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May 25, 2015 By Heather 2 Comments

middle schoolI asked my reading, teaching, writing friends for a list of their top Middle School reads. Here’s what we came up with:

Michael Vey Series

The Emerald Atlas (Books of Beginning)

Pictures of Hollis Woods

My Side of the Mountain Trilogy

Princess Academy

Tuesdays at the Castle

Moon Over Manifest

Evertaster

Fish in a Tree

Bomb: The Race to Build–and Steal–the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (Newbery Honor Book)

Ender’s Game Boxed Set I: Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon

Fablehaven: The Complete Series

Cragbridge Hall, Book One: The Inventor’s Secret

Janitors (Janitors series Book 1)

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

Okay for Now

Tennis Shoes Adventure Series (12 Book Series)

The Diary of a Young Girl

Under the Egg

Animal Farm and 1984

Heidi

A Little Princess

Flowers for Algernon

To Kill a Mockingbird

The Secret Garden

The Story of My Life

Anne of Green Gables Collection

Johnny Tremain

The Lost Prince

The Yearling

The Hobbit

Jules Verne

Mark Twain

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Every Soul A Star

Savvy

Howl’s Moving Castle

Secrets of Shakespeare’s Grave: The Shakespeare Mysteries, Book 1

We the Children

The Whites of Their Eyes

Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter

The False Prince: Book 1 of the Ascendance Trilogy

Wonder

When You Reach Me

Number the Stars

The One and Only Ivan

Okay for Now

Case File 13: Zombie Kid

The Little Prince

As a mom, here’s what I want to know…

For sensitive readers, is there content in any of these titles we should be aware of?

Some of these titles are brand new to me. For this, I’m excited. So many books!

What other books do you love for grades 5-7?

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  1. Karlene says

    May 25, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    I haven’t read every book on this list. Some look interesting. But there are two for which I’d add a caution, both due to levels of violence :

    Michael Vey series and Enders Game series. I love Ender series but I think it’s more YA to adult. Personally, I’d say 16 years old and older on those.

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  2. Karlene says

    May 25, 2015 at 3:09 pm

    Oh, and books like Animal Farm, 1984, and To Kill a Mockingbird, while I don’t think they’re necessarily inappropriate for middle schoolers, I’m not sure all children that age have the emotional maturity or life experience to fully understand the books. I’ve found that when younger readers are exposed to books above their emotional comprehension level, the often find them “boring” and then refuse to give the book another chance when they get older. Some of my kids loved those books at age 12, others didn’t appreciate them until they were in high school.

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