5th Grade:
1st half of the year: Reading Comprehension
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
2nd half of year: Introduction to the Novel
- The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Paene Du Bois
- Call it Courage, by Armstrong Sperry
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , by L. Frank Baum
- The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
Social Studies: Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail, by Elvira Woodruff
Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad, by Elvira Woodruff
Science: James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl
6th Grade:
1st half of the year: Newbery Award-Winning Novels
- Holes, by Louis Sachar
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor
- A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry
2nd half of the year: Adventure Novels
- So Far From the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
- The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
- Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
Social Studies: Night, by Elie Wiesel
Science: Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell
7th Grade:
1st half of the year: Coming-of-Age Novels
- To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- Parrot in the Oven, by Victor Martinez
- A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
- A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry
2nd half of the year: War Novels
- Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
- All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
- Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo
- Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers
Social Studies: Revenge of the Whale, by Nathaniel Philbrick
Science: The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H.G. Wells
8th Grade:
1st half of the year: Political Novels
- Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
2nd half of the year: Classics
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
- Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
- Selections from Henry David Thoreau
Social Studies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Science: October Sky, by Homer Hickam