Middle School English

Living in the luxurious Arcanum building - with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbours behind every apartment door - has always been fun and games for twelve-year-old Minerva Keen...until her neighbours start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself. To clear her name and help the police crack the case, Minerva starts her own detective club.

In this first volume of the series, Felix (together with his good friends Max and Alex) suddenly finds himself in a summer camp, sent there by his parents. What he's doing here is what he knows best: He's making a fool of himself by getting into the craziest situations, he's playing pranks (pretty nasty ones) on other fellow campers, or he's simply annoying everyone. Anyway, it's the kind of tricks you definitely haven't heard of before!

A hero will rise . . . Maks comes home to Appian for Solstice break, only to find the village in turmoil–poachers have struck the last standing forest on his planet. Maks jumps in to help, fighting age-old customs and flouting conventions that try to hold him hostage. He soon realizes that the world is even more complex than he thought, and standing up for the truth is tougher when it means going against your best friend. A standalone novella from the world of The Lightbound Saga.

Poindexter Chu is an ordinary middle schooler with a love for skateboarding, a knack for speed, and a life that’s about to take a sharp turn into the extraordinary. During a family hike, he gets bitten by a mysterious bat, and everything changes. Suddenly, Poindexter can skate faster, smell sharper, and even… fly! But his newfound powers come with a catch—he might just be turning into a vampire! As Poindexter struggles to balance his regular life, his growing fame at the skatepark, and the strange transformations happening to him, he must navigate friendship, rivalry, and his own ...

From fourteen-year-old author Brayden Harrington, the young boy who electrified the nation when he spoke at the Democratic National Convention in 2020, comes a fictional middle grade contemporary story about a boy named Jayson who stutters and the challenges he faces and the obstacles he must overcome as he campaigns for student-body president.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Treasure Hunters by James Patterson, read by Bryan Kennedy. The Kidd family discovers an ancient map to the lost Incan City of Paititi. But when the map is stolen, the Kidds have to rely on Storm's picture-perfect memory to navigate the dangerous Amazon jungle - until she's kidnapped! To save Storm, the Kidds must locate the fabled city...before the bad guys find it first. The race is on!

"When courage takes shape, even the smallest hero can make a giant impact." Step into the world of Herman Gonzalez, a middle schooler navigating friendships, family drama, and unexpected superpowers in Hermandible by Evan Jacobs. Herman's life takes a wild turn when he's stung by a bee, awakening mysterious mandible-like powers. As he grapples with his newfound abilities, Herman finds himself facing school bullies, participating in hot dog-eating contests, and learning what it truly means to be a hero—just like the Knights of the Round Table he admires. Packed with heart, humor, and ...

Edquest breaks the education system down to its simplest form so that you can develop a road map for yourself from now to career. Learn about the education system and how to make it work for you! You will discover the details of your individual path as you choose it.

What are the 79 wackiest excuses for being late to school? How do you stop a maniac dentist from terrorising children? Why is the new smartphone so ridiculously dumb? And what does it take to get every single student at Milford Junior School put on detention? Find out in this hilarious collection of short stories. One thing is guaranteed - you will never pick the endings!

David and his best friend, Michael, were tagged with awful nicknames back in preschool, when everyone did silly things. Fast-forward to seventh grade: 'Pottymouth' and 'Stoopid' are still stuck with the names, and everyone believes the labels are true. So how do they go about changing everyone's minds? By turning their misery into megastardom on TV, of course! And this important story delivers more than just laughs - it shows that the worst bullying doesn't have to be physical and that things will get better.