6th to 8th Grade
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Juvenile Fiction (J)
J Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
J Alexander The Crossover
J Allen The Line Tender
J Auxier The Night Gardener
J Avi The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, or Crispin: The Cross of Lead
J Bartoletti The Boy Who Dared
J Benjamin The Thing About Jellyfish or The Next Great Paulie Fink
J Black Doll Bones
J Bouwman A Crack in the Sea
J Bradley The War That Saved My Life
J Brallier The Last Kids on Earth (series)
J Burg All the Broken Pieces
J Chainani School for Good and Evil
J Charbonneau The Testing (series)
J Collins Gregor the Overlander
J Cooner Skinny
J Cooper The Dark is Rising
J Corbett The Last Newspaper Boy in America
J Creech Walk Two Moons (and or) Love that Dog
J Curtis The Watsons Go To Birmingham (and others)
J Cushman Ballad of Lucy Whipple (and others)
J De la Cruz The Isle of the Lost (Descendants series)
J DiCamillo Beverly, Right Here
J Dowd The London Eye Mystery
J Dumas It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel
J Du Prau The City of Ember (series)
J Ellis The Breadwinner
J Flake The Skin I’m In
J Flanagan Ranger’s Apprentice (series)
J Funke The Ghost Knight or Inkheart
J Gaiman The Graveyard Book
J Gantos Dead End in Norvelt
J George My Side of the Mountain
J Gerber Braced
J Gibbs Spy School (series)
J Gidwitz A Tale Dark and Grimm or In a Glass Grimmly (series)
J Giles The Last Last-Day-of-Summer
J Graff Far Away
J Gratz Prisoner B-3087 or Allies
J Hale Princess Academy, The Goose Girl or Book of a Thousand Days
J Hartman Seraphina
J Hasak-Lowy 33 Minutes
J Hesse Witness or Out of the Dust
J Hiranandani The Night Diary
J Holm Turtle in Paradise, Penny from Heaven
J Horowitz Alex Rider (series) or Gatekeepers (series)
J Hunt Fish in a Tree or Shouting at the Rain
J Kadohata Cracker! Best Dog in Vietnam or A Place to Belong
J Kelly J Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (series)
J Kelly E Lalani of the Distant Sea
J Kelly L Song for a Whale
J Kephart Wild Blues
J Lafevers Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
J Lai Inside Out and Back Again or Listen Slowly
J Larson Hattie Big Sky
J Lin Starry River of the Sky
J Lord Rules
J Lowry The Giver (series)
J Lupica Heat (and others)
J Marsh Nowhere Boy
J Martin Rain, Reign
J McMann The Unwanteds (series)
J Milford Greenglass House
J Murdock The Book of Boy
J Murphy Dear Sweet Pea
J Myers Assassin
J Namioka Half and Half
J Nielsen A Night Divided or The False Prince (series)
J Nix Frogkisser
J Oppel Airborn, Inkling or The Nest
J Panteleakos Planet Earth is Blue
J Paver Wolf Brother
J Park A Single Shard or A Long Walk to Water
J Perez The First Rule of Punk or Strange Birds
J Pierce Big Nate or Max and the Midknights
J Pullman The Golden Compass
J Ramee A Good Kind of Trouble
J Raskin The Westing Game
J Reynolds Ghost
J Rex The True Meaning of Smekday
J Rhodes Ninth Ward
J Riordan Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series) or Trials of Apollo (series)
J Rubalcaba The Wadjet Eye
J Sachar Fuzzy Mud or Holes
J Schmidt Wednesday Wars (first of two in a series) or Orbiting Jupiter
J Scott The Alchemyst (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
J Selznick Invention of Hugo Cabret, The Marvells, or Wonderstruck
J Sepahban Paper Wishes
J Sloan Counting by 7’s or To Night Owl from Dogfish
J Snyder Orphan Island
J Spinelli Eggs
J Staples Shabanu Daughter of the Wind
J Stead When You Reach Me
J Taylor The Cay
J Timberlake One Came Home
J Tolkien The Hobbit (first in Lord of the Rings series)
J Tucker All the Greys on Greene St
J Van Draanen Flipped
J Vanderpool Moon Over Manifest
J Vande Velde Heir Apparent
J Venkatraman The Bridge Home
J Voight Homecoming
J Voorhoeve My Family for the War
J Warga Other Words for Home
J Whelen Homeless Bird
J Wiles Revolution
J Williams-Garcia One Crazy Summer
J Wolk Wolf Hollow
J Woodson Feathers or After Tupac and D. Foster
J Yee Millicent Min, Girl Genius
Teen Fiction (YA Fic)
YA Fic Acevedo With the Fire on High
YA Fic Anderson Fever, 1793 or Chains: Seeds of America
YA Fic Bacigalupi Ship Breaker
YA Fic Colfer Airman
YA Fic Collins The Hunger Games (series)
YA Fic Farmer The House of the Scorpion
YA Fic Hinton The Outsiders
YA Fic Pierce Wild Magic
YA Fic Sepetys The Fountains of Silence
YA Fic Thomas On the Come Up or The Hate U Give
YA Fic Zusak The Book Thief
Teen Non-Fiction (YA Non-Fiction)
YA 305.8009 Reynolds Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You
Graphic Novels (shelved alphabetically by title)
JGN A A Wrinkle in Time
JGN Amulet
JGN Artemis Fowl
JGN Bone (series)
JGN Cardboard
JGN City of Spies
JGN City on the Other Side
JGN Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans
JGN Emma
JGN A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return
JGN The Graveyard Book
JGN Guts
JGN Hereville
JGN Hikaru
JGN The Hobbit
JGN The Legend of Korra Turf Wars (series)
JGN Lumberjanes
JGN New Kid
JGN Newts
JGN Olympians (Zuess, Athena etc...series)
JGN Operatic
JGN Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood
JGN Pashmina
JGN Percy Jackson and the Olympians
JGN Rapunzel’s Revenge
JGN Rollergirl
JGN Sea Sirens
JGN Sense and Sensibility
JGN The Storm in the Barn
JGN Sugar Princess
JGN Sunny Side Up
JGN This Was Our Pact
JGN The Titan’s Curse
JGN The Unsinkable Walter Bean
JGN White Bird: A Wonder Story
JGN A Wrinkle in Time
YA GN The Giver
Non Fiction History
J 133.1 Everett Haunted Histories
J 133.4309 Schanzer Witches! The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem
J 352.23 Beccia The Raucous Royals: Test Your Royal Wits...
J 393.3 Sloan Mummies (National Geographic Kids)
J 614.541 Murphy An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story…
J 614.5112 Jarrow Fatal Fever: tracking down Typhoid Mary
J 363.3409 Tarshis I Survived True Stories: Five Epic Disasters
J 796.357 Berman The 25 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time
J 797.123 Brown The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team’s
J 796.3576 Nelson We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball
J 910.9 Ross Into the Unknown: How Great Explorers Found Their Way...
J 973.913 Sandler 1919 The Year That Changed America
J929.7 Gifford 10 Kings and Queens Who Changed the World
J 623.4511 Sheinkin Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous...
J 629.45 Stone Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
J 943.086 Freedman We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement
J938 Powell Greek News (Ancient History News Paper)
J932 Adamson An Interactive History Adventure: Ancient Egypt
J938 Caper An Interactive History Adventure: Ancient Greece
J927 Hanel An Interactive History Adventure: Ancient Rome
J940.1 Lassieur An Interactive History Adventure: The Middle Ages
Science
J 262.1974 Fleischman Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
J 363. 7382 Landau Oil Spill! Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
J 333 Pobst Animals on the Edge - Science Races to Save Species Threatened...
J 609.2273 Thimmesh Girls Think of Everything (Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women)
J 598 Bulion Superlative Birds
Folktales
J 398.2 Climo Korean Cinderella
J398.2 Tarnowska The Arabian Nights
J398.2 Tchana The Serpent Slayer (and other Stories of Strong Women)
J398.2093 Turnbull Greek Myths: retold by Ann Turnbull
Biographies
JB Anderson The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson...
JB Baker Josephine
JB Blume Who is Judy Blume
JB Bridges Through My Eyes (Ruby Bridges)
JB Carson Environmentalist Rachel Carson
JB Colvin Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice
JB Ginsburg I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Made Her Mark
JB Lovelace Dreaming in Code: Ada Byron Lovelace, Computer Pioneer
JB Milk Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
JB Mineta Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta
JB Say Drawing from Memory
JB Warhol Fabulous! A Portrait of Andy Warhol
JB Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming
JGN B Chikwanine Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls are Used in War
JGN B Siegel To Dance: a Ballerina’s Graphic Novel Biography
JGN B Telgemeier Smile (graphic novel biography)
Students in grades 6 through 8 may also find titles of interest in the Teen section.