Middle School Approval Novel List

**Please note that the titles below have been approved by Curriculum Council. This list does not indicate the number of books or locations of titles. Some titles were purchased with building funds, and only class sets may exist.

Grade 7 Grade 8 A Christmas Carol A Day No Pigs Would Die A Long Way From Home Across Five Aprils A Swiftly Tilting Planet The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights And Then There Were None The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Bearstone Alicia Black Star, Bright Dawn All But My Life Blue Sword All Creatures Great and Small Canyons April Morning Cast Two Shadows Bat 6 The Cay Behind the Secret Window The Clay Marble California Blue Dark is Rising Call of the Wild Dragon of the Lost Sea Carver: A Life in Poems Ender’s Game Chernowitz Esperanza Rising The Children of Willesden Lane Freak the Mighty Childhood’s End Hero and the Crown Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Heroes, Gods, and Monsters Daughter The Hunger Games The Count of Monte Cristo Izzy, Willy-Nilly The Crystal Cave Johnny Tremain Daniel’s Story Light in the Forest The Day They Came to Arrest the Book Lightning Thief Devil’s Arithmetic The Man Who Was Poe The Diary of Anne Frank Mississippi Trial, 55 Farewell to Manzanar Moves Make the Man Final Journey Mt. Olympus Four Perfect Pebbles Nothing but the Truth Friedrich Out of the Dust Gentlehands The Outsiders Gifted Hands Ransom The Giver Red Scarf Girl Glory Fields Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Growing Up in the Holocaust Sarah Bishop The Hobbit Sing Down the Moon Homecoming Stargirl Hound of the Baskervilles Steal Away Home I Am Mordred Sweetgrass I Am Morgan le Fay Touching Spirit Bear I Have Lived 1000 Years Treasure Island I Know What You Did Last Summer Trouble I Never Saw Another Butterfly True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle If I Should Die Tuck Everlasting In My Hand Walk Two Moons Invisible Man Wizard of Earthsea Leap Into Darkness Woodsong Martian Chronicles World Myths and Folktales No Promises in the Wind Year of the Hangman Parallel Journeys Parzival: The Quest of the Grail King The Pigman Pigman’s Legacy Prince and the Pauper Rebecca Sir Gawain & the Green Knight Smoke and Ashes Speak Summer of My German Soldier Surviving Hitler Sword of the Rightful King That was Then, This is Now Torn Thread The Watsons Go to Birmingham The Wave Upon the Head of a Goat Upstairs Room Voices of the Holocaust