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Books for Advanced Middle Grade Readers
This is a list of books recommended for readers in grades 5-8 who are reading above
grade level. Keep in mind that all readers are different; not every book on this list will
be interesting to, or appropriate for, every individual. Please use care and patience
when selecting books!
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
The Last of the Mohicans by James Cooper
Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Doyle
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula LeGuin
Life of Pi by Yann Martell
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Sabriel by Garth Nix
Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
1984 by George Orwell
Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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