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Sixth Grade

Book List

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead (mystery)
Small Spaces by Katherine Arden (mystery/horror)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (classic)
Holes by Louis Sachar (mystery/middle grade novel)
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (family/middle grade novel)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (classic/animal story)
Space Case by Stuart Gibbs (science fiction)
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George (adventure/classic)
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (diverse)
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume (family/middle grade novel)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodson Burnett (classic)
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (fantasy)
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale (school story)
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (historical)
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Seventh Grade

Book List

New Kid by Jerry Craft (graphic novel)
A Place to Belong by Cynthis Kadohata (historical fiction)
The Giver by Lois Lowry (science fiction)
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (modern classic)
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (mystery)
The Wednesday Wars by Gary D Schmidt (historical fiction)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (fantasy)
The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (fiction)
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen (young adult fiction)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (historical fiction)
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill (fantasy)
Snow White by Matt Phelan (graphic novel film noir)
Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan (fantasy fiction)
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (modern classic)
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D Schmidt (young adult fiction)
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Eighth Grade

Book List

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (coming of age)
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell (nature/unconventional family life/series)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (classic allegory)
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (modern classic)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (classic)
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (autobiographical)
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner (fiction)
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas (young adult fiction)
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin (fictional autobiography)
2001 by Arthure C Clarke (science fiction)
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (psychological fiction)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (young adult fiction)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (psychological fiction/adventure)
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Ninth Grade

Book List

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds (young adult)
Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates (biography)
Nothing by Janne Teller (alternative /indie)
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (allegory/young adult)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (historical fiction/satire)
Brave New World by Alduous Huxley (dystopian/science fiction)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (southern gothic/domestic fiction/classic)
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger (coming of age/literary realism)
Looking for Alaska by John Green (coming of age)
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (science fiction)
Monster by Walter Dean Myers (psychological thriller)
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Tenth Grade

Book List

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (historical fiction)
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (biography/travel)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (Bildungsroman: dealing with formative years)
Kim by Rudyard Kipling (adventure/spy)
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (adventure/docudrama)
Girl with a Pearl by Tracy Chevalier (historical)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (adventure)
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (historical fiction)
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (poetry/feminine viewpoint)
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (drama)
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (young adult)
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Eleventh Grade

Book List

A Death in the Family by James Agee (bildungsroman/ domestic fiction)
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis (humorous fiction)
The Plague by Albert Camus (philosophical fiction)
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (historical fiction)
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (psychological fiction)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (classic/historical fiction)
The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath (psychological fiction)
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (political fiction)
On Writing by Stephen King (informational)
Collected Stories by Raymond Carver (short stories)
American Pastoral by Philip Roth (historical fiction)
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Twelth Grade

Book List

In Darkness by Nick Lake (fiction)
The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer (dual narrative/ historical fiction)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (trilogy/historical fiction)
The Rector of Justin by Louis Auchincloss (psychological fiction)
The Underdogs by Maiano Azuela (historical fiction)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (biography/nature)
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne (romanticism)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (drama/comedy/ satire)
Selected Stories by Alice Munro (short stories)
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt (modern classic/ autobiography)
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (short story collection)
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