When Piper moved in with her father and stepmother, she didn’t know her new school would require her to do a senior project. Still when she finds out, she thinks that maybe she could do a podcast like the one she listens to, Dead, Deader, Deadest. And it turns out, she has just the topic for it. Seventeen years ago, a girl who went to her school disappeared after a party one night, and was found twelve days later, dead, with a bullet through the heart.
Piper decides she is going to investigate what happened all those years ago, since no arrest was ever made, and no one has come forth with any new information. But as she gets deeper into the story and the podcast, some threats start coming her way. Clearly there are those who want her to stop her digging, but who and why?
Girl Forgotten by April Henry is your typical suspense story with the cast of who did it making you guess. If you like an easy mystery, this is the book for you!
Recommended for grades 7 and up.
Poppy and her family are on the run, from something, or someone? Maybe the police? Poppy honestly doesn’t know. She’s never known. All she does know is she and her family have been running since, well, forever. Her whole life at least. So when they pack up and leave again, while it isn’t great, she isn’t surprised. Just surprised that she keeps making the mistake of thinking her life could be a bit normal, if just for long enough to graduate from high school.
For the longest time, Trev looked up to his stepdad. He seemed to have the answers and so, Trev respected that. Until the day that his stepdad hits Trev’s mom. At that point, Trev feels he can’t believe what his stepdad always told him. And he is scared, because his stepdad said he would get Trev’s mom for calling the police on him and getting him locked up. His stepdad always told him to use his hands to settle a problem. Problem is, Trev doesn’t think he can take on his stepdad when he gets out, and he is getting out soon.
Indian traditions from her mother’s home in India. But Reha feels more American, than Indian most days. Like how can she explain to her mom that she wants to wear jeans to a party, when her mom thinks she should wear a pretty, fancy dress? Plus, it sometimes makes things harder that Reha is an only child and has no one to share her issues with.
After her brother died, it just seemed the right thing to do. For her to join the war effort and do all she could to defeat the Nazis. That is how Lucie finds herself in occupied France, in 1943, pretending to be a French citizen, even though she is an American, and pretending to be 18 years old, when she is only 16. Her parents don’t even know she has decided to join the war. She just left home one day. It isn’t like she left two happy people, because neither of her parents seems very happy, ever since they immigrated from France to the United States.
agenda that hasn’t been shared. The night ends in terror for all of them, and a possible death for one of them. As the four who make it out of the woods begin to tell their story to law enforcement, some of what they say matches, and some of it takes a turn. Petra wants her best friend Maylee to be found. Nolan – Petra’s stepbrother – didn’t even want to go on the trip until he found out he might be able to actually locate a Bigfoot. John was thinking he would just get to spend some time with his girlfriend, Maylee. And Abigail showing up was a surprise to everyone, except for Maylee and Abigail.
Simon is thrilled to be moving to a place in the United States with no internet, or cell phones, or computers or even….microwaves! Yup, nothing like that. He and his parents have moved to the National Quiet Zone which is where there are a ton of radio telescopes. These telescopes listen in on outer space and can’t have anything interfere with that. Which makes it the perfect place for Simon and his family, because Simon doesn’t want anyone to know what happened to him, two years before. And he knows no one can find him if the internet isn’t there!
mother happy. But what is really wrong with Marlene’s hair the way it is, naturally? Marlene decides that enough is enough and she wants to find out what her hair would look like if she just let it be! All of this happens after a party for her cousin (who has the PERFECT hair) brings home just how much everyone in Marlene’s family base things on looks. Especially about how the women’s hair looks.
in an hour television show. There are plenty of mysteries left to be solved in the world and maybe you have what it takes to break a case wide open! For example, there is a major art heist that still has not been solved and it happened in 1990. Artwork was stolen from the Gardner Museum in Brookline, Massachusetts by two men who said they were police officers coming to check on a call about a disturbance. Turns out, the disturbance was the robbers dressed as police officers! To this day, none of the artwork taken has been found. There are some prime suspects, but nothing concrete.
Class can be boring, or interesting, depending on what comes out of Hoodie’s (yes, like the sweatshirt) friend’s mouth. Because his best friend, Moshe Tzvi could make some interesting arguments with the Rabbi during halacha class where they were all learning about Jewish law. But on this particular day, Hoodie was more interested in the girl who was dancing outside the window of his school. Clearly, the girl was not an Orthodox Jewish girl, the only kind that Hoodie was supposed to notice, if he noticed any girls at all, which he also wasn’t supposed to do.
Books in the Middle: Reading for Middle School 