8th Grade:

1st half of the year: Political Novels

-Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
-Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
-Animal Farm, by George Orwell
-Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

2nd half of the year: Classics

-Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
-Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
-Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
-Selections from Henry David Thoreau

Social Studies: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Science: October Sky, by Homer Hickam


7th Grade:

1st half of the year: Coming-of-Age Novels

-To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
-Parrot in the Oven, by Victor Martinez
-A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
-A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry

2nd half of the year: War Novels

-Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
-All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque
-Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo
-Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers

Social Studies: Revenge of the Whale, by Nathaniel Philbrick

Science: The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H.G. Wells


6th Grade:

1st half of the year: Newbery Award-Winning Novels

-Holes, by Louis Sachar
-Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred D. Taylor
-A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
-The Giver, by Lois Lowry
2nd half of the year: Adventure Novels

-So Far From the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
-The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
-Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain

Social Studies: Night, by Elie Wiesel

Science: Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell


5th Grade:

1st half of the year: Reading Comprehension

-Dreamchasers: A Collection of Stories by Various Authors
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis

2nd half of year: Introduction to the Novel

-The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Paene Du Bois
-Call it Courage, by Armstrong Sperry
-Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien
-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz , by L. Frank Baum
-The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin

Social Studies: Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail, by Elvira Woodruff
Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad, by Elvira Woodruff

Science: James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl


Summer Reading List

8th grade:

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Kaplan Score Raising Classic)
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley (Kaplan Score Raising Classic)
Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle


7th grade:

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
The Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, by Edgar Allen Poe (Kaplan Score Raising Classic)
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck


6th grade:
Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt
The Man in the Ceiling, by Jules Feiffer
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls


5th grade:

Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli