Middle Schools Major Works Reading List
Fall 2006
Capps Middle School
Grade 6
Title/Author
Something Upstairs/Avi
My Side of the Mountain/George
Izzy Willy Nilly /Voigt
Whatever Happened to Janie/Cooney
The Other Side of Dark/Nixon
The River/Paulsen/
The Upstairs Room/Reiss
The Egypt Game/Snyder
Phantom Toll Booth/Juster
White Fang and the Call of the Wild (both in one book)/London
Courage at Indian Deep/Thomas
Woodsong/Paulsen
Tuck Everlasting/Bobbitt
Sherlock Holmes Mysteries (22 stories)/Doyle
Chocolate Fever/Smith
Poems by Robert Frost/Frost
The Mousetrap and other Plays/Christie
Short Dramas and Tleplays/Prentice Hall Library
Wrinkle in Time/L'Engle
Maniac Magee/Spinelli
Grade 7
Title/Author
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea/Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days/Verne
Bearstone/Hobbs
A Christmas Carol and Other Selected Stories/Dickens
A Christmas Carol (Drama) /Horovitz
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone/Rowling
Hatchet/Paulsen
Lyddie/Paterson
No Promises in the Wind/Hunt
Number the Stars/Lowry
Out of the Dust/Hesse
The Outsiders/Hinton
The Red Pony/Steinbeck
The Sea Wolf and Other Selected Stories/London
Treasure Island/Stevenson
Where the Red Fern Grows/Rawls
Woodsong/Paulsen
The Cay/Taylor
Grade 8
Title/Author
Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Twain
Diary of Anne Frank (drama)/Goodrich
Fahrenheit 451/Bradbury
Giver/Lowry
Izzy Willy Nilly/Voigt
My Side of the Mountain/George
Night/Weisel
Old Man and the Sea/Hemingway
Pearl/Steinbeck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry/Taylor
Something Upstairs/Avi
The Other Side of Dark/Nixon
The River/Paulsen
The Upstairs Room/Reiss
Whatever Happened to Janie/Cooney
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
Grade 7
Title/Author
20,000 Leagues under the Sea/Verne
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
The Outsiders/Hinton
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
Woodsong/Paulsen
Grade 8
Title/Author
Diary of Anne Frank (drama)/Goodrich
Fahrenheit 451/Bradbury
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 Underground R.R./Martin
House of Dies Drear/Hamilton
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry/Taylor
Soldier's Heart/Paulsen
Hefner Middle School
Grade 6
Title/Author
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea/Verne
Sherlock Holmes Mysteries/Doyle
Biography & Autobiography /Collection of Authors
Short Dramas & Teleplays/Collection of Authors
The Summer of the Swan/Byars
The Story of my Life/Keller
White Fang and the Call of the Wild/London
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Twain
The Once and Future King/White
Little Women/Alcott
Authors in Depth, Cooper/Collection of Authors
The River/Paulsen
Number the Stars/Lowry
Belle Prater's Boy/White
Bridge to Terabithia/Patterson
Egypt Game/Snyder
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh/O'Brien
There's a Girl in My Hammerlock/Spinelli
Tuck Everlasting/Babbitt
Westing Game/Raskin
Wrinkle in Time/L'Engle
Hatchet (HMS) /Paulsen
Brian's Winter/Paulsen
The River/Paulsen
Grade 7
Title/Author
Rules of the Road/Bauer
Light a Penny Candle/Binchy
The Devil's Arithmetic/Yolen
Searching for Candlestick Park/Kehret
Don't Tell Anyone/Kehret
Woodsong/Paulsen
Glory Field/Myers
Let the Circle Be Unbroken/Taylor
Pocket Full of Rye/Christie
That was Then, This is Now/Hinton
Road to Memphis/Taylor
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days/Manes
Black Star, Bright Dawn/O'Dell
Call it Courage/Sperry
Christmas Carol/Dickens
Fahrenheit 451/Bradbury
Heart of a Champion/Deuker
Holes/Sacher
Jacob Have I Loved/Paterson
Nothing but the Truth/Avi
Out of the Dust/Hesse
Outsiders/Hinton
Quake/Cottonwood
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry/Taylor
Sing Down the Moon/0'Dell
Something Upstairs/Avi
Summer of Monkeys/Rawls
Titanic/Dubowski
Freak, the Mighty/Philbrick
Treasure Island/Stevenson
Where the Red Fern Grows/Rawls
Witch of Blackbird Pond/Spears
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
Bleak House/Dickens
December Stillness/Haber
Diary of Anne Frank/Goodrich & Hackett
Double Life of Pocahontas/Frits
Face on the Milk Carton/Cooney
Farewell to Manzanar/Houston
Flight #116 is Down/Cooney
Freak, the Mighty (KCMS)/Philbrick
Giver/Lowry
House of Dies Drier/Hamilton
Johnny Tremain/Forbes
Light in the Forest/Richter
O' Pioneers/Cather
Old Man and the Sea/Hemingway
Oliver Twist/Dickens
Pearl/Stwinbeck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry/Taylor
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
The Cay/Taylor
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Dahl
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator/Dahl
The Summer of the Swans/Byars
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
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
Maniac Mcgee/Spinelli
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
Out of the Dust/Hesse
Outsiders/Hinton
Pushcart War/Merrill
Summer of the Monkey/Rawls
Where the Red Fern Grows/Rawls
Grade 8
Title/Author
Across Five Aprils/Hunt
An Invitation to the Game/Hughes
Diary of Anne Frank/Drama by Hackett and Goodrich
Diary of a Young Girl/Frank
Gathering Blue/Lowry
The Messenger/Lowry
The Giver/Lowry
Holes (MS English only)/Sacher
House if Dies Drear/Hamilton
Johnny Tremain/Forbes
The Pearl/Steinbeck
Phantom Tollbooth/Juster
Prince and the Pauper/Twain
War of the Worlds/Wells
White Fang/London
The Skin I'm In/Flake
Western Oaks Middle School
Grade 6
Title/Author
The Egypt Game/Snyder
Amelia Earhart - Courage in the Sky/Kerby
Bearstone/Hobbs
Beauty/Wallace
Bridge to Terabithia/Patterson
Call It Courage/Sperry
The Cay/Taylor
Door in the Wall/de Angeli
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler/Konigsburg
Goosebumps -- The Headless Ghost/Stine
Holes/Sacher
Just Juice/Hesse
Park's Quest/Paterson
Return of the Indian/Banks
Sounder/Armstrong
Trapped in Death Cave/Wallace
Tuck Everlasting/Babbitt
The Westing Game/Raskin
Grade 7
Title/Author
The Boy in the Painted Cave/Denzel
Climb or Die/Myers
Don't Tell Anyone/Busch
Far North/Hobbs
Freak the Mighty/Philbrick
Hatchet/Paulsen
Ann Island Like You/Cofer
Moki/Penney, et al.
My Side of the Mountain/Craighead
No Promises in the Wind/Hunt
The Once and Future King/White
Out of the Dust/Hesse
Outsiders/Hinton
Pushcart War/Merrill
Searching for Candlestick Park/Kehret
Secret of the Andes/Clark
Someone Is Hiding On Alcatraz Island/Bunting
Summer of the Monkeys/Rawls
Summer of the Swans/Byers
Where the Red Fern Grows/Rawls
Grade 8
Title/Author
Across Five Aprils/Hunt
Classic Slave Narratives/Gates, ed.
The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe/Poe
The Devil's Arithmetic/Yolen
Diary/of Anne Frank (play)/Diary of a Young Girl/Frank
Flowers for Algernon/Keyes
Freak, the Mighty/Philbrick
The Giver/Lowry
Holes (PCW MS English only)/Sacher
House of Dies Drear/Hamilton
An Invitation to the Game/Hughes
Johnny Termain/Forbes
The Journals of Lewis & Clark/Lewis & Clark
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow/Irving
Letters from Rifka/Hesse
Ordeal by Sea/Helm
The Pearl/Steinbeck
The Phantom Tollbooth/Juster
The Prince and the Pauper/Twain
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry/Taylor
Sherlock Holmes Mysteries/Doyle
The Song of the Lark/Cather
War of the Worlds/Wells
White Fang/London