Middle School Literature Fifth - Eighth Grades AR Required Reading Levels* 5th Grade 4.5 and above
6th Grade 5.5 and above
7th Grade 6.0 and above
8th Grade 7.0 and above
RL Author Last Author First Title 4.1 Lathan Jean Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 4.3 Lincoln Abraham The Gettysburg Address 4.6 Paterson Katherine The Bridge to Terabithia 4.6 Warner Gertrude The Box-Car Children 4.7 L'Engle Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time 4.7 Henry Marguerite Stormy, Misty's Foal 4.7 Neville Emily It's Like This, Cat 4.7 Konigsburg E. L. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 4.7 De Jong Meindert The Wheel on the School 4.8 Rawks Wilson Summer of the Monkeys 4.8 Krumgold Joseph And Now Miguel 4.9 Lewis C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 4.9 Soto Gary Neighborhood Odes 4.9 White E.B. The Trumpet of the Swan 4.9 Wilder Laura Ingalls Little House on the Prairie 4.9 Beatty Patricia Turn Homeward, Hannalee 4.9 Byars Betsy The Summer of the Swans 4.9 Cleary Beverly Dear Mr. Henshaw 4.9 Rawls Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows 5 St. Exupery Antoine The Little Prince 5 De Jong Meindert Journey from Peppermint Street 5 Eager Edward Half-Magic 5 L'Engle Madeleine A Wind in the Door 5 Eager Edward The Time Garden 5.1 Hemingway Ernest The Old Man and the Sea 5.1 Soto Gary Baseball in April and other Stories 5.1 O'Brien Robert Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 5.2 Farley Walter The Black Stallion 5.2 Lindgren Astrid Pippi Longstocking 5.2 Kehret Peg Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio 5.2 Alexander Lloyd The Black Cauldron 5.2 L'Engle Madeleine A Swiftly Tilting Planet 5.2 George Jean Craighead My Side of the Mountain
5.3 Enright Elizabeth Gone-Away Lake 5.3 Wilder Laura Little House in the Big Woods 5.3 Norton Mary The Borrowers 5.3 Alexander Lloyd The Book of Three 5.3 Henry Marguerite Misty of Chincoteague 5.4 Lewis C.S. The Magician's Nephew 5.4 O'Dell Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins 5.4 Knight Erich Lassie Come-Home 5.4 Alexander Lloyd The Castle of Llyr 5.4 Cooper Susan Over Sea, Under Stone 5.4 Henry Marguerite King of the Wind 5.5 Henry Marguerite White Stallion of Lipizza 5.5 Brooks Walter Freddy the Detective 5.5 De Jong Meindert The House of Sixty Fathers 5.5 Nesbit Edith The Railway Children 5.5 Enright Elizabeth The Saturdays 5.5 Richter Conrad The Light in the Forest 5.5 Gipson Fred Old Yeller 5.6 Steig William Dominic 5.7 Gilbreth Frank Bells on Their Toes 5.7 Lewis C.S. Prince Caspian 5.7 Enright Elizabeth Thimble Summer 5.6 Lowry Lois The Giver 5.6 Taylor Mildred Let the Circle Be Unbroken 5.7 Aiken Joan Arabel’s Raven 5.7 Hanes Mari Two Mighty Rivers 5.7 Lewis C.S. The Silver Chair 5.7 Brooks Walter Freddy Goes To Florida 5.8 Lewis C.S. The Horse and His Boy 5.8 Henry Marguerite Justin Morgan Had a Horse 5.8 George Jean Craighead Julie of the Wolves 5.9 Montgomery L.M. Anne of Windy Poplars 5.9 Coatsworth Elizabeth The Cat Who Went to Heaven 5.9 Forbes Esther Johnny Tremain 5.9 St. John Patricia Star of Light 5.9 Brooks Walter Freddy Goes to the North Pole 5.9 Lewis C.S. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 5.8 Farley Walter The Island Stallion 5.8 Farley Walter The Black Stallion's Filly 5.8 Farley Walter The Black Stallion's Courage 6 Gilbreth Frank Cheaper by the Dozen 6 Tada Joni Eareckson Joni (school provides AR test) 6 Remarque Erich All Quiet on the Western Front 6 Montgomery L.M. Anne of Ingleside 6 Speare Elizabeth Calico Captive
6 Craven Margaret I Heard the Owl Call my Name 6 Brink Carol Caddie Woodlawn 6 Burnett Frances A Little Princess 6.1 Aiken Joan Black Hearts in Battersea 6.1 Montgomery L.M. Anne's House of Dreams 6.1 O'Dell Scott The Hawk that Dare not Hunt by Day 6.1 Farley Walter The Black Stallion Returns 6.1 Farley Walter Son of the Black Stallion 6.1 Tolkien J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring 6.1 MacDonald George The Princess and the Goblin 6.1 Alexander Lloyd The High King 6.2 Cooper Susan The Grey King 6.2 Adams Richard Watership Down 6.2 Alexander Lloyd Taran Wanderer 6.2 de Angeli Marguerite The Door in the Wall 6.2 Cooper Susan The Dark is Rising 6.2 Christopher John The White Mountains 6.2 Bradbury Ray The Martian Chronicles 6.3 Tolkien J. R. R. The Two Towers 6.3 Eleanor Cameron Flight to the Mushroom Planet 6.3 Burnet Frances The Secret Garden 6.3 Montgomery L.M. Anne of the Island 6.4 Ten Boom Corrie The Hiding Place 6.4 Kipling Rudyard Just So Stories 6.5 Frank Anne The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition 6.5 Gates Doris Blue Willow 6.5 Aiken Joan The Wolves of Willowby Chase 6.5 Beals Melba Warriors Don't Cry 6.5 Gray Elizabeth Janet Adam of the Road 6.5 Yates Elizabeth Amos Fortune, Free Man 6.5 Christopher John The City of Gold and Lead 6.5 Hughes Langston Langston Hughes (poems - edited by Roessel, Rampersad) 6.6 Hunt Irene Across Five Aprils 6.6 Twain Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 6.6 Seredy Kate The White Stag 6.6 Tolkien J.R.R. The Hobbit 6.6 Woodside Martin Gulliver's Travels (retelling) 6.6 Herriott James The Lord God Made them All 6.7 Juster Norton The Phantom Tollbooth 6.7 Helfland Lewis Gulliver's Travels (Graphic Novel) 6.7 Herriot James All Things Bright and Beautiful 6.7 Herriot James All Things Wise and Wonderful 6.8 Keller Helen The Story of My Life 6.8 Herriot James All Creatures Great and Small
6.8 Buck Pearl S. The Good Earth 6.8 McKinley Robin The Blue Sword 6.9 Cather Willa My Antonia 6.9 Freedman Russell Immigrant Kids 6.9 Colum Padraic The Children's Homer 6.9 Lester Julius To Be a Slave 7 Freedman Russell Lincoln: A Photobiography 7 Baum Frank The Wizard of Oz 7 Christopher John The Pool of Fire 7 Mapurgo Michael Beowulf (retelling) 7 Doyle Arthur C The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (12 stories - see AR Book Find) 7 Daughterty James The Landing of the Pilgrims 7 McKinley Robin The Hero and the Crown 7.1 North Sterling Rascal 7.1 Juster Norton Alberic the Wise and other Journeys 7.1 Field Rachel Hitty: Her First Hundred Years 7.1 Siebert Diane Tour America: A Journey through Poems and Art 7.1 Whitman Walt Walt Whitman: Poetry for Young People 7.1 Poe Edgar Allan Poetry for Young People: Edgar Allan Poe 7.1 Nesbit Edith The Story of the Treasure-Seekers 7.2 Barrie James Peter Pan 7.2 Eckert Allan Incident at Hawk's Hill 7.2 King Martin Luther I Have a Dream (Unabridged) 7.2 Baum Frank The Patchwork Girl of Oz 7.2 Coolidge Susan What Katy Did 7.3 Lewis C.S. Perelandra 7.3 Montgomery L. M. Anne of Green Gables 7.4 Eckert Allan Return to Hawk's Hill 7.4 Whitman Walt Walt Whitman: Poetry for Young People 7.4 Kjelgaard Jim Snow Dog 7.4 Lewis C.S. Out of the Silent Planet 7.4 Baum Frank Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz 7.4 London Jack White Fang 7.4 Nesbit Edith The Book of Dragons 7.5 Braithwaite Edward To Sir, with Love 7.4 Kipling Rudyard The Jungle Book: The Mowgli Stories 7.4 Alcott Louisa Little Women 7.4 Baum Frank Ozma of Oz 7.5 Freedman Russell An Indian Winter 7.5 Forester C.S. Horatio Hornblower (series) 7.5 Baum Frank The Emerald City of Oz 7.5 White T.H. The Sword in the Stone (first book only) 7.5 Marrin Albert America and Vietnam: The Elephant and The Tiger
7.5 Marrin Albert Stalin: Russia's Man of Steel 7.5 Meltzer Milton Hour of Freedom: American History in Poetry 7.5 Marrin Albert The Yanks are Coming 7.6 Burnford Sheila The Incredible Journey 7.6 Murphy Jim The Boy's War: Confedrate & Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War 7.6 Nesbit Edith Wet Magic 7.6 Sandburg Carl Abe Lincoln Grows Up 7.6 Baum Frank The Lost Princess of Oz 7.6 Stevenson Robert Louis Kidnapped 7.7 Daughterty James Daniel Boone 7.7 Green Roger Lancelyn King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table 7.7 Sewell Anna Black Beauty 7.7 McGaughrean Geraldine The Canterbury Tales (retelling) 7.9 Douglass Frederick The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 7.9 Stone Olivia Caesar's Gallic War 7.9 Sidney Margaret Five Little Peppers and How They Grew 7.9 Mowat Farley The Dog Who Wouldn't Be 8 Lewis (editor) Naomi Hans Anderson's Fairy Tales (Unabridged) 8 Crane Stephen The Red Badge of Courage 8 Kipling Rudyard Captains Courageous 8 London Jack The Call of the Wild 8 Baum Frank The Marvelous Land of Oz 8.1 Wyss Johann Swiss Family Robinson (Everyman's Library) 8.1 Burnett Frances Hodgson Little Lord Fauntleroy (unabridged) 8.1 Green Roger Lancelyn The Adventures of Robin Hood (unabridged) 8.1 Twain Mark The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 8.1 Wiggin Kate Douglass Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 8.2 Ambrose Stephen The Good Fight: How WWII Was Won 8.2 Green Roger Lancelyn Tales of the Greek Heroes 8.2 Dodge Mary Mapes The Silver Skates 8.2 Spyri Johanna Heidi 8.2 Grahame Kenneth The Wind in the Willows 8.2 Hamilton Edith Mythology 8.2 Alcott Louisa Eight Cousins 8.2 Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Hiawatha and Megissogwon (poetry excerpt) 8.4 Hersey John Hiroshima 8.4 McDonald George The Princess and Curdie 8.6 Montgomery L.M. Anne of Avonlea 8.6 Pyle Howard The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood 8.6 Alcott Louisa May Rose in Bloom 8.6 Shakespeare William Romeo and Juliet 8.6 Shakespeare William Twelfth Night 8.6 Stretton Hesba Pilgrim Street 8.8 Dumas Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged)
8.8 Alcott Louisa May Good Wives (Book 2 of Little Women) 8.8 Lewis C.S. The Screwtape Letters 8.8 Holmes Sherlock The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes 8.8 Shakespeare William King Lear 8.9 Poe Edgar Allan The Raven and other poems and stories 8.9 Haggard H. Rider King Solomon's Mines (unabridged) 8.9 Thackeray William The Rose and the Ring 8.9 Hague Michael The Book of Pirates (collected poems/stories) 9 Pyle Howard Men of Iron 9 Shakespeare William Much Ado About Nothing 9 Stevenson Robert Louis The Black Arrow 9.1 Wallace Lew Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ 9.1 Wells H.G. The War of the Worlds 9.2 Twain Mark A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 9.2 Dickens Charles Great Expectations 9.3 Austen+ Jane Emma 9.4 Pyle Howard The Story of King Arthur and his Knights 9.4 Stevenson Robert Louis The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 9.5 Dickens Charles David Copperfield 9.5 Stevenson Robert Louis Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 9.5 Twain Mark The Prince and the Pauper 9.6 Verne Jules Around the World in Eighty Days 9.7 Handford (editor) S. A. Aesop's Fables (Unabridged) 9.7 Dickens Charles A Tale of Two Cities 9.8 Hugo Victor Les Miserables 9.9 Verne Jules Journey to the Center of the Earth 9.9 Grimm Jacob and Wilhem Grimm's Fairy Tales (Unabridged) 10.3 Homer X The Odyssey 10.4 Bunyan John The Pilgrims Progress (original) 10.5 Shakespeare William Hamlet 10.8 Shakespeare William Julius Caesar 10.9 Shakespeare William Macbeth 11.3 Dickens Charles Oliver Twist 11.3 Dumas Alexandre The Three Musketeers 11.3 Homer X The Iliad (translated) 11.9 Shakespeare William Henry V 12 Austen+ Jane Pride and Prejudice 12.3 Defoe Daniel Robinson Crusoe 12.8 Lamb Charles and Mary Tales from Shakespeare 12.9 Scott Sir Walter Ivanhoe 13.5 Swift Jonathan Gulliver's Travels