MIDDLE SCHOOL ENGLISH/LANGUAGE ARTS SUGGESTED SUPPLEMENTAL LITERATURE LIST Young people should be encouraged to read widely and to select materials, fiction and nonfiction, that appeal to their varied interests and abilities. The following list is not comprehensive but representative of genres, titles, and authors suitable for seventh and eighth grade extended readings or thematic units. Several works (indicated by bold print) are RESERVED for in‐depth study at a particular grade level. In the event there is an objection to a particular selection, alternative selections are available. This literature list is a DYNAMIC list and will continue to be updated through staff development or use of the Language Arts Literature Recommendation Form (see Appendix) to ensure ethnic diversity, age and content appropriateness, and inclusion of recent works. Classics Short Stories Alcott, Louisa May Little Women Dahl, Roald “The Wish” Knight, Eric L. Lassie Come Home Henry, O. "The Gift of the Magi" (7th grade) Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol "The Last Leaf" Doyle, Arthur C. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "Retrieved Reformation" The Hound of the Baskervilles (BB) "After Twenty Years" Kjelgaard, Jim Big Red (BB) "The Ransom of Red Chief" Lamb, Charles Tales from Shakespeare Irving, W. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" London, Jack The Call of the Wild (8th grade) Keyes, Daniel "Flowers for Algernon" (Alaskan) (BB) London, Jack "To Build a Fire" and other stories White Fang (8th grade) (Alaskan) (BB) Poe, Edgar Allen "The Tell‐Tale Heart" Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables "Hop Frog" Nordoff, Charles The Mutiny on the Bounty "The Pit and the Pendulum" Sewell, Anna Black Beauty Shakespeare, W. The Merchant of Venice (8th Grade) A Midsummer Night's Dream Alaska/Canadian North Smith, Betty A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Beach, Rex E. The Iron Trail (Alaskan) Steinbeck, John The Red Pony (8th grade) Bond, Marshall Gold Hunter; The Adventures of The Pearl (7th grade) Marshall Bond Twain, Mark Tom Sawyer (BB) Curwood, James The Wolf Hunters The Prince and the Pauper (BB) Verne, Jules Around the World in Eighty Days George, Jean C. Julie of the Wolves (Alaska Native) (7th grade) Newbery Award (BB) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Water Sky (Alaska Native) Wells, H.G. The Time Machine Hess, Karen Aleutian Sparrow Invisible Man Hill, Kirkpatrick Winter Camp (BB) War of the Worlds Hobbs, Will Far North (ALA) White, T.E. The Sword in the Stone London, Jack The Call of the Wild (8th grade) (BB) Once and Future King White Fang (8th grade) Morey, Walt Scrub Dog of Alaska (Alaskan) (BB) Kavik the Wolf Dog (BB) Mowat, Farley Lost in the Barrens (Native American) (BB) Roth, Arthur The Iceberg Hermit (Alaskan) Markoosie Harpoon of the Hunter (Alaska Native) Paulsen, Gary Dogsong (Alaska Native) Newbery Honor (BB) Hatchet Newbery Honor (BB) Former Battle Book (BB) Purdy, Anne Tisha (Alaskan) (BB) American Library Association Award (ALA) Vanasse, Deb Distant Enemy (Alaska Native) (BB) Out of the Wilderness (Alaskan) Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 127 Middle School Supplemental Literature List English/Language Arts Curriculum Adopted March 22, 2011 Adventure/Survival Fiction Lowry, Lois The Giver Newbery Award (BB) Martinez, Floyd Spirits of the High Mesa (Hispanic) Morey, Walt Gentle Ben Morey, Walt Death Walk Scrub Dog of Alaska (Alaskan) (BB) Hobbs, Will Far North Death Walk (8th grade) Ghost Canoe Kavik the Wolf Dog (BB) Paulsen, Gary Canyons Myers, Walter D. Scorpions (African American) Dogsong (Alaska Native) Newbery Somewhere in Darkness (African Honor (BB) American) Hatchet Newbery Honor (BB) Hoops (African American) White, Robb Deathwatch (BB) Mikaelsen, Ben Petey (ALA) (BB) North, Sterling The Wolfling Contemporary Realistic Fiction O'Brien, Robert C. Z for Zachariah (BB) Oneal, Zibby The Language of Goldfish Avi Nothing But the Truth Newbery Honor Pascal, Francine My First Love and Other Disasters (BB) (BB) Paterson, K. Jacob Have I Loved Newbery Award (BB) Blume, Judy Tiger Eyes Paulsen, Gary Canyons Bodett, Tom Williwaw (Alaskan) Dogsong (Alaska Native) Newbery Honor Bonham, Frank Durango Street (BB) (BB) Byars, Betsy Cracker Jackson (child abuse) Hatchet Newbery Honor (BB) Clavell, James The Children's Story Tracker (BB) Coville, Bruce & Philbrick, Rodman Freak the Mighty (BB) Yolen, Jane Armageddon Summer Ryan, Pam Esperanza Rising (Hispanic) (Pura Belpre) Conly, Jane Leslie Crazy Lady Newbery Honor Sachar, Louis Holes Newbery Award (ALA) (BB) Cooney, Caroline The Face on the Milk Carton (BB) Spinelli, Jerry Maniac Magee Newbery Award (BB) Cormier, Robert The Chocolate War (BB) There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock (BB) I Am the Cheese (8th grade) Star Girl (ALA) (BB) Creech, Sharon Walk Two Moons Newbery Award Staples, Suzanne Haveli (Pakistan) (ALA) (BB) (BB) Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind Daly, Maureen Seventeenth Summer Newbery Honor (Pakistan) (BB) Danziger, Paula Can You Sue Your Parents for Trueman, Terry Stuck in Neutral (mature issues) Malpractice? (BB) Uchida, Yoshiko Journey to Topaz (BB) Eckert, Allan W. Incident at Hawk's Hill Vanasse, Deb Distant Enemy (Alaskan) (BB) Ellis, Deborah Breadwinner (Afghanistan) (BB) Out of the Wilderness (Alaskan) Farmer, Nancy Girl Named Disaster (African) Newbery Voigt, Cynthia Dicey's Song Newbery Award Honor (BB) Homecoming (BB) George, Jean C. Julie of the Wolves (Alaska Native) Solitary Blue (BB) (7th grade) White, Robb Deathwatch (BB) The Talking Earth (American Native) Yep, Laurence Child of the Owl (Asian American) Water Sky (Alaska Native) Zindel, Paul My Darling, My Hamburger Greene, Shep The Boy Who Drank Too Much The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man‐in‐ Green, Bette The Summer of My German Soldier the‐Moon Marigolds (BB) Pigman (BB) Greenberg, Joanne I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (BB) Hayes, Daniel The Trouble with Lemons Historical Fiction Hinton, S.E. The Outsiders (7th grade) (BB) Tex (BB) Anderson, Laurie Fever, 1793 (BB) That Was Then, This is Now (8th Chains grade) Avi Crispin: The Cross of Lead Newbery Rumble Fish (7th grade) Award Ho, Minfong Clay Marble (Asian) Choi, Sook Nyul Year of Impossible Goodbyes (Asian) Holman, Felice Slake's Limbo (BB) (BB) Houston, James Frozen Fire: A Tale of Courage (Alaska Clapp, Patricia The Tamarack Tree Native) (BB) Collier, James, L. The Bloody Country The Falcon Bow (Alaska Native) My Brother Sam is Dead Newbery Honor Kerr, M.E. Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack (BB) Klass, David California Blue Conrad, Pam Prairie Songs (BB) Konigsburg, E.L. Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place Curtis, Christopher Paul The Watsons Go to Birmingham (African Korman, Gordon No More Dead Dogs American) Newbery Honor (BB) Krumgold, Joseph Onion John Newbery Honor (BB) Lipsyte, Robert The Contender Fairbanks North Star Borough School District 128 Middle School Supplemental Literature List English/Language Arts Curriculum Adopted March 22, 2011 Cushman, Karen Catherine, Called Birdy Newbery Peck, Richard A Year Down Under Newbery Award Honor (ALA) (BB) Tolan, Stephanie Surviving the Applewhites Newbery The Midwife’s Apprentice Newbery Honor Award (BB) DeFelice, Cynthia Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker Sports Fiction Draper, Sharon Fire From the Rock Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain Newbery Award (BB) Brooks, Bruce The Moves Make the Man (BB) Hesse, Karen Letters from Rifka (Jewish) (BB) Lipsyte, Robert The Contender (BB) Out of the Dust Newbery Award Highwater, Jamake Legend Days (American Native) Anpao: An American Indian Odyssey Biography/Autobiography/ (American Native) Newbery Honor Memoir Hobbs, Will Ghost Canoe Hoobler, Dorothy Ghost in the Tokaido Inn Adoff, Arnold Malcolm X (African American) Hunt, Irene Across Five Aprils (8th grade) Newbery Dahl, Roald Boy (BB) Honor (BB) No Promises in the Wind Filipovi’c, Zlata Zlata’s Diary (BB) Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl (8th grade) Keith, Harold Rifles for Watie Newbery Award (BB) (BB) Lasky, Kathryn True North: A Novel of the Freedman, Russell Lincoln, A Photobiography Newbery Underground Railroad Award (BB) Mitchell, Margaret Gone With the Wind The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Meyer, Carolyn Mary, Bloody Mary Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Myers, W. D. The Legend of Tarik Equal Rights Newbury Honor (African American) Hickman, Homer Rocket Boys The Glory Field (African American) Murphy, Claire & O'Dell, Scott Sarah Bishop Haigh, Jane Gold Rush Women (Alaskan) (BB) Patterson, Catherine Liddie Children of the Gold Rush (Alaskan) (BB) Paulsen, Gary Nightjohn (African American) Herriot, James All Creatures Great and Small (BB) Sarny: A Life Remembered (African American) Kawagley, Dolores Yupik Stories (Alaska Native) Soldier’s Heart Keller, Helen The Story of My Life Rhue, Morton The Wave (8th grade) Richter, Conrad The Light in the Forest (American Non-Fiction Native) (BB) Richter, Hans P. Friedrich Ambrose, Stephen The Good Fight: How World War II Was Rinaldi, Ann Girl in Blue Won Wolf by the Ears (BB) Armstrong, Jennifer Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: Rostkowski, Margaret After the Dancing Days The Extraordinary True Story of Salisbury, Graham Under the Blood Red Sun (Japanese Shackleton and the Endurance (BB) American) Beals, Melba Patillo Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir Schaefer, Jack Shane (8th grade) (BB) of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Shaara, Michael The Killer Angels Central High (abridged) Speare, Elizabeth The Witch of Blackbird Pond Newbery Cox, Loretta Winter Walk; A Century‐old Survival Award (BB) Tale from the Arctic (Alaska Native) Steele, William O. The Perilous Road Crowe,