5th Grade:

Boy, Roald Dahl

Bridge to Terabitha, Katherine Patterson

Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli 

Music of Dolphins, Karen Hesse

Randall’s Wall, Carol Fenner 

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis 

The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Wringer, Jerry Spinelli 

6th Grade:

Holes, Lois Sachar

Hatchet, Gary Paulsen

The Giver, Lois Lowry 

Leon’s Story, Leon Tillage

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, John Boyne

The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster

So Far from the Bamboo Grove, Yoko Kawashima Watkins

7th Grade:

Parrot in the Oven, Victor Martinez

A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (co-curricular assignment with Science)

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

Night, Elie Wiesel

Our Town, Thornton Wilder 

8th Grade:

Buried Onions, Gary Soto 

Monster, Walter Dean Meyers 

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Animal Farm, George Orwell

The Book Thief, Markus Zusak