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1 A Night to Remember Walter Lord Holt Paperbacks 6 th 2004 Cathedral David Macaulay Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\ 6 th 1981 Child of the Dust Bowl Jerry Stanley 6 th 1997 Esperanza Rising Pam Munoz Ryan Scholastic, Inc. 6 th 2012 Face on the Milk Carton Caroline Cooney 6 th 2012 Freedom Walls Russell Freedman Scholastic 6 th 2008 Hatchet Gary Paulsen Scholastic 6 th 2007 Hiroshima Laurence Yep Scholastic 6 th 1996 Jabberwocky and other Poems Lewis Carroll Neeland Media 6 th 2012 Kira-Kira Cynthia Kadohata Atheneum Books 6 th 2004 Miracle s Boys Jacqueline Woodson Scholastic 6 th 2010 Miracle s Boys Jacqueline Woodson 6 th 2010 Miracle s Boys Jacqueline Woodson Puffin Books 6 th 2010 New and Selected Poems Gary Soto Chronicle Books LLC 6 th 1995 Nothing But the Truth Avi Scholastic 6 th 1991 One Crazy Summer Roll of Thunder, Hear me Cry the bottom Rita Williams Garcia/Jerry Stanley Crown Books 6th 2011 Mildred Taylor Jennifer Armstrong 6 th th 2000 Revised 06 19

2 Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance Jennifer Armstrong Crown Publishers 6 th 2000 Stargirl Jerry Spinelli Laurel Leaf 6 th 2004 Strong Right Arm Michelle Green Penguin Young Readers Group 6 th 2004 Tangerine Edward Bloor Harcourt 6 th 2007 The Breadwinner Debrah Ellis Goundwood Books 6 th 2001 The Clay Marble Minfong Ho Farrar Straus Giroux 6 th 1997 The Face on the Milk Carton Caroline B. Cooney Bantam Books 6 th 1990 The Giver Lois Lowry Laurel Leaf 6 th 2002 The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 6 th 1984 The Number Devil Hans Magnus Holt, Henry & Enzensberger Company, Inc. 6 th 2000 The People Who Could Fly Virginia Hamilton 6 th 1993 The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis Laurel Leaf 6 th 2000 Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikselsen HarperCollins Publishers 6 th 2002 Under the Royal Palms: A Childhood in Cuba Alma Flor Ada Atheneum 6 th 1998 Wrinkle In Time Madeline L Engle Square Fish 6 th 2007 Ask Me No Questions Marina Budhos Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Scholastic 6 th -7 th 2007 Revised 06 19

3 Cry, the Beloved Country Alan paton Scribner 6-8 th 1987 Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury Harper Collins Publisher 6-8 th 1999 I Robot Isaac Asimov Publishing 6-8 th 1999 Midsummer Night s Dream Timeless Classics William Shakespere Publishing 6-8 th 1999 A Night to Remember Walter Lord Bantam 7 th 1997 A Step from Heaven An Na Penguin Group 7 th 2012 A Wrinkle in Time Madelein L Engle Madelein L Engle 7 th 2009 Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko Perfection Learning 7 th 2006 Al Capone Does My Shirts Gennifer Choldenko 7 th 2006 Atheneum Books for Ask Me No Questions Marina Budhos Young 7 th 2007 Readers/Scholastic Ask Me No Questions Marina Budhos Scholastic 7 th 2007 Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff Walter D. Myers Penguin 7 th 1988 Fast Sam, Cool Clyde and Stuff Walter Dean Myers Puffin Books 7 th 1975 Feathers Jacueline Woodson 7 th 2007 Gandhi Amy Pasten DK Children 7 th Publisher: Penguin Group Heat Mike Lupica (USA) 7 th 2006 Life As We Knew It Susan Beth Pfeffer Graphia 7 th 2008 Marching for Freedom Elizabeth Partridge Penguin Group 7 th 2009 Milkweed Jerry Spinelli Ember 7 th 2010 Revised 06 19

4 Novio Boy Gary Soto Harcourt 7 th 2006 Outsiders S. E. Hinton Penquin 7 th 1967 Phineas Gage John Fleischman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 7 th 2002 Portrait of African American Heroes Tonya Bolden & Ansel Pitcairin Puffin Books 7 th 2003 Portraits of African-American Diary Tonya Bolden 7 th 12/5/2005 Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry Mildred D. Taylor Puffin 7 th 2004 The Absolute True Diary of a Part-time Indian Sherman Alexie Hachette Book Group USA 7 th 2007 The Diary of Anne Frank Frances Goodrich & Houghton Mifflin Albert Hockert Harcourt 7 th 1996 The Dreamer Pam Munoz Ryan Scholastic, Inc. 7 th 2010 The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer Simon & Schuster 7 th 2002 The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Scholastic 7 th 2010 The Looking Glass Wars Frank Reddor Penquin Group 7 th 2007 Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer John Grisham Puffin 7 th 2011 Touching Spirit Bear Ben Mikaelson Harper Collins 7 th 2001 When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Kimberly W. Holt 7 th 1999 Woman of Hollering Creek Sandra Cisneros ProQuest LLC 7 th Zlata s Diary Zlata Filipavic Perfection Learning 7 th 2006 Zlata s Diary Zlata Filipovic 7 th 2006 A Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Vintage Books 8 th 2004 A raison in the sun Knopf Doubleday Lorraine Hansberry Publishing Group 8 th 2004 A Step From Heaven An Na 8 th 2002 Amos fortune free man Elizabeth Yates 8 th 1989 Revised 06 19

5 Ashes Kathryn Lasky 8 th 2011 Ask Me No Questions Marina Budhos Atheneum Books for Young Readers 8 th 2007 Black Sails of Troy Rosemary Sutcliff Laurel Leaf 8 th 2005 Book Thief Markus Zusak Knopf 8 th 2006 Bruiser Neal Shusterman Harper Collins 8 th 2011 Cesar Chavez: A Triumph of Spirit Richard Griswold del Castillo and Richard A Garcia University of Oklahoma Press 8 th 1995 Charles & Emma Deborah Heilgman MacMillan 8 th 2004 Chasing Lincoln s Killer James L. Swanson Scholastic, Inc 8 th 2009 Devil s Arithmetic Jane Yolen Puffin 8 th 2004 Feathers Jacqueline Woodson Speak 8 th 2010 Freedom Writers Diary Erin Gruwell 8 th 1999 Jacob Have I Love Katherine Paterson HarperCollins Publishers 8 th 1990 Maus Art Spiegelman Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 8 th 1986 Maus I: A Survivor s Tale My Father Bleeds History Art Spiegelman Pantheon 8 th 1986 Milkweed Jerry Spinelli 8 th 2003 Miss Peregrine s Home for particular children Ranson Riggs Quirk Publishing 8 th Monster Walter Dean Myers HarperCollins Publishers 8 th 2001 Revised 06 19

6 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglass Dover 8 th 1995 Nerdlandia Gary Soto Puffin 8 th 1999 Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About John Fleischman Houghton Mifflin 8 th 2004 Brain Science Raisin in the Sun Lorraine Hansberry Vintage Books/ 8 th 1994 Sold Patricia McCormick Hyperion 8 th 2008 Speak Laurie H. Anderson Farrar Straus Girox 8 th 1999 Speak Laurie Halse Anderson Square Fish 8 th 1961 Speak Anderson, Laurie Halse Scholastic 8 th 1999 The Boy Who Saved Baseball John Ritter Philomel Books 8 th 2005 The Devil s Arithmetic Jane Yolen 8 th 2004 They Had a Dream: The Civil Rights Struggle from Jules Archer Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X Puffin Books 8 th 1996 Benjamin Ajak, They Poured Fire on us From the Sky Benson Deng, Alephonsian Deng Public Affairs 8 th 2005 and Judy Bernstein Travels with Charley John Steinbeck Bantam 8 th 1966 Treasure Island Robert Luis Stevenson Barnes & Noble 8 th 2005 We Just Want to Live Here Amal & Odselia Ainbinder Rifa l St. Martin s Griffin 8 th 2003 Revised 06 19

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