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These book talk videos are full of themed book recommendations for middle school students. Teachers can play them in class before library visits, families can use them as a starting point to research book purchases or family book club selections, and students can access them directly to discover their next great books!
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Middle School Book Talks:
Ridiculously Funny Books Featuring: The Tapper Twins, Geek Girl, How to Train Your Dragon, I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President 6 min., 45 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Funny Books with Aliens Featuring: We're Not From Here, Stuck On Earth, and The True Meaning of Smekday 6 min., 45 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Witches & Witchcraft - Fantasy Featuring: The Girl Who Drank the Moon, The Wildseed Witch, The Grace of Wild Things, The Thickety 6 min., 56 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Bullies and Outcasts Featuring: Warp Speed, Restart, If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period, Karma Khullar's Mustache, Stargirl 7 min., 11 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Parent Relationships & Issues Featuring: Peak, My Life with the Liars, One Jar of Magic, Rescued 5 min., 53 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Snarky Protagonists in Magical Settings Featuring: The False Prince, Artemis Fowl, The Trials of Apollo 4 min., 37 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Books Told from Multiple Viewpoints Featuring: Because of Mr. Terupt, Playing Through the Turnaround, Uprising, A Whole Nother Story, The Westing Game 4 min., 57 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
New to a Sport Featuring: Bump, Roller Girl, Ghost, Barely Floating, Black Brother Black Brother, The Fire, The Water, and Maudie McGinn 5 min., 11 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Fantasy Books with Royal Characters Featuring: The Goose Girl, Fairest, The Black Cauldron, Lumara 5 min., 26 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Nonfiction You Never Knew You Needed - History Featuring: The Mona Lisa Vanishes, Radium Girls, The 57 Bus, Bomb! The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon 4 min., 9 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Historical Fiction set in WWII. Featuring: The War That Saved My Life, A Diamond in the Desert, Stateless, Grenade, and A Night Divided 4 min., 14 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Historical Fiction set in the 1800s Featuring: Words on Fire, Under a Painted Sky, Some Kind of Courage, Prairie Lotus 3 min., 58 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Hard-Working Protagonists Featuring: Front Desk, Thirst, Where the Red Fern Grows, A Single Shard, Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess 5 min., 13 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Competitions & Contests Featuring: Bright, Grandmaster, The Potato Chip Puzzles, I'll Be the One, and Thieves' Gambit 4 min., 47 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Overcoming Physical Health Challenges Featuring: After Ever After, Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip, Out of My Mind, A Time to Dance, The Running Dream 4 min., 10 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Read-Alike Books Featuring pairs of books with similar qualities: Ella Enchanted and How to Ditch Your Fairy, Shinji Takahashi and Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun, City of Ember and A Wish in the Dark, The Selection and Princess Academy, Mark of the Thief and The Thief 6 min., 34 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Dystopian Societies - special double edition episode Featuring: Matched, The Last Cuentista, Among the Hidden, Moongarden, The Giver, Uglies, Legend, and The Last Beekeeper 6 min., 15 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
They Hate School Featuring: Sahara Special, Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers, The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet, Forget Me Not 4 min., 46 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Characters with Secrets Featuring: The Sweetest Sound, My Life as a Potato, Family Game Night and Other Catastrophes, Inkling 3 min., 54 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Action-Adventure with a Fantasy or Sci-Fi Twist Featuring: Dangerous, Go Big or Go Home, The Neptune Project, Airborn 3 min., 11 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Characters who Take on the System Featuring: Losers Take All, Ban This Book, Dress Coded, Catherine - Called Birdy, I Am Drums 4 min., 9 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Seriously Bad Choices Featuring: The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls, Every Shiny Thing, Golden Girl, Posted, The Bad Apple (Merits of Mischief) 4 min., 31 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Graphic Novel Memoirs Featuring: Mexikid, Smile, Four Eyes, The Tryout, A First Time for Everything 2 min., 53 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Surviving Trauma Featuring: Mockingbird, Locomotion, Simon Sort of Says, Out of the Dust, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen 5 min., 3 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Ten Thousand Tissues - Books To Make You Cry Featuring: Good Dog, Falling Over Sideways, Red, White, and Whole, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and The Underneath 4 min., 43 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Survival Situations, Part 1 Featuring: Hatchet, Alone, The Rule of Three, The Canyon's Edge, Across the Desert 5 min., 3 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Survival Situations, Part 2 Featuring: Take Me to the River, Santiago's Road Home, Lifeboat 12, When Stars Are Scattered, Endangered 3 min., 2 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Magical Realism Featuring: Elephant Secret, If I Were You, The Lost Girl, Eventown 3 min., 17 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Survival Situations, Part 2 Featuring: Outrun the Moon, Chasing Secrets, Shooting Kabul, The House That Lou Built 3 min., 57 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Light & Fun Reads Featuring: The Dirt Diary, The Strange Case of Origami Yoda, Spy School, The Swag is in the Socks 5 min., 3 sec. |
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Middle School Book Talks:
Books about Cooking & Baking Featuring: Lasagna Means I Love You, Salt and Sugar, All You Knead is Love, Stef Soto - Taco Queen, Midsummer's Mayhem, Neil Flambe, It's Raining Cupcakes 5 min., 16 sec. |
