Students Entering Grade 6
Please note: Students will be required to read two of these books and complete a project. Please click here to download the project details (PDF).
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert O’Brien
Riding Freedom by Pam Munoz Ryan
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
Woodsong by Gary Paulsen
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Students need permission to read this book from their previous ELA teacher or Special Education Teacher. Students will be informed of this in mid-June.)
Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman (Students need permission to read this book from their previous ELA teacher or Special Education Teacher. Students will be informed of this in mid-June.)
Students Entering Grade 7
Please note: Students will be required to read two of these books and complete a project. Please click here to download the project details (PDF).
Amelia Earhart (DK Biography) by Tanya Lee Stone
Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Heat by Mike Lupica
Matched by Allie Condie
Out of Darkness: The Story of Louis Braille by Russell Freedman
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Synder
The Greatest: Muhammed Ali by Walter Dean Myers
The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements
Watson Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen Fleischman (Students need permission to read this book from their previous ELA teacher or Special Education Teacher. Students will be informed of this in mid-June.)
Song of the Trees by Mildred Taylor Fleischman (Students need permission to read this book from their previous ELA teacher or Special Education Teacher. Students will be informed of this in mid-June.)
Students Entering Grade 8
Please note: Students will be required to read two of these books and complete a project. Please click here to download the project details (PDF).
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt
Jim Thorpe, Original All-American by Joseph Bruchac
Just Listen by Sarah Desson
Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan
King of Shadows by Susan Cooper
Shipwreck at the Bottom of World by Jennifer Armstrong
So B It by Sarah Weeks
Slam by Walter Dean Myers
Summer Ball by Mike Lupica
The Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi
The Road to Memphis by Mildred Taylor
Trouble by Gary D. Schmidt
Surviving Hitler: A boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren
A Dog’s Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M Martin (Students need permission to read this book from their previous ELA teacher or Special Education Teacher. Students will be informed of this in mid-June.)
Notes from the Dog by Gary Paulsen (Students need permission to read this book from their previous ELA teacher or Special Education Teacher. Students will be informed of this in mid-June.)
Schooled by Gordan Korman (Students need permission to read this book from their previous ELA teacher or Special Education Teacher. Students will be informed of this in mid-June.)