Things You Should Read
If you say you don’t like reading, try reading a book about something you like.  Here are several lists of recommendations:

From ORSIG, Barbara Handley:
http://www.pacinfo.com/~handley/orsig/sixthgrade.html
http://www.pacinfo.com/~handley/orsig/seventhgrade.html
http://www.pacinfo.com/~handley/orsig/eighthgrade.html
 
From Teacher and Families Website:
6th:  http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/readlist2.cfm?age=6
7th:  http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/readlist2.cfm?age=7
8th:  http://www.teachersandfamilies.com/open/readlist2.cfm?age=8
 
California Reading List:
6th:  http://www.californiareadinglist.com/Toprint/Print6.html
7th:  http://www.californiareadinglist.com/Toprint/Print7.html
7th:  http://www.californiareadinglist.com/Toprint/Print8.html
 
From “Just Read Families” Website:  http://www.justreadfamilies.org/
•	The Big Nothing, Adrian Fogelin 
•	Granny Torelli Makes Soup, Sharon Creech 
•	Trick of the Eye, Dennis Haseley 
•	This Must Be Love, Tui Sutherland 
•	Backstage Pass, Gaby Triana 
•	Razzle, Ellen Wittlinger 
•	The Mozart Season, Virginia Euwer Wolff 
•	Gotta Get Some Bish Bash Bosh, M.E. Allen 
•	The Princess Diaries, Volume I & II, Meg Cabot 
•	Breaking Through, Francisco Jimenez 
•	Born Confused, Tanuja Desai Hidier 
•	Aquamarine, Alice Hoffman 
•	Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson 
•	The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Lemony Snicket 
•	Small Steps, Louis Sachar 
•	Artemis Fowl Book I, Eoin Colfer 
•	The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton 
•	The Giver, Lois Lowry 
•	Hatchet, Gary Paulson 
•	Dicey’s Song, C. Voight 
•	Bridge to Terabithia, K. Paterson 
•	Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson 
•	Animal Farm, George Orwell 
•	Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul, Jack Canfield, Mark Hansen, Patty Hansen, and Irene Dunlap 
•	Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan 
•	Hoot, Carl Hiaasen 
•	Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli 
•	Old Yeller, Fred Gipson 
 
From The University of Delaware:
 
•	Babbitt, Natalie. Tuck Everlasting
•	Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: A Photobiography
•	Lowry, Lois. Anastasia Krupnik
•	Paterson, Katherine. Bridge to Terabithia
•	Silverstein, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings
•	Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
 
Mr. Wholey’s Middle School Favorites:
 
•	Fleischman, Sid & Peter Sis. The Whipping Boy
•	O’Dell, Scott. The Island of Blue Dolphins
•	Orwell, George. Animal Farm
•	Steinbeck, John. The Pearl
•	Paulson, Gary.  Hatchet