5th-8th Grades Reading List

The House on Mango Street
By Sandra Cisneros

The Mysterious Benedict Society
By Trenton Lee Stewart

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
By Mark Haddon

Little Women
By Louisa May Alcott

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare

The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak

The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer

This Boy’s Life
by Tobias Wolff

Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes

Animal Farm
by George Orwell

The City of Ember
by Jeanne DuPrau

Lord of the Flies
by William Golding

Ender’s Game
by Orson Scott Card

Watership Down
by Richard Adams

The Golden Compass
by Philip Pullman

The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins

My Name Is Asher Lev
by Chaim Potok

Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Monster
by Walter Dean Myers

Milkweed
by Jerry Spinelli

Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen

Hoot
by Carl Hiaasen

Walk Two Moons
by Sharon Creech

The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster

Danny the Champion of the World
by Roald Dahl

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
by J.K. Rowling

Holes
by Louis Sachar

Freak the Mighty
by Rodman Philbrick

Bud, Not Buddy
by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
by Robert C. O’Brien

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis

Prince Caspian
by C. S. Lewis

The Egypt Game
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbit

A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L’Engle

Wonder
by R. J. Palacio

Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E.L. Konigsburg

The Witches
by Roald Dahl

Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine

The Bad Beginning: Or, Orphans!
by Lemony Snicket