SIXTH GRADE

Required Reading*

(Students will be tested on Required Reading)

• Maniac Magee Spinelli

Enrichment Reading

(Students are REQUIRED to read at least

one book from the Enrichment Reading List)

• Sounder Armstrong
• The Indian in the Cupboard Banks
• Secret Garden Burnett
• The Summer of the Swans Byars
• Zeely Hamilton
• King of the Wind Henry
• Phantom Tollbooth Jester
• A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lewis
• Call of the Wild London
• Number the Stars Lowry
• Sarah, Plain and Tall MacLachlan
• Anne of Green Gables Montgomery
• Ms. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh O’Brien
• The Black Pearl O’Dell
• Island of the Blue Dolphins O’Dell
• Sing Down the Moon O’Dell
• Bridge to Terabithia Paterson
• Hatchet Paulsen
• Harriet Tubman and the Underground
• Railroad Petry
• Black Beauty Sewell
• The Cay Taylor
• Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates

SEVENTH GRADE

Required Reading*

(Students will be tested on Required Reading)

• Old Yeller Gipson

Enrichment Reading

(Students are REQUIRED to read at least

one book from the Enrichment Reading List)

• Sounder Armstrong
• Secret Garden Burnett
• Red Badge of Courage Crane
• Rebecca duMaurier
• My Side of the Mountain George
• The Miracle Worker Gibson
• Summer of My German Soldier Greene
• The Outsiders Hinton
• Flowers of Algernon Keyes
• A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle
• Chronicles of Narnia Lewis
• Anne of Green Gables Montgomery
• Island of the Blue Dolphin O’Dell
• Hatchet Paulsen
• A Day No Pigs Would Die Peck
• The Yearling Rawlings
• Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls
• Treasure Island Stevenson
• Black Beauty Sewell
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Smith
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor
• The Cay Taylor
• The Hobbit Tolkien
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain
• Swiss Family Robinson Wyss
• Dragonwings Yep

EIGHTH GRADE

Required Reading*

(Students will be tested on Required Reading)

• The Outsiders Hinton

Enrichment Reading

(Students are REQUIRED to read at least

one book from the Enrichment Reading List)

• Watership Down Adams
• Sounder Armstrong
• The Secret Garden Burnett
• A Christmas Carol Dickens
• The Diary of a Young Girl Franke
• Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Gaines
• Black Like Me Griffin
• Death Be Not Proud Gunther
• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods
• and Heroes Hamilton
• To Be Young, Gifted, and Black Hansberry
• Dreamkeeper and Other Poems Hughes
• Across Five Aprils Hunt
• White Fang London
• The Giver Lowry
• Jacob I Have Loved Paterson
• The Light in the Forest Richter
• The Pearl Steinbeck
• The Hobbit Tolkien
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain
• The Prince and the Pauper Twain
• The Time Machine Wells
• War of the Worlds Wells
• Belle Prater’s Boy White
• The Pigman Zindel

 

 ADVANCED REQUIRED READING

SIXTH GRADE*

• Bud not Buddy Curtis

ADVANCED REQUIRED READING

SEVENTH GRADE*

• The Giver Lowry

ADVANCED REQUIRED READING

EIGHTH GRADE*

• The Outsiders Hinton

ENRICHMENT READING

(Students are REQUIRED to read at least

one book from this list or the regular

middle school reading list)

• Tuck Everlasting Babbitt
• I Have Lived a Thousand Years Bitton- Jackson
• Martian Chronicles Bradbury
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Brashares
• Jane Eyre Bronte
• All American Girl Cabot
• Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Crutcher
• Tears of a Tiger Draper
• Hoot Hiassen
• Carry On Mr. Bowditch Latham
• Ghost Boy Lawrence
• A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle
• Gathering Blue Lowry
• A Corner of the Universe Martin
• Z is for Zachariah O’Brien
• Animal Farm Orwell
• Lyddie Patterson
• A Day No Pigs Would Die Peck
• A Child Called It Pelzer
• Trail of Tears Stein
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Verne
• The Pigman Zindel