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Middle School Book Lists from Previous Years |
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After ever after |
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Be a perfect person in just three days |
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Begging for change |
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Brain Jack |
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Bruiser |
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Bucking the Sarge |
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Countdown |
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Cry of the giraffe |
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Dirty little secrets |
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Dragonfly |
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Fat cat |
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Forgive my fins |
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Giver |
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Grimm legacy |
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House on Mango street |
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How to steal a dog |
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How to survive middle school |
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Incarceron |
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Jade Green: A ghost story |
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Last summer of the death warriors |
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Little blog on the prairie |
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Matched |
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Mi Barrio |
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Mockingbird |
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The monstrumologist |
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Mummies: dried, tanned, sealed, drained, frozen, embalmed, stuffed, wrapped, and smoked … and we’re dead serious |
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Okay for now |
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Payback time |
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Ship breaker |
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Stealing Lincoln’s body |
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Stuck on earth |
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Theodore Boone: Kid lawyer |
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They called themselves the KKK: The birth of an American terrorist group |
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The total tragedy of a girl named Hamlet |
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Vampire rising |
| Title | Author |
Lexile |
Genre |
| All the broken pieces: A novel in verse | Burg, Ann E. | 680 | Historical fiction |
| At her majesty's request: an African princess in Victorian England | Myers, Walter Dean | 1070 | Biography |
| Bull Rider | Williams, Suzanne Morgan | 650 | Realistic fiction |
| Claim to Fame | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | 770 | Fiction-extrasensory perception |
| Deeper | Gordon, Roderick | 950 | Fiction-archaelogy |
| Demon King | Chima, Cinda Williams | 760 | Fantasy |
| Donut Days | Zielin, Lara | 830 | Realistic fiction |
| The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate | Kelly, Jacqueline | 830 | Historical fiction |
| Fire | Cashore, Kristin | 870 | Fantasy |
| The Girl Who Could Fly | Forester, Victoria | 920 | Fantasy |
| The Girlfriend Material | Kantor, Melissa | 860 | Realistic fiction |
| The Great Fire | Murphy, Jim | 790 | Nonfiction |
| Heist Society | Carter, Ally | 870 | Fiction-crime |
| The Hunt for the Seventh | Morton-Shaw, Christine | 660 | Horror |
| Hush, Hush | Fitzpatrick, Becca | 640 | Supernatural Thriller |
| Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark side | Fantaskey, Beth | 700 | Fantasy |
| Killer Pizza: A Novel | Taylor, Greg | 770 | Horror |
| A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier | Beah, Ishmael | 920 | Autobiography |
| Maze Runner | Dashner, James | 770 | Science fiction |
| My Antonia | Cather, Willa | 1010 | Classic novel |
| North of Beautiful | Headley, Justina Chen | 850 | Realistic fiction |
| Notes from the Dog | Paulsen, Gary | 760 | Realistic fiction |
| Pop | Korman, Gordon | 740 | Realistic fiction |
| Prophecy of the Sisters | Zink, Michelle | 5.4 | Fantasy |
| The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour | Bell, Michael D. | 720 | Realistic fiction |
| The Roar | Clayton, Emma | 910 | Science fiction |
| School of Fear | Daneshvari, Gitty | 880 | Realistic fiction |
| Season | MacLean, Sarah | 900 | Mystery/historical |
| Slob | Potter, Ellen | 740 | Mystery |
| Someone Named Eva | Wolf, Joan M. | 820 | Historical fiction |
| Sweetheart of Prosper County | Alexander, Jill S. | 710 | Realistic fiction |
| Tentacles | Smith, Roland | 740 | Science fiction |
| When You Reach Me | Stead, Rebecca | 750 | Realistic fiction |
| Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland | Walker, Sally M. | 1140 | Nonfiction |
| Years of Dust | Marrin, Albert | 7.4 | Nonfiction |
| Title | Author | LoneStar | Genre | Lexile |
| Adoration of Jenna Fox, The | Pearson, Mary E. | * | Science Fiction | 570 |
| Airman | Colfer, Eoin | * | Adventure | 800 |
| Antsy Does Time | Shusterman, Neal | * | Humor/Realistic Fiction | 890 |
| Astonishing Life of Octavian nothing, traitor to the nation, volume II:the kingdom on the waves, The | Anderson, M. T. | Historical Fiction | 1060 | |
| Black Book of Secrets, The | Higgins, F. E. | * | Fantasy/Mystery | 830 |
| Bodies from the ice: melting glaciers and the recovery of the past | Deem, James | Nonfiction/Science | 1180 | |
| Chasing Lincoln's Killer | Swanson, James L. | Nonfiction/History | 980 | |
| Crispin: the cross of lead | Avi | Historical Fiction | 780 | |
| Diamond Willow | Frost, Helen | * | Poetry/Adventure | 670 |
| Every soul a star | Mass, Wendy | Realistic Fiction | 740 | |
| Evolution, Me & Other Freaks of Nature | Brande, Robin | * | Fiction | 800 |
| Found, (The Missing, Book One) | Haddix, Margaret Peterson | * | Science fiction/time travel | |
| Gathering blue | Lowry, Lois | * '01-'02 | Science Fiction | 680 |
| Graceling | Cashore, Kristin | Fantasy | 730 | |
| Graveyard Book, The | Gaiman, Neil | Ghosts/Fantasy | 820 | |
| Great Wide Sea, The | Herlong, M. H. | * | Adventure | 660 |
| Gym Candy | Deuker, Carl | * | Fiction/sports | 710 |
| How Not to be Popular | Ziegler, Jennifer | * | Realistic Fiction | 720 |
| Hunger Games, The | Collins, Suzanne | * | Science Fiction | 810 |
| I, Q.: Independence Hall | Smith Roland | * | Mystery | 660 |
| If you come softly | Woodson, Jacqueline | * '00-'01 | Fiction | 570 |
| Lost Childhood: My life in a Japanese Prison Camp during World War II | Layson, Annelex Hofstra | Biography/Memoir | 920 | |
| Possibilities of Sainthood, The | Freitas, Donna | * | Realistic Fiction | 970 |
| Red Necklace: A Story of the French Revolution, | Gardner, Sally | * | Historical Fiction | 820 |
| Scat | Hiaasan, Carl | Adventure | 810 | |
| Series of unfortunate events #1: The bad beginning, A | Snicket, Lemony | Fiction/Humor | 1010 | |
| Silent to the bone | Konigsburg, E. L. | * '02-'03 | Realistic Fiction | 810 |
| Straw into gold | Schmidt, Gary D. | * '03-'04 | Fairy Tale/Fantasy | 800 |
| Suck It Up | Meehl, Brian | * | Supernatural/Fantasy/Vampires | 740 |
| The Compound | Bodeen, S. A. | * | Suspense | 570 |
| The Crossroads | Grabenstein, Chris | Horror/Suspense | 620 | |
| the dead & the gone | Pfeffer, Susan Beth | * | Science Fiction | 680 |
| The maze | Hobbs, Will | Adventure | 720 | |
| Unwind | Shusterman, Neal | * | Science Fiction | 740 |
| Wings | Pike, Aprilynne | Fantasy |
| Title | Author | Genre | Lexile |
| Alchemyst: the secrets of the immortal… | Scott | Fantasy | |
| All the lovely bad ones: a ghost story | Hahn | Ghost stories | |
| Blue fingers: a ninja's tale | Whitesel | Historical fiction | 800 |
| Breathe: a ghost story | McNish | Ghost stories | |
| Brothers, boyfriends, & other criminal minds | Lurie | Realistic Fiction | |
| Chance Fortune and the outlaws | Berryhill | Fantasy | |
| Cross my heart and hope to spy | Carter | Adventure | |
| Dark water rising | Hale | Historical fiction | |
| Elijah of Buxton | Curtis | Historical fiction | |
| Epic | Kostick | Science Fiction | 880 |
| Feathers | Woodson | Multicultural | 760 |
| First Light | Stead | Adventure | |
| Go big or go home | Hobbs | Adventure | |
| In the cards: love | Fredericks | Realistic Fiction | 650 |
| Life as we knew it | Pfeffer | Science Fiction | 770 |
| London Eye Mystery | Dowd | Mystery | |
| Middle school is worse than meatloaf | Holm | Realistic Fiction | |
| My mother the cheerleader | Sharenow | Historical Fiction | |
| Night of the howling dogs | Salisbury | Adventure | |
| Paint the Wind | Ryan | Multicultural | 780 |
| Peak | Smith | Adventure | 780 |
| Peeled | Bauer | Realistic Fiction | 620 |
| Reaching for the sun | Zimmer | Realistic Fiction | |
| Red moon at Sharpsburg | Wells | Historical fiction | |
| Revolution is not a dinner party | Compestine | Historical fiction | |
| Schooled | Korman | Realistic Fiction | |
| Skulduggery pleasant | Landry | Fantasy | |
| Taken | Bloor | Science Fiction | |
| Tales of the cryptids | Halls | Nonfiction | IG1160 |
| The floating island | Haydon | Fantasy | |
| The golden dream of Carlo Chuchio | Alexander | Adventure | |
| The mysterious Benedict society | Stewart | Science Fiction | 840 |
| The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney | Harper | Ghost stories | |
| The wall: growing up behind the Iron Curtain | SIS | Graphic novel;biography | |
| The Wednesday wars | Schmidt | Realistic Fiction | |
| Theodosia and the serpents of chaos | LaFevers | Fantasy | 800 |
| Waiting for normal | Conner | Realistic Fiction | |
| What the moon saw | Resau | Realistic Fiction | 750 |
| Zen and the art of faking it | Sonnenblick | Realistic Fiction | |
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