:: Standard 28 Book List 6-8 Grades 2026-27 ::

Author Title
Applegate, Katherine Crenshaw
Beals, Melba, Warriors Don’t Cry
Boyne, John The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Burgan, Michael Breaker Boys: How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor
Coelho, Paulo The Alchemist
Creech, Sharon Walk Two Moons
Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy
Freedman, Russell Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
George, Jean Craighead On the Far Side of the Mountain
Haddix, Margaret Peterson Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1)
Holm, Jennifer Our Only May Amelia
Hunt, Lynda Mullaly Shouting at the Rain
Kelly, Lynne Song for a Whale
Korman, Gordon The Unteachables
O’Dell, Scott The King’s Fifth
Park, Linda Sue A Single Shard
Patterson, James Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
Shahan, Sherry Death Mountain
Sloan, Holly Counting by 7s
Soto, Gary Baseball in April and Other Stories
Sperry, Armstrong Call It Courage
Swanson, James L. Chasing Lincoln’s Killer
Taylor, Mildred D. The Land
Tolkien, JRR The Hobbit
Van Draanen, Wendelin Sammy Keys and the Hotel Thief
Voight, Cynthia A Solitary Blue
Wilson, Diane Lee I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
Woodson, Jacqueline Feathers

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