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6th Grade

Title

Author

Lexile Level

Absolutely Normal Chaos

Sharon Creech

900

Among the Hidden

Margaret Peterson Haddix

800

Brian’s Return

Gary Paulsen

1030

Brian’s Winter

Gary Paulsen

1140

Catherine, Called Birdy

Karen Cushman

1170

Chasing Vermeer

Blue Balliett

770

Esperanza Rising

Pam Munoz Ryan

750

Freak the Mighty

Rodman Philbrick

1000

Hoot

Carl Hiaasen

760

The House on  Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros

870

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

1020

Island of Blue Dolphin

Scott O’Dell

1000

Maniac Magee

Jerry Spinelli

820

Redwall

Brain Jacques

800

Sounder

William H. Armstrong

900

Surviving the Applewhites

Stephanie Tolan

820

Tangerine

Edward Bloor

680

The Music of Dolphins

Karen Hesse

560

The View from Saturday

E.L. Konigsburg

870

Walk Two Moons

Sharon Creech

900

7th Grade

Title

Author

Lexile Level

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Gennifer Choldenko

600

Becoming Naomi Leon

Pam Munoz Ryan

830

Blitzcat

Robert Westall

760

Code Orange

Caroline Cooney

850

Don”t Care High

Gordon Korma

920

Flush

Carl Hiaasen

830

A Girl Named Disaster

Nancy Farmer

730

Hoops

Walter Dean Myers

740

Inkheart

Cornelia Funke

780

A Mango Shaped Space

Wendy mass

770

Maximum Ride

James Patterson

700

No More Dead Dogs

Gordon Korman

610

A Northern Light

Jennifer Donnelly

700

Pictures of Hollis Woods

Patricia Reily Giff

650

Ruby Electric

 

 

Scorpions

Walter Dean Myers

610

Slam!

Walter Dean Myers

750

The Boy From the Basement

Susan Shaw

470

The Misfits

James Howe

960

The Moves Make the Man

Bruce Brooks

1150

The Young Man and the Sea

Rodman Philbrick

800

8th Grade

Title

Author

Lexile Level

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

950

Dealing with Dragons

Patricia Wrede

830

Dicey’s Song

Cynthia Voight

710

Dogsong

Gary Paulsen

930

Doormat

Kelly McWilliams

730

Fallen Angel

Walter Dean Myers

650

Full Tilt

Neal Shusterman

700

Jacob Have I Loved

Katherine Patterson

880

Killing Mr. Griffin

Lois Duncan

720

Kira-Kira

Cynthia Kadohat

740

Last Book in the Universe

Rodman Philbrick

740

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

Sonya Sones

820

Promise to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America

Sharon Robinson

1030

Romiette and Julio

Sharon Draper

610

So B. It

Sarah weeks

860

Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

690

The Dark Side of Nowhere

Neal Shusterman

850

The Teacher’s Funeral

Richard Peck

750

The Wanderer

Sharon Creech

830

Watson’s Go to Birmingham

Christopher Paul Curtis

1000