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REQUIRED: Iqbal, by Francesco D’Adamo
AND must select one from non-fiction and one more from either list.
Fiction
Wonder, by R.J. Palacio
A Corner of the Universe, by Ann M. Martin
On My Honor, by Marion Dane Bauer
Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen
How Angel Peterson Got His Name, by Gary Paulsen
Non-Fiction
Through My Eyes, by Ruby Bridges
Drawing From Memory, by Alan Say
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, by Walter Dean Myers
The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.A. Rey, by Louise Borden
Buried Alive: How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Under the Chilean Desert, by Elaine Scott
Students Entering Grade 7
REQUIRED: Revolution is Not a Dinner Party, by Ying Chang Compestine
AND must select one from non-fiction and one more from either list.
Fiction
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, by Jordan Sonnenblick
Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen
The Skin I'm In, by Sharon Flake
Red Kayak, by Priscilla Cummings
Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka, by Jon Scieszka
Non-Fiction
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor, by Russell Freedman
Leon's Story, by Leon Walter Tillage
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World, by Sy Montomery
Lincoln's Grave Robbers, by Steve Sheinkin
Shipwrecked: The True Adventuers of a Japanese Boy, by Rhoda Blumberg
Students Entering Grade 8
REQUIRED: Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon, by Steve Sheinkin
AND any two books from either list.
Fiction
Peak, by Roland Smith
Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel
A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park
Freak, by Marcella Pixley
Monster, by Walter Dean Myers
Nonfiction
Warriors Don't Cry, by Melba Beals
Within Reach: My Everest Story, by Mark Pfetzer
Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust, by Ruth Thomas
Leaving Glorytown: One Boy's Struggle Under Castro, by Eduardo Calcines