Junior High Girls

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• 13: Thirteen stories that capture the agony & ecstasy of being 13, edited by James Howe
• Absolutely Normal Chaos, by Sharon Creech
• Amandine by Adele Griffin
• Anastasia Krupnik books by Lowry
• Bloomability, by Sharon Creech
• Define Normal by Julie Ann Peters
• Dinah Forever by Claudia Mills
• Dolores: Seven Stories About Her by Bruce Brooks (vignettes in the life of a girl from the age of seven through 16).
• Ever After, by Rachel Vail
• Fill in the Blank
• Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen
• Friction by E.R. Frank
• Girlwise: how to be confident... by Julia Devillers for a nonfiction title
• Here Comes Heavenly, by Todd Strasser
• Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (middle school - one of the characters is a soccer-playing girl)
• If Only You Knew
• It's Not Easy Being Bad (7th grade) and Bad Girls in Love (8th grade) by Cynthia Voigt.
• Just as Long as We're Together__ by Blume.
• LBD by Grace Dent (same problem as above)
• Lizzie at Last, by Claudia Mills
• Mates, Dates series
• Millicent Min, Girl Genius.
• Mind Games by Jeanne Marie Grunwell
• Ninjas. Piranhas, and Galileo by Greg Leitich Smith
• No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
• Popularity Contest
• Rachel Vail's series The Friendship Ring : Not That I Care
• Romeo and Juliet, Together (and Alive) at Last, by Avi
• SOR losers by Avi
• Seventh Grade Tango, by Elizabeth Levy
• Space Station Seventh Grade by Spinelli
• Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
• Sweet Valley stuff.
• The Alice Series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• The Clique by Lisi Harrison
• The Diary of LaToya Hunter: My First Year in Junior High (published in 1992 so it may be slightly dated )
• The Georgia Nicholson books by Louise Rennison
• The Girls by Amy G Koss
• The Girls series by Jacqueline Wilson (Girls in Love; Girls Under Pressure; Girls in Tears; Girls Out Late - these have the same problem as the Rennison books in that the girls are 14, but act way older)
• The Misfits by James Howe
• The School Story by Andrew Clements
• The Steps by Rachel Cohn (7th grade girl)
• The View From Saturday, by E.L. Konigsberg
• The later books in the Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech
• What Are Friends For?
• Wonder, by Rachel Vail

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