Books with title Frog in the Middle

In Stuck in the Middle (of Middle School) by Karen Romano Young, Doreen and her family had to move because of her once she got kicked out of school. She's vowed to make her new middle school work for her, but it's still a challenge, given her ADHD, her younger sister's growing popularity, and tensions between her parents, as they all adjust to a new city and new jobs. Add to that a lot of homework, a talent show, and her first [gulp!] school dance, and you'll agree that Doreen needs to work extra hard to stay focused. Good thing she has her doodle-journal!

Time to multitask! Middle school is the new high school (huh?) and Dudes are low men on the totem pole. What else can they do but create a fake eighth-grader? Along the way, they: Create a reality showSignal UFO’sPromote devil worshipAnd exert mind control on the student body.Oh yeah! But can they learn good study skills?All new middle school adventures!A funny start to required school reading! The Dudes have middle school mastered and so will their readers. The Dudes Adventure Chronicles is a series for intermediate readers 8-14 who can’t get enough madcap adventure and hilarious hijinks. Each chapter book provides several stories realistic enough and wacky enough to keep kids reading to the delicious conclusion. The Dudes are a diverse group of preteen boys whose clever ways to screw up turn their suburban neighborhood upside down. Spoilers: Classic humor without movie tie-ins or fart jokes! Appeals to middle grade readers who like funny, realistic fiction without a tacked-on message or ripped-from-the-headlines problem. If you like Beverly Cleary's Henry Huggins or Barbara Robinson's The Worst Best Christmas Pageant Ever, you'll love the Dudes!Don’t miss the madness in: Dudes in the MiddleWarning to Parents:The Dudes’s insane take on parents, school, and the PTA just might be catching. Anecdotal evidence suggests that readers of the Dudes may see imagine some resemblance between the Dudes’ parents and their own.Makes a Great Gift or a Perfect Stocking Stuffer.Great read-a-loud for the whole family.Crazy funny!

What if the one boy you hate with all your heart is the same boy who steals it?It’s the mid-seventies—a time of mirror balls, rock music, and polyester pants. Taryn McIntyre is a cheerleader who loves high school and loves being popular. But when Matt Jerue arrives at school, he flips her orderly world upside down. He’s intimidating, he smokes, he gets into fights; he’s everything Taryn despises and everything she wants to avoid.But when their best friends start dating, Taryn’s and Matt’s lives unavoidably intertwine. She slowly sees sides of him that enchant and intrigue her, and she begins to question everything about her choices, her friends, and herself. Hate eventually weaves its way to love, and Taryn must decide between her heart and her friends. Should she play it safe, or fall in love with an intimidating outsider and become an outcast herself?

Morgan has a hole in his middle, and it gives him a strange, empty feeling -- sort of like always being a little bit hungry. His best friend Yumi tries to help, but nothing seems to make Morgan feel better. Not music, not picnics... not even reminding himself to forget about the feeling. Then Yumi gets sick, and Morgan bakes her a cake. Cheering Yumi up means that Morgan doesn't stop to think about the hole in his middle. Only then does the hole start to shrink... until it's exactly the same size as a belly button.

One day Isabel finds a box in her mother's closet, and inside the box is a photograph of a girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes. Ten-year-old Bel is enchanted to discover that the girl is her great-grandmother, her Bisa Bea, and that she and her great-grandmother look very much alike. Bel convinces her mother to let her borrow the treasured photo. To keep her Bisa Bea close to her heart, she tucks the picture inside the waistband of her shorts but she soon discovers, the picture is missing.Suddenly it is as if Bisa Bea is alive inside her, telling Bel what life was like when she was a girl but then Bisa Bea starts to tell her how to behave. Bel learns that her great-grandmother lived at a time where girls were expected to be proper young ladies.She argues with her grandmother and another voice comes into her head, encouraging her to stand up for herself and telling her what it means to be a modern girl.

Six Mile Valley is a town in a less than perfect situation. Poverty and crime is reality, and Dora is devastated by the possibility of not being accepted into secondary schooling due to lack of funding. Nevertheless, the family of peculiar woman who live on Shelling Hill provide an adequate distraction for Dora as she studies their behaviour closely, out of interest. While most people stop believing in magic and anything related during their childhood, Dora holds onto the idea of the connection between magic and reality well into her teenage years.Dora is a young aspiring journalist whom, at just 14 years of age, is still learning what life really is. As her hometown struggles, Dora is absorbed in her daydreams. She maintains a daily fascination for what the seven women in the Terrydene family on Shelling Hill are doing to occupy their long days spent indoors. Without any proof, Dora still genuinely believes that the Terrydene family are true witches. The situation in Six Mile Valley was dire enough before the introduction of the unthinkable. At last, Dora learns the truth about heaven and hell and her world in between it. Unfortunately, she learns this in the most tragic of ways.