MIddle School: Winter Blunderland
Author: James Patterson
Author: Brian Sitts
Illustrator: Jomike Tejido
Book 15 in the Middle School series
Pages: 257
Published: 2022
Age: 8+
Sometimes middle school feels like a dangerous mission in the cold, unforgiving tundra. Sometimes it literally is. Will Rafe survive his most (frost)biting adventure yet?
Things heat up at Hills Village Middle School when Rafe gets an invitation from Dr. Daria Deerwin to join a research study on polar bears. How many times in life do you get a chance to come face‑to‑face with a real polar bear in the wild? Rafe is ready to find out!
Alaska is pinkie‑freezing, hair‑freezing, snot‑freezing cold, but Rafe might be headed for a meltdown. He’s spending every waking moment with Penelope, who he definitely has a crush on, and a polar bear Dr. Deerwin is tracking goes missing...with poachers on the tundra. It’s up to Rafe, Penelope, and their new friends to save the day in Rafe's coolest adventure yet.
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]

