See a detailed list below of books for students entering grades 7 and 8 at Beverly Middle School in fall, 2025.
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May 29, 2025
Abandon Ship!
By Michael J. Tougias & Alison O'Leary
A nonfiction account of the WWII maritime attack on the RMS Laconia off the West African coast.
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Brick Dust and Bones
12-year-old Marius Grey has a job as a Cemetery Boy, looking after the ghosts in his family's graveyard, but he also hunts monsters and, along with his flesh-eating mermaid friend, must race against the clock to save the ghost of his dead mother.
See book review below (start around 2:41)
The Door of No Return
Novel in verse about an Asante boy who is captured and taken from his village during the 19th century. First book in a planned trilogy.
If you like this, try the sequel Black Star, about Kofi’s granddaughter, Charley.
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Dress Coded
An eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion.
If you like this, try another book by Carrie Firestone, The First Rule of Climate Club
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Dungeons and Drama
Riley convinces Nathan, who works at her dad’s game store, to cover her shifts. In exchange, she’ll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous. Pretty soon it seems that flirting with Nathan doesn’t require as much acting as she would have thought.
If you like this, try: Dating and Dragons
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Final Word
Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known. First book in the Winterton Deception series.
If you like this, try the sequel: Fault Lines
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The Girl in the Lake
When Celeste spends a week at her grandparents' lake house, strange things start to happen. She sees a face that looks like her own and tries to discover who the girl is and what she wants.
If you like this, try this book by the same author: Forgotten Girl
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Jawbreaker
Max’s severe overbite means she needs totally awkward orthodontic headgear called “the jawbreaker.” It gets worse – the journalism competition she wants to enter has a video component. Smile meets Wonder!
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Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
The most important rule of Mallory’s middle school? Fit in to survive. When Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn't seem to apply. Then Jennifer disappears.
If you like this, try Tae Keller's Newbery Award-winning book When You Trap a Tiger
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Linked
When swastikas begin appearing all over town, Link, Michael, and Dana, the only Jewish girl in town, must face crimes both past and present to find the truth.
Awards: Sydney Taylor Honor Book, Cybil Award winner
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Make Your Mark, Make a Difference
By Joan Marie Galat
Take the first steps into activism with a guide that empowers you to learn more about a cause you are passionate about, and then how to create meaningful change. Nonfiction.
Take the first steps into activism with a guide that empowers you to learn more about a cause you are passionate about, and then how to create meaningful change. Nonfiction.
Hear an excerpt of the book read by the author below.
Northwind
When sickness decimates his fishing camp, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful Norwegian coastline.
If you like this, try other books by Gary Paulson, including Hatchet and other books in that series.
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Not if You Break Up With Me First
Best friends Eve and Andrew go to their first eighth grade dance together, and suddenly everybody assumes they are dating, so they each try to arrange a break-up--except they are both beginning to feel a different kind of attraction.
If you like this, also try by the same author: What If You Fall for Me First?
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Playing Through the Turnaround
When their beloved Jazz Lab teacher is let go for mysterious reasons, a group of students hatch a plan to save their class. They become an unlikely band of crusaders whose quest turns into something bigger than they ever could have imagined.
If you like this try: Notes From An Accidental Band Geek by Erin Dionne
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Rivals
In basketball-crazed Walthorne, rival middle-school stars Austin Chambers and Carter Haswell are both feeling the pressure when school sports reporter Alfie Jenks reveals scandals that jeopardize the whole season.
If you like this, try other Game Changer books by Tommy Greenwald: The Right Call, Dinged, and Game Changer
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The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls
After being caught stealing, Benjamin Waterfalls moves in with his father on an Ojibwe reservation. He searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around in his second chance.
If you like this, try other books by James Bird: No Place Like Home and The Brave
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Snowglobe
Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that's warm. Outside is a frozen wasteland, where the only solace is reality TV streamed directly from the domed city where the residents have everything: fame, fortune, and above all, safety from the desolation outside their walls. What could possibly go wrong? First book in a duology.
If you like this, read the sequel: Snowglobe 2
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Tagging Freedom
Samira’s cousin Kareem moves from Syria, where war has broken out, to live with her family in Massachusetts. Using his graffiti skills, Kareem and Samira’s best friend raise awareness of the growing conflict, dividing the community. Samira has to pick sides.
Warrior on the Mound
After a dispute results in outrage in 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team and a Whites-only team resolve the issue by playing baseball together.
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