Middle School Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr 101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids, The Ultimate Fonseca, Christina 6 Handbook (BOE approved April 2014) 2001: A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur 6 2002: A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur 6 2061: Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur 6 79-Squares Bosse, Malcolm 6 A Night to Remember Lord, Waler 6 Abby My Love Irwin, Hadley 6 Abe Lincoln Grows Up Sandburg, Carl 6 Absolutely Almost (BOE approved Nov 2015) Graff, Lisa 6 Accident, The Strasser, Todd 6 Acids and Bases Baldwin, Carol 8 Acorn People Jones, Ron 6 Across China Jenkins, Peter 8 Adam of the Road Grey, Elizabeth Jane 6 Adrift:Seventy-Six Days Lost At Sea Callahan, Steven 6 Adventures of Johnny May Branscum, Robbie 6 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Author Conan 6 Adventures of Tom Sawyer* Twain, Mark 6 Adventures of Ulysses Evslin, Benard 6 African Folktales Abrahams, Roger 8 African Poison Murders Huxley, Elspeth 8 After the Bomb Miklowitz, Gloria 6 After the Bomb: Week One Miklowitz, Gloria 6 After the Dancing Days Rostkowski, Margaret 6 Updated January 22, 2018 *previously approved at higher grade level 1 Middle School Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr After the First Death* Cormier, Robert 6 After the Rain Mazer, Norma Fox 6 Aleutian Sparrow Hesse, Karen 6 All Creatures Great & Small* Herriot, James 6 All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook Connor, Leslie 6 Amazing and Death Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman Zindel, Paul 6 America’s History Bernstein, Vivian 8 America’s Story Bernstein, Vivian 8 An End to Perfect Newton, Suzanne 6 Anastasia Again Lowry, Lois 6 Anastasia Ask Your Analyst Lowry, Lois 6 Anastasia At Your Service Lowry, Lois 6 Anastasia Has the Answers Lowry, Lois 6 Anastasia on Her Own Lowry, Lois 6 Anastasia's Chosen Career Lowry, Lois 6 Deady, Kathleen W. Ancient China 6 DuBois, Muriel L. DuBois Ancient Egypt Deady, Kathleen W. 6 Ancient Greece Covert, Kim 6 Ancient One, The Baron, T.A. 6 Ancient Rome DuBois, Muriel L. 6 And Both Were Young L'Engle, Madeleine 6 And One For All Nelson, Theresa 6 And Then There Were None* Christie, Agatha 6 Animal Farm* (BOE approved October 2013) Orwell, George 7 Updated January 22, 2018 *previously approved at higher grade level 2 Middle School Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr Anna to the Infinite Power Ames, Mildred 6 Anne Frank Remembered Gies, Miep 6 Anne Frank:Diary of a Young Girl Frank, Ann 6 Annie John Kincaid, Jamaica 6 Anything To Win Miklowitz, Gloria 6 April Morning* Fast, Howard 8 Archer's Goon Jones, Diana Wynne 6 Arm of the Starfish L'Engle, Madeleine 6 Art of Keeping Cool, The Lisle, Janet Taylor 7 Artemis Fowl Colfer, Eoin 6 Ask Me No Questions Schlee, Ann 6 Atami Dragons Klass, David 6 Athletic Shorts Crutcher, Chris 8 Back Home Magorian, Michelle 6 Badger On the Barge Howker, Janni 6 Bagthorpes Abroad Cresswell, Helen 6 Bagthorpes Haunted Cresswell, Helen 6 Bagthorpes Unlimited Cresswell, Helen 6 Bagthorpes Vs the World Cresswell, Helen 6 Banner In the Sky Ullman, James Ramsey 6 Bathing Ugly Busselle, Rebecca 6 Battle Off Midway Island Taylor, Theodore 6 Beauty:Retelling of Beauty & the Beast McKinley, Robin 6 Because of Mr. Terupt (BOE Approved April 2014) Buyea, Rob 6 Updated January 22, 2018 *previously approved at higher grade level 3 Middle School Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr Begger Queen Alexander, Lloyd 6 Begonia for Miss Applebaum, A Zindel,Paul 6 Best Little Girl in the World Levenkron, Steven 6 Best of Friends, The Rostkowski, Margaret 6 Beyond Safe Boundaries Sacks, Margaret 6 Beyond the Burning Lands Christopher, John 6 Beyond the Chocolate War Cormier, Robert 6 Beyond the Divide Lasky, Kathryn 6 Bible As History Keller, Werner 8 Bigger Book of Lydia Willey, Margaret 6 Black Cauldron Alexander, Lloyd 6 Blitzcat Westall, Robert 6 Blood & Thunder Adventures On Hurrican Peak Mahy, Margaret 6 Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond, The Woods, Brenda 6 Blue Sword McKinley, Robin 6 Blue-Eyed Daisy Rylant, Cynthia 6 Boat to No Where, A Wartski, Maureen Crane 6 Book of Three Alexander, Lloyd 6 Book Thief, The (BOE Approved Oct 2012) Zusak, Markus 7 Born Free Adamson, Joy 6 Born Into Light Jacobs, Paul Samuel 6 Borrowed Children Lyon, George 6 Boundary Waters Nichols, James 6 Boy in the Off White Hat Hall, Lynn 6 Updated January 22, 2018 *previously approved at higher grade level 4 Middle School Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The (BOE Approved Oct 2012) Boyne, John 7 Boy Who Reversed Himself, The Sleator, William 6 Boy: Tales of Childhood (BOE Approved October 2013) Dahl, Roald 6 Brocaded Slipper and Other Vietnamese Tales, The Vuong, Lynette Dyer 6 Brown Girl Dreaming Woodson, Jacqueline 6 Brown Waters, Black Berets Cutler, Thomas 8 Bud, Not Buddy Curtis, Christopher 6 Buddies Park, Barbara 6 Buffalo Brenda Pinkwater, Jill 6 Building Blocks Voigt, Cynthia 6 Bumblebee Flies Anyway Cormier, Robert 6 Bystander (BOE Approved April 2015) Preller, James 6 Cage, The Sander, R. 6 Cages of Glass, Flowers of Time Culin, Charlotte 6 Cal Cameron By Day, Spiderman By Night Canon, A. E. 6 Call of the Wild London, Jack 6 Camilla L'Engle, Madeleine 6 Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice? Danziger, Paula 6 Canyons Paulson, Gary 6 Carrie King, Stephen 6 Case of the Baker Street Irregular Newman, Robert 6 Eileen Giuffre Cotton, Carole Castle Life in the Middle Ages (book2web) 7 F. Stice, Phoebe Carroll Castle of Llyr Alexander, Lloyd 6 Catalogue of the Universe Mahy, Margaret 6 Updated January 22, 2018 *previously approved at higher grade level 5 Middle School Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr Catherine, Called Birdy Cushman, Karen 6 Ceremony of Innocence Highwater, Jamake 6 Changeover Mahy, Margaret 6 Chapters: My Growth as a Writer Duncan, Lois 6 Chasing Lincoln's Killer (BOE Approved April 2013) Swanson, James L. 8 Cheaper by the Dozen Gilbreth, Frank 6 Chemical Reactions Baldwin, Carol 8 Children Of The River Crew, Linda 6 Children of the Wolf Yolen, Jane 6 Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies Roberts, Moss 8 Chinese Lives Zhang X, Sang Y 8 Chocolate War Cormier, Robert 6 Circle of Fire Hooks, William 6 City Not Long After, The Murphy, Pat 6 City of Gold & Lead Christopher, John 6 Class Pictures Sachs, Marilyn 6 6 Classic Starts: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Saski, Chris, as retold from the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle original Classification: From Mammals to Fungi Spilsbury, Louise and Richard 7 Close to the Edge Miklowitz, Gloria 6 Clouds Trueit, Trudi Strain 6 Clover Sanders, Dori 6 Cold Sassy Tree Burns, Olive 6 Come a Stranger Voigt, Cynthia 6 Coming About Clements, Bruce 6 Updated January 22, 2018 *previously approved at higher grade level 6 Middle School Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr Coming and Going Men Fleischman, Paul 6 Complete Tales and Poems Poe, Edgar Allan 6 Conjuring Summer In Ames, Mildred 6 Santos, Marisa De Los and Connect the Stars 6 Teague, David Connections Gallo, Donald 7 Contender, The Lipsyte, Robert 8 Cookcamp, The Paulsen, Gary 6 Counting by 7s Sloan, Holly Goldberg 6 Courage Has No Color (BOE Approved April 2015) Stone, Tanya Lee 6 Cracker Kadohata, Cynthia 6 Cracker Jackson Byars, Betsy 6 Crash Spinelli, Jerry 6 Crazy Horse Electric Game, The Crutcher, Chris 6 Crazy Quilt Riley, Jocelyn 6 Creatures Townsend, John 6 Crispin Avi 6 Crossing Paulsen, Gary 6 Crumbling Earth: Erosion and Landslides Mary Closon 8 Crutches Hatling, Peter 6 Cuckoo Sister Alcock, Vivien 6 Curse of the Blue Figurine Bellairs, John 6 Dancing Carl Paulsen, Gary 6 Dark & Deadly Pool Nixon, Joan Lowry 6 Dark Behind the Curtain Cross, Gillian 6 Updated January 22, 2018 *previously approved at higher grade level 7 Middle School Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr Dark is Rising Cooper, Susan 6 Darkangel Pierce, Meredith 6 Daughters of Eve Duncan, Lois 6 David Copperfield Dickens, Charles 6 Day No Pigs Would Die Beck, Robert 6 Day the Senior Class Got Married Miklowitz, Gloria 6 Deadly Game of Magic Nixon, Joan Lowery 6 Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam Edelman, Benard 6 Death Knell Wilde, Nicholas 6 Death On The Nile Agatha, Christie 6 Deathwatch White, Robb 6 Deenie Blume, Judy 6 Deep Wizardry Duane, Diane 6 Define “Normal” Peters, Julie Anne 7 Demons, Gods & Holy Men - Indian Myths Husain, Shahrukh 8 Deryni Archives Kurtz, Katherine 6 Deryni Checkmate Kurtz, Katherine 6 Deryni Rising Kurtz, Katherine 6 Deserts Steele, Christy 6 Destiny Grove, Vicki 6 Devil's Arithmetic Yolen, Jane 6 Dicey's Song Voigt, Cynthia 6 Disappearance, The Guy, Rosa 6 Divorce Express, The Danziger, Paula 6 Updated January 22, 2018 *previously approved at higher grade level 8 Middle School Approved Literature List by Title Title Author Gr Doc Graber, Richard 6 Dogsbody Jones, Diana Wynne 6 Don't Look Behind You Duncan, Lois 6 Doolittle Raid, The Schultz Duane 8 Doomsday Plus Twelve Forman, James 6 Door in the Air, The Mahy, Margaret 6 Down a Dark Hall Duncan, Lois 6 Downriver Hobbs, Will 6 Downsiders Shusterman, Neal 7 Downtown Mazer, Norma Fox 6 Downwind Moeri, Louise 6 Dr. Franklin’s Island Halam, Ann 7 Dr.Chill's Project Hoobler, Thomas 6 Dragondrums McCaffrey, Anne 6 Dragon's Blood Yolen, Jane 6 Dragons Dawn McCaffey, Anne 6 Dragons in the Waters L'Engle, Madeleine 6 Dragonsinger McCaffrey, Anne 6 Dragonsong McCaffrey, Anne 6 Dream Time Gascoigne, Toss 6 Duplicate, The Sleator, William 6 Durango Street Bonham, Frank 6 Earth Erupts Closon, Mary 8 Effect of Gamma Rays On....