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Adventure
5th - 6th Grade
Floors | 3 Below
By: Patrick Carman
Ruby Holler | The Wanderer
By: Sharon Creech
Hoot | Flush | Scat | Chomp
By: Carl Hiiasen
Crossing the Wire | Downriver | Jackie’ Wild Seattle | River Thunder
By: Will Hobbs
Paddle-to-the-Sea
By: Holing, C. Holing
Turtle in Paradise
By: Jennifer Holm
Abduction, Trapped
By: Peg Kehret
The Smugglers | The Wreckers
By: Iain Lawrence
All Books
By: Gary Paulson
As Easy as Falling off the Face of the Earth
By: Lynn Rae Perkins
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg | Young Man and the Sea
By: W.R. Philbick
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
By: Ransom Riggs
Holes
By: Louis Sachar
Trouble
By: Gary Schmidt
Peak | I,Q: Independence Hall (series)
By: Roland Smith
Storm Runners (series)
By: Roland Smith
7th - 8th Grade
Peter and the Starcatchers (series)
By: Dave Barry
I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You | Only the Good Spy Young
By: Ally Carter
Ender's Game (series)
By: Orson Scott Card
The Great Wide Sea
By: M. H. Herlong
Small as an Elephant
By: Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Call of the Wild | White Fang
By: Jack London
Life of Pi
By: Yann Martel
Greetings From Nowhere
By: Barbara O'Connor
Wolf Brother (series)
By: Michelle Paver
The Firework-maker’s Daughter
By: Philip Pullman
Call it Courage
By: Armstrong Sperry
Kidnapped | Treasure Island
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By: Mark Twain
Journey to the Center of the Earth
By: Jules Verne
Wilder Boys
By: Brandon Wallace
Biography-Memoir
5th - 8th Grade
Of Beetles & Angels: a Boy’s Remarkable Journey From a Refuge Camp to Harvard
By: Mawi Asgedon
A Long Way Gone; Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
By: Ishmael Beah
Steve Jobs: the Man Who Thought Different
By: Karen Blumenthal
Through My Eyes
By: Ruby Bridges
The Family Romanov
By: Candace Fleming
Death Be Not Proud
By: John Gunther
Escape from Cell 14
By: Blaine Harden
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year old Boy With Autism
By: Naoki Higashida
Red Scarf Girl
By: Ji-Li Jiang
Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio
By: Peg Kehert
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna
By: Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton & Herman Viola
Chinese Cinderella
By: Adeline Yen Mah
My Life in Dog Years
By: Gary Paulson
A Child Called it: One Child’s Courage to Survive
By: David Pelzer
Stitches: a Memoir
By: David Small
When I Was a Soldier
By: Valerie Zenatti
Classic
7th - 8th Grade
Emma | Pride and Prejudice | Sense and Sensibility
By: Jane Austen
Jane Eyre
By: Charlotte Bronte
A Little Princess | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Secret Garden
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Alice in Wonderland
By: Lewis Carroll
Christmas Carol | David Copperfield | Great Expectations, | Oliver Twist | A Tale of Two Cities
By: Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo | The Man in the Iron Mask | Three Musketeers
By: Alexandre Dumas
A Farewell to Arms | For Whom the Bell Toll | The Old Man in the Sea | The Sun Also Rises
By: Ernest Hemingway
Brave New World
By: Aldous Huxley
Captain Courageous | Jungle Book | Just So Stories | Kim
By: Rudyard Kipling
Anne of Green Gables (series)
By: L. M. Montgomery
The Black Arrow | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Kidnapped | Treasure Island
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Around the World in 80 Days | Mysterious Island
By: Jules Verne
Mary Poppins
By: P.L. Travers
The Invisible Man | Time Machine | War of the Worlds
By: H. G. Wells
Charlotte’s Web | Stuart Little
By: E.B. White
Fantasy
5th - 6th Grade
Wizard of Oz (series)
By: Frank Baum
Serafina and the Black Cloak
By: Robert Beatty
Masterpiece
By: Elise Broach
Gregor the Overlander (series)
By: Suzanne Collins,
The Tale of Desperaux | The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
By: Kate DiCamillo
The Thief Lord | Dragon Rider | Inkheart (series)
By: Cornelia Funke
Dragon Slippers (series)
By: Jessica Day George
Savvy
By: Ingrid Law
All the Lovely Bad Ones
By: Mary Downing Hahn
Princess Academy | Princess Academy: Palace of Stone
By: Shannon Hale
Dial-a-ghost | Great Ghost Rescue | Not Just a Witch | Which Witch
By: Eve Ibbotson
Fablehaven (series) | The Candy Shop Wars | The Candy Shop War: Arcade Catastrophe
By: Brandon Mull
False Prince (series)
By: Jennifer Nielsen
The Magic Thief (series) | Winterling | Summerkin
By: Sarah Prineas
The Lightning Thief (series) | The Lost Hero (series) | Red Pyramid (series)
By: Rick Riordan
Echo
By: Pam Munoz Ryan
7th - 8th Grade
Red Queen
By: Victoria Aveyard
Child of the Dark Prophecy (series) | The Fires of Merlin
By: T. A. Baron
Artemis Fowl (series)
By: Eion Colfer
The Hunger Games (series)
By: Suzanne Collins
The Fire Within (series)
By: Chris D'Lacey
Ruins of Gorlan (series)
By: John Flanagan
Legend (series)
By: Marie Lu
Ever
By: Gail Carson Levine
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (series)
By: C. S. Lewis
Airborn | Silverwing (series) | Skybreaker
By: Kenneth Oppel
Eragon (series)
By: Christopher Paolini
East
By: Edith Pattou
The Lunar Chronicles (series)
By: Marissa Meyer
The Alchemyst (series)
By: Michael Scott
Lost Hero (series)
By: Rick Riordan
The Hobbit | Fellowship of the Ring (series)
By: J. R. R. Tolkien
Historical Fiction
5th - 6th Grade
Chains | Fever 1793
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
The Boy Who Dared
By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The War that Saved my Life
By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Bud, Not Buddy | Elijah of Buxton | The Watsons Go to Birmingham
By: Christopher Paul Curtis
Dovey Coe
By: Frances O’Roark Dowell
Stella by Starlight
By: Sharon Draper
Darby
By: Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Out of the Dust | Witness
By: Karen Hesse
Dancing in Cadillac Light
By: Kimberly Willis Holt
The Green Glass Sea
By: Ellen Klages
Night on Fire
By: Ronald Kidd
Number the Stars
By: Lois Lowry
Black Radishes
By: Susan Lynn Meyer
An Elephant in the Garden
By: Michael Morpurgo
Crooked River
By: Shelly Pearsall
Yellow Star
By: Jennifer Roy
Elephant Run
By: Roland Smith
7th - 8th Grade
Before We Were Free
By: Julia Alvarez
Crispin: the Cross of Lead (series)
By: Avi
Bull Run
By: Sid Fleischman
Hattie Big Sky
By: Kirby Larson
The Kite Rider
By: Geraldine McCaughrean
Never Fall Down
By: Patricia McCormick
In Mozart’s Shadow: His Sister’s Story | Where the Broken Heart Still Beats
By: Carolyn Meyer
Breath
By: Donna Jo Napoli
The River Between Us
By: Richard Peck
Foster’s War
By: Carolyn Reeder
A Break With Charity | Amelia’s War | Mine Eyes have Seen | Numbering All the Bones
By: Ann Rinaldi
Milkweed
By: Jerry Spinelli
The Land | Let the Circle Be Unbroken | Roll of Thunder | Hear My Cry
By: MIldred Taylor
The Once and Future King | Sword in the Stone
By: T. H. White
The Book Thief
By: Markus Zusak
Humor
5th - 6th Grade
The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
By: Tom Angleberger
I Represent Sean Rosen
By: Jeff Baron
Frindle | Jake Drake | Teacher's Pet (series) | Landry News | Lost and Found | Lunch Money
By: Andrew Clements
All Books
By: Bruce Coville
All Books
By: Roald Dahl
Giggler Treatment
By: Roddy Doyle
Joey Pigza | Loses Control (series)
By: Jack Gantos
The Homework Machine | Million Dollar Strike
By: Dan Gutman
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)
By: Jeff Kinney
Letters from Camp
By: Kate Klise
6th Grade Nickname Game | No More Dead Dogs | Schooled | Swindle
By: Gordon Korman
Funny! A Middle School Story | Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
By: James Patterson
All Shook Up
By: Shelley Pearsall
Drama | Sisters | Smile
By: Raina Telgmeier
A Crooked Kind of Perfect
By: Linda Urban
Multicultural Fiction
7th - 8th Grade
Home of the Brave
By: Katherine Applegate
The Breadwinner (series)
By: Deborah Ellis
Like Water for Chocolate
By: Laura Esquivel
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
By: Gabriel Marquez Garcia
The Kite Runner
By: Khaled Hosseini
Weedflower | Kira-Kira
By: Cynthia Kadohata
When the Emperor was Divine
By: Julie Otsuka
A Long Walk to Water
By: Linda Sue Park
Esperanza Rising
By: Pam Munoz Ryan
Shooting Kabul
By: N.H. Senzai
Blue Jasmine | Boys Without Names | Keeping Corners | Koyal Dark | Mango Sweet
By: Sheth Kashmira
Inside Out and Back Again | Listen Slowly
By: Lai Thanhha
Goodbye, Vietnam
By: Gloria Whelan
A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | When I was a Soldier
By: Valerie Zenatti
Mystery
5th - 6th Grade
The Book Scavenger
By: Jennifer Bertman
The Name of this Books Is Secret (series)
By: Pseudonymous Bosch
Fear Itself | Room One: A Mystery or Two | The Whites of Their Eyes
By: Andrew Clements
Al Capone Does My Shirts | Al Capone Shines my Shoes
By: Gennifer Choldenko
The Face on the Milk Carton
By: Caroline B. Cooney
All Books
By: John Feinstein
Dead End in Norvelt
By: Jack Gantos
Stormbreaker (series)
By: Anthony Horowitz
Trash
By: Andy Mulligan
The Westing Game
By: Ellen Raskin
Jack’s Run | Zach’s Lie
By: Roland Smith
Encyclopedia Brown | Boy Detective (series)
By: Donald J. Sobol
Poison is Not Polite
By: Robin Stevens
The Mysterious Benedict Society (series)
By: Trenton Lee Stewart
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (series)
By: Wendelin Van Draanen
Newer Books
5th - 8th Grade
The Bitter Kingdom
By: Rae Carson
Counting Thyme
By: Melanie Conklin
Grayling's Song
By: Karen Cushman
The Bubble Wrap Boy
By: Phil Earle
The Door that Led to Where
By: Sally Gardner
Dear Hank Williams
By: Kimberly Willis Holt
Waiting for Unicorns
By: Beth Hautala
Nightbird
By: Alice Hoffman
Fish in a Tree
By: Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Paper Things
By: Jennifer Jacobson
Girl Called Fearless
By: Catherine Linka
Extra Yard
By: Mike Lupica
Connect the Stars
By: Marissa De los Santos
Blue Birds
By: Caroline Starr Rose
Deadly Flowers: a Ninja's Tale
By: Sarah L. Thomson
Non-Fiction
5th - 6th Grade
Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery From Your Own Backyard
By: Loree Griffin Burns
How They Croaked
By: Georgia Braggs
1000 Things You Should Know About Science
By: John Farndon
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
By: Russell Freedman
Alien Deep: Revealing the Mysterious Living World at the Bottom of the Ocean
By: Bradley Hague
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
By: William Kamkwamba
Survival at 120 Above
By: Debbie Miller
Life in the Ocean: the Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle
By: Claire Nivola
The Mighty Mars Rover: the Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity
By: Elizabeth Rusch
Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird
By: Stephanie Spinner
Eco Dogs
By: Judith Bauer Stamper
The President has been Shot
By: James L. Swanson
For the Birds: the Life of Roger Tory Peterson
By: Peggy Thomas
Far From Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage
By: Sophie Webb
7th - 8th Grade
Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert
By: Marc Aronson
Friday Night Lights
By: H. G. Bissinger
Faces from the Past: Forgotten People of North America
By: James Deem
Tornado!: the Story Behind These Twisting, Turning, Spinning, and Spiraling Storms
By: Judith Bloom Fradin
The Elements
By: Dan Green
Seabiscuit
By: Laura Hillenbrand
Moonbird: a Year on the Wind With the Great Survivor B95
By: Philip Hoose
The Perfect Storm
By: Sebastian Junger
The Fairy Ring: Elsie and Frances Fool the World
By: Mary Losure
Black Gold: the Story of Oil in Our Lives
By: Albert Marrin
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
By: Sy Montgomery
Invisible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-ending Search for a Cure
By: Jim Murray
Forensic Identification: Putting a Name and Face on Death
By: Elizabeth Murray
The Book of Blood: From Legends and Leeches to Vampires and Veins
By: H.P. Newquist
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
By: Rebecca Skloot
Realistic Fiction
5th - 6th Grade
One and Only Ivan
By: Katherine Applegate
Anything but Typical
By: Nora Raleigh Baskin
Almost Home | Close to Famous | Sticks
By: Joan Bauer
House Arrest
By: K.A. Holt
This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
By: Nancy Cavanaugh
Because of Winn Dixie
By: Kate DiCamillo
Out of My Mind
By: Sharon Draper
Our Only May Amelia | Penny From Heaven | Turtle in Paradise
By: Jennifer L. Holm
Rules | Touch Blue
By: Cynthia Lord
All Books
By: Wendy Mass
Chasing Normal
By: Lisa Papademetriou
Orbiting Jupiter
By: Gary Schmidt
The Mailbox
By: Audrey Shafer
Counting by 7s
By: Holly Goldberg Sloan
One Crazy Summer | P.S. Be Eleven.
By: Rita Garcia Williams
7th - 8th Grade
Picture Perfect
By: Elaine Marie Alphin
Best Foot Forward | Hope Was Here | Squashed
By: Joan Bauer
Scarlett
By: Cathy Cassidy
Bounce
By: Natasha Friend
Pictures of Hollis Woods
By: Patricia Reilly Giff
An Abundance of Katherines | The Fault in our Stars | Paper Towns
By: John Green
The Clique (series)
By: Lisi Harrison
Olive’s Ocean
By: Kevin Henkes
The Outsiders
By: S. E. Hinton
Buddha Boy
By: Kathe Koja
Big Mouth & Ugly Girl
By: Joyce Carol Oates
All Books
By: Jordan Sonnenbrink
Blue Eyes Better
By: Ruth Wallace-Brodeur
So B. It
By: Sarah Weeks
Make Lemonade
By: Virginia Euwer Wolff
Rebecca Caudill List
5th - 6th Grade
Booked
By: Kwame Alexander
Ms. Bixby's Last Day
By: John David Anderson
The Iron Trial
By: Holly Black and Cassandra Claire
Unbound
By: Ann Burg
Moo
By: Sharon Creech
It Ain't so Awful, Falafel
By: Firoozeh Dumas
Better Nate than Ever
By: Tim Federle
We Will Not Be Silent
By: Russell Freedman
Lily and Dunkin
By: Donna Gephart
The Inquisitor's Tale
By: Adam Gidwitz
One Half From the East
By: Nadia Hashimi
Paper Things
By: Jennifer Richards Jacobson
Me and Marvin Gardens
By: Amy Sarig King
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere
By: Julie Lamana
March - book 1
By: John Lewis
Ghost
By: Jason Reynolds
Undefeated
By: Steve Sheinkin
Falling Over Sideways
By: Jordan Sonnenblick
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
By: Caren Stelson
The Goldfish Boy
By: Lisa Thompson
Science Fiction
5th - 6th Grade
The Alien (series)
By: Katherine Applegate
Things Not Seen | Things Hoped For
By: Andrew Clements
Powerless | Super
By: Matthew Cody
The Reluctant Assassin (series) | The Supernaturalist
By: Eoin Colfer
Gregor the Overlander (series)
By: Suzanne Collins
Green Boy
By: Susan Cooper
Michael Vey: The Prisoner in Cell 25 (series)
By: Richard Paul Evans
The Hunt For Dark Infinity (series) | Journal of Curious Letters (series)
By: James Dashner
Dark Life, (series)
By: Kat Falls
All Books
By: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Masterminds
By: Gordon Korman
A Wrinkle in Time
By: Madeleine L'Engle
Life As We Knew It (series)
By: Susan Beth Pfeffer
Travels of Thelonious
By: Susan Shade
You Will Like it Here (Everybody does)
By: Ruth White
7th - 8th Grade
2001: a Space Odyssey
By: Arthur Charles Clarke
Crossed (series)
By: Allyson Braithwaite Condie
The Maze Runner (series)
By: James Dashner
The Eleventh Plague
By: Jeff Hirsch
Cinder (series)
By: Marissa Meyer
Birthmarked (series)
By: Caragh O'Brien
Delirium (series)
By: Lauren Oliver
Angel Experiment (series)
By: James Patterson
Above World
By: Jenn Reese
Fever Crumb (series)
By: Philip Reeves
Divergent (series)
By: Veronica Roth
The Adoration of Jenna Fox (series)
By: Cynthia Leitich Smith
First Light | When You Reach Me
By: Rebecca Stead
Shiver | Raven Boys (series) | Scorpia Races
By: Maggie Stiefvater
Leviathan (series) | Uglies (series) | The Secret Hour (series)
By: Scott Westerfield
Sports
5th - 8th Grade
One-handed Catch
By: M.J. Auch
The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
By: Mike Cochrane
All Books
By: John Feinstein
Football Genius (series)
By: Tim Green
Roberto and Me (series)
By: Dan Gutman
Go Big or Go Home | River Thunder
By: Will Hobbs
No More Dead Dogs | Swindle
By: Gordon Korman
All Books
By: Mike Lupica
Soccer Surprise
By: Jake Maddox
Game | Outside Shot
By: Walter Dean Myers
Hothead: A Novel
By: Cal Ripken, Jr.
The Boy Who Saved Baseball | The Desperado Who Stole Baseball | Fenway Fever
By: John Ritter
Curveball: the Year I lost my Grip | Dodger and Me
By: Jordan Sonnenblick
The Running Dream
By: Wendelin Van Draanen
Roar of the Crowd (series) | Losing is Not an Option
By: Rich Wallace