Recommended Reading List for Grades 6 – 8



Recommended Reading List for Grades 6 – 8

❖ This list of classic literature is recommended for reading. A student who reads these works of literature is more likely become a well-rounded student and person.

❖ Varieties of genres are included in this list. It includes poetry, fiction, non-fiction, biography, and autobiography.

|Author |Title |Reading Level |Date Completed |

|Louisa M. Alcott |Little Women |7.9 | |

|Lloyd Alexander |The Black Cauldron |5.9 | |

|Lloyd Alexander |The Book of Three |5.5 | |

|Stephen E. Ambrose |The Good Fight: How WWII was Won |8.1 | |

|Piers Anthony |Apprentice Adept series | | |

|William H. Armstrong |Sounder |4.9 | |

|Jane Austen |Pride and Prejudice |9.0 | |

|Avi |The True Confessions |6.9 | |

|Natalie Babbitt |Tuck Everlasting |5.9 | |

|Susan Bachrach |Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust |10.0 | |

|Blue Balliett |Chasing Vermeer |5.6 | |

|Susan C. Bartoletti |Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow |7.8 | |

|Ray Bradbury |The Martian Chronicles |5.6 | |

|Charlotte Brontë |Jane Eyre |3.9 | |

|Joseph Bruchac |Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War II |6.4 | |

|Frances Hodgson Burnett |The Secret Garden |6.8 | |

|Elisa Lynn Carbone |Blood on the River: James Town 1607 |4.8 | |

|Orson Scott Card |Ender’s Game |9.0 | |

|Douglas Chadwick and |The Company We Keep: America’s Endangered Species | | |

|Joel Sartore | | | |

|Pang-Mei Natasha Chang |Bound Feet and Western Dress | | |

|Arthur Clark |2010: Odyssey Two |7.8 – 8.3 | |

| |2061: Odyssey Three | | |

|James Collier |With Every Drop of Blood |4.9 | |

|Caroline Cooney |They Never Came Home |4.7 | |

|Caroline Cooney |Face on the Milk Carton |4.8 | |

|Caroline Cooney |The Voice on the Radio |4.6 | |

|Susan Cooper |The Grey King |5.5 | |

|James Lincoln Collier |My Brother Sam is Dead |5.8 | |

|Padraic Colum |The Children of Oden |6.1 | |

|Sara Corbett |Venus to the Hoop | | |

|Steven Crane |Red Badge of Courage |8.0 | |

|Michael Crichton |Sphere |9.0 | |

|Michael Crichton |The Andromeda Strain |7.6 | |

|Christopher Paul Curtis |Bud, Not Buddy |5.2 | |

|Christopher Paul Curtis |The Watsons Go to Birmingham |5.5 | |

|Roald Dahl |Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |5.9 | |

|Roald Dahl |James and the Giant Peach |6.7 | |

|Ingri D’Aulaire and |Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths |5.9 | |

|Edgar P. D’ Aulaire | | | |

|Kate DiCamillo |The Tiger Rising |5.4 | |

|Charles Dickens |A Christmas Carol |4.1 | |

|Charles Dickens |The Prince and the Pauper |8.4 | |

|Siobhan Dowd |The London Eye Mystery | | |

|Sharon Draper |Hazelwood High Series: Forged by Fire | | |

| |Tears of a Tiger | | |

| |Darkness Before Dawn | | |

|Sharon Draper |Romiette and Julio |6.6 | |

|Sharon Draper |Tears of a Tiger |6.5 | |

|Sharon Draper |Double Dutch |4.9 | |

|Sharon Draper |Copper Sun |5.2 | |

|Stephen Dunning |Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle |7.9 | |

|William Durbin |The Broken Blade |4.8 | |

|Amos Esty |Unbound and Unbroken: The Story of Fredrick Douglas |7.7 | |

|John Feinstein |Last Shot |5.3 | |

|Paul Fleischman |Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices |5.2 | |

|Sid Fleischman |Sir Charlie: Chaplin, The Funniest Man in the World |7.0 | |

|Anne Frank |The Diary of A Young Girl |6.5 | |

|Russell Freedman |Who Was First? Discovering the Americas | | |

|Michael French |Flags of Our Fathers (adapted version) |10.0 | |

|Paula Fox |The Slave Dancer |6.4 | |

|Cornelia Funke |Dragon Rider |4.9 | |

|Cornelia Funke |Inkheart |4.9 | |

|Cornelia Funke |Inkspell |5.6 | |

|Jean Craighead George |My Side of the Mountain |6.7 | |

|James Cross Giblin |Charles A. Lindbergh: A Human Hero |5.5 | |

|James Cross Giblin |Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth |7.3 | |

|William Gibson |The Miracle Worker |5.9 | |

|Fred Gipson |Old Yeller |5.4 | |

|Shawn Goodman |Something Like Hope |4.3 | |

|Betty Greene |The Summer of My German Soldier |6.9 | |

|Betty Greene |Morning is a Long Time Coming | | |

|Virginia Hamilton |M. C. Higgins The Great |6.2 | |

|Virginia Hamilton |The Planet of Junior Brown |5.1 | |

|Virginia Hamilton |The Justice Cycle: Justice and Her Brothers |4.5 – 4.7 | |

| |The Gathering | | |

| |Dustland | | |

|James Herriott |All Creatures Great and Small |8.1 | |

|Karen Hesse |Out of the Dust |5.1 | |

|Carl Hiaasen |Hoot |5.8 | |

|S. E. Hinton |The Outsiders |5.1 | |

|S.E. Hinton |Rumblefish |4.1 | |

|Anthony Horowitz |Skeleton Key |5.1 | |

|Irene Hunt |Across Five Aprils |5.5 | |

|Zora Neale Hurston |Their Eyes Were Watching God |5.6 | |

|Brian Jacques |Redwall |7.8 | |

|Gail Jarrow |Lincoln’s Flying Spies: Thaddeous Lowe and the Civil War Balloon Corps |7.8 | |

|Ji-Li Jiang |Red Scarf Girl |6.1 | |

|Watt Key |Alabama Moon |5.2 | |

|Jeff Kinney |Diary of a Wimpy Kid Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid | | |

| |The Last Straw | | |

| |Dog Days | | |

| |The Ugly Truth | | |

|E. L. Konigsburg |From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler |6.8 | |

|Jack London |The Call of the Wild |2.3 | |

|Aldo Leopold |Sand County Almanac | | |

|C. S. Lewis |The Chronicles of Narnia |5.5 to 6.1 | |

|Lois Lowry |The Giver |5.9 | |

|Madeleine L’Engle |A Wrinkle in Time |5.8 | |

|Sue Macy |Bull’s Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley |7.9 | |

|Patricia Santos Marcantonio |Red Ridin’ in the Hood and Other Cuentos |3.9 | |

|Harry Mazer |Boy At War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor |5.1 | |

|Millie McLean |Adventures of the Greek Heroes |6.2 | |

|Carolyn Meyer |Mary, Bloody Mary |6.5 | |

|Kai Meyer |Pirate’s Curse |5.0 | |

|Stephanie Meyer |the Twilight Saga: Twilight |4.2 to 4.8 | |

| |Eclipse | | |

| |Breaking Dawn | | |

| |The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner | | |

|Ben Mikaelsen |Touching Spirit Bear |5.4 | |

|Sarah Elizabeth Miller |Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller | | |

|Sheila Moses |Joseph’s Grace | | |

|Jim Murphy |American Plague |8.9 | |

|Walter Dean Myers |Scorpions |7.1 | |

|Garth Nix |Keys to the Kingdom series |3.9 to 6.8 | |

|Christopher Paolini |Inheritance Series: Eragon |7.7 - 7.8 | |

| |Inheritance Series: Eldest | | |

| |Inheritance Series: Brisingr | | |

|Katherine Paterson |Jacob Have I Loved |5.8 | |

|Katherine Paterson |The Great Gilly Hopkins |6.2 | |

|James Patterson |Maximum Ride series: The Angel Experiment |4.1 to 5.2 | |

| |School’s Out—Forever | | |

| |Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports | | |

| |The Final Warning | | |

| |When the Wind Blows | | |

| |The Lake House | | |

| |Fang | | |

|Edith Patton |East |6.4 | |

|Gary Paulsen |Dogsong |5.8 | |

|Gary Paulsen |Hatchet |6.3 | |

|Gary Paulsen |The Crossing |7.1 | |

|Gary Paulsen |The Time Hackers |5.6 | |

|Richard Peck |The Teacher’s Funeral |5.6 | |

|Edgar Allan Poe |The Tell-Tale Heart |9 | |

|Ellen Raskin |The Westing Game |6.1 | |

|Majorie Rawlings |The Yearling |5.2 | |

|Wilson Rawls |Where the Red Fern Grows |6.4 | |

|John Reynolds |Stone Fox |3.2 | |

|Rick Riordan |Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief |4.1 – 4.4 | |

| |The Sea of Monsters | | |

| |The Titan’s Curse | | |

| |The Battle of the Labyrinth | | |

| |The Last Olympian | | |

|Sharon Robinson |Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America |7.4 | |

|Pam Muñoz Ryan |Esperanza Rising |5.5 | |

|Louis Sachar |Holes |5.2 | |

|Louis Sachar |Small Steps |5.7 | |

|Steve Sheinkin |The Notorious Benedict Arnold |7.3 | |

|Eric Schlosser |Chew On This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know About Fast Food | | |

|Robert Service |Collected Poems |8.5 | |

|Lemony Snicket |A Series of Unfortunate Events series |6.4 – 8.6 | |

|Nicholas Sparks |A Walk to Remember |7.5 | |

|John Steinbeck |The Pearl |5.4 | |

|John Steinbeck |The Red Pony |6.4 | |

|Robert Louis Stevenson |Treasure Island |2.3 | |

|Robert Lewis Stevenson |Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | | |

|Harriet Beecher Stowe |Uncle Tom’s Cabin |7.5 | |

|Nicholas Sparks |A Walk to Remember |5.8 | |

|Elizabeth George Speare |The Witch of Blackbird Pond |6.9 | |

|Janathan Stroud |Bartimus triology |4.8 | |

|Mildred Taylor |Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |6.9 | |

|Mildred Taylor |The Road to Memphis |4.5 | |

|Theodore Taylor |The Bomb |6.8 | |

|Theodore Taylor |The Cay |6.3 | |

|Stephanie Tolan |Surviving the Applewhites |5.7 | |

|J. R. R. Tolkien |The Hobbitt |8.1 | |

|J. R. R. Tolkien |The Lord of the Rings triology |7.9 – 9.0 | |

|Mark Twain |The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |5.9 | |

|Mark Twain |The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |9.3 | |

|Mark Twain |The Prince and the Pauper | | |

|Yoshiko Uchida |Invisible Thread |5.5 | |

|Bea Uusma |The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins |5.2 | |

|Jules Verne |Journey to the Center of the Earth |2.2 | |

|Cynthia Voigt |Dicey’s Song |5.2 | |

|Cynthia Voigt |Homecoming |5.5 | |

|Cynthia Voigt |Izzy, Willy, Nilly |6.2 | |

|Ruth White |Belle Prator’s Boy |4.4 | |

|T. H. White |The Once and Future King |8.6 | |

|Paul Zindel |Pigman |5.9 | |

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