The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child Through the Maddening Yet Magical Middle School Years
by Charlene C. Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese

Supported and advised by the National Middle School Association, this is a lively guide to mastering the ups and downs of early adolescence.

Enjoy Your Middle Schooler
by Wayne Rice

A guide to the physical, social, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual changes that middle schoolers go through, with tips on how parents can deal with these changes.

Middle School and the Age of Adjustment: A Guide for Parents
by Eileen Bernstein

Advice and practical suggestions that parents can use to help their children deal with common problems that can occur in middle school, written by a school guidance counselor.

Not Much Just Chillin’ by Linda Perlstein

This book chronicles a group of suburban middle schoolers, following five representative kids through the school year as they study, flirt, argue, rollerskate, instant-message and explain what they think and feel, and offers a trail map to the baffling no-man’s-land between child and teen, the time when children don’t want to grow up, and so badly do.

Middle School Blues
by Lou Kassem

Despite a terrible beginning, twelve year-old Cindy discovers that seventh grade isn’t nearly as awful as she expected. Before the year is over Cindy manages to reestablish some old friendships, make new ones, win a creative writing contest, and... you’ll have to read the book to learn the rest of the story!

Flying Solo
by Ralph Fletcher

Find out what happens when the substitute teacher never shows up and Mr. Fabiano’s sixth-grade class is left unsupervised for a whole day.

Lizzie at Last
by Claudia Mills

As seventh grade begins, Lizzie Archer decides that she wants Ethan Winfield to like her, and that she can’t handle another year of being the class nerd. See what happens when Lizzie tries to drop her old image!

Spider Boy
by Ralph Fletcher

Bobby Ballenger, an expert in spiders, enters seventh-grade in a new school and a new town and must overcome obstacles such as teasing classmates and the school bully.

Too Old for This, Too Young for That!: Your Survival Guide for the Middle-School Years
by Harriet Mosatche, Ph.D. and Karen M. Unger

A comprehensive guide for preteens filled with information and advice to help you make the jump from a kid to a teenager. Topics include self-esteem, family relationships, friendships, school and extracurricular activities.