Top 40 Picks for 6th-8th Graders

 

Booklist grades 6-8Stories – 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.