6TH GRADE
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor
Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman
Falling into the Dragon’s Mouth by Holly Thompson
Gorilla Dawn by Gill Lewis
Irena’s Children (Young Readers Edition) by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Paper Hearts by Meg Wiviott
Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban
The Zoo at the Edge of the World by Eric Kahn Gale
Ugly: a memoir by Robert Hoge
What Elephants Know by Eric Dinerstein
7TH GRADE
A Bandit’s Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket by Deborah Hopkinson
Alamo All-Stars by Nathan Hale
Free Verse by Sarah Dooley
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
May B. a novel by Caroline Starr Rose
Shame the Stars by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Sweet Home Alaska by Carole Estby Dagg
The Distance Between Us (Young Readers Edition) by Reyna Grande
The Year We Sailed the Sun by Theresa Nelson
When Friendship Followed Me Home by Paul Griffin
8TH GRADE
5 Times Revenge by Lindsay Eland
Audacity by Melanie Crowder
Booked by Kwame Alexander
Gutless by Carl Deuker
Scar: A Revolutionary War Tale by J. Albert Mann
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne
The Tin Snail by Cameron McAllister
To Stay Alive by Skila Brown
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement that Defied Adolf Hitler by Russell Freedman
Zero Day by Jan Gangsei