Trachtenberg
Reading List
(Less Challenging)
Chasing Vermeer
October Sky
The House of the Scorpion
The Outsiders
Walk Two Moons
Summer of My German Soldier
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Westing Game
A Wrinkle in Time
Anne of Green Gables
Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf
Wicked
Criss-Cross
Hope was Here
Rules of the Road
Schooled
Click to Find out How I Survived Seventh Grade
Lyddie
The Book Thief
Time Cat
High King
Toran Wanderer
The Book of Three
Heir Apparent
Life as we Knew It
Down the Rabbit Hole
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
Peak
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Nothing But the Truth
Eragon
Boy Meets Boy
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 ¾
Into Thin Air
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
Revenge of the Whale, or In the Heart of the Sea
Seabiscuit
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
The Pigman
A Star for the Latecomer
Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on My Eyeball
My Darling, My Hamburger
I Never Loved Your Mind
Do Bananas Chew Gum?
How to Eat Fried Worms
Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
Blue Balliatt
Homer Hickam
Nancy Farmer
S.E. Hinton
Sharon Creech
Bette Green
Wilson Rawls
Ellen Rankin
Madeleine L’Engle
Lucy Montgomery
Jennifer Holm
Gregory Maguire
Lynn Rae Perkins
Joan Bauer
Joan Bauer
Gordon Korman
Denise Vega
Katherine Paterson
Markus Zusak
Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Alexander
Vivian Van de Velde
Susan Beth Pfeffer
Peter Abrahams
Laurie R. King
Roland Smith
Avi
Avi
Christopher Paolini
David Levithan
Sue Townsend
josh Krakaur
Ralph Helfer
Nathaniel Philbrick
Laura Hillenbrand
Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel
Paul Zindel
James Gilson
Thomas Rockwell
Paula Danziger
Paula Danziger
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Trachtenberg
Reading List
(Less Challenging)
The Divorce Express
The Pistachio Prescription
The Bat in Bunk Five
Quiver
Zel
The Midwife’s Apprentice
Catherine, Called Birdy
Shiloh
Dragonwings
Sounder
The Egypt Game
Up a Road Slowly
Across Five Aprils
My Side of the Mountain
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Ghandi, Fighter Without a Sword
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
Because of Winn-Dixie
The Chocolate War
I am the Cheese
The Killing of Mr. Griffin
Briar Rose
The Devil’s Arithmetic
The Golden Compass (also known as Northern Lights
Inkheart
Savvy
Under the Baseball Moon
The Boy Who Saved Baseball
The Wizard fo Earthsea series
The Merlin Effect series
Beauty
Shiver
Alanna: The First Adventure series
The Maze Runner
Dread Locks
Goddess of Yesterday
Lost in the Labyrinth
The Shadow Thieves
Leonardo’s Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as
Leonardo da Vinci’s Servant
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
Bud, Not Buddy
Knots in my Yo-Yo String
The Mysterious Benedict Society series
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series
Lost Shot: A Final Four Mystery
Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl
Paula Danziger
Paula Danziger
Paula Danziger
Stephanie Spinner
Donna Jo Napoli
Karen Cushman
Karen Cushman
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Laurence Yep
William H. Armstrong
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Scott O’Dell
Irene Hunt
Jean Craighead George
Elizabeth George Speare
Jeanette Eaton
Padriac Colum
Kate DiCamillo
Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier
Lois Duncan
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen
Philip Pullman
Cornelia Funke
Ingrid Law
John H. Ritter
John H. Ritter
Ursula K. LeGuin
T.A. Barron
Robin McKinley
Maggie Stiefvater
Tamora Pierce
James Dashner
Neal Shusterman
Caroline B. Cooney
Patrice Kindl
Anne Ursu
Christopher Grey
Christopher Paul Curtis
Christopher Paul Curtis
Jerry Spinelli
Trenton Lee Stewart
Alexander McCall Smith
John Feinstein
John Feinstein
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Trachtenberg
Reading List
(Less Challenging)
An Abundance of Katherines
Looking for Alaska
Bronx Masquerade
I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your
Class President
A Mango-Shaped Space
When You Reach Me
Among the Hidden series
Elsewhere
Feed
The Last Book in the Universe
Tanglewreck
Uglies
Dairy Queen
Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
The Last Shot
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Slam
Toby Wheeler, Eighth Grade Bench Warmer
Bat 6
Downriver
Football Genius
Crackback
The Big Field
Travel Team
Heat
Game Changers
Full Court Press
Miracle on 49th Street
Whale Talk
Within Reach
Rules
Caleb’s Choice
Small Steps
Holes
The Second Mrs. Giocanda
The View from Saturday
A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
The Samurai’s Tale
The Shakespeare Stealer
Lyddie
Hatchet
The River
Brian’s Winter
Brian’s Return
Tracker
Woods Runner
John Green
John Green
Nikki Grimes
Josh Lieb
Wendy Mass
Rebecca Stead
Margaret Haddix Peterson
Gabrielle Zevin
M.T. Anderson
Rodman Philbrick
Jeanette Winterson
Scott Westerfeld
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Eliot Asinof
Darcy Frey
Michael Lewis
Walter Dean Myers
Thatcher Heldring
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Will Hobbs
Tim Green
John Coy
Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica
Mike Lupica
Chris Crutcher
Mark Pftzer & Jack Galvin
Cynthia Lord
G. Clifton Wisler
Louis Sachar
Louis Sacher
E.L. Koningsburg
E.L. Koningsburg
E.L. Koningsburg
Erik C. Haugaard
Gary Blackwood
Katherine Paterson
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
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Trachtenberg
Reading List
(Less Challenging)
Soldier’s Heart
The Car
Winterdance:The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod
Iditarodd:Toughest Race on Earth
Dogsong
My Life in Dog Years
Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice, and Destructive Properties of
Deception
Gimme a Call
May I Cross Your Golden River?
My Brother Sam is Dead
Half Magic (Series)
Winning
Summer of the Swans
Black Stallion (Series)
Man O’ War
Eric
A Summer to Die
Find a Stranger, Say Goodby
One Fat Summer
The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars
The Best Little Girl in the World
Father Figure
The Story of Kin Arthur and His Knights(398)
The Once and Future King
The Sword and the Stone
Mom, the Wolfman, and Me
Confessions of an Only Child
If You Could See What I Hear(921)
Adventures in Darkness (921)
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Sarah Mlynowski
Paige Dixon
James Lincoln Collier and
Christopher Collier
Edward Eager
Brian Brancato
Betsy Byers
Walter Farley
Walter Farley
Doris Lund
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry
Robert Lipsyte
Robert Newman
Steven Levenkron
Richard Peck
Howard Pyle
T.H. White
T.H. White
Norma Klein
Norma Klein
Tom Sullivan
Tom Sullivan
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