Middle School: Ultimate Showdown
Author: James Patterson
Author: Julia Bergen
Book 5 in the Middle School series
Pages: 256
Published: 2014
Age: 9+
Readers get a chance to participate in James Patterson's Middle School series in this interactive book featuring more than 80 hilarious anecdotes from dueling siblings Rafe and Georgia Khatchadorian – plus dozens of fun-filled activities!
The Khatchadorian kids are an opinionated duo, and as readers of the Middle School stories know, they don't exactly see eye to eye. But when wild-card Rafe and mostly-straight-laced Georgia go at it, the only thing more fun than their ranting is getting to join in! Their back-and-forth banter on a range of topics – from bullying to cafeteria food to school dress codes – introduces more than forty writing and drawing prompts and other games, along with room for readers to share their own points of view.
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About the Middle School Series
Books in series order
- 1.Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life(2011)
- 2.Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!(2012)
- 3.Middle School: My Brother is a Big, Fat Liar(2013)
- 4.Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill(2013)
- 5.Middle School: Ultimate Showdown(2014)
- 6.Middle School: Save Rafe!(2014)
- 7.Middle School: Just My Rotten Luck(2015)
- 8.Middle School: Dog's Best Friend(2016)
- 9.Middle School: Escape to Australia(2017)
- 10.Middle School: From Hero to Zero(2018)
- 11.Middle School: Born to Rock(2019)
- 12.Middle School: Master of Disaster(2020)
- 13.Middle School: Field Trip Fiasco(2021)
- 14.Middle School: It's a Zoo in Here!(2022)
- 15.MIddle School: Winter Blunderland(2022)
- 16.Middle School: Million Dollar Mess(2024)
- 17.Too Uncool For School(2025)
- +Middle School: Going Bush(2016)
- +Middle School: How I Got Lost in London(2014)
- +Middle School: Rafe's Aussie Adventure(2015)
Reading age: 8–12 years
This series should be read in order.
Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got an ace plan for the best year ever, if only he can pull it off...
With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class – 5,000 points! Running in the hallway – 10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm – 50,000 points! But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he's finally ready to face the rules, bullies, and truths he's been avoiding.
Acclaimed author James Patterson delivers a genuinely hilarious – and surprisingly poignant – series about a wildly imaginative, one-of-kind kid that you won't soon forget.
[Teachers' Pick series]

