The Valhalla Middle School Independent Reading Program: A Never Ending Story

ADVENTURE Fly High!: the Story of Bessie Coleman Louise Borden Airman Eoin Colfer Helen Keller: Rebellious Spirit Laurie Lawlor Alanna: the First Adventure (SERIES) Tamora Pierce I (Heart) Taylor Swift Harlee Harte Ark Angel (SERIES) Anthony Horowitz Into Thin Air Jon Krakuaer Bella at Midnight Diane Stanley Into the Wild Jon Krakuaer Bloody Jack: being an account of the curious adventures IraqiGirl: Dairy of a Teenager Girl in Iraq IraqiGirl of Mary "Jacky" Faber, ship's boy (SERIES) L.A. Meyer It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life Lance Armstrong Doctor Illuminatus Martin Booth Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive Carole Weatherford Eragon (SERIES) Christopher Paolini Jim Thorpe: Original All- American Joseph Bruchac First Light Rebecca Stead Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Stories Jon Scieszka Gideon the Cutpurse: being the first part of the Gideon (SERIES) Linda Buckley Archer Miles to Go Miley Cyrus Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (SERIES) Suzanne Collins Maritcha: a Nineteenth-Century American Girl Tonya Bolden H.I.V.E.:Higher Institute of Villainous Education Mark Walden Patience Wright: America's First Sculptor and Revolutionary Shea Pegi Deitz Lionboy: The First Book in a Trilogy (SERIES) Zizou, Corder Phineas Gage - A Grusome but True Story About Brain Science John Fleischman SilverFin (SERIES) Charles Higson Ryan White: My Own Story (MATURE) Ryan White Starcross, or, The coming of Moobs, or, Our adventures Satchel Paige Lesa Ransome in the fourth dimension!: a stirring adventure of spies, Small Steps: the Year I Got Polio Peg Kehret time travel, and curious hats Philip Reeve Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali Charles Smith J.R. The Akhenaten Adventure (SERIES) Philip Kerr The Blind Side Micheal Lewis The Devil’s Breath David Gilmar Warriors Don't Cry Melba Pattillo Beals The Diamond of Drury Lane (SERIES) Julia, Golding We Beat the Streets: How A Friendship Pact Led to Success Sampson Davis The Remarkable and Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap H.M. Bouwman Zlata’s Diary Zlata Filipovic When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Kimberly Willis Holt Woodsong Gary Paulsen CLASSICS **20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY **A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens A child called "It": one child's courage to survive David J. Pelzer Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Ain't nothing but a Man" my quest to find the real John Henry Scott Reynolds Nelson Anne of Green Gables L.M. Montgomery Alia's Misson: Saving the Books of Iraq Mark Stamaty Black Beauty Anna Sewell All Creatures Great and Small (SERIES) James Herriot **Dracula Bram Stoker Black Like Me John Griffin Little Women Louisa May Alcott Burning Up: Tour with the Jonas Brothers Jonas Brothers The Call of the Wild Jack London Chasing Lincoln's Killer James L. Swason The Devil's Arithmetic Jane Yolan The Girl With the White Flag Tomika Higa **The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter Adeline Yen Mah **The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1 The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling The Chronicles of Valdimir Tod (SERIES) Heather Brewer The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett The Cry of the Icemark (SERIES) Stuart Hill The Swiss Family Robinson Johann David The Lighting Thief (SERIES) Rick Riordan **The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas The Magic Thief Sarah Prineas The Wizard Of Oz Frank L. Baum The Otherworldlies Jennifer Kogler **Treasure Island Robert Stevenson The Secret of Platform 13 Eva Ibbotson William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream Bruce Coville The Tail of Emily Windsnap (SERIES) Liz Kessler William Shakespeare's the Winter's Tale Bruce Coville The Thief Lord Cornelia Funke Tunnels (SERIES) Roderick Gordon GRAPHIC NOVELS Vampire Kisses (SERIES) Ellen Schreiber A Family Secret Eric Heuvel What the Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy Gregory Maguire Binky the Space Cat Ashley Spires Zel Donna Jo Napoli Bones (SERIES) Jeff Smith Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things Ted Naifeh MYSTERY Glister and the Haunted Teapot Andi Watson 12 Again Sue Corbett Jack Calamity Shannon Hale **ABC Murders (SERIES) Agatha Christie Rapunzel’s Revenge Shannon Hale Awakening (SERIES) Robin Wasserman The Elsewhere Chronicles (SERIES) Nykko Bannister Behind the Curtain: an Echo Falls Mystery (SERIES) Peter Abrahams The Storm in the Barn Matt Phelan Chasing Vermeer (SERIES) Blue Balliett Christopher Killer (SERIES) Alane Ferguson FANTASY Curse of Night Wolf Paul Stewart Alchemyst (SERIES) Michael Scott Death in the Air Shane Peacock Amulet: the Stone Keeper Kaza Kibuishi **Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness Edgar Allan Poe Artemis Fowl (SERIES) Eoin Colfer First Escape (SERIES) G.P. Taylor Children of the Lamp (SERIES) Philip Kerr Gilda Joyce (SERIES) Jennifer Allison Chronicles of Ancient Darkness (SERIES) Michelle Pavor Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery John Feinstein Cirque Du Freak (SERIES) Darren Shan Mariah Mundi: The Middle Box G.P. Taylor Cold Tom Sally Prue Masterpiece Elise Broach Dealing With Dragons (SERIES) Patricia C. Wrede Maze of Bones (SERIES) Rick Riordan Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine Minerva Clark Gets a Clue Karen Karbo Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curtis Montmorency on the Rocks: Doctors, Aristocrat, Murder? Eleanor Updale Here Lies Arthur (SERIES) Philip Reeve Pish Posh Ellen Potter Fairy Tales Detectives (SERIES) Michael Buckley Quid Pro Quo Vicki Grant Fablehaven (SERIES) Brandon Hall Snatched Pete Hautman First Test (SERIES) Tamora Pierce Swiped Michele Bossley Foundling (SERIES) D.M. Cornish The Big Splash Jack D. Ferraiolo Graceling (SERIES) Kristen Cashore The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery (SERIES) Nancy Springer How to Train Your Dragon (SERIES) Cressida Cowell The Face on the Milk Carton (SERIES) Caroline B. Cooney Once Upon A Marigold Jean Ferris The London Eye Mystery Siobhan Dowd Out of Sight, Out of Mind (SERIES) Marilyn Kaye The Name of this Book is Secret (SERIES) Pseudonymous Bosch Puddlejumpers Mark Jean The Postcard Tony Abbott Ranger's Apprentice (SERIES) John Flanagen The Sisters Grimm: The Unusual Suspects (SERIES) Michael Buckley 2 The Traitors' Gate Avi REALISTIC FICTION The Westing Game Ellen Raskin 11 Birthdays Wendy Mass Way Down Deep Ruth White Airhead Meg Cabot What Could Go Wrong Willo Davis Roberts A Week in the Woods Andrew Clements Alt Ed Catherine Atkins HISTORICAL FICTION Amazing Grace Megan Shull A Long Way From Chicago Richard Peck Because of Winn-Dixie Kate DiCamillo Behind the Bedroom Wall Laura E. Williams Behind You Jacqueline Woodson Catherine, Called Birdy Karen Cushman Big Nate: In A Class All By Himself Lincoln Pierce Cat Among Pigeons Julia Golding Call Me Maria Judith Ortiz Cofer Catch a Tiger By the Toe Ellen Levine Cousins Virginia Hamiliton Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two Joseph Bruchac Cuba 15 Nancy Osa Crispin: Across the Lead (SERIES) Avi Dear John Nicholas Sparks Day of Tears: a novel in dialogue Julius Lester Deep Down Popular Phobe Stone Edenville Owls Robert B. Parker Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie Jordan Sonnenblick Fever 1793 Laurie H. Anderson Eleven (SERIES) Patricia Reilly Giff Here Lies the Librarian Richard Peck Elsewhere Gabrielle Zevia Keeping Corner Kishmira Sheth Fallen Angels Walter Dean Myers Milkweed Jerry Spinelli Fault Line Janet Tasjian Raleigh's Page Alan W. Armstrong Hoot Carl Hiassen The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest J. Gaines Homeless Bird Gloria Whelan The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had Kristen Levine I am the Cheese Robert Cormier The Boy Who Dared Susan Bartoletti I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This Jacqueline Woodson The Castle Corona Sharon Creech Jazmin's Notebook Nikki Grimes The Death-Defying Pepper Roux Geraldine McCaughrean Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Jack Gantos The Diamond of Drury Lane Julia Golding Last Song Nicholas Sparks The Desperado Who Stole Baseball John Ritter Like Sisters on the Homefront Rita Williams-Garcia The Loud Silence of Francine Green Karen Cushman Millicent Min: Girl Genius Lisa Yee The Quest of the Fair Unknown Gerald Morris Money Hungry Sharon G. Flake The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts Richard Peck Monster Walter Dean Myers The White Elephant Sid Fleischman Moving Out (SERIES) Meg Cabot Thief, Liar, Gentleman? (SERIES) Eleanor Updale On the Devil's Court Carl Deuker The Island on Bird Street Uri Orlev Peak Roland Smith Ties That Bind, Ties That Break Lensey Namioka Peeled Joan Bauer Under the Blood Red Sun Graham Salisbury Princess Diaries (SERIES) Meg Cabot Water Street Patricia Giff PS Longer Letter Later Paul Danziger Weedflower Cynthia Kadohata Replay Sharon Creech When I Crossed No-Bob Margaret McMullen Romiette and Julio Sharon M. Draper Zorro: A Novel Isabel Allende Slam! Walter Dean Myers Sunrise Fallujah Walter Dean Myers Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island Eve Bunting Speak (Mature) Laurie Halse Anderson Tangerine Edward Bloor 3 The Adoration of Jenna Fox Mary E. Pearson SHORT STORIES The Breadwinner Deborah Ellis Baseball in April and Other A Stories Gary Soto The Car Gary Paulsen Being Dead Vivian Velde Vande The Day They Came to Arrest the Book Hentoff Flotsam David Wiesner The First Part Last Angela Johnson M is for Magic Neil Gaiman Tha Man in the Ceiling Jules Feiffer More Horowitz Horror: More Stories You'll Wish You'd Never Read Anthony Horowitz The Savage David Almond My Dad's a Punk: 12 Stories About Boys and Their Fathers Various Authors The Schwa Was Here Neal Schusterman Nastybook Barry Yourgrau The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd The Tales of Beetle the Bard J.K. Rowling The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (SERIES) Ann Brasheres Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories Diana Wynne The Skins I'm In Sharon Flake Whodunit? Detective Stories Kingfisher The View From Saturday E.L. Konigsburg The Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey Lisa Papademetriou POETRY The Year They Burned the Books Nancy Garden A Visit to William Blake's Inn: poems for innocent and experienced travelers Nancy Willard There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom Louis Sachar Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems John Grandits Blues Journey Walter Dean Myers SCIENCE FICTION Bronzeville Boys and Girls Gwendolyn Brooks 100 Cupboards N.D. Wilson Carl Sandburg (Poetry for Young People Series) Carl Sandburg Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton Emily Dickenson (Poetry for Young People Series) Emily Dickenson Bunker 10 Andrew Henderson Girl Coming in for a landing: A novel in poems April Halprin Wayland Ender's Game Orson Scott Card Harlem: a poem Walter Dean Myers Epic Conor Kostick I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book Candlewick Press Escape the Mask David Ward If the Shoe Fits: Voices from Cinderella Laura Whipple Gravity Keeper Michael Reisman Jump Ball: A Basketball Season in Poems Mel Glenn Half Magic Edward Eager Love that Dog Sharon Creech Hunger Games (SERIES) Suzanne Collins Locomotion Jacqueline Woodson Invasion of the Body Snatchers Jack Finney Make Lemonade (SERIES) Virginia Wolff Maximum Ride (SERIES) James Patterson Maya Angelou (Poetry for Young People Series) Maya Angelou Maze Runner James Dashmer Mirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse Marilyn Singer Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury Mother Poems Anita Hope Smith The Awakening (SERIES) Micheal Carroll Robert Frost (Poetry for Young People Series) Robert Frost The City of Ember (SERIES) Jeanne DuPrau Rudyard Kipling (Poetry for Young People Series) Rudyard Kipling The Glitch in Sleep John Hulme Science Verse Jon Scieszka **The Golden Compass (SERIES) Philip Pullman Technically, It’s Not My Fault: Concrete Poems John Grandits The House of Power Patrick Carmen The Mighty 12: Superheroes of Greek Myth Charles R. Smith The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer The Mouse of Amherst Elizabeth Spires The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury The Paper Doorway: Funny Verse and Nothing Worse Dean R. Koontz The Duplicate William Sleator Troy Thompson's Excellent Poetry Book Gary Crew **The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (SERIES) Douglas Adams When I heard the learn'd astronomer Walt Whitman The True Meaning of Smekday Adam Rex **The Time Machine H.G. Wells

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SPORTS Boost Kathryn Mackel Dairy Queen (SERIES) Catherine Muddock Football Genius Tim Green Heat Mike Lupica Mount Olympus Basketball Kevin O'Malley Mudville Kurtis Scaletta My 13th Season Kristi Roberts Night Hoops Carl Deuker Pinned Alfred C. Martino Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow James Strum Six Innings: A game in the Life James Preller Soccer Chick Rules Dawn FitzGerald Shoeless Joe W.P. Kinsella Summer Ball Mike Lupica Travel Team Mike Lupica The Big Field Mike Lupica The Boy Who Saved Baseball John H. Ritter The Brooklyn Nine Alan Gratz The Girl Who Threw Butterflies Mick Cochrane The Greatest: Muhammad Ali Walter Dean Myers The Keeper Mal Peet The Legend of the Curse of the Bambino Dan Shaughnessy The Longest Season: The Story of the Orioles' 1988 Losing Steak Cal Ripken The Million Dollar Putt Dan Gutman Throwing like a Girl Weezie Kerr Mackie

PLAYS The Matchmaker Wilder The Odd Couple Simon

**Indicates a book identified as a challenging read

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