Henry Carter Hull

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school (the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year) before she begins high school.

"When seventh-grader Mango Delight Fuller accidentally breaks her BFF Brooklyn's new cell phone, her life falls apart. She loses her friends and her spot on the track team, and even costs her father his job as a chef. But Brooklyn's planned revenge-- sneakily signing up Mango to audition for the school musical-- backfires when Mango not only wins the lead role, but becomes a YouTube sensation and attracts the attention of the school's queen bee, Hailey...

"A grab bag of deliciously dark short fiction set in middle school that explores anxieties and twists them into funny, resonant, and reassuring psychological thrills"--

"Cory's dance crew is getting ready for a major competition. It's the last one before they graduate eighth grade and go their separate ways to high schools all over New York City, so they have to make it count! The group starts to have problems as their crew captain gets increasingly intense about nailing the routine, and things only get worse when Cory's parents ground him for not taking his grades seriously. He ends up with a new tutor, Sunna, who...

Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.

Tiger Moth and his friend Kung Pow help Tiger's Uncle Aphid find out who took off with his Dung Beetles.

Live-action adaptation of Jeff Kinney's illustrated novel about a wise-cracking junior high school student.

Zack Delacruz is back--and eager to meet Abhi, the new girl at school. But things get off to a rough start when he accidentally knocks her to the ground during a game of dodgeball. And whenever he tries to make amends, she just ignores him. Nothing works--not his friends' advice or his "lucky" cologne. In fact, he just seems more and more cursed! Then, at the Fall Fiesta-val, Zack finally learns the real reason behind Abhi's cold shoulder ... but...

The Garbage Pail Kids are desperate to win the Smellville Pet Contest. They'll be competing against Good Boy, the chihuahua of the Perfect twins. Good Boy can stand on his head and do algebra problems blindfolded.

The author revisits her middle school diary, commenting on her experiences with bullying, crushes, popular culture, and what it means to be labeled a "slut."