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Books about Growing Up

Middle Readers

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

by Judy Blume

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Blossoms Meet the Vulture Lady

by Betsy Byars

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Julian’s Glorious Summer

by Ann Cameron

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Dear Mr. Henshaw

by Beverly Cleary

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Staying Nine

by Pam Conrad

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Do Bananas Chew Gum?

by Jamie Gilson

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Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon

by Bette Greene

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Isabelle Shows Her Stuff

by Constance Greene

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Heads, I Win

by Patricia Hermes

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Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth

by E.L. Konigsburg

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Me and Katie (The Pest)

by Ann Martin

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Kid in the Red Jacket

by Barbara Park

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Twenty Ways to Lose Your Best Friend

by Marilyn Singer

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Older Readers

Charlie Pippin

by Candy Boyd

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Anything for a Friend

by Ellen Conford

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The Divorce Express

by Paula Danziger

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You’ve Been Away All Summer

by Sheila Hayes

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Kim/Kimi

by Hadley Irwin

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Rabble Starkey

by Lois Lowry

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Unclaimed Treasures

by Patricia MacLachlan

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The Trouble with Thirteen

by Betty Miles

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One and Only Cynthia Jane Thornton

by Claudia Mills

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Reluctantly Alice

by Phyllis Naylor

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Maggie, Too

by Joan Lowery Nixon

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Bridge to Terabitha

by Katherine Paterson

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Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes

by Louis Sachar

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Underdog

by Marilyn Sachs

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