Parents can show children that reading is fun and rewarding. When you motivate your child to read, you also motivate them to learn. That’s a gift that improves school success more than almost anything else—and provides an endless supply of fascination and fun! Sit down together and read a good book.
SIXTH GRADE
Sounder Armstrong
The Indian in the Cupboard Banks
Secret Garden Burnett
The Summer of the Swans Byars
Zeely Hamilton
King of the Wind Henry
Phantom Tollbooth Jester
A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Lewis
Call of the Wild London
Number the Stars Lowry
Sarah, Plain and Tall MacLachlan
Anne of Green Gables Montgomery
Ms. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh O’Brien
The Black Pearl O’Dell
Island of the Blue Dolphins O’Dell
Sing Down the Moon O’Dell
Bridge to Terabithia Paterson
Hatchet Paulsen
Harriet Tubman and the Underground
Railroad Petry
Black Beauty Sewell
Where the Sidewalk Ends Silverstein
The Cay Taylor
Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates
SEVENTH GRADE
Sounder Armstrong
Secret Garden Burnett
Red Badge of Courage Crane
Rebecca duMaurier
My Side of the Mountain George
The Miracle Worker Gibson
Summer of My German Soldier Greene
The Outsiders Hinton
Flowers of Algernon Keyes
A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle
Chronicles of Narnia Lewis
Anne of Green Gables Montgomery
Island of the Blue Dolphin O’Dell
Hatchet Paulsen
A Day No Pigs Would Die Peck
The Yearling Rawlings
Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls
Treasure Island Stevenson
Black Beauty Sewell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Smith
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor
The Cay Taylor
The Hobbit Tolkien
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain
Swiss Family Robinson Wyss
Dragonwings Yep
EIGHTH GRADE
Watership Down Adams
Sounder Armstrong
The Secret Garden Burnett
A Christmas Carol Dickens
The Diary of a Young Girl Franke
Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Gaines
Black Like Me Griffin
Death Be Not Proud Gunther
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods
and Heroes Hamilton
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black Hansberry
Dreamkeeper and Other Poems Hughes
Across Five Aprils Hunt
White Fang London
The Giver Lowry
Jacob I Have Loved Paterson
The Light in the Forest Richter
The Pearl Steinbeck
The Hobbit Tolkien
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain
The Prince and the Pauper Twain
The Time Machine Wells
War of the Worlds Wells
Belle Prater’s Boy White
The Pigman Zindel
