Denton ISD Grades 6-8 Suggested Reading

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Denton ISD

Grades 6-8

Suggested Reading

Among the Hidden – Margaret Peterson Haddix

Another Way to Dance – Martha Southgate

Because of Winn-Dixie – Kate DeCamillo

Blue Skin of the Sea (The) – Graham Salisbury

Broccoli Tapes (The) – Jan Slepian

Bud, Not Buddy – Christopher Paul Curtis

Catherine Called Birdy – Karen Cushman

Chasing Redbird – Sharon Creech

Children of the River – Linda Crew

Circuit (The): Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child – Francisco Jimenez

Color of My Words (The)

– Lynn Joseph

Corpses, Coffins and Crypts: A History of Burial – Penny Colman

Cowboy Ghost – Robert Newton Peck

Danger Zone – David Klass

Door in the Wall (The)

– Marguerite DeAngeli

Ear, The Eye, and the Arm (The)

– Nancy Farmer

Esperanza Rising – Pam Muñoz Ryan

Everything on a Waffle – Polly Horvath

Far North – Will Hobbs

Flipped – Wendelin Van Draanen

Foxgrass (The) – Gary Paulsen

Freak the Mighty – Rodman Philbrick

Gathering Blue – Lois Lowry

Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho – Jon Katz

Girl Named Disaster (A) – Nancy Farmer

Giver (The) – Lois Lowry

Golden Compass – Philip Pullman

GrowingUpInCoalCountry –SusanBartolet

Harry Potter Series – J.K. Rowling

The Sorcerer’s Stone

The Chamber of Secrets

The Prisoner of Azkaban

The Goblet of Fire

Heaven – Angela Johnson

Hero and the Crown (The)

– Robin McKinley

Homeless Bird – Gloria Whelan

Hope Was Here – Joan Bauer

I Am the Cheese – Robert Cormier

I Heard the Owl Call My Name – Margaret Craven

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer –

Irene Gut Opdyke and Jennifer Armstrong

Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer

Island (The)

– David Borofka

Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne

Jungle Dogs – Graham Salisbury

Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson

King of Shadows – Susan Cooper

Knots in My Yo-Yo String – Jerry Spinelli

Land (The) – Mildred D. Taylor

Lord of the Nutcracker Men – Iain Lawrence

Love Among the Walnuts: Or How I Saved My

Entire Family from Being Poisoned – Jean Ferris

Make Lemonade – Virginia Euwer Wolff

Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli

Mary, Bloody Mary – Carolyn Meyer

Medea and Other Plays -- Euripides

Member of the Wedding – Carson McCullers

Memories of Summer – Ruth White

Midwife’s Apprentice (The) – Karen Cushman

Miles’ Song – Alice McGill

Miracle’s Boys

– Jacqueline Woods

Missing May

– Cynthia Rylant

Moves Make the Man (The)

– Bruce Brooks

My Louisiana Sky – Kimberly Willis Holt

Nightjohn – Gary Paulsen

No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War – Anita Lobel

Nobody’s Family is Going to Change – Louise Fitzhugh

Nory Ryan’s Song – Patricia Reilly Giff

Nothing But the Truth -- Avi

Oliver Twist

—Charles Dickens

Ox-Bow Incident

– Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Petey

– Ben Mikaelsen

Pocho

– José Antonio Villarreal

Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy

Rag and Bone Shop – Robert Cormier

Rascal – Sterling North

Roughnecks – Thomas Cochran

Rules of the Road – Joan Bauer

St. Joan of Arc – Margaret and Matthew Bunson

Saskaid (The)

– Brian Hall

Series of Unfortunate Events (A) – Lemony Snicket

Bad Beginning

Reptile Room

Wide Window

Miserable Mill

Austere Academy

Ersatz Elevator

Vile Village

Hostile Hospital

Carnivorous Carnival

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography

Shiloh – Phyllis Reynolds

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

– Jennifer Armstrong

Single Shard (A) – Linda Sue Park

Sirena – Donna Jo Napoli

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