Great Middle School Reads

25 BOOKS CAMPAIGN

 When the World Lets You Down

 Bang, Molly.  Tiger’s Fall, Dell/Yearling, 2003. 110 pages.

 Crist, James.  What To Do When You Are Sad and Lonely, Free Spirit, 2006. 124 pages.

 Flake, Sharon G.  Begging for Change.  Jump at the Sun/ Hyperion, 2003.  235 pages.

 Gaiman, Neil. The Wolves in the Walls.  HarperCollins, 2003.  56 pages.

Who Am I if not My Family?

Avi.  Crispin: The Cross of Lead.  Hyperion, 2002.  262 pages.

 Funke, Cornelia. Inkheart.  Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. The Chicken House/Scholastic, 2003.  534 pages.

 Gaiman, Neil.  Coraline.  HarperCollins, 2002.  162 pages.

 Giff, Patricia Reilly.  Pictures of Hollis Woods.  Wendy Lamb Books/Random House, 2002.  166 pages.

 Johnson, Angela.  Toning the Sweep .  Orchard, 1993.  103 pages.

 Park, Linda Sue.  When My Name Was Keoko.  Clarion, 2002.  199 pages.

 Sheth, Kashmira. Blue Jasmine. Hyperion, 2004. 186 pages.

 Woodson, Jacqueline.  Miracle’s Boys.  Putnam, 2004.  133 pages.

Decisions, Decisions (That’s Not Fair!)

Farmer, Nancy.  The House of the Scorpion.  A Richard Jackson Book/Atheneum, 2002.  380 pages.

Hiaasen, Carl.  Hoot.  Alfred A Knopf, 2002.  292 pages.

Lowry, Lois.  Messenger.   Houghton Mifflin, 2004.  169 pages.

Spinelli, Jerry.  Stargirl.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 186 pages.

 Cool People/All Kinds of Heroes

Boyd, Herb. Martin Luther King, Jr. ABDO Pub., 2005. 239 pages.

 Buckely, Annie. Hero Girls .Child’s World, 2007. 32 pages.

Kroll, Virginia. Especially Heroes. Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2003. 32 pages.

Macy, Sue. Bulls-eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley. National Geographic Society, 2001.  64 pages.    

Nelson, Marilyn. Carver, a Life in Poems.   Front Street, 2001.  103 pages.

Schooley, Bob. Kim Possible.  Tokyopop, c2003. 94 pages.

Weatherford, Carole Boston. Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom. Hyperion Books for Children, 2006.  44 pages.

 Survive Middle School, then Survive THIS!

 Murphy, Jim.   An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793.  Clarion, 2003.  165 pages.

Fleischman, John. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science. Houghton Mifflin, 2002.  86 pages.

 George, Jean Craighead. The case of the missing cutthroats : an eco mystery. HarperTrophy, 1999. 144 pages.

 Lawlor, Laurie.  The School At Crooked Creek.  Holiday House, 2004.  83 pages.

 O’Shei, Tim. Shark attack! : Bethany Hamilton's story of survival. Capstone Press, c2007. 32 pages.

 Piven, Joshua. The worst-case scenario survival handbook. Chronicle Books, c1999.  176 pages.

Great Authors

AVI

Christopher Paul Curtis

Sharon Draper

Sharon Flake

Jack Gantos

Lois Lowry

Walter Dean Myers

Joan Lowery Nixon

Jerry Spinelli