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1) akeelah and the bee

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2) Attack on Titan: Junior High, the complete series

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The hit show Attack on Titan is re-imagined in this feel-good junior high microseries! See all your favorite characters getting into middle school shenanigans complete with secret love interests, class presidents, and chaotic cultural festivals. Eren and his friends are the hapless first-year students at Attack Junior High, a unique school for both humans and Titans alike.

3) Boy meets world: The complete third season

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The relationship between Cory and Topanga begins to develop; Shawn begins his journey down his somewhat troubled road and Eric begins to lose the first of several IQ points. The show forms a structure which will hold for the next five years.

4) Bridge to Terabithia

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Jesse Aarons is in the 5th grade and has trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. He becomes upset when new classmate Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and some other striking differences, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia where they rule as king and queen and is a land filled with monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants. This friendship helps Jesse cope with a tragedy that makes him...

5) Captain Underpants: the first epic movie

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Two elementary-school students discover that they can turn their strict school principal into the bumbling superhero Captain Underpants.

6) Dear dumb diary

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Eleven-year old Jamie fills her diary with daydreams of her crush Hudson, and of banishing Angeline, the pretty, popular girl in school. Jamie hopes to win a contest at school, thinking she will impress Hudson and feel better about herself by beating Angeline. In the meantime, she somehow loses her diary.

7) Diary of a wimpy kid

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The hysterically funny, best-selling book comes to life in this smash-hit family comedy! Greg Heffley is headed for big things, but first he has to survive the scariest, most humiliating experience of any kid's life, middle school! That won't be easy, considering he's surrounded by hairy-freckled morons, wedgie-loving bullies and a moldy slice of cheese with nuclear cooties!

8) Diary of a wimpy kid: Rodrick rules

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Back in middle school after summer vacation, Greg Heffley and his older brother Rodrick must deal with their parents' misguided attempts to have them bond.

9) Ghostbusters: afterlife

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When a single mother and her two kids move to a small town, they discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters.

10) The goonies

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A band of misfit kids searches for buried treasure in a subterranean cavern. Here they cross the path of Mama Fratelli and her outlaw brood. The kids befriend Fratelli's hideously deformed (but soft-hearted) son, who comes to their rescue.

11) Head over heels

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Lizzie McGuire volume 12

12) High school musical

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A popular high school basketball star and a shy, academically gifted newcomer secretly decide to audition for their school's musical, a decision that turns their world and their school upsidedown.

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Matilda is a super-smart little girl who's woefully misunderstood by her parents, her brother, and an evil school principal. But with the help of a brave best friend and a wonderful teacher, Matilda discovers she doesn't have to get mad to get even. Matilda is a super-smart little girl who is woefully ignored and ridiculed by her self-centered parents. They send her to a school with a mean, bullying principal, where she learns she has special powers...

14) Middle school, the worst years of my life

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Rafe, an imaginative teenager, is tired of his school's obsession with rules at the expense of any and all creativity. Desperate to shake things up, he and his best friends have come up with a plan to break every single rule in the school and let the students run wild.

15) Pay it forward

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When a young man starts "paying it forward" for a social studies project, unusual things happen in this bittersweet and uplifting tale.

16) Ron's gone wrong

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Follows the adventures of a socially awkward middle schooler and his defective and glitchy robot.

17) school of rock

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18) Stranger things: Season one

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1983, Indiana. A young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family, and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one very strange little girl.

19) Stranger things: Season three

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"The third season brings strange power fluctuations that trigger Will's awareness of something otherworldly. Eleven and Max sense something is off about the town's residents, and despite having closed the portal to the Upside Down, fears that they are all still in danger from it." --Wikipedia.

20) Stranger things: Season two

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It's been nearly a year since Will's strange disappearance, but life is hardly back to normal in Hawkins. Set one year later, the characters attempt to return to normal and to deal with the lingering consequences from the first season.