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    Curriculum & Instruction

    Board Approved Novels for Middle School Grades 6 - 8  

    Sixth Grade (6):

    Title

    Author

    Unit 1: Childhood

    Bud, Not Buddy

    Christopher Paul Curtis

    Among the Hidden

    Margaret Peterson

    Boy of the Painted Cave

    Justin Denzel

    Unit 2: Animal Allies

    Black Beauty

    Anna Sewell

    The Jungle Book

    Rudyard Kipling

    Touching Spirit Bear

    Ben Mikaelsen

    Unit 3:  Modern Technology

    Anything But Typical

    Nora Raleigh Baskin

    Incarceron

    Catherine Fisher

    Unit 4:  Imagination

    The Sword and the Circle

    Rosemary Sutcliff

    Watership Down

    Richard Adams

    The Enchanted Castle

    E. Nesbit

    Unit 5:  Exploration

    Around the World in 80 Days

    Jules Verne

    The House of Dies Drear

    Virginia Hamilton

    The Lightning Thief – Percy Jackson

    Rick Riordan

     

      

    Seventh Grade (7)

    Title

    Author

    Unit 1: Generations

    Fair Weather

    Richard Peck

    Ribbons

    Lawrence Yep

    Stand Tall

    Joan Bauer

    Unit 2:  A Starry Home

    Crater

    Homer Hickman

    Transall Saga

    Gary Paulson

    Parasite Pig

    William Sleator

    Unit 3:  Turning Points

    Hush

    Jacqueline Woodson

    Whirligig

    Paul Fleischman

    The Hunger Games

    Suzanne Collins

    Unit 4:  People on the Planet

    Hoot

    Carl Hiaasen

    Downriver

    Will Hobbs

    River Thunder

    Will Hobbs

    Unit 5:  Facing Adversity

    The Clay Marble

    Minfong Ho

    Letters from Rifka

    Karen Hesse

    No Promises in the Wind

    Irene Hunt

    Esperanza Rising

    Pam Munouz Ryan

     

    Eighth Grade (8)

    Title

    Author

    Unit 1: Rites of Passage

    The Outsiders

    S. E. Hinton

    Rules of the Road

    Joan Bauer

    The House on Mango Street

    Sandra Cisneros

    Unit 2: The Holocaust

    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

    John Boyne

    The Devil’s Arithmetic

    Jane Yolen

    The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak

    Code Talker

    Joseph Bruchac

    Unit 3:  What Matters

    Farewell to Manzanar

    James D. Houston & Wakatsuki Houston

    Does My Head Look Big in This?

    Randa Abdel-Fattah

    Inside Out and Back Again

    Thanhhna Lai

    Unit 4:  Human Intelligence

    Ender’s Game

    Orson Scott Card

    Flowers for Algernon

    David Rogers

    Divergent

    Veronica Roth

    Unit 5:  Invention

    Boy: Tales of Childhood

    Roald Dahl

    Time Machine

    H.G. Wells

    Robot Dreams

    Isaac Asimov

     

     

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