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7th-9th Grade Reading List

NEWBERY MEDAL WINNERS & HONOR BOOKS

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2.9 / Like Jake and Me (32pg) / Mavis Jukes
2.9 / The Upstairs Room / Johanna Reiss
3.4 / Sarah, Plain and Tall (58pg) / Patricia MacLachlan
3.5 / Al Capone Does My Shirts / Gennifer Choldenko
3.6 / Nothing But the Truth: A Documentary Novel / Avi
3.7 / After the Rain / Norma Fox Mazer
3.8 / Crazy Lady / Jane Leslie Conly
3.8 / Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush / Virginia Hamilton
3.9 / The Whipping Boy (90pg) / Sid Fleischman
3.9 / The Hundred Penny Box (47pg) / SharonBell Mathis
4.1 / Carry On, Mr. Bowditch / Jean Lee Latham
4.2 / A Fine White Dust / Cynthia Rylant
4.4 / Kneeknock Rise / Natalie Babbitt
4.4 / The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree / Bill Brittain
4.4 / 26 Fairmount Avenue / Tomie de Paola
4.4 / Pictures of Hollis Woods / Patricia Reilly Griff
4.4 / M.C. Higgins, the Great / Virginia Hamilton
4.4 / Somewhere in the Darkness / Walter Dean Myers
4.4 / Shiloh / Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
4.4 / The Good Master / Kate Seredy
4.4 / Charlotte’s Web / E.B. White
4.4 / Belle Prater’s Boy / Ruth White
4.5 / In the Beginning: Creation Stories from Around The World / Virginia Hamilton
4.5 / Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, And Me, Elizabeth / E.L. Konigsburg
4.5 / Onion John / Joseph Krumgold
4.5 / Number the Stars / Lois Lowry
4.5 / A Corner of the Universe / Ann M. Martin
4.5 / A Visit to William Blake’s Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (44pg) / Nancy Willard
4.6 / The Middle Moffat / Eleanor Estes
4.6 / Lily’s Crossing / Patricia Reilly Giff
4.6 / Ella Enchanted / Gail Carson Levine
4.6 / The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural / Patricia McKissack
4.6 / Bridge to Terabithia / Katherine Paterson
4.6 / The Great Gilly Hopkins / Katherine Paterson
4.6 / The Jazz Man (42pg) / Mary Hays Weik
4.6 / On the Banks of Plum Creek / Laura Ingalls Wilder
4.7 / On My Honor (90pg) / Marion Dane Bauer
4.7 / Secret of the Andes / Ann Nolan Clark
4.7 / The Wheel on the School / Meindert DeJong
4.7 / The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread / Kate DiCamillo
4.7 / The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm / Nancy Farmer
4.7 / Olive’s Ocean / Kevin Henkes
4.7 / Kira-Kira / Cynthia Kodahata
4.7 / From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / E.L. Konigsburg
4.7 / A Wrinkle in Time / Madeleine L’Engle
4.7 / It’s Like This, Cat / Emily Neville
4.7 / The Corn Grows Ripe (88pg) / Dorothy Rhoads
4.7 / Maniac Magee / Jerry Spinelli
4.8 / The Apple and the Arrow (74pg) / Mary & Conrad Buff
4.8 / Yolanda’s Genius / Carol Fenner
4.8 / Our Only May Amelia / Jennifer L. Holm
4.8 / And Now Miguel / Joseph Krumgold
4.8 / Strawberry Girl / Lois Lenski
4.8 / The Light at Tern Rock / Julia Sauer
4.8 / The Noonday Friends / Mary Stolz
4.9 / Summer of the Swans / Betsy Byars
4.9 / Dear Mr. Henshaw / Beverly Cleary
4.9 / My Brother Same is Dead / James & Christopher Collier
4.9 / Walk Two Moons / Sharon Creech
4.9 / Shadrach / Meindert Dejong
4.9 / Sing Down the Moon / Scott O’Dell
4.9 / Old Ramon / Jack Schaefer
4.9 / The Cricket in Times Square / George Selden
4.9 / The Sign of the Beaver / Elizabeth George Speare
4.9 / Miracles on Maple Hill / Virginia Sorensen
5.0 / Crispin: the Cross of Lead / Avi
5.0 / Bud, Not Buddy / Christopher Paul Curtis
5.0 / The Watson’s Go to Birmingham: 1963 / Christopher Paul Curtis
5.0 / Hurry Home, Candy / Meindert DeJong
5.0 / Old Yeller / Fred Gipson
5.0 / Philip Hall Likes Me, I Reckon Maybe / Bette Greene
5.0 / Afternoon of the Elves / Janet Taylor Lisle
5.0 / The Winter Room / Gary Paulsen
5.0 / The Bronze Bow / Elizabeth George Speare
5.0 / Dicey’s Song / Cynthia Voigt
5.1 / The Matchlock Gun / Walter Edmonds
5.1 / A Girl Named Disaster / Nancy Farmer
5.1 / The House of the Scorpion / Nancy Farmer
5.1 / The Planet of Junior Brown / Virginia Hamilton
5.1 / Seabird (58pg) / Holling C. Holling
5.1 / Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH / Robert C. O’Brien
5.1 / Banner in the Sky / James Ullman
5.2 / The Black Cauldron / Lloyd Alexander
5.2 / A String in the Harp / Nancy Bond
5.2 / Ramona and Her Father / Beverly Cleary
5.2 / The Wanderer / Sharon Creech
5.2 / Rufus M. / Eleanor Estes
5.2 / My Side of the Mountain / Jean Craighead George
5.2 / Hoot / Carl Hiaasen
5.2 / A Ring of Endless Light / Madeleine L’Engle
5.2 / Dogsong / Gary Paulsen
5.2 / Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories / Isaac Bashevis Singer
5.2 / Shadow of a Bull / Maia Wojciechowska
5.3 / Sounder / William H. Armstrong
5.3 / The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle / Avi
5.3 / Gone-AwayLake / Elizabeth Enright
5.3 / Misty of Chincoteague / Maguerite Henry
5.3 / Out of the Dust / Karen Hesse
5.3 / The Westing Game / Ellen Raskin
5.3 / Missing May (89pg) / Cynthia Rylant
5.3 / Holes / Louis Sachar
5.3 / The Headless Cupid / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
5.3 / A Solitary Blue / Cynthia Voigt
5.3 / By the Shores of SilverLake / Laura Ingalls Wilder
5.3 / The Long Winter / Laura Ingalls Wilder
5.3 / Dragon’s Gate / Laurence Yep
5.3 / Dragonwings / Laurence Yep
5.4 / The Moves Make the Man / Bruce Brooks
5.4 / Shen of the Sea / Arthur Bowie Chrisman
5.4 / What Jamie Saw / Carolyn Coman
5.4 / The Hundred Dresses / Eleanor Estes
5.4 / One-Eyed Cat / Paula Fox
5.4 / King of the Wind / Marguerite Henry
5.4 / The Animal Family / Randall Jarrell
5.4 / Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison / Lois Lenski
5.4 / The Black Pearl / Scott O’Dell
5.4 / Island of the Blue Dolphins / Scott O’Dell
5.4 / Little Town on the Prairie / Laura Ingalls Wilder
5.5 / The House of 60 Fathers / Meindert DeJong
5.5 / Graven Images (85pg) / Paul Fleischman
5.5 / The Moorchild / Eloise McGraw
5.5 / A Long Way from Chicago / Richard Peck
5.5 / Criss Cross / Lynne Rae Perkins
5.5 / Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1939-1944 / Aranka Siegal
5.5 / Surviving the Applewhites / Stephanie S. Tolan
5.6 / Waterless Mountain / Laura Adams Armer
5.6 / Mr. Popper’s Penguins / Richard & Florence Atwater
5.6 / Minn of the Mississippi (85pg) / Holling C. Holling
5.6 / These Happy Golden Years / Laura Ingalls Wilder
5.7 / Along Came a Dog / Meindert DeJong
5.7 / Thimble Summer / Elizabeth Enright
5.7 / Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey / Jamake Highwater
5.7 / The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl / David Kherdian
5.7 / The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle / Hugh Lofting
5.7 / The Giver / Lois Lowry
5.7 / Jacob Have I Loved / Katherine Paterson
5.7 / Hatchet / Gary Paulsen
5.7 / The Witches of Worm / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
5.7 / The Witch of Blackbird Pond / Elizabeth George Speare
5.7 / Journey Outside / Mary Steele
5.7 / Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry / Mildred D. Taylor
5.8 / Julie of the Wolves / Jean Craighead George
5.8 / Justin Morgan Had a Horse / Marguerite Henry
5.8 / Everything on a Waffle / Polly Horvath
5.8 / Sugaring Time (64pg) / Kathryn Lasky
5.8 / Moccasin Trail / Eloise Jarvis McGraw
5.8 / A Year Down Yonder / Richard Peck
5.9 / Miss Hickory / Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
5.9 / The Cat Who Went to Heaven (74pg) / Elizabeth Coatsworth
5.9 / Johnny Tremain / Esther Forbes
5.9 / The Gammage Cup / Carol Kendall
5.9 / The View from Saturday / E.L. Konigsburg
5.9 / The Tombs of Atuan / Ursula K. LeGuin
5.9 / Carver: A Life in Poems / Marilyn Nelson
5.9 / The Higher Power of Lucky / Susan Patron
5.9 / Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy / Gary D. Schmidt
5.9 / Abel’s Island / William Steig
6.0 / Caddie Woodlawn / Carol Ryrie Brink
6.0 / The Midwife’s Apprentice / Karen Cushman
6.0 / Ginger Pye / Eleanor Estes
6.0 / The Slave Dancer / Paula Fox
6.0 / PrincessAcademy / Shannon Hale
6.0 / The Thief / Megan Whalen Turner
6.1 / The High King / Lloyd Alexander
6.1 / Hope Was Here / Joan Bauer
6.1 / What Hearts / Bruce Brooks
6.1 / Rifles for Watie / Harold Keith
6.1 / Fog Magic / Julia Sauer
6.2 / The Dark is Rising / Susan Cooper
6.2 / The Grey King / Susan Cooper
6.2 / The Door in the Wall / Marguerite de Angeli
6.2 / Calico Bush / Rachel Field
6.2 / Call It Courage / Armstrong Sperry
6.3 / The Endless Steppe / Esther Hautzig
6.3 / The Golden Goblet / Eloise Jarvis McGraw
6.3 / The Perilous Gard / Elizabeth Marie Pope
6.3 / Roller Skates / Ruth Sawyer
6.4 / Catherine, Called Birdy / Karen Cushman
6.4 / Rabbit Hill / Robert Lawson
6.4 / Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze / Elizabeth Lewis
6.4 / The Egypt Game / Zilpha Keatley Snyder
6.5 / Blue Willow / Doris Gates
6.5 / Adam of the Road / Elizabeth Janet Gray
6.5 / Smoky, the Cowhorse / Will James
6.5 / Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon / Dhan Gopal Mukerji
6.5 / I, Juan de Pareja / Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
6.5 / Amos Fortune, Free Man / Elizabeth Yates
6.6 / Across Five Aprils / Irene Hunt
6.6 / Up a Road Slowly / Irene Hunt
6.6 / A Single Shard / Linda Sue Park
6.6 / The White Stag (94pg) / Kate Seredy
6.7 / A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal / Joan W. Blos
6.7 / The Dark Frigate / Charles Hawes
6.8 / The Twenty-One Balloons / William Pene du Bois
6.8 / The Blue Sword / Robin McKinley
6.8 / The Horsecatcher / Mari Sandoz
6.9 / To Be a Slave / Julius Lester
7.0 / The Hero and the Crown / Robin McKinley
7.0 / Swift Rivers / Cornelia Meigs
7.1 / Hitty, Her First Hundred Years / Rachel Field
7.1 / The Trumpeter of Krakow / Eric P. Kelly
7.1 / Rascal / Sterling North
7.2 / Incident at Hawk’s Hill / Allan W. Eckert
7.3 / The Golden Fleece and The Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles / Padraic Colum
7.3 / Enchantress from the Stars / Sylvia Louise Engdahl
7.7 / Lincoln: A Photobiography / Russell Freedman
7.7 / The Wright Brothers: How They Invented
The Airplane / Russell Freedman
7.8 / Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow / Susan Campbell Bartoletti
7.8 / Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery / Russell Freedman
8.0 / George Washington’s World / Genevieve Foster
8.0 / Invincible Louisa: The Story of “Little Women” / Cornelia Meigs
9.0 / An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story Of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 / Jim Murphy
9.9 / The Story of Mankind / Hendrik Willem van Loon