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