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Realistic Fiction
Anastasia Krupnik, Lowry.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Blume.
Hatchet, Paulsen.
The Library Card, Spinelli.
Maniac McGee, Spinelli.
Not For a Billion Gazillion Dollars, Danziger.
Saving Shiloh, Naylor.
Soup On Ice, Peck.
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Fantasy
The Borrowers, Norton.
Celery Stalks at Midnight, Howe.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dahl.
Mary Poppins, Travers.
Matilda, Dahl.
My Father’s Dragon, Gannett.
The Phantom Tollbooth, Juster.
Poppy, Avi.
Well Wished, Billingsley.
Historical Fiction
Morning Girl, Dorris.
Pedro’s Journal: A Voyage With Christopher Columbus, Conrad.
Spy in the Sky: A Story of the Civil War, Karr.
Tales From the Homeplace: Adventures of a Texas Farm Girl, Burandt.
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi.
Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway? Avi.
Science Fiction
Aliens for Breakfast, Etra.
Harry the Explorer, Sheldon.
Norby and the Invaders, Asimov.
The Plant That Ate the Dirty Socks Goes Up In Space, McArthur.
Mystery
The Losers Fight Back: A Wild Willie Mystery, Joossee.
Never Hit a Ghost With a Baseball Bat, Clifford.
The Riddle of the Red Purse, Giff.
Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts, Avi.
Spider Kane and the Mystery at Jumbo Nightcrawler’s, Osborne.
To Catch a Crook, Haas.
Biography/Autobiography
Arctic Explorer: The Story of Matthew Henson, Ferris.
It Came From Ohio! My Life as a Writer, Stine.
Leonardo da Vinci, Stanley.
Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought), Krull.
Talking to Faith Ringgold, Ringgold.
Wilma P. Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee, Simon.
Wynton Marsalis: Gifted Trumpet Player, Awmiller.
Information
Amazing Magic Tricks, Brown.
Bicycle Book, Gibbons.
Black Women of the Old West, Katz.
The Gettysburg Address, Lincoln.
Growing Up in Colonial America, Barrett.
The World in 1492, Fritz, et al.
Poetry
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More, Worth.
Canto Familiar, Soto.
Falling Up, Silverstein.
Hand in Hand: An American History Through Poetry, Hopkins.
The Palm of My Heart, Adejouma.
Folktales/Legends
Nine-in-One, Grr! Grr! Xiong.
Rainbow Crow: A Lenape Tale, Van Laan.
Stories to Solve: Folktales From Around the World, Shannon.
Sundiata: Lion King of Mali, Wisniewski.
Three Strong Women: A Tall Tale From Japan, Stamm.
Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China, (retold by Louie)
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories, Singer.
Grade 6
Anne of Green Gables, Montgomery.
Jip: His Story, Paterson.
Little Brother, Baillie.
Living Up the Street, Soto.
Monkey Island, Fox.
Oliver Twist, Dickens.
Quake! Cottonwood.
White Fang, London.
Zeely, Hamilton.
The Dark is Rising, Cooper.
Dragonsong, McCaffrey.
The Egypt Game, Snyder.
Ella Enchanted, Levine.
Owl in Love, Kindl.
Playing Beatie Bow, Park.
Shoebag, James.
Time Windows, Reiss.
Tuck Everlasting, Babbitt.
Catherine, Called Birdy, Cushman.
Golden Goblet, McGraw.
Goodbye, Vietnam, Whelan.
I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert, Bunting.
My Place, Wheatley.
The Winged Cat: A Tale of Ancient Egypt, Lattimore.
Dragonflight, McCaffrey.
The Giver, Lowry.
Hand of the Necromancer, Strickland.
McMummy, Byars.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Verne.
Once and Future King, White.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle.
Callendar Papers, Voigt.
Dead Letter, Byers.
Dew Drop Dead, Howe.
The House of Dies Drear, Hamilton.
Jacob Two-Two’s First Spy Case, Richler.
The Mysterious Mr. Ross, Alcock.
The Westing Game, Raskin.
Basher Five-Two: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O’Grady, O’Grady.
Buddha, Demi.
Colin Powell, Blue.
Jim Abbott: Against All Odds, White.
Maya Angelou: More Than a Poet, Lisandrelli.
Where the Flame Trees Bloom, Ada.
The Ancient Egyptians, Marston.
Ellis Island, Kroll.
The Fantastic Cutaway Book of Spacecraft, Hawkes.
How to Make a Mummy Talk, Deem.
A Samurai Castle, MacDonald.
The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History, Major.
To the Top of the World: Adventures With Arctic Wolves, Brandenburg.
Voices From the Fields: Children of Migrant Field Workers Tell Their Stories, Akin.
Water: Simple Experiments for Young Scientists, White.
Fresh Paint, Merriam.
Love Letters, Adoff.
Waiting to Waltz: A Childhood, Rylant.
The Arabian Knights, Philip.
The Dancing Fox: Arctic Folktales, Bierhorst.
How Chipmunk Got Tiny Feet: Native American Animal Origin Stories, Hausman.
Myths of the Norsemen, Green.
Tree of Dreams: Ten Tales From the Garden of Night, Yep.
Grade 7
Fiction
Among the Volcanoes, Castaneda.
A Boat to Nowhere, Wartski.
Child of the Owl, Yep.
Dicey’s Song, Voigt.
Dragonwings, Yep.
Fast Sam, Cool Clyde, and Stuff, Myers.
Homecoming, Voight.
Kidnapped, Stevenson.
Let the Circle Be Unbroken, Taylor.
Little Women, Alcott.
The Moves Make the Man, Brooks.
The Outsiders, Hinton.
The Red Pony, Steinbeck.
Scorpions, Myers.
Sister, Greenfield.
Summer of the Swans, Byars.
Taste of Salt, Temple.
Voyage of the Lucky Dragon, Bennett.
Walkabout, Marshall.
When Thunders Spoke, Sneve.
Where the Lilies Bloom, Cleaver.
Young Landlords, Myers.
Non-fiction
Abe Lincoln Grows Up, Sandburg.
Cry of the Crow, George.
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, Petry.
Ishi, Last of His Tribe, Kroeber.
Junius Over Far, Hamilton.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Harris.
The Road to Damietta, O’Dell.
Silent Storm, Brown.
The Story of My Life, Keller.
Drama
Favorite Tales from Shakespeare, Miles.
Gaucho, Gonzales.
The Miracle Worker, Gibson.
On Borrowed Time, Osborn.
When the Rattlesnake Sounds: A Play About Harriet Tubman, Childress.
Folklore/Mythology
Jataka Tales, De Roin, ed.
Legend Days, Highwater.
Laughing Boy, La Farge.
Prarie-Town Boy, Sandberg.
Biographies
Daniel Boone, Daugherty.
Frida Kahlo: Mysterious Painter, Frazier.
Jesse Jackson: A Biography, McKissack.
Lincoln: A Photobiography, Freedman.
Wilma Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation, Glassman.
The Complete Babysitter’s Handbook, Barkin and James.
Best Ever Paper Airplanes, Schmidt.
Newspapers and Magazines
Circle
Ebony
Faces (Anthropology)
Odyssey (Science)
Scope (Scholastic)
Time
World (National Geographic)
Grade 8
April Morning, Fast.
Because We Are, Walter.
Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya.
The Call of the Wild, London.
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Danziger.
Children of the River, Crew.
Dragon’s Gate, Yep.
Durango Street, Bonham.
A Gathering of Old Men, Gaines.
High Elk’s Treasure, Sneve.
Hoops, Myers.
I Am the Cheese, Cormier.
Lisa, Bright and Dark, Neufeld.
Listen for the Fig Tree, Mathis.
Lyddie, Patterson.
My Brother Sam Is Dead, Collier.
Nilda, Mohr.
The Pigman, Zindel.
The Princess Bride, Goldman.
Road to Memphis, Taylor.
Shane, Schaefer.
Slake’s Limbo, Holman.
Sounder, Armstrong.
Summer of My German Soldier, Greene.
Tell Us Your Secret, Cohen.
To Hell With Dying, Walker.
Treasure Island, Stevenson.
The Upstairs Room, Reiss.
Which Way Freedom? Hansen.
Year of Impossible Goodbyes, Nyul Choi.
Z is for Zachariah, O’Brien.
All Creatures Great and Small, Herriott.
Amos Fortune, Free Man, Yates.
The Cat Who Came for Christmas, Armory.
Cheaper by the Dozen, Gilbreth.
Dancer Zone, Klass.
The Diary of a Young Girl, Frank.
Endless Steppe: A Girl in Exile, Hautig.
A Harbor Seal, Meyers, et al.
No Place to Be: Voices of Homeless Children, Berck.
Outward Dreams, Haskins.
Ryan White: My Own Story, White.
Somewhere in the Darkness, Myers.
The Talking Earth, George.
To Be a Slave, Lester.
Cat Poems, Livingston.
Night on Neighborhood Street, Livingston.
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Eliot.
Poetry of Earth and Sky, Adams.
You Come Too, Frost.
Brian’s Song, Blinn.
Escape to Freedom, Davis.
Inherit the Wind, Lawrence, et al.
Metamora or The Last of the Wampanoags, Stone.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare.
Anpao, Highwater.
Beat the Story Drum, Pum, Pum, Bryan.
The First Strawberries: A Cherokee Story, Bruchac.
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Pyle.
Norse Gods and Giants, D’Aulaire.
The Snow Goose, Gallico.
Tall Tale America, Blair.
Toad is the Uncle of Heaven: A Vietnamese Folk Tale, Lee.
The Glory Field, Myers.
The Slave Dancer, Fox.
Gandhi, Coolidge.
Journey Toward Freedom: The Story of Sojourner Truth, Bernard.
Your Best Foot Forward; Winning Strategies for the Job Interview, Miller.
Pick-up Games; the Rules, The Players, the Equipment, Crisfield.
Sports Illustrated for Kids