Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney
   Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother, Rodrick, from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.

Ever by Gail Carson Levine
    Teenaged Kezi is to be sacrificed to the Hyte god because of a rash promise made by her father, but young Olus, Akkan god of the winds, falls in love with her and together they try to change her fate through a series of quests.

Spin the Bottle by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
  When aspiring actress Phoebe and her best friend, the brainy Harper, enter middle school, their friendship is briefly tested by Phoebe's admiration of some of the drama club students and the intensity of her first crush, but ultimately they find that their relationship can withstand the stresses of their expanding lives.

The Train Jumper by Don Brown
    Jumping freight trains during the Great Depression leads fourteen-year-old Collie to a friendship with men and boys on their way to "somewhere else."

Peeled by Joan Baue
    In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurences at a house rumored to be haunted.

The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy by Diane Stanley
     Eight-grader Franny and her friends set out to find the secret of their mysteriously perfect boarding school for gifted students.