Young Adult Literature - This list is a compilation of recommended reading
lists for middle school age students. For additional books, please come and
examine the listings for Adolescent Literature, which is kept in a spiral
bound book in the classroom.
* Lois Coombs Sarah On Her Own
* Kristina Gregory Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War
Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
* Howard Fast April Morning
* Deford & Stout An Enemy Among Them
* Peter Carter Borderlands
* Elisa Carbone Stealing Freedom
* Kathryn Lasky Beyond the Divide
* Barry Denenberg The Journal of William Thomas Emerson
* Christopher Paul Curtis The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963
* James L. Collier My Brother Sam is Dead
* Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons
* David Klass You Don't Know Me
* Kathryn Lasky A Journey to the New World: The Diary of
Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620
* Sharon G. Flake The Skin I'm In
* S.E. Hinton The Outsiders
* Phillip Pullman Golden Compass
* Esmeralda Santiago When I Was Puerto Rican
* Collier and Collier War comes to willy freeman
* Collier and Collier Jump ship to freedom
* Kathryn Lasky True North
* Virginia Hamilton Anthony Burns
* Julius Lester To Be a Slave
* Elizabeth Yates Amos Fortune
* Paula Fox Slave Dancer
* Linda Sue Park When My Name Was Keoko
* Kate Dicamillo The Tale of Desperaux
Because of Winn Dixie
* Karen Hesse Witness
* Sharon G. Flake Skin I'm In
* Sharon M. Draper Double Dutch
Tiger Tears
* Kevin Henkes Olive's Ocean
* David Levithan Boy Meets Boy
* Jacqueline Woodson Miracle's Boys
* Gary Soto Taking Sides
* Jane Yolen Devil's Arithmetic
* Laurie Halse Anderson Fever, 1793
* Robert Cormier Rag and Bone Shop
New York Public Library - Additional Reading Lists
http://teenlink.nypl.org/bta1.cfm
Barnes and Nobles - Read the first few pages of the book.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookstore.asp?userid=wp4alT7AIL
Amazon - Read the first few pages of the book.
http://www.amazon.com