6th-8th Grade Book List


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1000 Play Thinks by Ivan Moscovich. il Tim Robinson

100 Cupboards by N. D. Wilson

11 Birthdays by Wendy Mass

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Ain't Gonna Study War No More by Milton Meltzer

Airman by Eoin Colfer

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

Alchemy and Meggy Swann by Karen Cushman

All Alone in the Universe by Lynne Rae Perkins

Alone Across the Arctic: One Woman's Epic Journey by Dog Team by Pam Flowers with Ann Dixon

Amazing Sun Fun Activities by Michael Daley

Americans Who Tell the Truth by Robert Shetterly

The Ancient One by T. A. Barron

The Ancient Technology Series by Michael Woods and Mary B. Woods

Archer's Quest by Linda Sue Park

Archimedes: Greatest Scientist of the Ancient World by D. C. Ipsen

Around the World in a Hundred Years: From Henry the Navigator to Magellan by Jean Fritz

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

The Arthur Trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland

Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François

Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Befiddled by Pedro de Alcantara

Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld

Behind the Curtain: An Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abrahams

Ben Franklin's Almanac by Candace Fleming

The Betrayal of Maggie Blair by Elizabeth Laird

Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Bowman's Store: A Journey to Myself by Joseph Bruchac

The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War by Jim Murphy

Bringing Ezra Back by Cynthia DeFelice

The Broken Lands by Kate Milford

Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Calder Game by Blue Balliett

Calico Bush by Rachel Field

Camelot ed by Jane Yolen

The Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

Catch A Tiger By The Toe by Ellen Levine

Charlie Bone Series by Jenny Nimmo

Charlie's Raven by Jean Craighead George

Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett

The Great Tree of Avalon by T. A. Barron

The Chrestomanci Books by Diana Wynne Jones

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick

The Circle of Magic Series by Tamora Pierce

Cities by Robert Royston

City of Fire by Laurence Yep

Civil Liberties, Opposing Viewpoints series ed by Auriana Ojeda

Clariel by Garth Nix

A Coalition of Lions by Elizabeth E. Wein

The Color of Absence ed by James Howe

Comic Strips: Create Your Own Comic Strips From Start to Finish by Art Roche

The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Pretend Soup & Honest Pretzels by Mollie Katzen

Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

Cristo and Jeanne-Claude: Through the Gates by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

The Cuckoo's Haiku by Michael J. Rosen. il Stan Fellows.

A Curious Collection of Cats by Betsy Franco. il Michael Wertz

The Danger Box by Blue Balliett

The Dark Deeps, 2nd book of The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade

The Dark Is Rising Series by Susan Cooper

The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson

The Dead Drop by Jennifer Allison, Gilda Joyce detective

Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies by Mary E. Lyons & Muriel M. Branch

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling

Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones

Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abrahams

Dragons & Dreams ed. by Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh

The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan

Eager by Helen Fox

The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer

Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis

Eli the Good by Silas House

Emily Dickinson: A Biography by Milton Meltzer

Encounter at Easton by Avi

The Energy Question: Thinking About Tomorrow by Martin J. Gutnik

Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

Exploring Colored Pencils by Sandra McFall Angelo

Extra Credit by Andrew Clements

A Family of Poems ed by Caroline Kennedy

Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson

Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits by Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson

The Fire-Eaters by David Almond

Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson

First Boy by Gary Schmidt

First Light by Rebecca Stead

Following Fake Man by Barbara Ware Holmes

Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce

Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman

Frindle by Andrew Clements

Garden Crafts for Kids by Diane Rhoades

The Gates by John Connolly

Genius of Common Sense by Glenna Lang and Marjory Wunsch

The Ghost Sonata by Jennifer Allison

The Gideon Trilogy by Linda Buckley-Archer

Gilda Joyce Psychic Detective by Jennifer Allison

G is for Googol by David M. Schwartz. il by Marissa Moss

Give Me Liberty by L. M. Elliott

Goliath by Scott Westerfeld

Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village by Laura Amy Schlitz

The Goodness Gene by Sonia Levitin

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

The Great Circle: A History of the First Nations by Neil Philip

The Great Little Madison by Jean Fritz

The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages

The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman

Grimpow: The Invisible Road by Rafael Ábalos

Guys Read: Funny Business ed. by Jon Scieszka

Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel

Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer

Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers by Jean Fritz

Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling

The Hatchet Series by Gary Paulsen

Heartlight by T. A. Barron

The Heart of a Chief by Joseph Bruchac

Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus

Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde

Hiroshima by Laurence Yep

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

A History of US by Joy Hakim

Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer

The Hunchback Assignments by Arthur Slade

I Am Mordred by Nancy Springer

I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de Treviño

Incident at Hawk's Hill by Allan W. Eckert

In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights by Russell Freedman

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

Into the Dark: An Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abrahams

The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

The Inventor's Times: Real-Life Stories of 30 Amazing Creations by Dan Driscoll, James Zigarelli, and the Staff of The Inventor's Times

The Invisible Rules of the Zoë Lama by Tish Cohen

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass

King Arthur: In Fact and Legend by Geoffrey Ashe

The Kite Fighters by Linda Sue Park

The Landry News by Andrew Clements

The Last Holiday Concert by Andrew Clements

Learn To Speak Music by John Crossingham

Leepike Ridge by N. D. Wilson

The Legend of King Arthur retold by Robin Lister. il Alan Baker

Legend of the Wandering King, The by Laura Gallego Garcia

The Legend of Thunderfoot by Bill Wallace

Leonardo's Shadow by Christopher Grey

Let's Investigate: Number Patterns by Marion Smoothey

Letters from Rapunzel by Sara Lewis Holmes

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. il Keith Thompson

Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead

The Life and Death of Crazy Horse by Russell Freedman. il. Amos Bad Heart Bull

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

Lincoln: In His Own Words edited by Milton Meltzer. il Stephen Alcorn

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt

London Calling by Edward Bloor

The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

The Lost Years of Merlin Series by T.A. Barron

Lunch Money by Andrew Clements

Maddigan's Fantasia by Margaret Mahy

The Man Who Said No by Sally Edwards

Mathemagic!: Number Tricks by Lynda Colgan

Mathematicians Are People, Too by Luetta Reimer & Wilbert Reimer

The Merlin Effect by T. A. Barron

Milton Meltzer: Writing Matters by Milton Meltzer

Mindblind by Jennifer Roy

A Mind With Wings: The Story of Henry David Thoreau by Gerald and Loretta Hausman

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller

The Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien and Jane Leslie Conly

Murder At Midnight by Avi

My Brother Abe by Harry Mazer

My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath

My Side of the Mountain Trilogy by Jean Craighead George

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde

The New Policeman by Kate Thompson

Night Journeys by Avi

Night Wings by Joseph Bruchac

Nothing But the Truth by Avi

Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

On Etruscan Time by Tracy Barrett

Only You Can Save Mankind by Terry Pratchett

On the Blue Comet by Rosemary Wells

Orphan Train Children Series by Joan Lowery Nixon

Out of the Shadows: An Artist's Journey by Neil Waldman

Paintings From the Cave by Gary Paulsen

Paint the Wind by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Peeled by Joan Bauer

The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

The Penderwicks on Gardam Street by Jeanne Birdsall

Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan

Pieces: A Year in Poems & Quilts by Anna Grossnickle Hines

Pocahontas by Joseph Bruchac

Poetry Matters by Ralph Fletcher

The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine by Judith Bloom Fradin & Dennis Brindell Fradin

Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park

Pure Dead Series by Debi Gliori

Q is for Quark by David M. Schwartz. il. Kim Doner

Quest for a King: Searching for the Real King Arthur by Catherine M. Andronik

Qwerty Stevens, Stuck in Time with Benjamin Franklin by Dan Gutman

Qwerty Stevens Back in Time by Dan Gutman

Raggin' Jazzin' Rockin': A History of American Musical Instrument Makers by Susan VanHecke

The Ravenmaster's Secret: Escape From the Tower of London by Elvira Woodruff

Redwall by Brian Jacques

The Report Card by Andrew Clements

Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange by Elizabeth Partridge

Ringside 1925 by Jen Bryant

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

The Romeo and Juliet Code by Phoebe Stone

Room One by Andrew Clements

Rules by Cynthia Lord

Rules of the Universe by Austin W. Hale by Robin Vaupel

Runemarks by Joanne Harris

The Safe-Keeper's Secret by Sharon Shinn

The Saga of Lewis & Clark: Into the Uncharted West by Thomas Schmidt and Jeremy Schmidt

Saving Lucas Biggs by Marisa de los Santos and David Teague

The School Story by Andrew Clements

Search for the Shadowman by Joan Lowery Nixon

Second Sight by Gary Blackwood

Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman

Shadrach's Crossing by Avi Wortis

Shakespeare's Secret by Elise Broach

The Shakespeare Stealer Series by Gary Blackwood

Sherwood ed. by Jane Yolen

Ship by David Macaulay

Signing Their Lives Away by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D'Agnese

Silent To The Bone by E. L. Konigsburg

Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel

A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel

Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? by Patricia C. McKissack and Frederick McKissack

Spiderwebs to Skyscrapers: The Science of Structures by Dr. David Darling

The Squire's Tales by Gerald Morris

Steinbeck's Ghost by Lewis Buzbee

The Story of King Arthur and his Knights by Howard Pyle

A Study in Sherlock ed by Laurie R. King and Leslie Klinger

The Sundown Rule by Wendy Townsend

The Sun, the Rain, and the Apple Seed: A Novel of Johnny Appleseed's Life by Lynda Durrant

The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer

Switching Well by Peni R. Griffin

Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen

Sylvie and the Songman by Tim Binding. il Angela Barrett

The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George

Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation by Jimmy Carter

The Teacher's Funeral by Richard Peck

Ten Queens: Portraits of Women of Power by Milton Meltzer. il Bethanne Andersen

Terrier by Tamora Pierce

Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus by R. L. LaFevers

Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R. L. LaFevers

A Thief in the House of Memory by Tim Wynne-Jones

The Thieves of Ostia by Caroline Lawrence

Thomas Jefferson: The Revolutionary Aristocrat by Milton Meltzer

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin. adapted by Sarah Thomson

Time Capsule ed. by Donald R. Gallo

The Time Hackers by Gary Paulsen

Traces: Framed! by Malcolm Rose

The Traitor's Gate by Avi

Trapped by Roderic Jeffries

Tree Castle Island by Jean Craighead George

The Tree That Time Built selected by Mary Ann Hoberman and Linda Winston

Truce by Jim Murphy

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer L. Holm

Victory Susan Cooper

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

The Water Seeker by Kimberly Willis Holt

Weasel by Cynthia DeFelice

A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

What Came From the Stars by Gary D. Schmidt

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Where the Great Hawk Flies by Liza Ketchum

Wild Things by Clay Carmichael

Windcatcher by Avi

Wind Rider by Susan Williams

Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts by Anna Grossnickle Hines

With Needle and Thread by Raymond Bial

The World of King Arthur and His Court: People, Places, Legend, and Lore by Kevin Crossley-Holland. il by Peter Malone

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

The Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood

The Year the Swallows Came Early by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

Your Atomic Self: The Invisible Elements That Connect You to Everything Else in the Universe by Curt Stager

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