Recommended Reading A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck A humorous and heart warming story about a Chicago girl who has to move to country to live with her very intriguing grandmother. This is a must read and a Newberry Medal Winner. Holes by Louis Sachar This book is about a boy who is mistakenly arrested for stealing a pair of shoes worn by a famous athlete. He is sent to a juvenile prison camp in the Texas desert where he has to dig holes from sun up to sun down. The interesting twist to the story is why the boys at the camp are digging holes and how the boy grows from his experiences. Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan This book is a thriller about a girl whose family is forced to lose it's identity and in the process she loses her life as it once existed.
6th Grade Reading List The Cay by Theodore Taylor Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls Sounder by William Armstrong Harriet Tubman: Underground Railroad by Ann Petry The Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
7th Grade Reading List Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis The Giver by Lois Lowery Homesick My Own Story by Jean Fritz Number the Stars by Lois Lowery The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Egle
8th Grade Reading List The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor The Yearling by Marjorie Kinman Rawlings A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck