Allen Middle School Reading List
Grade levels are indicated as a reference point. All books are appropriate for middle school students.
|
|
|
TITLE
|
AUTHOR
|
GRADE
|
|
|
|
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
|
Betty Smith
|
8
|
|
|
|
Across Five Aprils
|
Irene Hunt
|
8
|
|
|
|
Among the Imposters
|
Margaret Peterson Haddix
|
7
|
|
|
|
Among the Hidden
|
Margaret Peterson Haddix
|
7
|
|
|
|
Bud, Not Buddy
|
Christopher Paul Curtis
|
6
|
|
|
|
Crazy Lady
|
Jane Leslie Conly
|
6
|
|
|
|
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
|
Avi
|
6
|
|
|
|
Dicey's Song
|
Cynthia Voight
|
7
|
|
|
|
Forged by Fire
|
Sharon Draper
|
7
|
|
|
|
Gifted Hands: The Story of Ben Carson
|
Ben Carson
|
7/8
|
|
|
|
Hatchet
|
Gary Paulsen
|
6
|
|
|
|
Holes
|
Louis Sachar
|
6
|
|
|
|
Hoot
|
Carl Hiaasen
|
7 |
|
|
|
Monster
|
Walter Dean Myers
|
8 |
|
|
|
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
|
Mildred D. Taylor
|
6 |
|
|
|
Song of the Trees
|
Mildred D. Taylor
|
6/7 |
|
|
|
Storm Warriors
|
Elisa Carbone
|
6 |
|
|
|
Surviving the Applewhites
|
Stephanie Tolan
|
7 |
|
|
|
The Cay
|
Theodore Taylor
|
6 |
|
|
|
The Giver**
|
Lois Lowery |
8 |
|
|
|
The Bluford Series (Townsend Press)
|
A. Schraff, P. Langan, and others
|
6-8 |
|
|
|
The House of Dies Drear
|
Virginia Hamilton
|
6 |
|
|
|
Tangerine
|
Edward Bloom
|
7 |
|
|
|
The Glory Fields
|
Walter Dean Myers
|
7/8 |
|
|
|
The Pinballs
|
Betsy C. Byars
|
6/7 |
|
|
|
There's A Girl in My Hammerlock
|
Jerry Spinelli
|
7 |
|
|
|
** Available as a GCS e-book
|
|
|
