

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Gudsnuk, Kristen

Series

Making friends (Kristen Gudsnuk) volume 3

Description

Sixth grade was so much easier for Danny. All her friends were in the same room and she knew exactly what to expect out of life. Now that she's in seventh grade, she's in a new middle school, her friends are in different classes and forming new cliques, and she is totally, completely lost. What Danny really needs is a new best friend! So when she inherits a magic sketchbook from her eccentric great-aunt in which anything she sketches in it comes to...

4) Making friends: 2,Back to the drawing board

Author

Gudsnuk, Kristen

Series

Making friends (Kristen Gudsnuk) volume 2

Description

"Dany, Madison, and... wait -- another Dany?! -- must navigate some very complicated friendships while trying to capture a magical dog that is turning their town upside-down! Almost everything is going great for Dany. She and Madison are still best friends, she still has her magic sketchbook, and the new school year is looking up. But when Dany creates a duplicate of herself to secretly help with homework and raise her social status, the two of them...

5) Camp

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Click volume 2

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Olive and Willow are happy campers! Or are they? Olive is sure she'll have the best time at summer camp with her friend Willow - but while Olive makes quick friends with the other campers, Willow struggles to form connections and latches on to the only person she knows - Olive. It's s'more than Olive can handle! The stress of being Willow's living security blanket begins to wear on Olive and before long... the girls aren't just fighting, they may...

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Click volume 1

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When a school variety show leaves Olive stranded without an act to join, she wonders why all of her friends have already formed their own groups without her.

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A misfit girl and her brother attend summer camp, where they struggle with primitive plumbing, snobby tentmates, and boys-versus-girls competitions.

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Telgemeier, Raina

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Formats:

Childrens Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

From sixth grade through tenth, Raina copes with a variety of dental problems that affect her appearance and how she feels about herself.

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Telgemeier, Raina

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Formats:

Childrens Book, eBook, Kindle

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Three weeks. Two sisters. One car. A true story.

10) Guts

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Telgemeier, Raina

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Formats:

Childrens Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon becomes clear that Raina's tummy trouble isn't going away... and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. What's going...

11) Drama

Author

Telgemeier, Raina

Description

Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.

12) Best babysitters ever

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Series

Best babysitters ever volume 1

Description

Mayhem ensues in their sleepy California beach town when three best friends, motivated by unlimited snacks, no parents, and earning money for an epic seventh-grade party, find an old copy of "The Babysitters Club" and decide to start their own babysitting business.

13) The good, the bad, and the bossy

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Best babysitters ever volume 2

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"When other commitments threaten the success of the Best Babysitters Ever, Malia is frustrated until she comes up with a plan to hire new babysitters and take a cut of their wages." --

14) Miss Impossible

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Best babysitters ever volume 3

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Malia, Dot, and Bree are psyched to land their highest paying job yet--until they get to the house and realize they're babysitting Zelda Hooper, Bree and Malia's archnemesis since preschool. Babysitting: not just for babies, apparently. And it's too much money to walk away from...so at least there are no diapers? But all of the babysitting in the world couldn't prepare the girls for their unusual new charge, and even though Zelda should be the one...

15) The year of the dog: a novel

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Series

Pacy Lin books volume 1

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Childrens Book, Childrens CD Audio Book

Description

Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.

16) President of the whole sixth grade

Author

Winston, Sherri

Series

President series volume 3

Description

Brianna Justice is the president of her Detroit middle school's sixth grade, but she is finding the position a real headache--beside the normal troubles of being in a new school, and the sudden coldness of her old friends, there is a class trip to Washington, D.C. coming up and she needs to figure out how to raise the rest of the money so that the class can go.

17) Sunny rolls the dice

Author

Holm, Jennifer L

Series

Sunny side up volume 3

Description

"Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...

18) Swing it, Sunny!

Author

Holm, Jennifer L

Series

Sunny side up volume 2

Description

In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.

19) Sunny side up

Author

Holm, Jennifer L

Series

Sunny side up volume 1

Description

"From the groundbreaking and award-winning sister-brother team behind Babymouse comes a middle-grade, graphic-novel memoir. Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, 'Sunny Side Up' is at once a compelling 'problem' story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world" --

20) Positively Izzy

Author

Libenson, Terri

Series

Emmie & friends volume 2

Description

On the day of the school talent show, the lives of shy Bri and dreamer Izzy converge to create an event even more dramatic than either could even imagine.