Great Books for Middle Readers

Great books for younger teens and middle schoolers

Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961- – Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance

Avi, 1937- – Crispin : the cross of lead

Bauer, Joan, 1951- – Squashed

Jackson, Livia Bitton. – I have lived a thousand years : growing up in the Holocaust

Brooks, Bruce. – The moves make the man : a novel

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942- – Skeleton man

Calabro, Marian. – The perilous journey of the Donner Party

Colfer, Eoin. – Artemis Fowl

Curtis, Christopher Paul. – The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel

Cushman, Karen. – Catherine, called Birdy

Drill, Esther. – Deal with it! : a whole new approach to your body, brain, and life as a gurl

DuPrau, Jeanne. – The city of Ember

Farmer, Nancy, 1941- – The Sea of Trolls

Flake, Sharon. – The skin I'm in

Fradin, Dennis B. – Bound for the North Star : true stories of fugitive slaves

Funke, Cornelia Caroline. – Inkheart

Gantos, Jack. – Joey Pigza swallowed the key

Hesse, Karen. – Witness

Hiaasen, Carl. – Hoot

Horvath, Polly. – Everything on a waffle

Howe, James, 1946- – The misfits

– A poke in the I : a collection of concrete poems

Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929- – A wizard of earthsea

Levine, Gail Carson. – Ella enchanted

McCaffrey, Anne. – Dragonsong

Marsden, John, 1950- – Tomorrow, when the war began

Myers, Walter Dean, 1937- – The greatest : Muhammad Ali

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. – Shiloh

Nelson, Marilyn, 1946- – Carver, a life in poems

Opdyke, Irene Gut, 1921- – In my hands : memories of a Holocaust rescuer

Paulsen, Gary. – Guts : the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian books

Perkins, Lynne Rae. – All alone in the universe

Pressler, Mirjam. – Anne Frank : a hidden life

Rennison, Louise. – Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

Schwager, Tina, 1964- – Gutsy girls : young women who dare

Smith, Charles R., 1969- – Rimshots : basketball pix, rolls, and rhythms

Staples, Suzanne Fisher. – Shabanu : daughter of the wind

Vail, Rachel. – Daring to be Abigail : a novel

Vizzini, Ned, 1981- – Teen angst? Naaah-- a quasi-autobiography

Voigt, Cynthia. – Dicey's song

Woodson, Jacqueline. – Locomotion

Wrede, Patricia C., 1953- – Dealing with dragons

Yep, Laurence, 1948- – Dragonwings