Mr. Schneider's Recommended Books

Mr. Schneider’s List of

Recommended Books

* Grades 5, 6, 7       ** Grades 6, 7, 8     *** Grades 7, 8, 9

                     **** More Mature Content

# Books I have read and recommend; others recommended by students and colleagues

Adventure

#Fardell, John, The 7 Professors of the Far North *

Hobbs, Will, Far North *

#Horowitz, Anthony, Stormbreaker *

#Lawrence, Iain, The Wreckers **

McKernan, Victoria, Shackleton’s Stowaway **

Oppel, Kenneth, Airborn and Skybreaker *

#Paulsen, Gary, Hatchet *

Philbrick, Nathaniel, Revenge of the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship Essex **

Philbrick, Nathaniel, The Young Man and the Sea *

#Sachar, Louis, Holes *

Autobiography and Memoir

#Dahl, Roald, Boy: Tales of Childhood *

#Frank, Anne, The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition **

Morris, Willie, My Dog Skip **

Myers, Walter Dean, Bad Boy: A Memoir **

Fantasy/Fairy Tale

#Almond, David, Skelling *

#Colfer, Eoin, Artemis Fowl *

Funke, Cornelia, Dragon Rider, Inkheart and The Thief Lord *

#Gaiman, Neil, Coraline *

Jacques, Brain, Redwall **

Jones, Diana Wynne, Howl’s Moving Castle *

Pullman, Philip, The Golden Compass ***

Rowling, J. K., Harry Potter Series **

#Snicket, Lemony, The Series of Unfortunate Events Series *

Graphic Novels

Satrapi, Marjane, Persepolis ***

#Selznick, Brain, The Invention of Hugo Cabret **

#Spiegelman, Art, Maus and Maus II ****

Historical Fiction

Blackwood, Gary, The Shakespeare Stealer *

#Choldenko, Gennifer, Al Capone Does My Shirts *

Cromier, Robert, After the First Death ****

#Elliott, L. M., Under a War-Torn Sky **

#Mazer, Harry, A Boy at War *

Meyer, Carolyn, Mary, Bloody Mary **

#Park, Linda Sue, A Single Shard *

Peck, Richard, A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in Stories and The River Between Us **

Sijie, Dai, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress ***

Taylor, Mildred D., Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry *

Yep, Laurence, Hiroshima *

Humor

#Gantos, Jack, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key *

#Hiaasen, Carl, Flush and Hoot **

#Koertge, Ron, Shakespeare Bats Cleanup **

Korman, Gordon, No More Dead Dogs and Son of the Mob **

Paulsen, Gary, The Amazing Life of Birds: The Twenty Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech **

Paulsen, Gary, Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered **

Peck, Richard, The Teacher’s Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts **

Townsend, Sue, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾ ***

Mature Theme Novels

#Cormier, Robert, The Chocolate War ****

#Hartinger, Brent, Geography Club **

#Hautman, Pete, Godless ***

Hinton, S.E., The Outsiders ***

#Howe, James, The Misfits **

Myracle, Lauren, ttyl ***

Oates, Joyce Carol, Freaky Green Eyes and Big Mouth and Ugly Girl ***

Mystery and Suspense

Anderson, M.T., Thirsty ***

#Brooks, Kevin, Martin Pig ***

#Cormier, Robert, The Rag and Bone Shop ****

#Giles, Gail, Shattering Glass ***

#Hautman, Pete, Sweetblood ***

Klause, Annette Curtis, Blood and Chocolate ***

Konigsburg, E. L., Silent to the Bone ***

McDonald, Joyce, Shades of Simon Gray ***

Pullman, Philip, The Ruby in the Smoke **

Raskin, Ellen, The Westing Game *

#Updale, Eleanor, Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? **

Plays

Gallo, Don, editor, Center Stage: One-Act Plays for Teenage Readers and Actors **

Poetry and Poetic Novels

#Creech, Sharon, Love That Dog *

#Fleischman, Paul, Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices *

#Frost, Robert, You Come Too: Favorite Poems for Readers of All Ages **

Glenn, Mel, Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?: A Mystery in Poems ****

#Greenberg, Jan, editor, Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by Twentieth-Century American Art **

#Janeczko, Paul B., selector, A Poke in the I: A Collection of Concrete Poems *

Myers, Walter Dean, Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices **

Nye, Naomi Shihab and Janeczko, Paul B., editors, I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You: Her Poems and His Poems Collected in Pairs **

Rosenberg, Liz, editor, The Invisible Ladder: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poems for Young Readers **

#Rylant, Cynthia, author, Evans, Walker, photographer, Something Permanent **

#Wolf, Allan, New Found Land **

Science Fiction

Anderson, M. T., Feed ***

#Cromier, Robert, Fade ***

#Farmer, Nancy, The House of the Scorpion ***

Short Stories

Cart, Michael, editor, Tomorrowland: 10 Stories about the Future **

#Crutcher, Chris, Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories ***

Howe, James, editor, 13: Thirteen Stories That Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Thirteen ***

Salisbury, Graham, Island Boyz: Short Stories by Graham Salisbury ***

#Thompson, Ted, editor, Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, And Some Other Things That Aren’t As Scary, Maybe, Depending On How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures From The Sky, Parents Who Disappear In Peru, A Man Named Lars Farf…**

Young Adult/Realistic Fiction

Chambers, Adam, Postcards from No Man’s Land ****

#Crutcher, Chris, Ironman, Running Loose, Stotan!, and Whale Talk **, ***

#Draper, Sharon, Double Dutch **

Draper, Sharon, Romiette and Julio ***

Fleischman, Paul, Whirligig ***

Hesse, Karen, The Music of Dolphins *

Ihimaera, Witi, The Whale Rider **

Myers, Walter Dean, Hoops ***

Paterson, Katherine, Jacob Have I Loved **

Ryan, Pam Muñoz, Esperanza Rising **

Soto, Gary, Buried Onions **

Woodson, Jacqueline, Miracle’s Boys **

Zindel, Paul, The Pigman **

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