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Thanks to all of you who sent me suggestions for 7 and
8th graders. A couple of librarians suggested that I
check the archives for prior lists, but several asked
that I post a hit, so here goes:
CLASSICS
+Indicates title available in BJHE Library
+1984 (George Orwell)
+Across Five Aprils (Irene Hunt)
+Adventures of Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
+ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
+Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
+Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
+Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
+All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Remargue)
+Animal Farm (George Orwell)
+Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery)
+Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)
+Bell for Adano (John Hersey)
+Big Red (Jim Kjelgaard)
+Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
+Born Free (Joy Adamson)
+Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
+Bridge over the River Kwai (Pierre Boulle)
Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thorton Wilder)
+Call It Courage (Armstrong Sperry)
+Call of the Wild (Jack London)
+Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
+Captain’s Courageous (Rudyard Kipling)
+Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
+Color Purple (Alice Walker)
+Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
Crucible (Arthur Miller)
+Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
+David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
+Day No Pigs Would Die (Robert Peck)
+Death Be Not Proud (John Gunther)
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
+Deerslayer (James Fenimore Cooper)
+Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
+Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Lewis Stevenson)
+Drums along the Mohawk (Walter Edmonds)
+Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
+Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
+Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
+Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
+For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
+Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
+Giver (Lois Lowry)
+Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
+Good Earth (Pearl. S. Buck)
+Goodbye, Mr. Chips (James Hilton)
+Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
+Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
+Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
+Green Mansions (W. H. Hudson)
+Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathon Swift)
+Heart of Darkness (James Conrad)
+Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
+Hiroshima (John Hersey)
+Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien}
+Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
+Iliad (Homer)
+Indian in the Cupboard (Lynne Reid Banks)
+Invisible Man (H. G. Wells)
+Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O’Dell)
+Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
+Johnny Tremain (Esther Forbes)
+Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne)
+Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
+Just So Stories (Rudyard Kipling)
+Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
+Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
+King Arthur and His Knights
+Kon-Tiki (Thor Heyerdahl)
+Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
+Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)
+Light in the Forest (Conrad Richter)
+Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
+Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
+Little Men (Louisa May Alcott)
+Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Expery)
+Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
+Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
+Lorna Doone (Richard Blackmore)
+Lost Horizon (James Hilton)
+Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
+Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Howard Pyle)
+Miracle Worker (William Gibson)
+Moby Dick (Melville Herman)
+Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Chrystie)
+My Antonia (Willa Cather)
+My Friend Flicka (Mary O’Hara)
Mysterious Island (Jules Verne)
+National Velvet (Enid Bagnold)
+Night to Remember (Walter Lord)
+Odyssey (Homer)
+Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
+Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
+Old Yeller (Fred Gipson)
+Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
+Our Town (Thorton Wilder)
+Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)
+Pearl (John Steinbeck)
+Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie)
+Pigman (Paul Zindel)
+Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan)
+Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)
+Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
+R is for Rocket (Ray Bradbury)
+Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
+Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
+Red Pony (John Steinbeck)
+Robe (Lloyd C. Douglas)
+Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
+Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
+Sarah Plain and Tall (Patricia MacLachlan)
+Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
+Sea Wolf (Jack London)
+Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
+Separate Peace (John Knowles)
+Shane (Jack Schaefer)
+Silas Marner (George Eliot)
+Sounder (William Armstrong)
+Story of My Life (Helen Keller)
+Summer of My German Soldier (Bette Greene)
+Swiss Family Robinson (Johann Wyss)
+Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
+Tales from the Arabian Nights
Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan)
+Three Musketeers (Alexander Dumas)
+Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
+Time Machine (H. C. Wells)
+To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee Harper)
+Treasure Island (Robert Lewis Stevenson)
+Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
+Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (Jules Verne)
+Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
+War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
+Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls)
+White Fang (Jack London)
+Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
+Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine Lengle)
+Wuthering Heights (E Bronte)
+Yearling (Marjorie Rawlings)(list from Christine
Whitefield)
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try this web site:
http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/library/reading/ya/menu.htm
from Eileen Carmody
Ender's Game by Card
Joan of Arc by Twain (this was very popular)
the Tolkien books
Sabriel by Nix
We have sets of these for reading class or else the
English classes use
them.
The high school uses some books that aren't leveled as
HS reading level
but are longer and more complicated stories such as:
Tomorrow When the War Began by Marsden
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
Other books that I recommend to our better readers
are:
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Crutcher
Adventures of Blue Avenger by Howe
the Dicey series by Cynthia Voigt
a lot of our fantasy/sci fi series (Tamora Pierce is
especially popular
at my school)
Our 8th grade English classes read:
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
Johnny Tremain (Forbes)
Nothing But the Truth (Avi)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Taylor)
The Giver (Lowry)
Huck Finn (Twain)
Hope these help. I get frustrated when the 8th grade
English teacher
comes in wanting 70 kids to check out 8th grade
reading level fiction
when we really don't have that much to choose from.
Most of the
teachers go by a limit of page numbers, which gives us
some flexibility
in terms of reading level to meet the needs/interests
of the students.
Jordan
--
Jordan Martin, Librarian
Astoria Middle School
1100 Klaskanine Ave.
Astoria, OR 97103
http://polk.ga.net/chms/media/favorites.htm
There are the picks of my voracious readers in 6th -
8th grade. Maybe there
are a few titles that you do not already have on your
list.
Susan
--
Susan Brown
Media Specialist
Cedar Hill Middle School
http://polk.ga.net/chms/media/library.htm
Cedartown, GA
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