| Sixth Grade | |||
| Teachers at this grade level may choose from the following: | |||
| TITLE | AUTHOR | ||
| All Summer in a Day | |||
| City of Ember @ | DuPrau | ||
| Fever 1793 @ | Anderson | ||
| Mick Harte Was Here * | Barbara Parker | ||
| Neighborhood Odes * | Soto | ||
| Regarding the Fountain | Kate Klaise | ||
| Seedfolks * | Flischman | ||
| True Sight @ | Stahler | ||
| When Zachary Beaver Came to Town @ | Holt | ||
| Pre AP * | |||
| Literature Circles @ | |||
| Seventh Grade | |||
| Teachers at this grade level may choose from the following: | |||
| TITLE | AUTHOR | ||
| A Christmas Carol (play, prose*) | Charles Dickens | ||
| A Midsummer's Night Dream * | William Shakespeare | ||
| Dark They Were and Golden-Eyed @ | Ray Bradbury | ||
| Dragonwings | Lawrence Yep | ||
| Exploring the Titanic @ | Robert D. Ballard | ||
| Farwell to Manzanar * | Jeanne Watasuki | ||
| Gathering Blue | Lois Lowry | ||
| Habibi* | Haomi Shihab Nye | ||
| Kaffir Boy * | Mathabane | ||
| Key Item @ | Isaac Asimov | ||
| Messenger | Lois Lowry | ||
| Rikki Tikki Tavi @ | Rudyard Kipling | ||
| Seventh Grade @ | Gary Soto | ||
| Thank You, M'am @ | Langston Hughes | ||
| The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman * | Ernest J. Gaines | ||
| The Cay | Theodore Taylor | ||
| The Giver | Lois Lowry | ||
| The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street @ | Rod Sterling | ||
| The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963 | Christopher Paul Curtis | ||
| Tuck Everlasting | Natalie Babbitt | ||
| War of the Worlds * | H.G. Wells | ||
| Zebra @ | Chaim Potok | ||
| Denotes Pre-AP only * | |||
| Denotes From the Language of Literature (Grade 7) @ | |||
| Eighth Grade | |||
| Teachers at this grade level may choose from the following list: | |||
| TITLE | AUTHOR | ||
| Across Five Aprils | Irene Hunt | ||
| Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | ||
| Born Free | Joy Adamson | ||
| Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde * | Robert Louis Stevenson | ||
| Green Angel | Alice Hoffman | ||
| King Lear * | Shakespeare | ||
| Les Miserables (novel & screenplay excerpts) * | Victor Hugo | ||
| My Brother Sam is Dead | Collier & Collier | ||
| Nightjohn | Gary Paulson | ||
| O. Henry Short Stories | O. Henry | ||
| Pygmalion * | George Bernard Shaw | ||
| Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli | ||
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | ||
| The Diary of Anne Frank (drama) | F. Goodrich & A. Hackett | ||
| The Gift of the Magi | |||
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| The Lightning Thief | Rick Riordan | ||
| The Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| The Outsiders | S.E. Hinton | ||
| The Ransom of Red Chief | |||
| The Sea Wolf | |||
| To Build a Fire | |||
| Whale Rider | Whiti Ihimaera | ||
| White Fang | |||
| Wicked (exerpts) * | Gregory Maguire | ||
| *PreAP only | |||