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Grades 6 – 8 Summer Reading Challenge List
Adolescence
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Alcott, Louisa May |
Little Women |
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Bloor, Edward |
Tangerine |
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Brink, Carol |
Caddie Woodlawn |
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Brooks, Bruce |
The Moves Make the Man |
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson |
The Secret Garden |
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Cole, Brock |
The Goats |
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Cushman, Karen |
The Midwife's Apprentice |
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Cushman, Karen |
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple |
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Filipovic, Zlata |
Zlata's Diary: A Childs Life in Sarajevo |
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Fine, Anne |
Flour Babies |
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George, Jean Craighead |
Julie of the Wolves |
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Olive's Ocean |
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Hesse, Karen |
Out of the Dust |
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Hobbs, Will |
Bearstone |
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Holt, Kimberly Willis |
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town |
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Keller, Helen |
The Story of My Life |
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Klass, David |
Danger Zone |
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Konigsburg, E. L. |
Silent to the Bone |
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Lauber, Patricia |
Lost Star |
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Lenski, Lois |
Strawberry Girl |
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Lipsyte, Robert |
One Fat Summer |
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Lowry, Lois |
Gathering Blue |
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MacLachlan, Patricia |
Sarah, Plain and Tall |
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Montgomery, L.M. |
Anne of Green Gables |
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Paterson, Katherine |
Jacob Have I Loved |
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Peck, Richard |
A Year Down Yonder |
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Peck, Robert Newton |
A Day No Pigs Would Die |
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Rinaldi, Ann |
Mine Eyes Have Seen |
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Rylant, Cynthia |
Missing May |
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Snyder, Zilpha Keatly |
Libby on Wednesday |
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Snyder, Zilpha Keatly |
Witches of Worm |
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Sorenson, Virginia |
Miracles on Maple Hill |
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Speare, Elizabeth George |
Calico Captive |
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Speare, Elizabeth George |
The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
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Stevenson, R.L. |
Treasure Island |
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Stolz, Mary |
Cezanne Pinto: A Memoir |
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Strasser, Todd |
The Wave |
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Trembath, Don |
The Tuesday Café |
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Voigt, Cynthia |
Homecoming |
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Voigt,Cynthia |
Dicey's Song |
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Zindel, Paul |
The Pigman |
Animals
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Burnford, Sheila |
The Incredible Journey |
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George, Jean C. |
Julie of the Wolves |
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Hemingway, Ernest |
The Old Man and the Sea |
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Hobbs, Will |
Beardance |
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Kalnay, Francis |
Chucaro, Wild Pony of the Pampas |
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London, Jack |
The Call of the Wild |
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London, Jack |
White Fang |
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North, Sterling |
Rascal |
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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan |
The Yearling |
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Rawls, Wilson |
Where the Red Fern Grows |
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Rawls, Wilson |
Summer of the Monkeys |
Civil War
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Beatty, Patricia |
Jayhawker |
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Bradford, Sarah |
Harriet Tubman: The Moses of her People |
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Dolan, Edward F. |
American Civil War: A House Divided |
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Donahue, John |
An Island Far From Home |
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Duey, Kathleen |
Amelina Carrett: Bayou Grand Coeur, Louisiana, 1863 |
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Hamilton, Virginia |
The House of Dies Drear |
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Lyon, George Ella |
Here and Then |
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Morris, Gilbert |
Drummer Boy at Bull Run |
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Murphy, Jim |
Boys War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil
War |
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Murphy, Jim |
The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier |
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Nixon, Joan Lowery |
A Dangerous Promise: The Orphan Train Adventures |
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Reit, Seymour |
Behind Rebel Lines; The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil
War Spy |
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Rinaldi, Ann |
In My Father's House |
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Travis, Lucille |
Captured by a Spy |
Ethnic Literature
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Angelou, Maya |
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
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Armstrong, William H. |
Sounder |
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Chambers, Veronica |
Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom |
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Curtis, Christopher Paul |
Bud, not Buddy |
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Freedman, Russell |
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse |
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Jackson, Livia B. |
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust |
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Jiang, Ji-Li |
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution |
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Kherdian, David |
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl |
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Myers, Walter Dean |
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom |
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O'Dell, Scott |
Sing Down the Moon |
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Rabinovici, Schoschana |
Thanks to My Mother |
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Silverman, Robin Landew |
A Bosnian Family (Journey Between Two World Series) |
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Taylor, Mildred |
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry / The Song of the Trees |
Family
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Alcott, Louisa May |
Little Women |
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Avi |
The Barn |
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Byars, Betsy |
Summer of the Swans |
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Cannon, A. E. |
Amazing Grace |
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Couloumbis, Audrey |
Getting Near to Baby |
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Fox, Paula |
The One-Eyed Cat |
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Haas, Jessie |
Unbroken |
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Jiang, Ji-Li |
Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution |
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McDaniels, Lurlene |
Angels Watching Over Me |
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McKay, Hilary |
The Exiles |
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Nixon, Joan Lowery |
A Family Apart |
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Paterson, Katherine |
Park's Quest |
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Paterson, Katherine |
Jacob Have I Loved |
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Rinaldi, Ann |
A Stitch in Time |
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Rylant, Cynthia |
Missing May |
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Salisbury, Graham |
Under the Blood Red Sky |
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Voigt, Cynthia |
Dicey's Song |
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Yep, Laurence |
Child of the Owl |
Fantasy
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Adams, Richard |
Watership Down |
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Alexander, Lloyd |
The High King |
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Alexander, Lloyd |
The Book of Three |
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Alexander, Lloyd |
Taran Wanderer |
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Almond, David |
Skellig |
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Billingsley, Franny |
The Folk Keeper |
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Brooks, Terry |
Sword of Shannara |
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Cooper, Susan |
The Grey King |
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DeAngeli, Marguerite |
The Door in the Wall |
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Jacques, Brian |
Redwall |
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Juster, Norton |
The Phantom Tollbooth |
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L'Engle, Madeleine |
A Wrinkle in Time |
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L'Engle, Madeleine |
A Wind in the Door |
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Lewis, C.S. |
The Horse and His Boy |
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Lewis, C.S. |
The Magicians Nephew |
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Lewis, C.S. |
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
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McKinley Robin |
The Hero and the Crown |
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McKinley, Robin |
Rose Daughter |
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Pearce, Philippa |
Tom’s Midnight Garden |
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Rowling, J.K. |
Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince |
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Stevenson, R.L. |
Treasure Island |
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Tolkien, J. R. |
The Hobbit |
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Wells, H.G. |
The Time Machine |
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Wrede, Patricia |
Searching for Dragons |
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Wrede, Patricia |
Calling on Dragons |
Friendship
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Adler, C. S. |
Always and Forever Friends |
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Armstrong, Jennifer |
Steal Away |
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Giff, Patricia Reilly |
Lily's Crossing |
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Guy, Rosa |
The Friends |
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Hahn, Mary |
Stepping on the Cracks |
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Montgomery, L.M. |
Anne of Green Gables |
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Philbrick, W.R. |
Max the Mighty |
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Rostkowski, Margaret |
After the Dancing Days |
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Sachar, Louis |
Holes |
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Staples, Suzanne F. |
Dangerous Skies |
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Woodson, Jacqueline |
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This |
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Yumoto, Kazumi |
The Friends |
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Zindel, Paul |
The Pigman |
Holocaust/WW II
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Bergman, Tamar |
Along the Tracks |
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Bishop, Claire Hutchet |
Twenty and Ten |
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Boas, Jacob |
We Are Witness: Five Diaries of Teenagers who Died in the
Holocaust |
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Comier, Robert |
Tunes for Bears to Dance To |
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Drucker, Malka |
Jacob's Rescue, A Holocaust Story |
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Friedman, Carl |
Nightfather |
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Ippisch, Hanneke |
Sky: A True Story of Courage During World War II |
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Kodama, Tatsuharu |
Shin's Tricycle |
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Levitin, Sonya |
Journey to America |
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Matas, |
After the War |
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Mazer, Harry |
The Last Mission |
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Taylor, Theodore |
The Bomb |
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Yep, Lawrence |
Hiroshima |
Immigration
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Avi |
The Escape from Home |
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Conlon-McKenna, Marita |
Wildflower Girl |
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Denboer, Helen |
The Journey of Pieter and Anna |
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Duey, Kathleen |
Nell Dunne: Ellis Island, 1899 |
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Hesse, Karen |
Letters from Rifka |
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Hest, Amy |
When Jessie Came From Across the Sea |
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Hicyilmaz, Gaye |
The Frozen Waterfall |
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Hoehne, Marcia |
The Journey of Emilie |
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Kudlinski, Kathleen |
Shannon: A Chinatown Adventure San Francisco, 1880 |
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Lasky, Kathryn |
Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Felmen, a
Jewish Immigrant Girl |
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Little, Jean |
The Belonging Place |
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Ross, Lillian Hammer |
Sarah, Also Known as Hannah |
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Whelan, Gloria |
Goodbye, Vietnam |
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Woodruff, Elvira |
The Orphan of Ellis Island: A Time-Travel Adventure |
Mystery & Suspense
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Almond, David |
Kit’s Wilderness |
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Avi |
The Man who was Poe |
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Banks, Lynne Reid |
Melusine: A Mystery |
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Christie, Agatha |
And Then There Were None |
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Duncan, Lois |
Summer of Fear |
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Duncan, Lois |
Locked in Time |
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Hamilton, Virginia |
The Mystery of Drear House |
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Hoobler, Dorothy & Thomas |
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn |
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McGraw, Eloise Jarvis |
The Golden Goblet |
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Nixon, Joan Lowery |
Who Are You? |
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Nixon, Joan Lowery |
The Haunting |
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Peck, Richard |
Are You in the House Alone? |
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Pullman Phillip |
The Tiger in the Well |
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Pullman, Phillip |
The Ruby in the Smoke |
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Raskin, Ellen |
The Westing Game |
Revolutionary War
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Avi |
The Fighting Ground |
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Cox, Clinton |
Come All You Brave Soldiers: Blacks in the Revolutionary War |
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Denenberg, Barry |
The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War
Patriot |
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Dolan, Edward F. |
The American Revolution: How We Fought the War of Independence |
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Fritz, Jean |
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? |
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Goodman, Joan |
Hope’s Crossing |
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Greenberg, Judith E. |
Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman (In their own words) |
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Gregory, Kristiana |
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail
Jane Stewart |
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Keehn, Sally |
Moon of Two Dark Horses |
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Roop, Peter |
An Eye for an Eye |
Science Fiction
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Card, Orson Scott |
Enders Game |
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Hogan, James Patrick |
Bug Park |
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McCaffrey, Anne |
Dragonsong |
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Sleator, William |
Interstellar |
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Sleator, William |
The Beasties |
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Sleator, William |
The Boxes |
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Sleator, William |
Dangerous Wishes |
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Zindel, Paul |
Reef of Death |
Sports
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Brooks, Bruce |
The Moves Make the Man |
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Copley, Robert E. |
The Tall Mexican: The Life of Hank Aquirre All-Star Pitcher,
Businessman, Humanitarian |
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Deuker, Carl |
On the Devil's Court |
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Gilbert, Thomas W. |
The Soaring Twenties: Babe Ruth and the Home Run Decade |
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Goodwin, Doris Kearns |
Wait Till Next Year |
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Harrington, Geri |
Jackie Joyner Kersee: Champion Athlete |
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Jones, Tristan |
Adrift |
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Lovit, Chip |
Skating for the Gold: Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski |
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Lynch, Chris |
Slot Machine |
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Margolies, Jacob |
The Negro Leagues: The Story of Black Baseball |
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Myers Walter Dean |
The Outside Shot |
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Myers, Walter Dean |
Hoops |
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Pfetzer, Mark |
Within My Reach: My Everest Story |
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Wallace, Rich |
Wrestling Sturbridge |
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Weaver, Will |
Farm Team |
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Weaver, Will |
Hard Ball: A Billy Baggs Novel |
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Weaver, Will |
Striking Out |
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Wright, David K. |
Arthur Ashe: Breaking the Color Carrier in Tennis |
Survival
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Avi |
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
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Baillie, Allan |
Adrift |
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Campbell, Eric |
The Place of Lions |
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George, Jean C. |
My Side of the Mountain |
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Hobbs, Will |
Far North |
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Houston, James |
A Frozen Fire |
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Osborne, Mary Pope |
Adaline Falling Star |
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Lasky, Kathryn |
True North |
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Lenski, Lois |
Indian Captive |
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Paulsen, Gary |
Brian's Winter |
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Stevermer, Caroline |
The River Rats |
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Whelan, Gloria |
Goodbye, Vietnam |
Vietnam War
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Boyd, Candy Dawson |
Charlie Pippin |
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Denenberg, Barry |
Voices of Vietnam |
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Nelson, Theresa |
And One for All |
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Pevsner, Stella |
Sing for Your Father, Su Phan |
Westward Expansion
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Bohner, Charles |
Bold Journey: West With Lewis and Clark |
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Carter, Peter |
Borderlands |
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Conrad, Pam |
Prairie Songs |
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Garland, Sherry |
A Line in the Sand: the Alamo Diary of Lucinda Laurence,
Gonzales, Texas 1835 |
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Herb, Angela M. |
Beyond the Mississippi; Early Westward Expansion of the United
States |
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Moss, Marissa |
Amelia Hits the Road |
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Myers, Walter Dean |
The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy |
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Paulsen, Gary |
Call Me Francis Tucket |
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Reef, Catherine |
The Buffalo Soldiers |
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Poetry Selections are at the end of the 9 – 12 List |
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