Middle School: Save Rafe!
Author: James Patterson
Author: Chris Tebbetts
Illustrator: Laura Park
Book 6 in the Middle School series
Pages: 336
Published: 2014
Age: 9+
After a rough summer, Rafe is heading back to the dreaded Hills Village Middle School, the site of the very worst years of his life. And as if that's not bad enough, he's learned that he's going to be held back a year unless he can prove himself on an outdoor survival excursion – complete with dangerous white-water rafting, dizzying rock climbing, and fanatical counselors.
Rafe and the rest of the pack of "delinquent" trainees are forced to cooperate as they prepare for the final test: a solo excursion in the deep woods. Can Rafe come out of the experience in one piece? And if he does, will he go home as the same insecure kid?
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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]