Book Lists for 2016-2017 Desoto Central Middle School 6 th Grade TITLE Let the Circle Be Unbroken Stargirl Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Monster Maniac Magee Wonder Heat Walk Two Moons Number the Stars Three Times Lucky Belly Up Theodore Boone Guys Read Doll Bones House of Dies Drear Pop Game Changers: Heavy Hitters Game Changers: Playmakers Let The Circle Be Unbroken Road to Memphis Nothing But The Truth Tuck Everlasting Dear America: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl Ungifted Eight Keys Finding Ruby Starling QB1 AUTHOR Jerry Spinelli Jerry Spinelli RJ Palacio Sharon Creech Lois Lowry Sheila Turnage Teddy Fitzroy John Grisham Jon Scieszka Holly Black Virginia Hamilton Avi Natalie Babbitt Joyce Hansen Gordon Korman Suzanne LaFleur Karen Rivers
7 th Grade TITLE AUTHOR Eyes on the Prize Juan Williams Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Stephen Dunning The Miracle Worker William Gibson Seven Plays of Mystery and Suspense Sylvia Brodkin Hatchet Gary Paulson Call of the Wild Jack London Between Shades of Gray Ruta Sepetys Game Changers: Heavy Hitters The Boy in Striped Pajamas John Boyne Summer of My German Soldier Bette Greene Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem Rosalyn Schanzer Romiette and Julio The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories Dorothy Abbott October Sky Homer Hickam The Red Scarf Girl Ji-Li Jiang No More Dead Dogs Gordon Korman The Dig Alan Dean Foster Farewell to Manzanar James D. Houston My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George The Outsiders S.E. Hinton The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving Leaving Fishers Margaret Peterson Haddix Tex S.E. Hinton The Devil s Arithmetic Jane Yolen The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Rules of the Road Joan Bauer Goodbye, Vietnam Gloria Whelan The Cay Theodore Taylor The Glory Field Slam! The Last Warrior Suzanne Pierson Ellison Out of the Dust Karen Hesse Amelia Earhart: Courage in the Sky Mona Kerby Pretend You Don t See Her Mary Higgins Clark The Lottery Winner Mary Higgins Clark Silent Night Mary Higgins Clark Good Ol Boy Willie Morris Unravelled Anna Scanlon Inkheart Cornelia Funke The Only Thing to Fear Caroline Tung Richmond See You at Harry s Jo Knowles Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick
Tell Me The Giver Bad Boy Confessions of a Murder Suspect I Am The Cheese The Impossible Knife of Memory Unwind Gym Candy Out of My Mind The Pearl The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die The Naturals Prisoner B-3087 Sick The House of the Scorpion Winger The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Diary of Anne Frank Joan Bauer Lois Lowry James Patterson Robert Cormier Neil Shusterman Carl Dueker John Steinbeck April Henry Jennifer Lynn Barnes Alan Gratz Tom Levene Nancy Farmer Andrew Smith Robert Louis Stevenson Anne Frank
8 th Grade TITLE Helen Keller: the Story of My Life The Complete Poetry of Poe Eight Plays of U.S. History Flowers for Algernon The Book Thief A Midsummer Night s Dream Heat Columbine The Blind Side The Westing Game The Lottery Rose A Night to Remember Guys Write for Guys Read Three Little Words Chew on This Fearless Breathing Underwater Homecoming The Hobbit Speak Night CopperSun Mississippi Trial, 1955 The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries The Contender Cold Sassy Tree Freak the Mighty The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Milkweed Johnny Tremain The Pearl That Was Then, This Is Now Artemis Fowl Monster The Hound of the Baskervilles Surviving Antarctica Then Skin I m In Across Fives Aprils The Chocolate War Nothing But The Truth A Painted House And Then There Were None AUTHOR Helen Keller Edgar Allan Poe Globe Reader s Collection Daniel Keyes Markus Zusak William Shakespeare Dave Cullen Michael Lewis Ellen Raskin Irene Hunt Walter Lord Jon Scieszka Ashley Rhodes - Courter Eric Schlosser Eric Blehm Alex Flinn Cynthia Voight JRR Tolkein Elie Wiesel Chris Crowe Arthur Conan Doyle Robert Lipsyte Olive Ann Burns Rodman Philbrick Washington Irving Jerry Spinelli Esther Hoskins Forbes John Steinbeck S.E. Hinton Eoin Colfer Arthur Conan Doyle Andrea White Sharon Flake Irene Hunt Robert Cormier Avi John Grisham Agatha Christie
Life in the Polar Lands Monica Byles Bull Run Paul Fleischman Revolution Jennifer Donnelly A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Chains How They Croaked Georgia Bragg How They Choked Georgia Bragg A Monster Calls Patrick Ness I Will Save You Matt De La Pena Three Weeks with My Brother Nicholas Sparks A Walk to Remember Nicholas Sparks Wintergirls Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Anthem Ayn Rand Make Lemonade Virginia Wolfe Endangered Eliot Schrefer Backlash Sarah Darer Littman I Am A Seal Team Six Warrior Howard Wasdin The Eighth Day Dianne K. Salerni Girl, Stolen April Henry Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson I Will Always Write Back Alifirenka & Ganda 1984 George Orwell I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou I Beat the Odds Michael Oher Life in Motion Misty Copeland The Red Queen Victoria Aveyard Ripper Stefan Petrucha Faceless Alyssa Sheinmel
Battle of the Books The Land Baseball in April Counting by 7 s Surviving the Applewhites Pictures of Hollis Woods Chains The Pigman Turtle in Paradise The Lottery Rose Olive s Ocean Gary Soto Holly Goldburg Sloan Stephanie S. Tolan Patricia Reilly Griff Paul Zindel Jennifer L. Holm Irene Hunt Kevin Henkes Book Club Because of Mr. Terupt Mr. Terupt Strikes Again Every Soul A Star Out of My Mind Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie The Skin I m In The Impossible Knife of Memory Period 8 CopperSun One Fat Summer Wintergirls We Could Be Brothers The Fault in Our Stars The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Rob Buyea Rob Buyea Wendy Mass Jordan Sonnenblick Sharon Flake Chris Crutcher Robert Lipsyte Derrick Barnes John Green Sherman Alexie