SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
FICTION
| Abelove, Joan | Go and Come Back |
| Acampora, Paul | Defining Dulce |
| Adams, Richard | Watership Down |
| Aiken, Joan | A Touch of Chill, A Whisper in the Night, Wolves of Willoughby Chase |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Men, Little Women |
| Alexander, Lloyd | The High King, The Illyrian Adventure series, The Westmark series |
| Anderson, Laurie Halse | Fever 1793 |
| Armstrong, William H. | Sounder |
| Asimov, Isaac | I, Robot, Fantastic Voyage |
| Auch, Mary Jane | Ashes of Roses |
| Avi | Crispin: the Cross of Lead, Nothing But the Truth, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
| Bagnold, Enid | National Velvet |
| Banks, Lynne Reid | Indian in the Cupboard |
| Barry, Dave | Peter and the Starcatchers |
| Bauer, Joan | Hope Was Here, Rules of the Road, Squashed, Stand Tall |
| Bauer, Marion Diane | On My Honor, Runt |
| Blodett, Tom | Williwaw ! |
| Blos, Joan W. | A Gathering of Days |
| Blume, Judy | Tiger Eyes |
| Bonham, Frank | Durango Street |
| Bradbury, Ray | The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451 |
| Brink, Carol | Caddie Woodlawn |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Bruchac, Joseph | Pocohantas, Sacajawea |
| Bunting, Eve | SOS Titanic |
| Burnford, Sheila | Incredible Journey |
| Byars, Betsy | Cracker Jackson, Pinballs, Summer of the Swan |
| Choldenko, Gennifer | Al Capone Does my Shirts |
| Christopher, John | The City of Gold and Lead, The Guardians, The Pool of Fire, The White Mountains |
| Clements, Andrew | Frindle, Things Not Seen |
| Cohn, Rachel | The Steps |
| Cole, Brock | Celine, The Goats |
| Colfer, Eoin | Artemis Fowl |
| Collier, James and Christopher | My Brother Sam is Dead |
| Conford, Ellen | Dear Lovey Hart: I am Desperate, Seven Days to a Brand-New Me, We Interrupt This Semester for an Important Bulletin, Why Me? |
| Conley, Jane | Crazy Lady |
| Cooney, Caroline | The Face on the Milk Carton, Code Orange, Flight #116 is Down |
| Cooper, Susan | The Boggart, The Dark is Rising series, Dawn of Fear, Seaward |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Creech, Sharon | Granny Torrelli Makes Soup, Replay, Ruby Holler, Walk Two Moons |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | Bud, Not Buddy, The Watsons Go to Birmingham |
| Cushman, Karen | Catherine Called Birdy, The Midwife's Apprentice |
| Danziger, Paula | The Cat Ate my Gymsuit |
| DeFelice, Cynthia | Weasel |
| DiCamillo, Kate | Because of Winn-Dixie, The Tale of Despereaux |
| Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan |
Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes |
| Draper, Sharon M. | Copper Sun, Forged by Fire, Tears of a Tiger |
| Drucker, Malka | Jacob's Rescue |
| Duncan, Lois | Don't Look Behind You, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Locked in Time, Stranger With my Face |
| Dygard, Thomas J. | The Rookie Arrives, The Rebounder, Tournament Upstart |
| Engdahl, Sylvia | Enchantress from the Stars |
| Fama, Elizabeth | Overboard |
| Farley, Walter | The Black Stallion series |
| Farmer, Nancy | The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, House of the Scorpion |
| Fast, Howard | April Morning |
| Feinstein, John | Last Shot |
| Ferris, Jean | Once Upon a Marigold |
| Fine, Ann | Flour Babies |
| Fleischman, Paul | Breakout, Bull Run, A Fate Totally Worse Than Death, Seek |
| Fleischman, Sid | The Whipping Boy |
| Forbes, Esther | Johnny Tremain |
| Fox, Paula | One-Eyed Cat, The Slave Dancer |
| Funke, Cornelia | The Thief Lord |
| Gantos, Jack | Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key |
| George, Jean Craighead | Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain |
| Giff, Patricia | Pictures of Hollis Woods, Lily's Crossing |
| Gipson, Fred | Old Yeller |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Among the Hidden series |
| Hahn, Mary Downing | The Dead Man in Indian Creek, Stepping on the Cracks, The Wind Blows Backward, Wait Till Helen Comes |
| Hamilton, Virginia | The House of Dies Drear |
| Hautman, Pete | Godless, Invisible |
| Hesse, Karen | Out of the Dust |
| Hinton, S.E. | The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Tex |
| Hobbs, Will | Bearstone, Far North, Jackie's Wild Seattle, Jason's Gold |
| Holt, Kimberly Willis | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town |
| Hiaasen, Carl | Hoot |
| Horowitz, Anthony | Ark Angel, Stormbreaker |
| Hunt, Irene | Across Five Aprils, Up a Road Slowly |
| Irving, Washington | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Jacques, Brian | Martin the Warrior, Redwall series |
| Johnson, Maureen | 13 Little Blue Envelopes |
| Juster, Norton | The Phantom Tollbooth |
| Kadohata, Cynthia | Kira-Kira |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Captains Courageous, The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, Kim |
| Kjelgaard, Jim | Big Red |
| Klause, Annette Curtis | Blood and Chocolate |
| Konigsburg, E.L. | From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The View From Saturday |
| Le Guin, Ursula K. | Gifts, A Wizard of Earthsea |
| L'Engle, Madeleine | A Wind in the Door, A Wrinkle in Time |
| Levine, Gail Carson | Ella Enchanted |
| Lewis, C.S. | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild, White Fang |
| Lowry, Lois | The Giver, Number of the Stars |
| McCaffrey, Anne | Dragonsong series, Wyers of Pern |
| McCaughrean, Geraldine | Kite Rider |
| McKinley, Robin | Beauty: a Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, The Blue Sword, The Hero and the Crown |
| McKissack, Patricia C. | The Dark Thirty |
| Matas, Carol | Daniel's Story |
| Mazer, Norma Fox | When She Was Good |
| Montgomery, Lucy Maude | Anne of Green Gables series |
| Morey, Walt | Gentle Ben |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Autobiography of my Dead Brother, Somewhere in the Darkness |
| Naidoo, Beverly | The Other Side of Truth |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | The Keeper, Shiloh |
| Neufeld, John | Edgar Allan, Lisa, Bright and Dark |
| O'Brien, Robert C. | Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM |
| O'Dell, Scott | The Black Pearl, Island of the Blue Dolphins |
| Oppel, Kenneth | Airborn, Skybreaker |
| Orlev, Uri | Man from the Other Side |
| Paolini, Christopher | Eragon series |
| Park, Barbara | Mick Harte Was Here |
| Park, Linda Sue | When my name was Keoko, A Single Shard |
| Paterson, Katherine | Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved, Lyddie |
| Patneaude, David | Someone Was Watching |
| Patron, Susan | The Higher Power of Lucky |
| Paulsen, Gary | Dogsong, Harris & Me, Hatchet, The Island, The River, Woodsong |
| Pearsall, Shelly | Trouble Don't Last |
| Peck, Richard | Ghosts I Have Been, Secrets of the Shopping Mall, Voices After Midnight, The River Between Us, A Year Down Under |
| Peck, Robert Newton | A Day No Pigs Would Die |
| Perkins, Lynne Rae | Criss Cross |
| Perl, Lila | Me and Fat Glenda |
| Pevsner, Stella | Cute is a Four-Letter Word , How Could You Do it, Diane? |
| Pfeffer, Susan Beth | The Year Without Michael |
| Pullman, Philip | The Golden Compass series |
| Raskin, Ellen | The Westing Game |
| Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan | The Yearling |
| Rawls, Wilson | Where the Red Fern Grows |
| Ritter, John H. | The Boy who Saved Baseball |
| Robinson, Barbara | The Best School Year Ever |
| Rinaldi, Ann | Broken Days |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Missing May |
| Sachar, Louis | Holes |
| Saint-Exupery, Antoine de | The Little Prince |
| Schaefer, Jack | Shane |
| Sewell, Anna | Black Beauty |
| Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft | Frankenstein |
| Sleator, William | House of Stairs, Interstellar Pig |
| Snyder, Zilpha K. | Below the Root series, Cat Running, The Egypt Game |
| Speare, Elizabeth George | The Bronze Bow, The Sign of the Beaver, The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| Sperry, Armstrong | Call it Courage |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Maniac McGee, Wringer |
| Steinbeck, John | The Pearl, The Red Pony |
| Sutcliff, Rosemary | The Light Beyond the Forest: the Quest for the Holy Grail series |
| Taylor, Mildred D. | Let the Circle Be Unbroken, The Road to Memphis, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Taylor, Theodore | The Cay, The Well |
| Temple, Frances | The Ramsay Scallop |
| Tolan, Stephanie | Surviving the Applewhites |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings trilogy |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| Van Draanen, Wendelin | Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief |
| Vande Velde, Vivian | Heir Apparent |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Dicey's Song, Homecoming, Izzy Willy-Nilly |
| Weaver, Will | Memory Boy |
| Wells, H.G. | The War of the Worlds |
| Wiesel, Elie | Night |
| Wolff, Virginia Euwer | Make Lemonade |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | I hadn't meant to Tell You This |
| Wrede, Patricia | Dealing With Dragons |
| Wright, Betty Ren | The Dollhouse Murders |
| Yolen, Jane | Dragon's Blood |
| Yep, Laurence | Dragon's Gate |
(This list does not include
all of the nonfiction available in MJSHS library, only those recommended in Wilson’s
Middle & Junior High School Library Catalog, Best Books for Junior
High Readers and other library resources.)
This page was last updated August 7, 2007.
Page design by Nancy Bell.
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