Crash by Jerry Spinelli is another great book for middle school students. Crash Coogan, a popular jock has always picked on his neighbor Penn Webb for not being cool enough. But Crash develops compassion during the course of the story and begins to realize the errors in his ways. This book is a great read for adolescents who struggle with social pressures, which seem to go hand in hand with psychological development during the middle school years. Boys especially will love this book because of the male protagonist and focus on athletics! I read this book with a eighth grade boy I was tutoring who proclaimed he hated to read, no matter what! But he really got into Crash, and had a hard time putting it down!
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