Sunday, August 16, 2009

Suggested Reading

Wondering what kids read in middle school? Here is a suggested reading list to inspire your Book Drive Social donations.

Modern/Contemporary Fiction
  • Hien, Nguyen Thai Duc Doi song moi/Tren dat moi: A New Life in a New Land
  • Adams, Edward B., ed. Two Brothers and Their Magic Gourds
  • Armstrong, William H. Sounder
  • Borland, Hal When the Legends Die
  • Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451
  • Bradbury, Ray All Summer in a Day
  • Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth
  • Burch, Robert Queenie Peavy
  • Byers, Betsy The Summer of Swans
  • Clapp, Patricia I'm Deborah Sampson: A Soldier in the War of the Revolution
  • Cleary, Beverly Dear Mr. Henshaw
  • Cormier, Robert 8+1
  • Cormier, Robert I Am the Cheese
  • Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War
  • Craven, Margaret I Heard the Owl Call My Name
  • Dorris, Michael Morning Girl
  • Fletcher, Lucille Sorry, Wrong Number
  • Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain
  • Fox, Paula One-Eyed Cat
  • George, Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves
  • Gibson, William The Miracle Worker
  • Gipson, Fred Old Yeller
  • Golding, William Lord of the Flies
  • Hamilton, Virginia The House of Dies Drear
  • Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun
  • Hautzig, Esther A Gift for Mama
  • Hinton, S. E. Tex
  • Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders
  • Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon
  • Knowles, John A Separate Peace
  • Kroeber, Theodora Ishi, Last of His Tribe
  • Lawrence, Jerome and Robert Lee Inherit the Wind
  • Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird
  • L'Engle, Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time
  • Lewis, C. S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  • Mathis, Sharon B. The Hundred Penny Box
  • O'Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins
  • Orgel, Doris Ariadne, Awake!
  • Orlev, Uri The Island on Bird Street
  • Paulsen, Gary The River
  • Paterson, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia
  • Peck, Robert Newton A Day No Pigs Would Die
  • Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan The Yearling
  • Rawls, Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows
  • Richter, Conrad The Light in the Foresta
  • Rose, Reginald Twelve Angry Men
  • Saint-Exupery, Antoine de The Little Prince
  • Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye
  • Saroyan, William The Human Comedy
  • Schaeffer, Jack Shane
  • Soto, Gary Local News
  • Speare, Elizabeth The Witch of Blackbird Pond
  • Taylor, Theodore The Cay
  • Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. The Hobbit
  • Uchida, Yoshiko A Jar of Dreams
  • White, T.H. The Once and Future King
  • Yep, Laurence Dragonwings
  • Yep, Laurence Child of the Owl
  • Zindel, Paul The Pigman
Classic American Literature
  • Alcott, Louisa May Little Women
  • Cooper, James Fennimore The Last of the Mohicans
  • Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage
  • Hale, E. E. The Man Without a Country and Other Stories
  • Henry, O. "The Gift of the Magi"
  • Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Selections
  • London, Jack Call of the Wild
  • London, Jack "To Build a Fire"
  • London, Jack Sea Wolf
  • London, Jack White Fang
  • Poe, Edgar Allan "The Black Cat"
  • Poe, Edgar Allan The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
  • Poe, Edgar Allan Tales of Terror
  • Twain, Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  • Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • Twain, Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • Twain, Mark The Prince and the Pauper
  • Twain, Mark Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • Twain, Mark Tom Sawyer Abroad
  • Twain, Mark Tom Sawyer, Detective
  • Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men
  • Steinbeck, John The Pearl
  • Steinbeck, John The Red Pony
  • Hemingway, Ernest The Old Man and the Sea
  • Wilder, Thornton Our Town
Classic British Literature
  • Barrie, J. M. Peter Pan
  • Shelley, Mary W. Frankenstein
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde
  • Swift, Jonathan Gulliver's Travels
  • Orwell, George Animal Farm
  • Burnett, Frances H. The Secret Garden
  • Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe
  • Dickens, Charles David Copperfield
  • Dickens, Charles Oliver Twist
  • Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol
  • Dickens, Charles Great Expectations
  • Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities
  • Eliot, George Silas Marner
  • Doyle, Arthur Conan Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories
  • Kipling, Rudyard Captains Courageous, Kim
  • Wilde, Oscar The Canterville Ghost
  • Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
  • Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
  • Shakespeare, William The Taming of the Shrew
  • Shakespeare, William Romeo and Juliet
  • Shakespeare, William Julius Caesar
  • Shakespeare, William A Midsummer Night's Dream
Classic World Literature
  • Cervantes, Miguel de The Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha
  • Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo
  • Dumas, Alexandre The Three Musketeers
  • Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Maupassant, Guy de Best Short Stories
  • Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days
  • Verne, Jules Journey to the Center of the Earth
  • Verne, Jules Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • Wyss, Johann The Swiss Family Robinson

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