Top 40 Picks for 6th-8th Graders
Stories – Fiction
Chains — Anderson
Peter and the Starcatchers — Barry
3 Willows — Brashares
Code Talker — Bruchac
The Sisters Grimm: The Fairy Tale Detectives — Buckley
Catherine, Called Birdy — Cushman
Mockingbird (mok’ ing-burd) — Erskine
The Graveyard Book — Gaiman
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer — Grisham
Well Witched — Hardinge
Hoot — Hiaasen
Stormbreaker — Horowitz
Kira-Kira — Kadohata
Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos — La Fevers
A Wrinkle in Time — L’Engle
Fablehaven — Mull
Airborn — Oppel
A Single Shard — Park
Liar, Liar: The Theory, Practice… — Paulsen
Criss Cross — Perkins
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg — Philbrick
The Red Pyramid — Riordan
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy — Schmidt
Guys Read: Funny Business — Scieszka
Stargirl — Spinelli
Moon over Manifest — Vanderpool
Leviathan — Westerfeld
The Mysterious Howling — Wood
People, Poetry, Facts, and Folklore
Growing Up in Coal Country — Bartoletti
Three Cups of Tea (Adapted for Young Readers) — Thomson
Trickster: Native American Tales — Dembicki, ed.
Bat Scientists — Carson
Heroes of Baseball — Lipsyte
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! — Schlitz
Beowulf — Morpurgo
Bodies From the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii — Deem
Through My Eyes — Bridges
King of the Mild Frontier — Crutcher
Ben Franklin’s Almanac — Fleming
The Hero, Schliemann — Schlitz
Note: These titles were chosen by the Youth Services Librarians of the Dauphin County Library System for their appeal to the interest level of this age group. They are not meant to represent or measure a student’s reading level.