Middle School Major Works Reading List
Fall 2011
(Note: Not all teachers do all pieces.)
Capps Middle School
Grade 6
Title/Author
Star Girl/Spinelli
Bridge to Terabithia/Paterson
Dogsong/Paulsen
Love That Dog/Creech
Island of the Blue Dolphins/O’Dell
Flipped/Van Draanen
The Fighting Ground/Avi
Summer of the Monkeys/Rawls
Face on the Milk Carton/Cooney
The Egypt Game/Snyder
Phantom Toll Booth/Juster
White Fang and the Call of the Wild/London
Courage at Indian Deep/Thomas
Woodsong/Paulsen
Tuck Everlasting/Bobbitt
Wrinkle in Time/L'Engle
Maniac Magee/Spinelli
Bud, Not Buddy/Curtis
Grade 7
Title/Author
Bearstone/Hobbs
A Christmas Carol and Other Selected Stories/Dickens
A Christmas Carol (Drama) /McDougal Littell
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Rowling
Hatchet/Paulsen
Hope Was Here/Bauer
Lydie/Paterson
No Promises in the Wind/Hunt
Nothing But the Turth/Avi
Number the Stars/Lowry
A Summer Life/Gary Soto
The Outsiders/Hinton
Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight/Paterson
Princess Bride/Goldman
Something Upstairs/Avi
The Red Pony/Steinbeck
The Sea Wolf and Other Selected Stories/London
Treasure Island/Stevenson
Where the Red Fern Grows/Rawls
The Cay/Taylor
Grade 8
Title/Author
Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Twain
Diary of Anne Frank (drama)/Goodrich and Hackett
Esperanza Rising/Ryan
Freak the Mighty/Philbrick
Giver/Lowry
Maus/Spiegelman
Night/Weisel
Old Man and the Sea/Hemingway
Pearl/Steinbeck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry/Taylor
Woodsong/Paulsen
Cooper Middle School
Grade 6
Title/Author
Tuck Everlasting/Babbitt
Wrinkle in Time/L'Engle
Terror at the Zoo/Kehret
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days/Manes
Black Beauty/Sewell
Cages/Kehret
Holes/Sachar
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe/Lewis
Old Yeller/Gipson
Little Women/Alcott
Bridge to Terebithia/Paterson
Grade 7
Title/Author
Black Star, Bright Dawn/O'Dell
A Christmas Carol/Dickens
Hatchet/Paulsen
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key/Gantos
No Promises in the Wind/Hunt
Nothing But the Truth/Avi
Number the Stars/Lowry
Out of the Dust/Hesse
Sounder/Armstrong
Summer of the Swans/Byars
That Was Then, This is Now/Hinton
Where the Red Fern Grows/Rawls
Witch of Blackbird Pond/Speare
The Breadwinner/Ellis
Parzival: The Quest of the Grail Knight/Paterson
There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock/Spinneli
The Egypt Game/Snyder
Taking Sides/Soto
Grade 8
Title/Author
Diary of Anne Frank (drama)/Goodrich and Hackett
Flight #116 is Down/Houston
Face on the Milk Carton/Fritz
Four Perfect Pebbles/Lila & Lazan Pebbles
Freak the Mighty/Philbrick
The Giver/Lowry
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad/Martin
House of Dies Drear/Hamilton
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry/Taylor
Soldier's Heart/Paulsen
Monster/Myers
The Other Side of the Dark/Nixon
Romiette and Julio/Draper
Summer of My German Soldier/Greene
Among the Hidden/Haddix
Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde/Stevenson
The Lilies of the Field/Barrett
Hefner Middle School
Grade 6
Title/Author
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Dahl
The River/Paulsen
Number the Stars/Lowry
Bridge to Terabithia/Patterson
Tuck Everlasting/Babbitt
Hatchet/Paulsen
Brian's Winter/Paulsen
Bud, Not Buddy/Curtis
Grade 7
Title/Author
Rules of the Road/Bauer
The Devil's Arithmetic/Yolen
Searching for Candlestick Park/Kehret
Don't Tell Anyone/Kehret
Let the Circle Be Unbroken/Taylor
Pocket Full of Rye/Christie
That Was Then, This Is Now/Hinton
Christmas Carol/Dickens
Heart of a Champion/Deuker
Jacob Have I Loved/Paterson
Out of the Dust/Hesse
Outsiders/Hinton
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry/Taylor
Summer of the Monkeys/Rawls
Freak, the Mighty/Philbrick
Treasure Island/Stevenson
Where the Red Fern Grows/Rawls
Z for Zachariah/O'Brien
The Upstairs Room/Reiss
Tex/Hinton
Grade 8
Title/Author
Night/Wiesel
Across Five Aprils/Hunt
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl/Frank
Boys' War/Murphy
Diary of Anne Frank/Goodrich and Hackett
Double Life of Pocahontas/Frits
Flight #116 Is Down/Cooney
Freak, the Mighty/Philbrick
Giver/Lowry
Johnny Tremain/Forbes
Light in the Forest/Richter
Pearl/Steinbeck
Rifles for Watie/Keith
Books used in reading classes at Hefner
Title/Author
The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm/Farmer
Shiloh Season/Naylor
Driver's Ed/Cooney
The Pigman/Zindel
Holes/Sachar
Freak, the Mighty/Philbrick
The Lottery Rose/Hunt
The Car/Paulsen
Bud, Not Buddy/Curtis
What Jamie Saw/Coman
Downriver/Hobbs
Call It Courage/Sperry
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963/Curtis
Mayfield Middle School
Grade 6
Title/Author
The Egypt Game/Snyder
Around the World in 80 Days/Verne
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator/Dahl
Beauty/Wallace
Bridge to Terabithia/Patterson
Call It Courage/Sperry
Door in the Wall/De Angeli
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler/Konigsburg
Goosebumps -- The Headless Ghost/Stine
Holes/Sacher
Number the Stars/Lowry
Return of the Indian/Banks
Sounder/Armstrong
Trapped in Death Cave/Wallace
Tuck Everlasting/Babbitt
Westing Game/Raskin
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe/Lewis
Summer of My German Soldier/Greene
Devil’s Arithmetic/Yolen
Belle Prater’s Boy/White
The Face on the Milk Carton/Cooney
Whatever Happened to Janie?/Cooney
Phantom Tollbooth/Juster
A Wrinkle in Time/L’Engle
Among the Hidden/Haddix
Island of the Blue Dolphins/O’Dell
Grade 7
Title/Author
Esperanza Rising/Ryan
Climb or Die/Myers
Far North/Hobbs
Freak the Mighty/Philbrick
Hatchet/Paulsen
No Promises in the Wind/Hunt
Outsiders/Hinton
Pushcart War/Merrill
Summer of the Monkeys/Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows/Rawls
Maniac McGee/Spinelli
Holes/Sachar
Hoot/Hiaasen
How to Eat Fried Worms/Rockwell
Because of Winn Dixie/DiCamillo
Tangerine/Bloor
Who Put the Hair in My Toothbrush/Spinelli
Grade 8
Title/Author
Across Five Aprils/Hunt
Diary of Anne Frank (drama)/Goodrich and Hackett
Diary of a Young Girl/Frank
The Giver/Lowry
Johnny Tremain/Forbes
The Pearl/Steinbeck
The Skin I'm In/Flake
Survival Op/Allen
Western Oaks Middle School
Grade 6
Title/Author
Bridge to Terabithia/Patterson
The Lion, the Witch, and The Wardrobe/Lewis
The Skin I’m In/Flake
Walk Two Moons/Creech
Grade 7
Title/Author
Hatchet/Paulsen
Outsiders/Hinton
Grade 8
Title/Author
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe/Poe
The Devil's Arithmetic/Yolen
Diary of Anne Frank (drama)/Goodrich and Hackett
Diary of a Young Girl/Frank
Flowers for Algernon/Keyes
The Giver/Lowry
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry/Taylor