Middle School Reading List

Adams, Watership Down

Adamson, Born Free

Alcott, Little Women

Alexander, The High King

Armstrong, Sounder

Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull*

Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

Blais, In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle

Bradbury, Farenheit 45

Burnett, The Secret Garden

Burnford, Incredible Journey

Byars, Midnight Fox

Caroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (7)

Caroll, Through the Looking Glass (7)

Cather, My Antonia*

Collier, My Brother Sam is Dead

Conan-Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, the Complete Study

Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans*

Crane, The Red Badge of Courage*

Crichton, Jurassic Park*

DeAngeli, Door in the Wall

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe*

Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities*

Dickens, David Copperfield*

Dickens, Oliver Twist*

duMaurier, Rebecca*

Edgerton, Walking Across Egypt*

Fast, April Morning (7)

Ferber, Saratoga Trunk*

Filipovic, Zlata’s Diary

Forbes, Johnny Tremain*

Fox, One-Eyed Cat

Fox, The Moonlight Man*

Fox, The Slave Dancer

Frank, Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl*

Gallico, The Snow Goose*

George, Julie of the Wolves

George, My Side of the Mountain

Gibson, Miracle Worker

Gipson, Old Yeller

Golding, Lord of the Flies*

Grahame, Wind in the Willows

Green, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden*

Greene, Hang Time*

Greene, The Summer of My German Soldier*

Hahn, Time for Andrew

Hamilton, Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush*

Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables*

Herriott, All Creatures Great and Small

Herriott, All Things Bright and Beautiful

Herriott, All Things Wise and Wonderful

Hersey, Hiroshima*

Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki

Hilton, Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Hunt, Across Five Aprils

Irving, Rip Van Winkle

Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Jacques, Redwall, series others

Jenkins, A Walk Across America*

Key, The Forgotten Door

Kipling, The Jungle Book

Kjelgard, Big Red, series others

Konigsburg, The View from Saturday

Latham, Carry on, Mr. Bowditch

Lawson, Ben and Me

Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird*

Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia, series

L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (6)

London, Call of the Wild*

London, White Fang*

Lowry, The Giver (8)

Marshall, Christy

Melville, Billy Budd*

McKinley, The Outlaws of Sherwood

Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Naylor, Mama Day*

O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins

O’Dell, Black Pearl*

O’Hara, My Friend Flicka

Plath, The Bell Jar*

Paterson, Bridge to Terebithia

Paterson, Jacob, Have I Loved*

Paterson, The Great Gilly Hopkins

Paulsen, DogSong*

Paulsen, Hatchet, others by author

Rawlings, The Yearling*

Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows*

Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front*

Richter, Light in the Forest*

Santiago, When I was Puerto Rican*

Schaefer, Shane*

Selden, A Cricket in Times Square

Siegel, Whalesong

Skinner, Cheaper by the Dozen*

Skinner, Bells on Their Toes*

Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn*

Spear, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Spear, Sign of the Beaver

Sperry, Call It Courage

Steinbeck, The Red Pony

Stevenson, Kidnapped*

Stevenson, Treasure Island*

Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

Taylor, The Cay

Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Ten Boom, The Hiding Place*

Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, series

Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Twain, Huckleberry Finn (6)

Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (8)

Updike, Rabbit Run

Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea*

Voight, Dicey’s Song

Voight, The Homecoming

Wells, The Time Machine

White, Charlotte’s Web

White, Stuart Little

White, The Trumpet of the Swan

Wiesel, Dawn*

Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Wilder, Little House series

Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson

*Indicate books more appropriate for 7^th and 8^th grade readers.