6-8 Reading List 2023-2024
Anticipated Texts for the North Haven Middle School English Department
2022-2023
Grade Six
Book Club Options-Student Selection
Because of Mr. Terupt-Rob Buyea
Rules-Cynthia Lord
Bluefish-Pat Schmatz
The Schwa was Here-Neal Schusterman
The Swap-Megan Shull
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Dark Deep-Ally Condie
Counting by 7s-Holly Goldberg Sloan
First Team-Tim Green
Left Out-Tim Green
The Spiderwick Chronicles-Tony DiTerlizzi
Wings of Fire-Tui Sutherland
Warriors-Erin Hunter
Maximum Ride-James Patterson
Excerpts from Fast Food Nation
I am Malala-How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
Where the Red Fern Grows-Wilson Rawls
Wicked (adapted version)
Grade Seven
The Monkey’s Paw-W.W. Jacobs
The Veldt-Ray Bradbury
Three Skeleton Key-George G. Toudouze
The Most Dangerous Game-Richard Connell
The Lady or the Tiger- Frank Stockton
After Twenty Years-O. Henry
The Sniper-Liam O’Flaherty
Tell-Tale Heart-Edgar Allen Poe
Seventh Grade-Gary Soto
The Landlady-Roald Dahl
Lamb to the Slaughter-Roald Dahl
Thirteen and a Half-Rachel Vail
Christmas Carol adapted narrative version
Book Club Options-Student Selection
The Hunger Games-Suzanne Collins
Cinder-Marissa Meyer
Scythe-Neal Scusterman
Among the Hidden-Margaret Petersen
Witch and Wizard-James Patterson
The Maze Runner-James Dashner
Insignia-S.J. Kinkaid
Edge of Extinction-Laura Martin
The House of the Scorpions-Nancy Farmer
The Limit-Kristen Landon
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Patricia Polacco
When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant
Book Club Options-Student Selection
Maniac Magee-Jerry Spinelli
I am Malala
It’s Trevor Noah-Trevor Noah
Soul Surfer-Bethany Hamilton
Relentless-Julian Edelman
Knots in My YoYo String-Jerry Spinelli
El Deafo-Cece Bell
The Closer-Mariano Rivera
The Best Man-Peck
Courage to Soar-Simone Biles
The Outsiders-S.E. Hinton
Grade Eight
The Scholarship Jacket-Martha Salinas
My First Free Summer-Julia Alvarez
Sucker-Carson McCullers
The Treasure of Lemon Brown-Walter Dean Myers
Shaving-Leslie Norris
The Medicine Bag-Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve
Names Nombres-Julia Alvarez
Button, Button-Richard Matheson
Book Club Options-Student Selection
Indian No More-Charlene Willing McManis
Red Kayak-Priscilla Cummings
Crossing Lines-Paul Volponi
The Ninth Ward-Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Only Road-Alexandra Diaz
Miracle in the Andes-Nando Parrado
Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks-E. Lockhart
The Crazy Horse Electric Game-Chris Crutcher
The Giver-Lois Lowry
Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury
The Lottery-Shirley Jackson
The Pedestrian-Ray Bradbury
There Will Come Soft Rains-Ray Bradbury
Yellow Star-Jennifer Roy
Night-Elie Weisel
Flowers-Alice Walker
Caged Bird-Maya Angelou
I, too-Langston Hughes
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
North Haven Public Schools is committed to providing students with rich literature that enable them to be highly reflective students who engage in respectful discourse. The North Haven Middle School ELA classes expose students to a variety of appropriate texts that includes novels, poetry, short stories, essays, articles, textbooks and plays.
If a student or parents has a concern about any text, they should contact the ELA teacher and/or the ELA Coordinator. If the concern is not resolved, the parent has the right to request an alternative text provided by the course teacher.