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Seventh and Eighth Grade Reading List Remember that an incoming seventh grader is very different from an end-of-the-year eighth grader so not all books will be appropriate for all students. When in doubt, please check! Autobiography/Biography Adair George Washington Carver Albom Tuesdays with Morrie (PP) Andronik Kindred Spirit: A Biography of L.M. Montgomery J Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (PP) Anouik Becket Aronson Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Dorado Armstrong It’s Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (Lance Armstrong) Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain Bernall She Said Yes Blinn Brian’s Song Bober Thomas Jefferson: Man on a Mountain Brown Colin Powell: military leader Brown Sacagewa: Indian interpreter to Lewis and Clark Blumberg Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun Burgess Small Woman Carpenter J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography Carter The education of Little Tree Clark Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir J Cleary A Girl from Yamhill J Crutcher King of the Mild: an ill-advised autobiography J Curie Madame Curie Dahl Boy , Going Solo J Dash The World at Her Fingerprints: The Story of Helen Keller Davis Marcus Garvey Dolan Susan Butcher and the Iditarod Dunham Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer Durrell My Family and Other Animals J Ehrlich Paul Robeson Faber Robert Frost Ferris Native American doctor: the story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte Filipovic Zlata’s Diary J Fleischman Abracadabra Kid J Fleischner I was born a slave: the story of Harriet Jacobs Flexner George Washington - the Indispensable Man Fradin Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement, Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence Frank Diary of a Young Girl J Freedman Eleanor Roosevelt , Babe Didrickson Zacharias: The Making of a Champion Fritz Bully for You, Teddy Roosevelt!, Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold Gantos Hole in My Life Garner Eleanor’s Story An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany J Geiringer Brahms His Life and Work Gies Anne Frank Remembered Gentry Alice Walker, author, Dizzy Gillespie Gibson The Miracle Worker J Glover Savion: My Life in Tap (Savion Glover) Goodnough Pablo Casals: Cellist for the World Gutman Tiger Woods: A Biography Gottlieb Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self Graham John Brown A Cry for Freedom Grealy Autobiography of a Face Greenberg Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist Gunther Death Be Not Proud J Jakoubek Joe Louis: heavyweight champion Jiang Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural RevolutionJ Josephson Mother Jones: Fierce fighter for Women’s Rights Hamilton Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave Herr Jessie Benton Fremont J Hesse Stowaway J Hoobler Nelson and Winnie Mandela Humphrey Sachel Paige Jimenez Breaking Through Kayser Girl, Interrupted Keller Story of My Life J Kennedy Profiles in Courage J Kramer Sally Ride Kroeber Ishi: last of his tribeJ Krug Thurgood Marshall: champion of civil rights Lalicki Spellbinder: The Life of Harry Houdini Lane The tale of Beatrix Potter J Lash Eleanor and Franklin Lawlor Helen Keller: Rebellious spirit Lindbergh The Spirit of St. Louis Lowry Looking Back Malone Connie Chung: broadcast journalist McGuire Catherine the Great McKissack Sojourner Truth: ain’t I a Woman? ; W.E.B. DuBois Mah Chinese CinderellaJ Marcus Awakened by the Moon (Margaret Wise Brown) Markam Lois Lowry Marshall Christy J Mathabane Kaffir Boy McCourt Angela’s Ashes J, ‘Tis J Myers At Her Majesty’s Request…J Bad Boy J ,The Greatest: Muhammed Ali Naden Barbara Jordan: politican Nhuong The Land I Lost O’Brien Willa Cather Partridge This Land was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie Paulsen Beet Fields, Guts, Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod Plath The Bell Jar (PP) J Peck Anonymously Yours Potter Buckminster Fuller Renault Fire From Heaven Rutberg Mary Lincoln’s dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley’s remarkable rise from slave to White House confidante Sandburg Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years Shields Amy Tan Schuman Bill Cosby: actor and comedian Shultz Lady from Savannah The Life of Juliette Low Simon Stephen Hawking Sonsyrea Little X Soto Small Faces, Living Up the Street Speaker-Yuan Agnes DeMille Stearns Julius Caesar Stone Agony and the Ecstasy (Michaelangelo) J, Lust for Life (Van Gogh) J Stratham Call the River Home Tessitore Muhammed Ali: the world’s champion Tilton Importance of Margaret Mead Uchida The Invisible Thread: an autobiography Ung First they Killed my Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers Van Steenwyk Ida B. Wells-Barnett: a woman of courage Walters Elizabeth Ann Seaton: Saint for a New Nation Walworth Constantine Wheeler Jane Addams J Wiesel Night J Willis The Leakey Family: Leaders in the Search for Human OriginsWright Black Boy Zindel Pigman and MeJ indicates I have read the book and recommend it while bold indicates I strongly recommend it. 8th Grade Biography Revolutionary War: Allen George Washington, spymaster Brown John Adams Brewster Early Thunder Clapp I’m Deborah Sampson: A soldier in the War of the Revolution Collier My Brother Sam is Dead J Crompton Thomas Paine and the fight for liberty Davis Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams Ford Paul Revere: rider for the revolution Forbes Johnny TremainJ (core lit) Fritz Traitor, the case of Benedict Arnold Ingram Paul Revere (973.3), John Paul Jones Keller Alexander Hamilton Koestler-Grack Molly Pitcher: heroine of the War for Independence McGovern The secret soldier: the story of Deborah Sampson O’Dell Sarah Bishop J Murphy A young patriot: the American Revolution as experienced by one boy Orlob The wide world of Aaron Burr Parker Charles Cornwallis Pope The Sherwood Ring Sonneborn Benedict Arnold: hero and traitor Sperry John Paul Jones: the pirate patriot Wilson The years between: Washington at home at Mount Vernon Civil War: Blackman Wild Rose: Rose O’Neale Greehow, Civil Way Spy Carwardine Lincoln: a life of purpose and power Collier The Clara Barton You Never Knew Frazier Jefferson Davis: Confederate president Freedman Lincoln: a photobiography J Fritz Stonewall Gelletty Harriet Beecher Stowe: author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Grabowski Robert E. Lee, Confederate general, Abraham Lincoln: Civil War president Hamilton Clara Barton Hewson Stonewall Jackson Kerby Robert E. Lee: Southern hero of the Civil War King Robert E. Lee (973.3) Lutz Sojurner Truth: abolitionist, suffragist, and preacher, Harriet Tubman; leader of the Underground Railroad Marrin Virginia’s general: Robert E. Lee and the Civil War Mitchell Gone with the Wind J Monjo Me and Willie and Pa; the story of Abe Lincoln and his son Tad Olfinoski John Wilkes Booth and the Civil War O’Shei Ulysses S. Grant; military leader and president Petry Hariet Tubman, Conductor of the Underground Railway Pflueger Matthew Brady: photographer of the Civil War; Jeb Stuart: Confederate Cavalry General; Stonewall Jackson, Confederate General Phillips A soldier’s Story Ransom Clara Barton Reit Behind Rebel Lines: the incredible story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War spy Remstein William Sherman; Union general Rice Robert E. Lee: first soldier of the Confederacy Shura Gentle Annie: the true story of a Civil War nurse Somerville Clara Barton: founder of the American Red Cross Van Steenwyk Matthew Brady: Civil War photographer Weidhorn Robert E. Lee Whitelaw Clara Barton: Civil War nurse Others: Claflin Sojourner Truth and the Struggle for Freedom Harris Martin Luther King, Jr. Rockwell Paintbrush and Peacepipe: The Story of George Catlin Schultz The Lady from Savannah The Story of Juliette Low Yates Amos Fortune, Free Man J indicates I have read the book and recommend it while bold indicates I strongly recommend it. Short Stories Almont Country Star Armstrong Shattered: stories of children and war Asimov Caduto Keepers of the Earth: native American stories Cisneros The House on Mango Street J Hamilton The People could Fly: American Black folktales Jimenez The Circuit: stories from the life of a migrant child Kipling Just So Stories J, Jungle Book J McKissack The dark-thirty: Southern tales of the supernatural Nadoo Out of Bounds: seven stories of conflict and hope Salisbury Blue Skin of the Sea: a novel in stories; Island boyz: short stories Soto Baseball in April J, Local News J Animals/Environment Adams Watership Down J Adamson Born Free J Bagnold National Velvet Brooke Heartland series Burgess Kite Burnford Incredible Journey Campbell Papa Tembo DiCamillo Because of Winn-Dixie J, Tale of Despereaux Durrell (D) My Family and Other Animals J Eckert Incident at Hawk’s Hill J, Return to Hawk’s Hill Farley Black Stallion J George Cry of the Crow Graham The Wind in the Willows J Hallstead Tundra Henry *Misty of Chincotague J, King of the Wind J Herriot *All Creatures Great and Small J Hillenbrand Seabiscuit J Jacques *Redwall series J Katz Whale - Singer Kingman The Year of the Racoon Kipling * Jungle Book J London * Call of the Wild, White Fang J O’Dell * Black Star, Bright Dawn Paulsen *Winterdance, Dogsong J Rawlings The Yearling J Rawls Where the Red Fern Grows J Sewell Black Beauty Springer Boy on a Black Horse Steinbeck* The Red Pony J Taylor* The Weirdo Wilson I Rode a Horse Milk White Jade J indicates I have read the book and recommend it while bold indicates I strongly recommend it. Classics Some of these stories will prove difficult. If this is the case, wait a year or two rather than reading a “retelling” or abridged version. Alcott Little Men, Little Women J Austen (D) Emma, Pride and Prejudice J, Sense and Sensibility Barrie Peter Pan J Baum The Wizard of Oz J Bronte Jane Eyre J, Wuthering Heights J Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland J (not the Disney version!), Through the Looking Glass Cather My Antonio J Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha Collodi The Adventures of Pinocchio J (not the Disney version!) Conrad Heart of darkness, The Secret sharer Cooper Last of the Mohicans Crane The Red Badge of CourageJ Dana Two Years Before the Mast DeFoe Robinson Crusoe J Dickens Christmas Carol J, David Copperfield J, Great Expectations ,Oliver Twist J Dodge Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates Dostoyevsky (D) Crime and Punishment (PP) Doyle Sherlock Holmes J DuMaurier (D)RebeccaJ Dumas (D) Count of Monte Cristo ,The Three Musketeers Ferber Showboat Fitzgerald Great Gatsby J Grahame Wind in the Willows J Hilton Goodbye, Mr. Chips J Homer The Iliad , The Odyssey Hugo (D) Les Miserables J Huxley Brave New World J Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow J James The Portrait of a Lady J Keyes Flowers for Algernon J Kipling *Captain Courageous Lee To Kill A Mockingbird J Lewis BabbitJ, Main Street J Melville Billy Budd, Moby Dick J Mitchell Gone With the Wind J Montgomery *Anne of Green GablesJ, Anne of Avonlea J, etc. Orwell 1984 J, Animal Farm J Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel J Paton Cry, the Beloved Country Potok The Chosen Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac J Scott Ivanhoe J Shelley Frankenstein J Sinclair The Jungle Spyri Heidi J Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath(PP)J, East of Eden (PP) J, Of Mice and Men (PP) J Stevenson Kidnapped J , Treasure Island J, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde J Stowe Uncle Tom’s CabinJ Swift (D)Gulliver’s Travels J Twain *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn J, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Adventures of Tom Sawyer J Verne *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Around the World in 80 Days J Wharton Ethan Frome Wilder The Bridge of San Luis ReyJ, Our Town J Wyss Swiss Family Robinson J J indicates I have read the book and recommend it while bold indicates I strongly recommend it.
Fantasy/Science Fiction
Adams *Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy J Alexander *The Black Cauldron Series, The Prydain Series Almond Kit’s Wilderness J Anderson The Game of Sunken Places Appel Till the End of Time, Time After Time Appleton Everworld Series Asimov * Foundation Atwater-Rhodes Demon in My View J, In the Forest of the Night Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale (PP)J Barrie Peter Pan J Barron The Mirror of Merlin, The Fires of Merlin Bass Sign of the Qin Baum The Wizard of Oz J Bloor London Calling Bradbury *Dandelion Wine J, Fahrenheit 451 J , Martian Chronicles J Brittain Shape-Changer Brooks Sword of Shannara series Card Enchantment, Ender’s series Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland J Colfer Artemis Fowl J, The Arctic Incident J, The Eternity Code, Supernaturalist Collins Gregor the Overlander J, The Hunger Game J Cook Mutation J Cooper * Boggart, Over Sea; Under Stone Crichton *Andromeda Strain, Jurassic ParkJ, Lost World, TimelineJ, Terminal ManJ Dickinson EvaJ DiCamillo Tale of Despereaux Duane *So You Want to Be a Wizard? DuBois Twenty-One Balloons J DuPrau City of Embers J, People of Sparks Farmer The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, House of the Scorpion J Ferris Once Upon a Marigold J Fisher The Oracle Betrayed Gaiman The Graveyard Book J Golding The Lord of the Flies J Goldman The Princess Pride Grahame The Wind in the Willows J Haddix *Among the Hidden J (trilogy), Running Out of TimeJ, TurnaboutJ Hamilton Justice and her Brothers Heinlein Friday Henks Olive’s OceanJ Herbert Dune Hesse Phoenix Rising J, Music of Dolphins Hill Blade of the Poisoner Hilton Lost Horizon Huxley Brave New World J Jacques *Mattimeo, Redwall, J Jones The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Jordan *The Wheel of Time series Joyce Tooth Fairy Kendall The Gammage Cup J Kessler Emily Windsnap J (series) Kindl Goose Chase J Le Guin * A Wizard of Earhthsea (trilogy) L’Engle * A Ring of Light, A Wrinkle in Time J, Many Waters. Levine Ella EnchantedJ Lewis *The Chronicles of Narnia J Lindergh Nick of Time Lipson Knock on Wood J Llwelyn * 1916, 1921, 1949, Bard Logue Dancing with an Alien Lowry *The Giver J, Gathering Blue J, Messenger McCaffrey *Damia, Dragonsinger, Pegasus in Flight (many titles to select from) McKinley *Spindle’s End, Beauty, Blue Sword, Deerskin (other titles as well) Martin The Meanest Doll in the World Meyer Twilight J, New Moon, etc. Napoli Sirena, Crazy Jack, Spinners Naylor Jade Green Nelson The Girl who Owned A City J Nix *Sabriel Norton *The Borrowers J, The Borrowers Afield J, Borrowers Afloat J O’Brien Z for Zachariah J Oppel Airborn Orwell 1984 J Paolini Eragon J, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance Peck Lost in Cyberspace J Pfeffer Life as we Knew It J Pierce* *Alanna: The First Adventure Pratchett *Truckers, Pullman *Golden CompassJ, Clockwork, other titles Rapp Copper Elephant Regan Princess Nevermore Rowlings *Harry Potter J and the … Sinclair JungleService Under Alien Stars Shusterman Downsiders J. Shute On the Beach J Skurzynski Virtual War Sleator *Strange Attractors, Hollow Hills, Interstellar Pig Smith Sasquatch J Springer I am Mordred: a tele from Camelot; I am Morgan le Fey: a tale from Camelot Stoker DraculaJ Swift Gulliver’s Travels J Taylor Shadowmancer J Thesman Rain Catchers Tolan Welcome to the Ark J, Flight of the Raven J Tolkien *Fellowship of the Ring , The Hobbit, etc. Tomlinson Forestwife Townley The Great Good Thing Turner The Thief Voigt *On Fortune’s Wheel J, Elske Wells The Time Machine J, War of the Worlds J White The Once and Future King Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray J Willis *To Say Nothing of the Dog, Dooms Day Book Wolf Road to Avalon Wrede *Dealing With Dragons J, Searching for Dragons, Talking to Dragons Wynne *Cart and Cwidder, Drowned Ammet, The Spell Coats, The Crown of Dalemark Yep *Dragon of the Lost Sea, Dragon Steel, Dragon War Yolen *Briar RoseJ, Devil’s Arithmetic J, Dragon’s Boy Zahn Dragon and Soldier J indicates I have read the book and recommend it while bold indicates I strongly recommend it. Multicultural Titles Abdel-Fatta Does My Head Look Big in This? J Alvarez (D) How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents J, Before We Were Free J Beatty ® Lupita Manana J (easy) Bennett The Voyage of the Lucky Dragon Bergman ® Along the Tracks Bernardo ® Jumping Off to Freedom Blumberg Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy Bonham Viva Chicano Bridgers Notes for Another Life Brooks The Moves Make the Man Bruchae Code Talkers Buck (D) Good Earth J Carmi Samir and Yonatan J Cather* (D) Death of an Archbishop J Cisneros House on Mango Street (short stories) J Coerr Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (easy)J Chang (D) Bound Feet and Western Dress Coelho (D)The Alchemist Conlon-McKenna ® Wildflower Girl Cormier Fade Craven I Heard the Owl Call My Name Crew ® Children of the River J Croutier Leyla The Black Tulip Curtis The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 J de Jong ® House of Sixty Fathers Dorris A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Dyer A Way of His Own Ellis The Breadwinner J Farmer A Girl Named Disaster J Filipovic Zlata’s Diary J Flake The Skin I’m In J Fox Slave dancer J Fritz* Homesick J Garza Everybody Knows Toby George Water Sky Griffin Black Like Me J Gundisch How I Became an American Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun J Hautzig ® Endless SteppeJ Hicyilmaz ® Frozen Waterfall Haugaard ® The Samurai’s Tale J Hayslit When Heaven and Earth Change Places Hersey Hiroshima J Hobbler The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn J, Demon in the Teahouse Holm ® North to Freedom Houston Farewell to Manzanar J Jiang Red Scarf Girl: A memoir of the Cultural RevolutionJ Jimenez The Circuit: Stories From the Life of a Migrant Child J Kidd Onion Tears Kingsolver (D) Bean Trees J (PP) Koehn ® Mischling, Second DegreeJ Krumgold …And Now MiguelJ Kurtz The Storyteller’s Beads (easy) J Laird ® Kiss the Dust J Lawrence Lord of the Nutcracker Levitin* The Golem and the Dragon Girl J, ® The Return J, Escape from Egypt Lowry* Number the Stars J(easy) McKissack* Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba (Royal Diary)J McCunn Pie-Biter Martinez Parrot in the Oven: mi vida J Meyer* Anastasia (Royal Diary) Meyer Where the Broken Heart Still Beats Mickaelsen Touching Spirit Bear J Mooney Voices of Silence J Mori Shizuko’s DaughterJ Morrison Beloved J (PP) Na (D) A Step from Heaven J Naidoo Journey to Jo’Burg: A South African Story, Chain of Fire, The Other Side of Truth Namioka Ties that Bind, Ties that Break J Nhuong Land I Lost Nixon *® Land of Hope (also Land of Dreams, Land of Promise)J Nye Habibi J O’Dell *Sing down the Moon Osa Cuba 15 J Parfitt ® Operation Moses Park A Single Shard J, When My Name was Keoko J Paton Cry the Beloved Country Patterson* Master Puppeteer (7th grade core lit title) J, Park’s Quest, The Case of the Mandarin Duck, Sign of the Chrysanthemum J Paulsen *Nightjohn, The Crossing Peck* A Day No Pigs Would Die Politi Three Stalks of Corn Potok* The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev Rhoads The Corn Grows Ripe (easy) J Ryan Esperanza Rising J, Becoming Naomi Leon J Sandoz Story Catcher Savin ` The Moonbridge Serraillier ® Escape from Warsaw J Smith Sumitra’s Story Sobal Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Soto Baseball in April (short stories)J Spinelli Milkweed J Stanek We Came from Vietnam Staples* ® Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind J, HaveliJ, Shiva’s Fire, Dangerous Skies Tarr His Majesty’s Elephant J Tan (D) The Joy Luck Club J Taylor We Don’t Look Like Mom and Dad, All of a Kind Family Temple ® Grab Hands and Run Uchida Jar of Dreams Uris ® Exodus J Voight* The Runner Walker (D) The Color Purple J (PP) Wartski ® A Boat to Nowhere Watkins ® So Far From the Bamboo Grove Whelan ® Goodbye, Vietnam, Homeless Bird J White Kaiulani (Royal Diary) J Wiesel ® Night J Wilson I Rode a Horse Milk White Jade Wojciechowska Shadow of a Bull J Yep* ® Star Fisher, DragonwingsJ , Dragon’s Gate, Lady of Ch’iao Kuo (Royal Diary),Child of the Owl J Zemser Beyond the Mango Tree J indicates I have read and recommend a book while bold means I strongly recommend it. ® These books deal with refugees or people who constantly live in fear. Survival and/or Coming of Age Abelove Saying It Out Loud J Almond Kit’s Wilderness J Alvarez* (D) How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents J Anderson (D) Speak J (PP), Prom, Wintergirls J (PP) Bach Waiting for Johnny Miracle (easy) Bauer Hope Was Here J Bloor Tangerine J Borland When Legends Die Bowler River Boy J Brewster Early Thunder Bunting Jumping the Nail Buss Journey of the Sparrow Butler Light a Single Candle Cabot *The Princess Diaries Childress A Hero Ain’t Nothing But a Sandwich J Clements Things Not Seen Cooney * The Terrorist J Cormier* Tenderness, The Chocolate War J Crane The Red Badge of Courage J(for sophisticated readers) Creech* Absolutely Normal Chaos J, Bloomability J, Heartbeat Crutcher* (D) Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes (PP)J, IronmanJ, Athletic Shorts J, Whale Talk J Curtis* Bud, Not Buddy J Dahl* The Vicar of Nibbleswicke Danziger* The Divorce Express Deaver Say Goodnight, Gracie De Foe Robinson Crusoe J DiCamillo Because of Winn-Dixie J, Tale of Despereaux Dowell Dovey Coe J Ferris Once Upon a Marigold J Flake The Skin I’m In J Fleishman* WhirligigJ Frank Oy, Joy J Freeman Cuckoo’s Child George My Side of the Mountain (easy) J, Cry of the Crow Giff Pictures of Hollis Woods J Golding (D) Lord of the Flies J Haddix *Takeoffs and Landings J, Escape from Memory J Hall The Solitary Hautzig Second Star to the Right Hesse * Phoenix Rising J, Stowaway J Hessler Kissing Doorknobs JHinton * The Outsiders (7th grade core lit) J Hobler The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn J Hobbs* Downriver, Far North, Down the Yukon J, Jason’s Gold, Changes in Latitudes Hovath Everything on a Waffle J Hudson Sweetgrass Hunt Lottery Rose (easy) J, Across Five Aprils Kerr Gentlehand Konigsburg* A View from Saturday J, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place J Kraukar Into Thin Air J Lasky Night Journey Lawrence Ghost Boy J, Lord of the Nutcracker Levine Ella Enchanted J Levoy Alan and Naomie Levy Sounds of Silence Lipsyte * One Fat Summer J Lord Rules J Lowell I am Lavinia Cumming J Marchetta Looking for Alibrandi Martin A Corner of the Universe J Mazer Silver , Missing Pieces, When She Was Good McCormick Cut (PP J) Mikaelsen* Rescue Josh McGuire J, Touching Spirit Bear J Miklowitz The War Between the Classes Mooney Voices of Silence J Mori Shizuko’s Daughter J Murphy The Wild Girls J Myers* Motown and Didi , Slam J, Bad Boy J, Somewhere in the Darkness Monster J, many others Napoli The King of Mulberry Street Nelson The Girl Who Owned a City J Nolan Dancing on the Edge J Orr Peeling the Onion J Paulson* The Crossing, Soldier’s Heart Peters Define “Normal” J Peterson Going for the Big One (average) Peck* A Long Way from Chicago J, a Year Down Yonder J Pfeffer Life as we Knew It Reiss Glass House People J Reuter The Boys from St. Petri Riskind Apple is My Sign Sacher HolesJ Serraillier Escape from Warsaw (core lit) J Schmidt Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy J Sheldon Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen J Shreve Blister Shusterman The Schwa was here J Smith Sasquatch J, Elephant run J Soto Living Up the Street, Baseball in April J (short stories) Spinelli Eggs J Staples* Dangerous Skies J Southall Josh Swarthout (D) Bless the Beasts and the Children J Taylor The Cay (6th grade core lit) J Tolan Surviving the ApplewhitesJ, Welcome to the Ark J Trueman Stuck in Neutral J Ullman Banner in the Sky J Van Draanen FlippedJ Voight Homecoming J, Dicey’s Song, J, Izzy, Willy-Nilly J, When She Hollers,Solitary Blue J Wiesel Night J White Deathwatch Wilhelm The Revealers J Wolff* The Mozart Season J, Make LemonadeJ, Probably Still Nick Swanson Woodson If You Come softly, After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers J, other titles Yep* Child of the Owl J Yolen* Briar Rose J indicates I have read the book and recommend it while bold indicates I strongly recommend it. Historical Fiction Related to 7th Grade Studies (see additional bibliography for books set in the Middle Ages in Europe)
Alder The King’s ShadowJ Anouih (D) Becket Avi Crispin: the cross of lead J Baer (D) Down the Common J Blackwood Shakespeare Stealer J, Shakespeare Scribe J Bosse (D)The Examination ( multicultural ) Bradley (D)Mists of Avalon Brooks (D)Year of Wonder (the plague) J, People of the Book J Cadnum The Book of the Lion, In a Dark Wood Cooney* Goddess of Yesterday Cooper* Grey King , The King of Shadows J Crichton* (D)Timeline J Crossley The Seeing Stone Cushman* Catherine Called Birdy J, Midwife’s Apprentice J , Matilda Bone J DeAngeli The Door in the Wall (7th grade core lit) J Dickinson* Various titles – check the LRC Dumas Count of Monte Cristo Edwards Dragon Hound of Honor Fletcher Shadow Spinner J Frazer (D) The Clerk’s Tale J Garden The Dove and the Sword J Gray Adam of the Road J Haugaard The Samurai’s Tale (multicultural) J, Cromwell’s Boy Higartner Murder for Her Majesty (7th grade core lit) J Hooberman The Ghost of the Tokaido Inn J Kelly Trumpeter of Krakow J Kirwan Lady of Palenque (Royal Diary) Konigsburg A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (7th grade core lit)J Konigsburg The Second Mrs. Giaconda Lasky Elizabeth I (Royal Diary) J, Mary, Queen of Scots McKinley Outlaws of Sherwood McKissack Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba (Royal Diary) Meyer Mary, Bloody Mary J , Beware Princess Elizabeth J, Eleanor J (Royal diary), Isabel (Royal diary) Morris Parsifal’s Page; The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady Newman* (D) Death Comes as Epiphany J O’Dell The King’s Fifth, Road to Damietta Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel J Peters The Potter’s FieldJ, Monk’s Hood J, other titles (sophisticated readers) Phillip Robin Hood Pierce* In the hand of the Goddess, Alanna: the First Adventure Pope The Perilous Gard J Robb (D)The Apothecary Rose J, The Nun’s Tale J , other titles (sophisticated readers) Roberson Lady of the Forest: a novel of Sherwood Scott (D) IvanhoeJ Skurzynski Virtual War Speare* The Bronze Bow J Springer I am Mordred: A Tale from Camelot, I am Morgan Le Fay Stewart (D)Crystal Cave J, Hollow Hills J Stewart Last Enchantment (10) Stone (D)The Agony and the Ecstasy (also biography) J Strauss The Lady of Rhuddesmere Sutcliff The Lantern Bearers, Silver Branch Tarr His Majesty’s Elephant J Temple Beduin’s Gazelle, Ramsay Scallop J Trevino I, Juan de Pareja J Twain A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court J, Prince and the Pauper J White Once and Future King Winthrop Battle for the Castle (easy) Wooley Child of the Northern Spring, Guineviere: the Legend in Autumn Yep * Lady of Ch’iao Kuo (Royal Diary) Yolen* (D)The Queen’s Own Fool J
J indicates I have read the book and recommend it while bold indicates I strongly recommend it Historical Fiction Related to 8th Grade Alcott Little Women, Little Men, etc. Anderson Fever, 1793, J, Chains J Armstrong Raleigh’s page Arrington Prairie whispers Ayres North by Night: a story of the Underground Railroad; Stealing South: a story of the Underground Railroad Avi The fighting ground, Iron thunder, The true confessions of Charlotte DoyleJ Bahr The black flower: a novel of the Civil War Banks Abraham’s battle: a novel of Gettysburg Blos Brothers of the Heart Brink Caddie WoodlawnJ Burchard Jed Burke Soldier Boy Clapp Constance: a story of early Plymouth; The tamarack tree: a novel of the siege of Vicksburg, other titles Clark Freedom crossing Collier The bloody country, My brother Sam is dead,J Jump ship to freedom, With every drop of blood, etc. Cooney The ransom of Merry Carter Cooper The deerslayer (difficult), The last of the Mohicans, The spy: a tale of the neutral ground Cooper Family; a novel Coville Fortune’s journey Crane The red badge of courageJ Crisp Private Captain: a story of Gettysburg Dallas Tallgrass J Dokey Katherine: heart of freedom; Charlotte: heart of hope Duffy Radical Red Durrant The beaded moccasins: the story of Mary Campbell Fast Citizen Tom Paine Ferris Much ado about Grubstake Field Calico bush Forbes Johnny Tremain (core lit)J Forman Becca’s Story Frazier The stout-hearted seven: orphaned on the Oregon Trail Fritz Brady, Early thunder Fox Slave Dancer (core lit)J Gaines The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Gregory Across the wide and lonesome prairie, The great railroad race: the diary of Libby West, others – check with teacher Hahn Promises to the dead Holm Boston Jane: an adventure Howard North winds blow free Hunt Across Five Aprils J Jacobs James Printer: a novel of rebellion Jones Nashville 1864 Kantor Andersonville Karwoski Seaman: the boy who explored the West with Lewis and Clark Keith Rifles for Watie (core lit J) Koller The primrose way L’Amour The Cherokee Trail, others (check with teacher) LaFaye Stella stands alone Lester From slaveship to freedom road Levine The journey of Jedediah Barstow: an emigrant on the Oregon Trail Luhrman Only brave tomorrow Lyons Dear Ellen Bee: a Civil War scrapbook of two Union spies Martin Yankee Doodle boy McDonald All the stars in the sky McGill Miles’ song Meyer Where the broken heart still beats: the story of Cynthia Ann Parker Mitchell Gone With the Wind (difficult)J Molstad The patriot: a novel Mrazek Stonewall’s golf: a novel Murphy Desperate journey Myers Assassin; The journey of Joshua Loper: a Black cowboy Nixon Caesar’s story, 1759; A family apart O’Dell Sarah Bishop Osborne assorted titles, check with teacher Patterson Lyddie J, Bread and Roses, too J Paulsen Mr. TuckettJ Pfitsch Riding the flume Reeder Shades of Gray Rinaldi An Acquaintance with darkness; Cast two shadows; many others (check with teacher) Roop Girl on the shining mountain: Sacagewa’s story Shaara Rise to rebellion Smith The captain’s dog: my journey with Lewis and Clark Spain The deep cut Speare The witch of Blackbird PondJ Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Swee Life, liberty and the pursuit of murder: a Revolutionary War mystery Turner The girl who chased away sorrows Twain Adventure s of Huckleberry Finn J, Tom Sawyer J Wallace Red dog Wells Red moon at Sharpsburg Wilder The Little House (series)J Wilson Battle Scars, Black storm comin’, the flags of war Woodruff George Washington’s socks Miscellaneous Historical Fiction Alcott Little Women, Little Men J Alvarez How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents J, Before we were free J Anderson Fever 1793 J Armstrong The dream of Mary Mehan, Mary Mehan Awakes Blackwood The Year of the Hangman Blos Brothers of the Heart Borland When the Legends Die Burchard Jed Burke Soldier Boy Clark The Ox-Bow Incident Coelho The Alchemist J Cooper Family; a novel Curtis Bud, Not Buddy J; Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963J Cushman Ballad of Lucy Whipple J Crane The Red Badge of Courage J Dear America series – easy reading, good stories and information Dallas Tallgrass J DeFelice Lostman’s River Dokey Katherine: heart of freedom; Charlotte: heart of hope Duffy Radical Red Fox Slave Dancer (core lit) Giff Lily’s CrossingJ Hersey Bell for Adano J Heller Catch-22 J Hemingway The Sun Also Rises J Hilton Goodbye, Mr. Chips J Holland Behind the Lines Howard North winds blow free Hunt Across Five Aprils Jones The Innkeeper’s Daughter Keith Rifles for Watie (core lit) Lasky Beyond the Burning Time, True North Lawlor American Sisters series – again, easy to understand, good informationLee To Kill a Mockingbird J (sophisticated readers) Lester From slaveship to freedom road, To be a slave Lewis Arrowsmith J, Babbit J Lisle The Art of Keeping Cool J Llewellyn How Green Was My Valley J Luhrman Only brave tomorrow Martin Yankee Doodle boy Martin My Corner of the Universe JMatas Burning TimeMeyer Anastasia, The Last Grand Duchess; Journal of Joshua Lopez, a Black Cowboy Myers Glory Field, At Her Majesty’s Request J Napoli The King of Mulberry Street Nixon Dangerous Promise Orlev Lydia, Queen of Palestine Patterson Jip, Jacob Have I Loved J, Park’s Quest, Bread and Roses, too JPaulsen Soldier’s Heart Peck* A Long Way from Chicago J, A Year Down Yonder J, River Between Us Ray To Cross a Line Rinaldi Behind the Lines, The Last Silk Dress J, lots of other titles Salisbury Under the Blood-Red Sun Smith A Tree Grows in Brooklyn J Smith Elephant run J Spinelli Milkweed J Steinbeck East of Eden Taylor Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (series J) Taylor Walking Up A Rainbow Taylor All-of-a-Kind Family
J indicates I have read the book and recommend it while bold indicates I strongly recommend it. Holocaust Books Biographies: B APP Appleman-Jurman Alicia” my story B BER Bernstein The seamstress: a memoir of survival B DIC Rubin Fireflies in the Dark: the story of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the children of Terezin B FAB Faber Because of Romek: sa Holocaust survivor’s memoir B GRO Gross Elly: My true story of the Holocaust B JAC Jackson Hello, America B JAC Jackson My bridges of hope: searching for life and love afterAuschwitz B KAP Cretzmeyer Hidden child of the Holocaust: a true story B LAZ Perl Four perfect pebbles: a Holocaust story B LOB Lobel No pretty pictures B LON Whiteman Lonek’s journey: the true story of a boy’s escape to freedom B MAN Warren Surviving Hitler: a boy in the Nazi death camps B MIL Millman Hidden Child B OER Oertelt an unbroken chain: my journey through the Naz Holocausti B OPD Opdyke In my hands: memories of a Holocaust rescuer B PEN Talbott Forging Freedom: a true story of heroism B SCH Roberts Oskar Schindler B SCH Wukovits Oskar Schindler B SEN Atkinson In kindling flame: the story of Hannah Senesh, 1921 - 1944 B SIE Upon the head of the goat: a childhood in Hungary B SZP The pianist: the extraordinary story of one man’s survival in Warsaw B TOL Toll Behind the secret window: a memoir of a hidden childhood during World War Two B TRY McCann Luba: the angel of Bergen-Belsen B WIE Altman Simon Wiesenthal B WIE Stern Elie Wiesel: a voice for humanity B WIL Williams Behind the bedroom wall B ZYS Zyskind Struggle Fiction: Bat-Ami Two sins in the sky Boyne The boy in striped pajamas: a fable Denenberg One eye laughing, the other weeping: the diaty of Julie Weiss Drucker Jacob’s rescue: a Holocaust story Fleishman The entertainer and the dybbuk Fleishman Milkweed Friedman Escaping into the night Glatstein Emil and Karl Greif The fighter Isaacs Torn Thread Levitin Room in the heart Lowenstein Waiting for Eugene Matas After the War, Daniel’s Story, Greater than angels Mazar Good night, maman Mercati The secret room Orlew Run, boy, run: a novel, The island on Bird Street Pausewang The final journey Pressler Malka Ritcher Friedrich Roth-Hano Touch wood: a girlhood in occupied France Roy Yellow Star Thoene Warsaw Requim Vos The Key is lost Williams Behind the bedroom wall Non-fiction titles can be found at 940.53, 741.5, 943.086. Mysteries Almond Kit’s Wilderness J, Skellig Avi Wolf Rider, The Man who was Poe, Midnight Magic Braun The Cat… series J Bunting Coffin on a Case Christie* Any novel J Clark* Pretend You Don’t See Her J, The Cradle Will Fall J, A Strnger is Watching J, Where are the Children? J, many others Cooney* The Face on a Milk Carton J Dowell Dovey Coe J Doyle The Sherlock Holmes series J Du Maurier (D) Rebecca J Duncan* I Know What You Did Last Summer J, Stranger with My Face J Edwards Dragon Hound of Honor Francis* Break In J, Mystery, To the Hilt J, Twice Shy J Gee The Fire-Raiser Geras Pictures of the Night Gilmore The Exchange Student Glenn Who Killed Mr. Chippendale? J,Taking of Room 114, Foreign Exchange Hobbs Ghost Canoe Hobler Ghost in the Tokaido Inn J, Demon Teahouse Hotze Acquainted with the Night Kaye Death in Kenya J, Death in ZanzibarJ Kerr Fell Down King An Irregular Moon Konigsburg* Silent to the Bone J L’Engle Troubling a Star Levin Shadow Catcher MacGregor Prophecy Rock, Hawk Moon Mango Portrait of Miranda Masters A Watching Silence McDonald Swallowing Stones Myers* Monster J Nixon The Other Side of DarkJ, Whispers from the Dead J Peters (D)Brother Cadafel series - any J Reiss Time Windows Robb The Apothecary Rose J, The Lady ChapelJ, The Nun’s Tale J GATE Simenson Maigret Series J VanDraanen Sammy Keyes and.. (series) J Voigt The Vandemark Mystery Many students enjoy adult authors like David Baldacci, Robin Cook, Sue Grafton, and John Grisham. Be sure to have parent permission before reading one of these books. A J indicates I have read the book and recommend it while bold means I strongly recommend it. Realistic FictionAbelove Saying It Out Loud J Anderson Speak J (sophisticated material, check with a parent) Anonymous Go Ask AliceJ Bauer Sticks, Thwonk Bauer Face to Face, Hope Was Here J Bennett The Squared Circle Bloor Tangerine J, Crusader J Bowler River Boy J Brashares Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants J, Second Summer of the SisterhoodCannon Shadow BrothersCarter Between a Rock and a Hard Place Childress Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a SandwichJ Cole Goats Conley Trout Summer Cooney MummyJ, The Terrorist J, Whatever Happened to JanieJ, etc. Cormier ` The Chocolate War J, Beyond the Chocolate War J Creech Absolutely Normal Chaos J, Walk Two Moons J, Wanderer Cross On the Edge Crutcher Staying Fat for Sarah Byrne, Athletic Shorts, Whale Talk, J (some of these books deal with sophisticated themes, check with a parent) Curtis The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963JDahl The Vicar of Nibbleswicke Danzinger P.S. Longer Letter Later J, No More Snail Mail J Danziger The Cat Who Ate My GymsuitJ Dionne Models don’t eat chocolate cookies J Draper Double Dutch J Drury (D)Advise and Consent J (PP) Ferber GiantJ Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café J Fleischman Seed Folks J Frank Oy, Joy J Galloway Snake Dreamer Giff Pictures of Hollis Woods J Greene Summer of My German Soldier J Guy The Friends Haddix Double Identity J Heller Catch-22 J Hesse Out of the Dust, JHiaasen Hoot J, Flush J, Scat J Hinton That Was Then, This Is Now J, OutsidersJ, Rumble Fish Kindl The Woman in the WallJ Koertge Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright Koja Buddha Boy J Koninsburg* The View from Saturday J, Silent to the Bone J, Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Lawrence Ghost Boy J Lipsyte The Contender, One Fat Summer J Madden Gentle’s Holler, Louisiana’s Song J Marchetta Looking for Alibrabdi J Mazer After the Rain, Out of Control McCormick Cut J (PP) McCullen Heart Is a Lonely Hunter J (sophisticated readers) Merrill The Pushcart War J Mickaelsen Countdown J, Touching Spirit Bear J, Rescue Josh McGuire JPark Project Mulberry J Paulsen Harris and Me, Project: A Perfect World, The Schernoff Discoveries, Peck A Day No Pigs Would Die J, Don’t Look and it won’t Hurt, A Long Way from Chicago J, A Year Down Yonder J Peterson Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey J Pfeffer The Year Without Michael (other titles as well) Philbrick The Fire Pony Posom The Promise (multicultural) J Randle The Only Alien on the Planet Rhue The Wave Rottman Rough Waters Sachs Thirteen Going on Seven Salisbury Under the Blood Red SkyJ Shange Betsey Brown Shusterman The Schwa was here J Smith SasquatchJ Smith Zach’s Lie Sparks The Rescue J, The Notebook J, Message in a Bottle Spinelli Crash J, Wringer J Trueman Stuck in Neutral J Voigt Homecoming J, Dicey’s Song J, Solitary Blue J, etc. Zindal The Pigman J
This list was originally compiled by: Ellen Moir, GATE Coordinator, Twin Peaks Middle School With input from: Carey Meier, Library Media Teacher, Twin Peaks Middle School (retired) Melodie Johnson, GATE Teacher, Twin Peaks Middle School (deceased) It is updated annually by Ellen Moir Sources include: § Beers, Kylene When Kids Can’t Read Heinemann, Portsmouth, 2003. § Bodart, Joni. Booktalking the Award Winners H. W. Wilson Co., New York, 1996 § Chagala, Georgia and Eunice Heideman Challenging Readings for the Middle School Reader, PUSD, 1992 § Howard, Elizabeth America As Story, ALA Chicage, 1988. § McDougal Littell The Language of Literature, grades 7 and 8, 2002 edition “Literature Connections” § Moir, Ellen , Seventh Grade Bibliography, 1997, revised 2002,2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 § ALA Notable Children’s Books, 2002 § ALA 100 Best Books for Teens, 2000, 2001(http://www.ala.org/cgi-bin/reghtml.cgi March 3, 2002) § Carnegie Library of Pittsburg http://www.carnegielibrary.org/teens/read/book lists teenfairy, teenanimal, teenmyst, and teenbio (June 18, 2003) § Zanarini, Anna, Salt Lake County Library System Best Books for Young Adults, http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/yabest.htm § www.harperchildrens.com/catalog/subjectbrowse.asp (June 18, 2003) § San Diego Public Library Youth Services, 2000, 2002 § http://www.calcasieu.lib.la.us/readersadvisory_files/teenshort.htm § http://www.evanston.lib.il.us/library/bibliographies/shstor.html § Twin Peaks Middle School catalogue
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