Books in Middle School Book 11 series

Age Level: 9 and up / Grade Level: 4 and upI’m Les Desirable. Don’t laugh. That’s my real name. And my teacher, Mrs. Mudhole, won’t let me forget it. I’m a world famous news reporter. While most kids my age are breaking wind, I’m always looking for breaking news.Mrs. Mudhole says this is Adopt-a-Pet Cultural Appreciation Month at school. That only means our teacher is dumping more work on us. Yuck!Since no student brought a pet animal to school for “Show and Tell,” Mrs. Mudhole is forcing us to take a Rio McCaw stuffed toy parrot home for one night. Another wackadoodle idea of hers.But I don’t have time for school homework nonsense. Because I have to help my cousin Bo Teak and Aunt Teak move in next door.When I hear Aunt Teak screaming that she’s being robbed, I call on my trusted intern Ebb Peckinpaw to scramble and help solve this breaking news story.Solving real life news stories filled with intrigue and mystery is always more fun than babysitting a stuffed toy parrot.However, a famous reporter’s life is not easy. I often run into challenges—like my constant need to duck from a crazy live Cockatoo that keeps pooping on me. Do you have this problem?Les Desirable: It’s Not Fair is a funny story that everyone will find entertaining—children, middle school students, and adults.

Handling drama by yourself is never fun. New seventh grade student Carson Roberts learns the hard way not to cross the school bully, beautiful Jessa McCain. And it s only her first day! She's also made two friends in quiet Emma Swanson and shy Mai Pham. But if there's one thing Carson learns, it's that baggage follows you. Middle school is the perfect storm of BFFs, frenemies, and mean girls. If you haven't been frozen out, dumped, or betrayed, then you are lucky. Handling drama is never fun, especially when you're alone. But some bonds of friendship are forever. The Summit Middle School series tackles the challenging years before high school. ISBN-13: 9781680210064 Format: Paperback Grade Level: 5 to 8 Reading Level: 3.5 Lexile Level: 480L

James Patterson's winning follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life--now a major motion picture!--is another riotous and heartwarming story about living large.After sixth grade, the very worst year of his life, Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. He's been accepted to art school in the big city and imagines a math-and-history-free fun zone. Wrong! It's more competitive than Rafe ever expected, and to score big in class, he needs to find a way to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art. His method? Operation: Get a Life! Anything he's never done before, he's going to do it, from learning to play poker to going to a modern art museum. But when his newest mission uncovers secrets about the family Rafe's never known, he has to decide if he's ready to have his world turned upside down.

Age Level: 9 and up / Grade Level: 4 and upI’m Les Desirable. Don’t laugh. That’s my real name. And my teacher, Mrs. Mudhole, won’t let me forget it. I’m a world famous news reporter. While most kids my age are breaking wind, I’m always looking for breaking news.When you’re surrounded by nuts all day long, life can be difficult.We have a crisis at Greenville Middle. The student who dresses as our mascot for school rallies is transferring. And I get tricked into campaigning to run for the Goober mascot.Should I accept help from the Mayor’s son—who wants to manipulate the outcome of the election? If I DON’T win, I’ll look like a loser! If I DO win, I’ll have to dress up in a silly peanut costume! Either way, I’ll look like a fool!Unfortunately, school often gets in the way of my real job—as a famous news reporter. In fact, I’m expecting a call at any moment.What can I do to get out of this mess? Do you have any ideas?R-i-n-g! R-i-n-g! Ooh! Ooh! It’s probably a call from someone very important with a news tip. Gotta run.Les Desirable: Final Straw is a funny story that everyone will find entertaining—children, middle school students, and adults.

James Patterson's bestselling Middle School series is now a major motion picture! Catch up with everyone's favorite troublemaker Rafe Khatchadorian when he gets lost in London on the worst field trip EVER! After a mostly-successful stint at Hills Valley Middle School, Rafe is excited to visit the incredible city of London with his class. Sightseeing around a foreign country sounds like a blast, until Rafe finds out his roommate will be none other than Miller the Killer, bully extraordinaire! Then Rafe is forced to work on a class project side by side with his crush Jeanne Galletta and her too-perfect boyfriend, which might be even more torturous than rooming with Miller. And it's no surprise that Rafe's bad luck follows him across the pond, putting him in one crazy situation after another--all under the watchful eye of his bad-tempered principal. Out all of his adventures, this trip could prove to be Rafe's most embarrassing yet, undoing everything good he has going for him back home!

From blockbuster author James Patterson comes the third installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling Middle School series! Georgia Khatchadorian--the sister of the star of the first two Middle School books, Rafe Khatchadorian--plans to excel at Hills Village Middle School in all the places her troublemaking brother failed. She's even bet him that she'll quickly become one of the most popular girls in school. But Rafe left a big mark at HVMS, and no one will give Georgia a chance! Even worse, Rafe has sneakily set her up to embarrass herself in front of the snooty "Princesses" who run the school and the boy who's caught her eye. Will she be able to overcome her fears and win her bet with Rafe? Find out THE TRUTH about Rafe Khatchadorian's sister in the first Middle School story from the point of view of the hilarious Georgia--a girl who's ready to speak her mind!

Releasing the same month as the MIDDLE SCHOOL movie, this next installment of James Patterson's hit series has non-stop laughs starring everyone's favorite underdog.It's a dog-eat-dog world, and Rafe Khatchadorian is just trying to live in it. Life in middle school is finally starting to seem bearable-until Rafe spots his grandmother standing on the free-meal line at the local soup kitchen. In order to help bring in more money, Rafe concocts a brilliant plan-a dog-walking business that soon turns into a huge money-making neighborhood empire. He'll even have extra cash to buy his own WormHole Deluxe Multi-Platform GameBox!That is, until two terrible twins launch the Great Dog War by sabotaging Rafe's flyers and stealing his customers. Plus, his bratty kid sister Georgia has skipped a grade-so now she's in all of Rafe's classes. Throw a kid a bone!

Dan is playing Minecraft with his friends, like he always does, when a strange figure, white from head-to-toe, approaches him in the game and drops a book at his feet. Cautiously, Dan reads the book: it’s an invitation, to a school. A school for only the very best Minecraft players in the country. It has to be a trick. It’s probably just a joke from one of his friends. Dan is thinking just that, when there’s a knock at the door. A strange woman, dressed in all white, has arrived at Dan’s front door. She introduces herself to his bewildered mom and dad with her angelic voice. Her name is Ms. Fennerby and she’s a teacher at Herobrine Middle School, an academy for children gifted in the game of Minecraft. Dan has been selected as one of the builders and designers of his generation. It all seems to good to be true. And maybe it is… Herobrine Middle School is a thrilling middle school adventure filled with real emotions, page-turning excitement and characters that will jump off the page and make you laugh. It is Spy Kids and Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, all set to the backdrop of the mysterious world of Minecraft. Perfect for readers age eight to fourteen with a story that will excite all lovers of Minecraft. Excerpt “DAAANNNNN! It’s dinner time!” the voice echoed up the stairs. “I’ll be right down!” Dan yelled back. “I’ve just got to save the world!” Dan’s mom, who was making a racket in the kitchen that made Dan think she was throwing every pot on the ground, didn’t respond. That was okay. Dan didn’t want to have to explain anyways. He was saving the world. Well… a world. The Minecraft world that he and a couple friends had been working on for over a year. They had magnificent houses and had built huge statues of their avatars in the game. Dan’s pride and joy was built on the server too: The Cow Cannon 2000. The Cow Cannon 2000 did… well it did exactly what you would expect it to. It fired cows at blinding speed into the far away expanses of Minecraft. It fired them so far that Dan and his friends had never found any remains of the cows or the mine carts that they were fired in. The best part is that the machine worked automatically. It lured cows to the machine and then fired them off as soon as they got close enough. Dan was incredibly proud of it. A work of art, he told himself. And, really, everything had been perfect in that huge-housed, massive-statued, cow-raining world, until the griefers had shown up. Somehow, a bunch of older kids had found the server and at first it was fine. They built their own stuff. That was fine. But soon they were bored of that and started destroying anything and everything they could find. Dan had urged his friends to just not react. The griefers would get bored, he thought, and leave them alone. But they didn’t get bored. So, it was time to take more drastic measures. The griefers’ next target was Platinum Plateau where Dan’s friends’ houses were built, along with the Cow Cannon 2000. Dan wasn’t going to let the griefers anywhere near it. He had spent the last week building a series of “secret” entrances to the plateau via mine cart. The idea was that the griefers would find the “secret” entrances and not be able to resist riding the mine carts into the centre of the plateau to surprise Dan and friends. But little did they know that the mine cart would take them right to the Cow Cannon 2000, and before they knew it, BAM! They’d be taking a free flight, courtesy of Dan airlines. What are you waiting for? Get reading!

In the newest installment of James Patterson's bestselling Middle School series, everyone's favorite underdog hero Rafe Khatchadorian is headed to the dangerous wilds of Australia! Rafe isn't exactly considered a winner in Hills Village Middle School to say the least, but everything's about to change: he's won a school-wide art competition, and the fabulous prize is getting to jet-set off to Australia for a whirlwind adventure! But Rafe soon finds that living in the Land Down Under is harder than he could've ever imagined--his host-siblings are anything but welcoming, the burning temperatures are torturous, and poisonous critters are ready to sting or eat him at every step. So with the help of some new misfit friends, Rafe sets out to show everyone what he does best: create utter mayhem!