GRADE 6

Ain’t Gonna Study War No More / Milton Meltzer

The Alchemyst / By Michael Scott

All-of-a-Kind Family / Sydney Taylor
All the Way Home / Patricia Reilly Giff

Alida's Song / Gary Paulsen

Amy's Story / Susan Beth Pfeffer
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky / Faith Ringgold

Babe: the Gallant Pig (The Dick King-Smith Guide) / Dick King-Smith

Battle for the Castle / Elizabeth Winthrop
Belle Prater's Boy / Ruth White
Beth's Story / Susan Beth Pfeffer

Bindi Babes / Narinder Dhami
The Brian Books / Gary Paulsen
Brian's Return / Gary Paulsen
Brian's Winter / Gary Paulsen
Bud, Not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis
Call Me Francis Tucket / Gary Paulsen
Cat Running / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Caught in the Act / Joan Lowery Nixon
The Cay / Theodore Taylor

The Century for Young People / Peter Jennings, Todd Brewster
Charlotte’s Rose / A.E. Cannon
Cherokee Sister / Debbie Dadey

The City of Ember / Jeanne DuPrau

Colman / Monica Furlong
The Cricket in Times Square / by George Selden; drawings by Garth Williams

Dangerous Planet / Bryn Barnard
A Dangerous Promise / Joan Lowery Nixon
The Day the Sky Fell / Milton Meltzer
Dear Austin / Elvira Woodruff
Dear Levi / Elvira Woodruff
The Door in the Wall / Marguerite De Angeli
Driver's Ed / Caroline B. Cooney
Dust / Arthur Slade

The Egypt Game / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
A Family Apart / Joan Lowery Nixon
The Five Ancestors Series / Jeff Stone

Flush / Carl Hiaasen
The Friends / Kazumi Yumoto
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / E.L. Konigsburg
The Gadget / Paul Zindel

Gib Rides Home / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Giver / Lois Lowry                      Teachers Guide!
The Giver / Lois Lowry                      Readers Guide!
The Great God Pan / Donna Jo Napoli
The Gypsy Game / Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Half and Half / Lensey Namioka
Hammer of the Gods, MythQuest #2 / novelization by John Whitman

Hannah and the Angels
Harriet Spies Again / Helen Ericson
Harriet the Spy / Louise Fitzhugh
Haveli / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Heaven Eyes / David Almond
Holes / Louis Sachar

Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This / Jacqueline Woodson
If I Forget, You Remember / Carol Lynch Williams
In The Face of Danger / Joan Lowery Nixon
Inside the Alamo / Jim Murphy

The Invisible Princess / Faith Ringgold; illustrated by the author
Ironman / Chris Crutcher
Island of the Blue Dolphins / Scott O'Dell
Jo's Story / Susan Beth Pfeffer
Journey / Patricia Maclachlan
Keeping Secrets / Joan Lowery Nixon
Land of Hope / Joan Lowery Nixon
Landmark Books: Biographies
The Last Mission / Harry Mazer
The Last Safe Place on Earth / Richard Peck
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt / C. Coco De Young
Lily's Crossing / Patricia Reilly Giff
The Long Secret / Louise Fitzhugh
Lord of the Nutcracker Men / Iain Lawrence
Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet
Many Waters / Madeleine L'Engle
Mardi Gras Mix-Up / Linda Lowery Keep
Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. / James T. de Kay
Meg's Story / Susan Beth Pfeffer
Minokichi, MythQuest #4 / novelization by John Whitman
The Minotaur, MythQuest #1 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

Missing May / Cynthia Rylant
Mr. Tucket / Gary Paulsen
My Dream of Martin Luther King / Faith Ringgold

My Friend the Enemy / J.B. Cheaney
My Louisiana Sky / Kimberly Willis Holt
Mythology Readers Guide
MythQuest Series Readers Guide

New York's Bravest / Mary Pope Osborne
North by Night / Katherine Ayres
Nory Ryan’s Song / Patricia Reilly Giff
The Novels of Scott O'Dell
On My Honor / Marion Dane Bauer

The People of Sparks / Jeanne DuPrau
Pictures of Hollis Woods / Patricia Reilly Giff

A Piece of Heaven / Sharon Dennis Wyeth
A Place to Belong / Joan Lowery Nixon
Portraits of Little Women

The Prophet of Yonwood / Jeanne DuPrau

Radiance Descending / Paula Fox

Red Wolf's Daughter, MythQuest #3 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

The River / Gary Paulsen
Rumble Fish / S.E. Hinton
Satchmo's Blues / by Alan Schroeder; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
Saving Uncle Sean / Linda Lowery Keep
Search for the Shadowman / Joan Lowery Nixon
Shabanu / Suzanne Fisher Staples

The Shadows of Ghadames / Joelle Stolz
The Sign of the Beaver / Elizabeth George Speare
A Single Shard / Linda Sue Park
Skellig / David Almond
The Slave Dancer / Paula Fox

Small Steps / Louis Sachar

Soft Rain / Cornelia Cornelissen
Soldier's Heart / Gary Paulsen
Spite Fences / Trudy Krisher
Sport / Louise Fitzhugh
Stealing Freedom / Elisa Carbone
Storm Warriors / Elisa Carbone
Strudel Stories / Joanne Rocklin
Summer of the Monkeys / Wilson Rawls

Swear to Howdy / Wendelin Van Draanen
The Sweetwater Run / by Andrew Glass; illustrated by the author
A Swiftly Tilting Planet / Madeleine L'Engle
Talking to Faith Ringgold / Freeman; Faith Ringgold
Tall Tales/ Mary Pope Osborne
Taming The Star Runner / S.E. Hinton
Tar Beach / Faith Ringgold
Tex / S.E. Hinton

Tiger / Jeff Stone

The Time Hackers / Gary Paulsen

Trouble Don't Last / Shelley Pearsall
The Tucket Books / Gary Paulsen
Tucket's Gold / Gary Paulsen
Tucket’s Home / Gary Paulsen
Tucket's Ride / Gary Paulsen
Under the Blood Red Sun / Graham Salisbury
Vampire Bugs / Sharon Dennis Wyeth
The Voice on the Radio / Caroline B. Cooney
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 / Christopher Paul Curtis
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town / Kimberly Willis Holt
Where the Red Fern Grows / Wilson Rawls
A Wind in the Door / Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle In Time / Madeleine L'Engle
The Young Adult Novels of S.E. Hinton
Zia / Scott O'Dell
Zink / Cherie Bennett


GRADE 7

The Adventure Novels of Will Hobbs
After the First Death / Robert Cormier
Ain’t Gonna Study War No More / Milton Meltzer

The Alchemyst / Michael Scott

Alida's Song / Gary Paulsen

All-of-a-Kind Family / Sydney Taylor
All the Way Home / Patricia Reilly Giff

The Amber Spyglass / Philip Pullman 
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave / Virginia Hamilton

Ashes of Roses / Mary Jane Auch

B for Buster / Iain Lawrence

The Baboon King / Anton Quintana

Babe: the Gallant Pig (The Dick King-Smith Guide) / Dick King-Smith
The Baboon King / Anton Quintana

Battle for the Castle / Elizabeth Winthrop
Belle Prater's Boy / Ruth White
Becoming Mary Mehan / Jennifer Armstrong
Beyond the Chocolate War / Robert Cormier

Bindi Babes / Narinder Dhami
The Brian Books / Gary Paulsen
Brian's Return / Gary Paulsen
Brian's Winter / Gary Paulsen
Bud, Not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis
Burning Up / Caroline B. Cooney
Call Me Francis Tucket / Gary Paulsen
Cat Running / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Caught in the Act / Joan Lowery Nixon
The Cay / Theodore Taylor

The Century for Young People / Peter Jennings, Todd Brewster
Charlotte’s Rose / A.E. Cannon  
Chinese Cinderella / Adeline Yen Mah
The Chocolate War / Robert Cormier

The City of Ember / Jeanne DuPrau

Colman / Monica Furlong

Dangerous Planet / Bryn Barnard
A Dangerous Promise / Joan Lowery Nixon
Daughters of Eve / Lois Duncan

A Day No Pigs Would Die / Robert Newton Peck
The Day the Sky Fell / Milton Meltzer
Dear Austin / Eliva Woodruff
Dear Levi / Elivra Woodruff
Don't Look Behind You / Lois Duncan
Down a Dark Hall / Lois Duncan
Downriver / Will Hobbs
Driver's Ed / Caroline B. Cooney
Dust / Arthur Slade

Eldest / Christopher Paolini

Eyes of the Emperor / Graham Salisbury

The Egypt Game / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
A Family Apart / Joan Lowery Nixon
Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima / James Bradley with Ron Powers; adapted for young people by Michael French

Flush / Carl Hiaasen
Frenchtown Summer / Robert Cormier

Fresh Girl / Jaira Placide
The Friends / Kazumi Yumoto
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / E.L. Konigsburg
The Gadget / Paul Zindel

Gallows Hill / Lois Duncan
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry  Teachers Guide!
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry   Readers Guide!
Ghost Boy / Iain Lawrence
Gib Rides Home / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Giver / Lois Lowry                      Teachers Guide!
The Giver / Lois Lowry                      Readers Guide!
Goddess of Yesterday / Caroline B. Cooney
The Golden Compass / Philip Pullman  
The Great God Pan / Donna Jo Napoli
Guts / Gary Paulsen
The Gypsy Game / Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Half and Half / Lensey Namioka
Hammer of the Gods, MythQuest #2 / novelization by John Whitman

Hannah and the Angels
Harriet Spies Again / Helen Ericson
Harriet the Spy / Louise Fitzhugh
Haveli / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Heaven Eyes / David Almond
His Dark Materials Trilogy / Philip Pullman 
Holes / Louis Sachar

Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
The House You Pass on the Way / Jacqueline Woodson
I Am the Cheese / Robert Cormier
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This / Jacqueline Woodson
I Know What You Did Last Summer / Lois Duncan
If I Forget, You Remember / Carol Lynch Williams
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer / Irene Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong
In The Face of Danger / Joan Lowery Nixon
Inside the Alamo / Jim Murphy

Ironman / Chris Crutcher
Island of the Blue Dolphins / Scott O'Dell
Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family / Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman; photographs by Jane Feldman
Journey / Patricia Maclachlan
Keeping Secrets / Joan Lowery Nixon

The Killer's Tears / Anne-Laure Bondoux
Killing Mr. Griffin / Lois Duncan
Kit’s Wilderness / David Almond
Land of Hope / Joan Lowery Nixon
The Last Mission / Harry Mazer
The Last Safe Place on Earth / Richard Peck
Left for Dead / Peter Nelson
Lena / Jacqueline Woodson
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt / C. Coco De Young
Lily's Crossing / Patricia Reilly Giff
Locked in Time / Lois Duncan
Lois Duncan Novels
The Long Secret / Louise Fitzhugh
Lord of the Nutcracker Men / Iain Lawrence
Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet
Many Waters / Madeleine L'Engle
Mardi Gras Mix-Up / Linda Lowery Keep

Maya Running / Anjali Banerjee
Memories of Summer / Ruth White

Messenger / Lois Lowry
Minokichi, MythQuest #4 / novelization by John Whitman
The Minotaur, MythQuest #1 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

Missing May / Cynthia Rylant
Mr. Tucket / Gary Paulsen
My Friend the Enemy / J.B. Cheaney

My Louisiana Sky / Kimberly Willis Holt

Mythology Readers Guide
MythQuest Series Readers Guide

New York's Bravest / Mary Pope Osborne
Nightjohn / Gary Paulsen
North by Night / Katherine Ayres
Nory Ryan’s Song / Patricia Reilly Giff 
The Novels of Scott O'Dell
An Ocean Apart, A World Away / Lensey Namioka
On My Honor / Marion Dane Bauer
Pictures of Hollis Woods / Patricia Reilly Giff 
A Piece of Heaven / Sharon Dennis Wyeth
The Pigman / Paul Zindel
A Place to Belong / Joan Lowery Nixon

The People of Sparks / Jeanne DuPrau

The Prophet of Yonwood / Jeanne DuPrau
Quiver / Stephanie Spinner
Radiance Descending / Paula Fox
The Rag and Bone Shop / Robert Cormier
Ransom / Lois Duncan
The Ransom of Mercy Carter / Caroline B. Cooney

Red Wolf's Daughter, MythQuest #3 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

The Rifle / Gary Paulsen
River Thunder / Will Hobbs
The River / Gary Paulsen
Rumble Fish / S.E. Hinton
Sarny / Gary Paulsen
Saving Uncle Sean / Linda Lowery Keep
Search for the Shadowman / Joan Lowery Nixon

See You Down the Road / Kim Ablon Whitney
Shabanu / Suzanne Fisher Staples

The Shadows of Ghadames / Joelle Stolz
Shark Bait / Graham Salisbury
The Sign of the Beaver / Elizabeth George Speare
A Single Shard / Linda Sue Park 
Skellig / David Almond
The Slave Dancer / Paula Fox

Small Steps / Louis Sachar
Soldier's Heart / Gary Paulsen
Spite Fences / Trudy Krisher
Sport / Louise Fitzhugh
Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
Stealing Freedom / Elisa Carbone
Storm Warriors / Elisa Carbone
Stranger with My Face / Lois Duncan
Strudel Stories / Joanne Rocklin
The Subtle Knife / Philip Pullman 
Summer of Fear / Lois Duncan
Summer of the Monkeys / Wilson Rawls
Swallowing Stones / Joyce McDonald

Swear to Howdy / Wendelin Van Draanen
A Swiftly Tilting Planet / Madeleine L'Engle
Tall Tales/ Mary Pope Osborne
Taming The Star Runner / S.E. Hinton
Tex / S.E. Hinton
They Never Came Home / Lois Duncan
The Third Eye / Lois Duncan
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break / Lensey Namioka

Tiger / Jeff Stone

The Time Hackers / Gary Paulsen

Trouble Don't Last / Shelley Pearsall

The Tucket Books / Gary Paulsen
Tucket's Gold / Gary Paulsen
Tucket’s Home / Gary Paulsen
Tucket's Ride / Gary Paulsen
Twelve Shots / Harry Mazer
The Twisted Window / Lois Duncan
Under the Blood Red Sun / Graham Salisbury
Vampire Bugs / Sharon Dennis Wyeth
The Voice on the Radio / Caroline B. Cooney
The War Between the Classes / Gloria D. Miklowitz

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 / Christopher Paul Curtis
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town / Kimberly Willis Holt
Where the Red Fern Grows / Wilson Rawls
Whirligig / Paul Fleischman
A Wind in the Door / Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle In Time / Madeleine L'Engle
The Young Adult Novels of S.E. Hinton
Zia / Scott O'Dell
Zink / Cherie Bennett


GRADE 8

The Adventure Novels of Will Hobbs
After the First Death / Robert Cormier
Ain’t Gonna Study War No More / Milton Meltzer

The Alchemyst / Michael Scott

Alida's Song / Gary Paulsen
The Amber Spyglass / Philip Pullman 
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave / Virginia Hamilton

Ashes of Roses / Mary Jane Auch
B for Buster / Iain Lawrence

The Baboon King / Anton Quintana
Becoming Mary Mehan / Jennifer Armstrong
Belle Prater's Boy / Ruth White
Beyond the Chocolate War / Robert Cormier
The Brian Books / Gary Paulsen
Brian's Return / Gary Paulsen
Brian's Winter / Gary Paulsen
Burning Up / Caroline B. Cooney
Call Me Francis Tucket / Gary Paulsen
Cat Running / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Caught in the Act / Joan Lowery Nixon
The Cay / Theodore Taylor

Chinese Cinderella / Adeline Yen Mah
The Chocolate War / Robert Cormier

The City of Ember / Jeanne DuPrau

Colman / Monica Furlong
A Dangerous Promise / Joan Lowery Nixon
Daughters of Eve / Lois Duncan

A Day No Pigs Would Die / Robert Newton Peck
The Day the Sky Fell / Milton Meltzer
Dear Austin / Elvira Woodruff
Dear Levi / Elvira Woodruff
Don't Look Behind You / Lois Duncan
Down a Dark Hall / Lois Duncan
Downriver / Will Hobbs
Driver's Ed / Caroline B. Cooney
Dust / Arthur Slade

Eldest / Christopher Paolini

Eyes of the Emperor / Graham Salisbury

A Family Apart / Joan Lowery Nixon
Flags of Our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima / James Bradley with Ron Powers; adapted for young people by Michael French

Flush / Carl Hiaasen
Frenchtown Summer / Robert Cormier

Fresh Girl / Jaira Placide
The Friends / Kazumi Yumoto
The Gadget / Paul Zindel

Gallows Hill / Lois Duncan
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry   Teachers Guide!
Gathering Blue / Lois Lowry   Readers Guide!
Ghost Boy / Iain Lawrence
The Giver / Lois Lowry                      Teachers Guide!
The Giver / Lois Lowry                      Readers Guide!
Goddess of Yesterday / Caroline B. Cooney
The Golden Compass / Philip Pullman  
The Great God Pan / Donna Jo Napoli
Guts / Gary Paulsen
Hammer of the Gods, MythQuest #2 / novelization by John Whitman

I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This / Jacqueline Woodson
Harriet Spies Again / Helen Ericson
Harriet the Spy / Louise Fitzhugh
Haveli / Suzanne Fisher Staples
Heaven Eyes / David Almond
His Dark Materials Trilogy / Philip Pullman 
Holes / Louis Sachar

Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
I Am the Cheese / Robert Cormier
I Know What You Did Last Summer / Lois Duncan
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer / Irene Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong
In The Face of Danger / Joan Lowery Nixon
Ironman / Chris Crutcher
Island of the Blue Dolphins / Scott O'Dell
Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family / Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman; photographs by Jane Feldman
Journey / Patricia Maclachlan
Keeping Secrets / Joan Lowery Nixon

The Killer's Tears / Anne-Laure Bondoux
Killing Mr. Griffin / Lois Duncan
Kit’s Wilderness / David Almond
Land of Hope / Joan Lowery Nixon
The Last Mission / Harry Mazer
The Last Safe Place on Earth / Richard Peck
Left for Dead / Peter Nelson
Lena / Jacqueline Woodson
Locked in Time / Lois Duncan
Lois Duncan Novels
The Long Secret / Louise Fitzhugh
Lord of the Nutcracker Men / Iain Lawrence
Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quartet
Many Waters / Madeleine L'Engle

Maya Running / Anjali Banerjee
Memories of Summer / Ruth White

Messenger / Lois Lowry
Minokichi, MythQuest #4 / novelization by John Whitman
The Minotaur, MythQuest #1 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

Missing May / Cynthia Rylant
Mr. Tucket / Gary Paulsen

My Friend the Enemy / J.B. Cheaney
My Louisiana Sky / Kimberly Willis Holt
Mythology Readers Guide
MythQuest Series Readers Guide

Nightjohn / Gary Paulsen
North by Night / Katherine Ayres
The Novels of Scott O'Dell
An Ocean Apart, A World Away / Lensey Namioka

The People of Sparks / Jeanne DuPrau
A Piece of Heaven / Sharon Dennis Wyeth
The Pigman / Paul Zindel
A Place to Belong / Joan Lowery Nixon
Quiver / Stephanie Spinner
Radiance Descending / Paula Fox
The Rag and Bone Shop / Robert Cormier
Ransom / Lois Duncan
The Ransom of Mercy Carter / Caroline B. Cooney

Red Wolf's Daughter, MythQuest #3 / novelization by Tom Mason and Dan Danko

The Rifle / Gary Paulsen
River Thunder / Will Hobbs
The River / Gary Paulsen
Rumble Fish / S.E. Hinton
Sarny / Gary Paulsen
Search for the Shadowman / Joan Lowery Nixon

See You Down the Road / Kim Ablon Whitney
Shabanu / Suzanne Fisher Staples
The Sign of the Beaver / Elizabeth George Speare
A Single Shard / Linda Sue Park 
Skellig / David Almond
The Slave Dancer / Paula Fox

Small Steps / Louis Sachar
Soldier's Heart / Gary Paulsen
Spite Fences / Trudy Krisher
Sport / Louise Fitzhugh
Stargirl / Jerry Spinelli
Stealing Freedom / Elisa Carbone
Storm Warriors / Elisa Carbone
Stranger with My Face / Lois Duncan
The Subtle Knife / Philip Pullman 
Summer of Fear / Lois Duncan

Swear to Howdy / Wendelin Van Draanen
A Swiftly Tilting Planet / Madeleine L'Engle
Taming The Star Runner / S.E. Hinton
Tex / S.E. Hinton
They Never Came Home / Lois Duncan
The Third Eye / Lois Duncan
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break / Lensey Namioka

Tiger / Jeff Stone

The Time Hackers / Gary Paulsen

Trouble Don't Last / Shelley Pearsall
The Tucket Books / Gary Paulsen
Tucket's Gold / Gary Paulsen
Tucket’s Home / Gary Paulsen
Tucket's Ride / Gary Paulsen
Twelve Shots / Harry Mazer
Under the Blood Red Sun / Graham Salisbury
The Voice on the Radio / Caroline B. Cooney
The War Between the Classes / Gloria D. Miklowitz

The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 / Christopher Paul Curtis
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town / Kimberly Willis Holt
Whirligig / Paul Fleischman
A Wind in the Door / Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle In Time / Madeleine L'Engle
The Young Adult Novels of S.E. Hinton
Zia / Scott O'Dell