Upper Merion Area Middle School Bucket
List
100 Books To Read Before You Start High School
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13 Reasons Why
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Alex Rider Series by Anthony Horowitz
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
An Acquaintance With Darkness
Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
Black Mirror: a Novel by Nancy Werlin
Boy Who Dared
Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
By the Time You Read This I’ll be Dead by Julie Anne Peters
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson
The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank
Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
Double Identity by Margaret Petersen Haddix
Dune by Frank Herbert
Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa by Micol Ostow
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Facing the Lion: Growing Up Maasai on the African Savanna by Joseph Lekuton
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Found, Sent, Sabotaged by Margaret Peterson Haddix
A Gift from Childhood: Memories of an Africa nBoyhood by Baba Wague Diakite
Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger by Lois Lowry
Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
Gone with Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Good Enough by Paula Yoo
Grey King by Susan Cooper
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Hero by Mike Lupica
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Holes by Loius Sachar
House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer.
House of Dies Drear by Virgina Hamilton
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson
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I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
If You Come Softly, Behind You by Jacqueline Woodson
Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
IraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq by Iraqirl
The Killing Sea: A Novel of the Tsunami by Richard Lewis
Life as We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe (Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
A Long Walk to Water
Lord of Flies by William Golding
Lord of Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Maximum Ride by James Patterson
Maze Runner, Scorch Trials , Deathcure by James Dashner
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
The Mzungu Boy by Meja Mwangi
No Safe Place by Deborah Ellis
Out of Dust by Karen Hesse
Outcasts of 19 Shuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Rumblefish by S.E. Hinton
The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Shooter by Walter Dean Myers
A Separate Peace.
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O’Dell
Sisterhood of Travelling Pants by Anne Brashares
Skellig by David Almond
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
A Summer to Die
Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Taming the Star Runner by S. E. Hinton
Tex by S. E. Hinton
That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton
A Time for Dancing
A Time of Miracles by Anne-Laure Bondoux
Tripod series, by John Christopher
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Watership Down: A Novel by Richard Adams
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher,
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Wreckers by Iain Lawrence
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Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings