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Middle School Reading ListThis is a start with sites for the texts on the middle school reading list. I have not fully vetted these, so please, before sharing with students or your children, watch the links yourself.I will add more later.Fiction: Classic and ContemporaryThe Acorn People by Ron JonesThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainAudiobook: of Green Gables by Lucy Maud MontgomeryNetflix: Anne with an EAmazon Prime: Anne of Green GablesYoutube: Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula DanzigerThe Cay by Theodore TaylorYoutube: 1974 movie project Taylor talks about his book: : The Cay by Theodore Taylor narrated by LeVar Burton interview about play of the Owl by Laurence YepA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensAudiobook: : A Christmas Carol, Barbie A Christmas CarolAmazon: several versions of A Christmas CarolYoutube: Street by Frank BonhamEyes of Darkness by Jamake HighwaterFirefly Summer by Pura BulpreFlowers for Algernon by Daniel KeyesYoutube movie : audiobook Persuasion by Jessamyn WestAmazon and Youtube: for rentThe Friends by Rosa GuyYoutube: Tracey Babtiste talks about her experience reading The Friends : Tracey Babtiste honors Rosa Guy by Malcolm BosseThe Glory Field by Walter Dean MyersHoles by Louis SacharAmazon: for rentYoutube: Audiobook Cynthia VoigtYoutube: trailer for the movie : an interview with Cynthia Voigt of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’DellYoutube: audiobook : video about the research concerning The Island of the Blue Dolphins Islander by Cynthia RylantYoutube*: a report on the author Journey Home by Yoshiko UchidaLisa- Bright and Dark by John NeufieldYoutube movie review Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-ExuperyYoutube: Audiobook : trailer for movie : A Little Prince (movie) and a documentaryLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottAmazon: television series, documentary, and 1950’s movie for free and several to rentLibrevox: Several versionsYoutube: : A Comparison of American Film adaptations . Higgins, the Great by Virginia HamiltonAmazon: AudibleYoutube: Meet Virginia Hamilton: audio book Moves Make the Man by Bruce BrooksYoutube: Review by a student – free with a thirty day trialMy Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead GeorgeYoutube: Student summary : About the author : movie for rentPark’s Quest by Katherine PatersonAlso wrote Bridge to Terabithia, To Jacob I Have LovedDescription of the book:: interview with the author (about reading and multi-cultural respect Pearl by John SteinbeckYoutube: full movie : audiobook with text of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred TaylorMovie: of My German Soldier by Bette GreeneYoutube:movie from 1978 : Esther Rolle’s academy award speech : Bette Green American Classic Novelist of the Swans by Betsy ByarsYoutube: movie : *Betsy Byars Talks About Her Characters True Confessions of Edward Doyle by AviYoutube: book review : audio reading : audio reading by Heart by Ouida SebestyenMovie: of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Nyui ChoiThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan RawlingsYoutube: movie : older version for rent newer for freeYoutube: Radio show FictionAcross Five Aprils by Irene HuntYoutube: Across Five Aprils: A Time to Choose (Accessible Preview) : Across Five Aprils in LEGO: : the Dancing Days by Margaret RostkowskiBull Run by Paul FleischmenCatherine, Called Birdy by Karen CushmanTrailer for movie made by students: , Called Birdy: Audiobook with commentary Johnny Tremaine by Esther ForbesJohnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Book Summary) - Minute Book Report Tremain - To Read or Not to Read? available to rent on Youtube moviesMovie preview: by Katherine Paterson3 Things to Know Before You Read Lyddie - Conley's Cool ESL Kate DiCamillo and Katherine Paterson discuss the Writing Process, Chapter 1 Book Trailer Night Journey by Kathryn LaskyHome Studio Tour | Kathryn Lasky summary of the text: of the Dust by Karen HesseYoutube: Video of author : Audio of the Dust movie trailer DUST BOWL: A Film By Ken Burns | Premieres Sun., Nov. 18th | PBS Brief: the Dust Bowl of the Dust by Karen Hesse (student production) Hesse, Newbery author of "Out of the Dust" discusses her books with interviewer Tim Podell.The Slave Dancer (A student production). Slave Dancer by Paula FoxFavorite Books Review #2: The Slave Dancer Slave Dancer Literary Analysis Slave Dancer (a student production using their own art). book on Rakuten Kobo available with free trial Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul CurtisBrief summary of the text and an interview with the author: Channel - The Watsons Go To Birmingham - Featurette of the 16th Street Baptist Church | American Freedom Stories | Biography's 1963 eulogy after the Birmingham church bombing for rent on Amazon PrimeChurch Bombing Survivors Win Case Against KKK | HuffPost Reports who marched for equal rights inspire a new generation Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George SpeareIncludes a variety of subjects concerning the text – including a student movie production Fiction/FantasyAbel’s Island by William SteigThe Book of Three by Lloyd AlexanderThe Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkeinI, Robot by Isaac AsimovThe Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisPeter Pan by James BarriePhantom Tollbooth by Norton JusterThe Shepherd Moon by H.M. HooverSwiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L’EngleThe Time Machine by H.G. WellsTuck Everlasting by Natalie BabbitA Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le GuinZ for Zarchariah by Robert C. O’BrienMystery/AdvetureThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieCall of the Wild by Jack LondonHatchet by Gary PaulsenMotel of Mysteries by David MaucaleyStranded by Ben MikaelsenTreasure Island by Robert Louis StevensonThe Westing Game by Ellen RaskinFolklore/Fairy Tales/MythologyAesop’s Fabile by AesopAmerican Tall Tales by Mary Pope OsborneThe Crest and the Hide (and other African stoires) by Harold CourlanderD’Aulaire’s Norse Gods and Giants by Ingri and Edgar D’AulaireFavorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane YolenGrimm Fairytales by Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmJason and the Argonauts by Mary Pope OsbourneThe People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by Virginia HamiltonThree Strong Women by Claus and Kazue Mizumura StammPoetrySelections from Ben to Yesterdays by Lee Bennet HopkinsSelections from The Collected Poems of John Ciardi by John CiardiSelections from Custard and Company by Ogden NashSelections from The Dream Keepers and Other Poems by Langston HughesSelections from Ego Tripping and Other Poems for Young People by Nikki GiovanniSelections from Four Ancestors: Stories, Songs, and Poems from Native North America by Joseph Bruchac“The Highwayman” by Alfred NoyesSelections from Inner Chimes by Bobbye Goldstein“The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow“Odes to Common Things” by Pablo Neruda“Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman Selections from You Come Too by Robert FrostShort StoriesSelections from Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary SotoWholesale solard@pad … for her bookFrom the Mixed Up Files of The Little PYou Shirley : the Stars ................
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