Teacher Recommended Reading: Grades 6-8

Here is a list of Bookshare.org books recommended by teachers of grades 6-8.

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Across Five Aprils	by Irene Hunt
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	by Mark Twain
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl	by Anne Frank
Black Beauty	by Anna Sewell
The Book of Three	by Lloyd Alexander
Bridge to Terabithia	by Katherine Paterson
Call It Courage	by Armstrong Sperry
The Call of the Wild	by Jack London
Canyons	by Gary Paulsen
Catherine, called Birdy	by Karen Cushman
Child of the Owl	by Laurence Yep
Dandelion Wine	by Ray Bradbury
D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths	by Edgar Parin D'Aulaire
The Double Life of Pocahontas	by Jean Fritz
Dragonwings	by Laurence Yep
Flour Babies	by Anne Fine
Forbidden City	by William Bell
The Forgotten Door	by Alexander Key
The Gift of the Magi	by O. Henry
The Giver	by Lois Lowry
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	by J. K. Rowling
Hatchet	by Gary Paulsen
Homecoming	by Cynthia Voight
Homesick: My Own Story	by Jean Fritz
The Hundred Penny Box	by Sharon Bell Mathis
I Heard the Owl Call My Name	by Margaret Craven
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson	by Bette Bao Lord
The Indian in the Cupboard	by Lynne Reid Bans
Journey Home	by Yoshiko Uchida
Julie of the Wolves	by Jean Craighead George
Kidnapped	by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Land I Lost	by Huynh Quang Nhuong
The Light in the Forest	by Conrad Richter
Lyddie	by Katherine Paterson
M. C. Higgins, The Great	by Virginia Hamilton
Make Way for Sam Houston	by Jean Fritz
The Midwife's Apprentice	by Karen Cushman
My Brother Sam Is Dead	by James Lincoln Collier, Christopher Collier
Nightjohn	by Gary Paulson
The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Other Stories	by Bret Harte
Peter Pan	by J. M. Barrie
The Pigman	by Paul Zindel
The Pinballs	by Betsy Byars
The River	by Gary Paulsen
Roll Of Thunder, Hear My Cry	by Mildred D. Taylor
The Secret Garden	by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Secret of the Andes	by Ann Nolan Clark
Shadow of a Bull	by Maia Wojciechowska
The Sign of the Beaver	by Elizabeth George Speare
Stone Fox	by John Reynolds Gardiner
Streams to the River, River to the Sea	by Scott O'Dell
Summer of My German Soldier	by Bette Greene
Swiss Family Robinson	by Johann Wyss
Tales of a Dead King	by Walter Dean Myers
That Was Then, This Is Now	by S. E. Hinton
To Be a Slave	by Julius Lester
Treasure Island	by Robert Louis Stevenson
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle	by Avi
Tuck Everlasting	by Natalie Babbitt
White Mountains	by John Christopher
Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?	by Jean Fritz
Will's Choice	by Joan Lowery Nixon
Witch of Blackbird Pond	by Elizabeth George Speare
A Wrinkle in Time	by Madeleine L'Engle

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