Seaford Middle School Library Available Common Core Books Got Text Complexity? Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-8 Title Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Comic Book Century: The History of American Comic Books The Frog Scientist George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans Outspied the British and Won the Revolutionary War Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case How to Survive in Antartica M.L.K.: The Journey of a King Smile Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball Author Tanya Lee Stone Candace Fleming Stephen Krensky Pamela S. Turner & Andy Comins Thomas B. Allen Status Have Have Can’t order now Have Have Chris Crowe Lucy Jane Bledsoe Tonya Bolden Raina Telgermeier Catherine Thimmesh Peter Sis Kadir Nelson Have Have Have Have Have On order Have ELA & Literacy Text Exemplars from the Common Core Appendix B for Grades 6-8 Title The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad The Book of Questions Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction Chicago Poems The Constitution The Dark is Rising Dragonwings Eleven The Evolution of Useful Things Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho The Great Fire Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad I, Too, Sing America Jabberwocky Leaves of Grass Little Women Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave A Night to Rememaber The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure Oranges Paul Revere’s Ride The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales The Road Not Taken Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Short Walk around the Pyramids & Through the World of Art The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie Travels with Charley in Search of America Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist The Words We Live by: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution A Wrinkle in Time Author Status Mark Twain Have Anne Frank Have Rosemary Sutcliff & Alan Lee Have Pablo Neruda Have David Macaulay Have Carl Sandburg On order Paul Finkelman On order Susan Cooper Have Laurence Yep Have Patricia Reilly Giff Have Henry Petroski Have Russell Feedman Have Jon Katz Have Jim Murphy Have Ann Petry Have Langston Hughes Have Lewis Carroll & Stephane Jorisch Have Walt Whitman Have Louisa May Alcott Have & Deanna McFadden Ivars Peterson & Nancy Henderson Have Frederick Douglass Have Walter Lord & Nathaniel Philbrick Have Hans Magnus Enzensberger Have & Rotraut Susanne Berner John McPhee On order Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Have & Ted Rand Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon Have & Diane Dillon Robert Frost Have Mildred D. Taylor Have Philip M. Isaacson Not Available/Later Katherine Paterson Have & Leo Dillon Elizabeth Partridge Have John Steinbeck Jan Greenberg & Sandra Jordan Linda R. Monk Madeleine L’Engle Have On order Have Have Earth & Space Science Books for Grades 6-12 Title Are We Alone?: Scientists Search for Life in Space Bodies form the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past Cosmic Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic 1910-13 Every Soul a Star How to Survive in Antarctica Life as We Knew It Life on Earth: And Beyond: An Astrobiologist’s Quest The Mysterious Universe: Supernovae, Dark Energy, and Black Holes Ninth Ward Ship Breaker Siberia Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion Author Gloria Skurzynski James M. Deem Frank Cottrell Boyce Richard Farr Status Have Have Have Have Wendy Mass Lucy Jane Bledsoe Susan Beth Pfeffer Pamela S. Turner Ellen Jackson & Nic Bishop Jewell Parker Rhodes Paolo Bacigalupi Ann Halam Loree Griffin Burns Have Have Have Have Have Have Have On order Have Race & Identity: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12 Title The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume One, The Pox Party Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family The Other Half of My Heart What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People Author M. T. Anderson Status Not Available/Later Shannon Lanier & Jane Feldman Sundee T. Frazier Pearl Fuyo Gaskins Not Available/Later Have Out of Print Women’s Rights: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12 Title Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Crossing Stones Flygirl A Northern Light With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote Author Tanya Lee Stone Helen Frost Sherri L. Smith Jennifer Donnelly Ann Bausum Status Have Have Have Have Have Physical Science/Engineering & Technology Books for Grades 6-12 Title Built to Last Feed First Day on Earth Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein Incarceron It’s a Book Leonardo, the Beautiful Dreamer Little Brother The Reinvention of Edison Thomas Secrets of Sound: Studying the Calls and Songs of Whales, Elephants, and Birds Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon The Unidentified When You Reach Me Author David Macaulay M. T. Anderson Cecil Castellucci Marfe Ferguson Delano Catherine Fisher Lane Smith Robert Byrd Allan Baillie Jacqueline Houtman April Pulley Sayre Status Have Have On order Have Have On order Have Not Available/Later Have On order Catherine Thimmesh Rae Mariz Rebecca Stead Have Have Have Life Science Books for Grades 6-12 Title The Adoration of Jenna Fox Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of Evolution Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith Fourth World The Frog Scientist Guinea Pig Scientists Author Mary E. Pearson Laurence Pringle & Steve Jenkins Deborah Heiligman Kate Thompson Pamela S. Turner & Andy Comins Mel Boring, Leslie A. Dendy & C. B. Mordan The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Castastrophe Loree Griffin Burns & Ellen Harasimowicz How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships Robin Page & Steve Jenkins A Life In the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle Pamela S. Turner to Save the Last Great Beasts & George Schaller Little Monsters: The Creatures That Live on Us and in Us Albert Marrin Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 Phillip M. Hoose The Mysteries of Beethoven’s Hair Russell Martin & Lydia Nibley The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin, Peter Sis Naturalist, Geologist and Thinker Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors Joyce Sidman & Beckie Prange Status Have Have Have Not Available/Later Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Environmental Loss & Extinction: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12 Title The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot The Race to Save the Lord God Bird Stripes of the Sidestep Wolf Where Things Come Back Author Loree Griffin Burns & Ellen Harasimowicz Sy Montgomery & Nic Bishop Phillip M. Hoose Sonya Hartnett John Corey Whaley Status Have Have Have Have Have Common Core Science Books for Grades 6-8 Title An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know about Fast Food Clan Apis ER Vets The Frog Scientist Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin, Naturalist, Geologist and Thinker Author Jim Murphy Status Have Erick Schlosser & Charles Wilson Jay Hosler Donna M. Jackson Pamela S. Turner & Andy Comins Catherine Thimmesh Peter Sis Have Not Available/Later Have Have Have Have Got Text Complexity? Poetry Books for Grades 6-8 Title Birmingham, 1963 Blues Journey Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 Ellington Was Not a Street Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village Locomotion Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems) Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors The Way a Door Closes Author Carole Boston Weatherford Walter Dean Myers & Christopher Myers Ernest Lawrence Thayer & Joe Morse Ntozake Shange & Kadir Nelson Laura Amy Schlitz & Robert Byrd Jacqueline Woodson Linda Sue Park & Istvan Banyai Joyce Sideman & Beckie Prange Hope Anita Smith & Shane W. Evans Status Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Got Text Complexity? Short Stories/Wordless Books for Grades 6-8 Title The Arrival I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion Island Boyz Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope Tales from Outer Suburbia Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories about Girls and the Boys in Their Lives Author Shaun Tan Marilyn Singer Graham Salisbury Beverley Naidoo & Desmond Tutu Shaun Tan Sharon G. Flake Status Have Not Available/Later Have Have Have Have Got Text Complexity? Fiction Books for Grades 6-8 Title Cosmic Elijah of Buxton Hidden The London Eye Mystery March Toward the Thunder Ninth Ward Prime Baby Red Glass Trouble When You Reach Me Where the Streets Had a Name Yellow Star Author Frank Cottrell Boyce Christopher Paul Curtis Helen Frost Siobhan Dowd Joseph Bruchac Jewell Parker Rhodes Gene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk Kim Laura Resau Gary D. Schmidt Rebecca Stead Randa Abdel-Fattah Jennifer Roy Status Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Have Have On order NYS Common Core Aligned Module Titles for Grade 6 Title Bud, Not Buddy D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths Dragonwings Frightful’s Mountain The Lightning Thief Author Christopher Paul Curtis Ingri D’Aulaire & Edgar Parin D’Aulaire Laurence Yep Jean Craighead George Rick Riordan Status Have Have Have On order Have NYS Common Core Aligned Module Titles for Grade 7 Title Author A Long Walk to Water Linda Sue Park Lyddie Katherine Paterson Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Frederick Douglass Status On order Have Have NYS Common Core Aligned Module Titles for Grade 8 Title Inside Out & Back Again Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat To Kill a Mockingbird Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemptio Author Thanhha Lai Michael Pollan Harper Lee Laura Hillenbrand Status Have Have Have Have Common Core Biography, History, Social Studies Books for Grades 6-8 Title Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary Maus: A Survivor’s Tale We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball Who Was First?: Discovering the Americas With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote Author Tanya Lee Stone Joseph Medicine Crow & Herman Viola Elizabeth Partridge Status Have Have Art Spiegelman Kadir Nelson Russell Freedman Ann Bausum Have Have Have Have Have Civil Rights Movement: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12 Title Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice A Dream of Freedom Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’t You Grow Weary The Road to Memphis The Rock and the River A Wreath for Emmett Till Author Phillip M. Hoose Diane McWhorter Chris Crowe Elizabeth Partridge Status Have Have Have Have Mildred D. Taylor Have Kekla Magoon Have Marilyn Nelson & Phillippe Lardy On order Immigrant Experience & Identity: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12 Title American Born Chinese The Arrival Dark Water Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration The King of Mulberry Street La Linea Remix Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924 A Step from Heaven Author Gene Luen Yang Shaun Tan Laura McNeal Ann Bausum Status Have Have Have Have Donna Jo Napoli Ann Jaramillo Marina Budhos Deborah Hopkinson An Na Have Have On order Have Have Justice System: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12 Title Lockdown Monster No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row Author Walter Dean Myers Walter Dean Myers & Christopher Myers Susan Kuklin Status Have Have Have