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List # / Grade Level
/ Long Season of Rain, The / Kim, Helen / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ December Stillness / Hahn, Mary Downing / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, The / Jimenez, Francisco / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ Dragon's Blood / Yolen, Jane / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ Passager / Yolen, Jane / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer / Opdyke, Irene Gut; "Armstrong / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ I See the Rhythm / Igus, Toyomi / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ New Kid on the Block / Prelutsky, Jack / NP / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Beauty of the Beast: Poems from the Animal Kingdom / Prelutsky, Jack / NP / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Out of the Dust / Hesse, Karen / NP / High School (9-12);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo / Feelings, Tom / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Hailstones and Halibut Bones / O'Neill, Mary / NP / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ What Have You Lost? / Nye, Naomi Shihab (editor) / NP / Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ Snake Dreamer / Galloway, Priscilla / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Maples in the Mist: Children's Poems from the Tang Dynasty / Ho, Minfong / NP / Middle School (6-8);
Primary (K-2);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Random House Book of Poetry for Children, The / Prelutsky, Jack (selector) / NP / Middle School (6-8);
Primary (K-2);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Suitcase of Seaweed, A / Wong, Janet / NP / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Nothing but the Truth: A Documentary Novel / Avi, / NP / Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ Salting the Ocean, 100 Poems by Young People / Nye, Naomi Shihab (editor) / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Black Is Brown Is Tan / Adoff, Arnold / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, A / Fleischman, Paul / NP / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ When the Rain Sings, Poems by Young Native Americans / Gale, David (editor) / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Soul Looks Back in Wonder / Feelings, Tom / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Waiting to Waltz, a Childhood: Poems / Rylant, Cynthia / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Dateline: Troy / Fleischman, Paul / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Mind's Eye / Fleischman, Paul / NP / High School (9-12);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Insectlopedia: Poems and Paintings / Florian, Douglas / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Sierra / Siebert, Diane / NP / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems / Greenfield, Eloise / NP / Primary (K-2);
Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Great Frog Race and Other Poems, The / George, Kristine O'Connell / NP / Primary (K-2);
Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Old Elm Speaks: Tree Poems / George, Kristine O'Connell / NP / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5);
Primary (K-2)
/ Canterbury Tales, The / Hastings, Selina (adapter); "Chaucer / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Light in the Attic, A / Silverstein, Shel / NP / Primary (K-2);
Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Neighborhood Odes / Soto, Gary / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Heartland / Siebert, Diane / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Cool Melons Turn to Frogs: The Life and Poems of Issa / Gollub, Matthew (translator) / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Mojave / Siebert, Diane / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Rainbows Are Made: Poems by Carl Sandburg / Sandburg, Carl / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry / Kennedy, X. J.; "Kennedy / NP / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Quotations for Kids / Senn, J. A. (compiler) / NP / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 / Thayer, Ernest L. / NP / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein / Silverstein, Shel / NP / High School (9-12);
Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Popcorn / Stevenson, James / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Falling Up / Silverstein, Shel / NP / Primary (K-2);
Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life / Hopkins, Lee Bennett / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Dream Keeper and Other Poems, The / Hughes, Langston / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Chasing Redbird / Creech, Sharon / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ War and the Pity of War / Philip, Neil (editor) / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Relatively Speaking: Poems About Family / Fletcher, Ralph / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Lives: Poems About Famous Americans / Hopkins, Lee Bennett (selector) / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Grassroots: Poems by Carl Sandburg / Sandburg, Carl / NP / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Jar of Tiny Stars: Poems by NCTE Award-Winning Poets, A / Cullininan, Bernice E. / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Oxford Book of Poetry for Children / Blishen, Edward (editor) / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Water Music / Yolen, Jane / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ If You're Not from the Prairie / Bouchard, David / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ I Am Wings: Poems About Love / Fletcher, Ralph / NP / Middle School (6-8)
/ Celebrating America: A Collection of Poems and Images of the American Spirit / Whipple, Laura (compiler) / NP / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Rikki-Tikki-Tavi / Kipling, Rudyard / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Summer of My German Soldier / Greene, Bette / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Masada: The Last Fortress / Miklowitz, Gloria D. / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Bull Run / Fleischman, Paul / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone / Rowling, J. K. / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Among the Hidden / Haddix, Margaret Peterson / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Far North / Hobbs, Will / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Clay Marble, The / Ho, Minfong / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Jason's Gold / Hobbs, Will / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Great Brain, The / Fitzgerald, John D. / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Summer of the Swans, The / Byars, Betsy Cromer / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Girl Called Boy, A / Hurmence, Belinda / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Redwall / Jacques, Brian / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions / Musgrove, Margaret / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Other Side: Shorter Poems, The / Johnson, Angela / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Homesick: My Own Story / Fritz, Jean / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? / Fritz, Jean / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Great Gilly Hopkins, The / Paterson, Katherine / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Joey Pigza Loses Control / Gantos, Jack / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Homeless Bird / Whelan, Gloria / 8 / High School (9-12);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Langston Hughes: Poet of the Harlem Renaissance / Rummel, Jack / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ My Side of the Mountain / George, Jean Craighead / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Master Puppeteer, The / Paterson, Katherine / 8 / High School (9-12);
Middle School (6-8)
/ James Printer: A Novel of Rebellion / Jacobs, Paul Samuel / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Nowhere to Call Home / De Felice, Cynthia / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Lady of Guadalupe, The / dePaola, Tomie / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Owl's Song, The / Hale, Janet C. / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Real / Holman, Felice / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Promises to the Dead / Hahn, Mary Downing / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Just Ella / Haddix, Margaret Peterson / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Julie of the Wolves / George, Jean Craighead / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Return to the Painted Cave / Denzel, Justin / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Boy of the Painted Cave / Denzel, Justin / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Just One Flick of a Finger / Lorbiecki, Marybeth / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ Wanderer, The / Creech, Sharon / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Dragonwings / Yep, Laurence / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin, The / Giblin, James Cross / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Sammy Keyes and the Sisters of Mercy / Van Draanen, Wendelin / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Johnny Tremain / Forbes, Esther / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Bomb, The / Taylor, Theodore / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Shaka, King of the Zulus / Stanley, Diane / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Twisted Summer / Roberts, Willo Davis / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Jip: His Story / Paterson, Katherine / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Yeh Shen: A Cinderella Story from China / Louie, Ai-Ling / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Ishi, Last of His Tribe / Kroeber, Theodora / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ View from Saturday, A / Konigsburg, E. L. / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Shades of Gray / Reeder, Carolyn / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Islander, The / Rylant, Cynthia / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor / Lasky, Kathryn / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Summer Soldiers / Lindquist, Susan Hart / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Painters of the Caves / Lauber, Patricia / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Maniac Magee / Spinelli, Jerry / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Baseball in April and Other Stories / Soto, Gary / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Walker's Crossing / Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Silent Thunder: A Civil War Story / Pinkney, Andrea Davis / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Voices from the Fields: Children of Migrant Farm Workers Tell Their Stories / Atkin, S. Beth / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ Journey Home / Uchida, Yoshiko / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Witch of Blackbird Pond, The / Speare, Elizabeth George / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Rules of the Road / Bauer, Joan / 8 / High School (9-12);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Time Apart, A / Stanley, Diane / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Through My Eyes / Bridges, Ruby / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Call It Courage / Sperry, Armstrong / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Face in Every Window, A / Nolan, Han / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ Picture Book of Anne Frank, A / Adler, David A. / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Picture Book of Jackie Robinson, A / Adler, David A. / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief / Van Draanen, Wendelin / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Habibi / Nye, Naomi Shihab / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Ghost of a Hanged Man / Velde, Vivian Vande / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Runaways, The / Snyder, Zilpha Keatley / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ William Shakespeare and the Globe / Aliki, / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Shakespeare Stealer, The / Blackwood, Gary / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Runs with Horses / Burks, Brian / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Heavenly Village, The / Rylant, Cynthia / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ Walks Alone / Burks, Brian / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Tomorrowland: Ten Stories About the Future / Cart, Michael (compiler) / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ Van Gogh Cafe, The / Rylant, Cynthia / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Last Lobo, The / Smith, Roland / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories / Singer, Isaac Bashevis / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Dandelion Wine / Bradbury, Ray / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Secret Letters from 0 to 10 / Morgenstern, Susie / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8)
/ Door Near Here, A / Quarles, Heather / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, The / Pyle, Howard (editor) / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Lotus Seed, The / Garland, Sherry / 8 / Upper Elementary (3-5);
Middle School (6-8);
High School (9-12)
/ Journey for Peace: The Story of Rigoberta Menchu / Brill, Marlene / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Lost Temple of the Aztecs: What It Was When the Spaniards Invaded Mexico (I Was There) / Tanaka, Shelley / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Armageddon Summer / Yolen, Jane; "Colville / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World / Yee, Paul / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Bridge to Terabithia / Paterson, Katherine / 8 / Middle School (6-8);
Upper Elementary (3-5)
/ Lyddie / Paterson, Katherine / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Beyond the Mango Tree / Zemser, Amy Bronwen / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Preacher's Boy / Paterson, Katherine / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ King of Dragons, The / Fenner, Carol / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
/ Long Journey Home / Lester, Julius / 8 / Middle School (6-8)
Title / Author / Reading
List # / Grade Level
/ Burger's Daughter / Gordimer, Nadine / 11 / High School (9-12)
/ Pride and Prejudice / Austen, Jane / 11 / High School (9-12)
/ Angela's Ashes: A Memoir / McCourt, Frank / 11 / High School (9-12)