Middle School - Reading Lists
Suggested Reading - Middle School Level 1
Aiken, Joan. Wolves Chronicles (Series)
Anthony, Piers. A Spell for Chameleon
Burnett, Frances. The Secret Garden
Curtis, Christopher Paul. Bud, not Buddy
Fox, Paula. The Slave Dancer
Greene, Carol. Marie Curie, Pioneer Physicist
Greene, Carol. Thomas Alva Edison, Bringer of Light
Greene, Constance. Summer of my German Soldier
Haskins, Jim. Rosa Parks: My Story
L’Engle. A Wrinkle in Time
Levine, Gail. Ella Enchanted
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild and White Fang
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonsinger
McKissack, Pat. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Man to Remember
Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet & Brian’s Winter
Pratt, Theodore. The Barefoot Mailman
Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Taylor. Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry
Tolkien, The Hobbit
Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Verne, Jules. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Whelan, Gloria. Goodbye Vietnam
Suggested Reading - Middle School Level 2
Angelou, Maya. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Asimov, Isaac, Fantastic Voyage
Avi. Nothing but the Truth
Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles
Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked this Way Comes
Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game
Cormier, Robert. The Chocolate War
Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe
Dumas, Alexandre. The Three Musketeers
Filipovic. Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo
Frank. Alas Babylon
Green, Hannah. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
Hayden, Torey. One Child
Hayden, Torey. Somebody Else’s Kids
Herbert, Frank. Dune (series)
Hopkins. Rainbows are Made: Poems by Carl Sandburg
Jackson, Shirley. The Lottery
Kurtz, The Storyteller’s Beads
Orwell, George. Animal Farm
Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird
London, Jack. To Build a Fire and Other Stories
Lowry. The Giver
Philbrick, W.R. Freak the Mighty
Staples. Shabanu: daughter of the Wind
Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men
Tolkien. The Lord of the Ring
Wells, H.G. The War of the Worlds
White, T.H. The Once and the Future King
Yolen, Jane & Bruce Coville. Armageddon Summer |
