Books for middle schoolers that I should read

As I was killing time at my dyad placement, I began scanning the bookshelf in one of the teacher’s classrooms. Man, will I ever have time to read these books? I’m gonna say nope! but it’s worth a shot, right?

 Great Lives Series puts out a ton of books on famous icons, and they are written for the adolescent. So although I have read Malcolm X’s autobiography, someone of lesser years may want to check out this edition: Malcolm X by Nikki Grimes. Other books in this series:

Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross, Christopher Columbus, Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, John Glenn, Mikhail Gorbechev, Jesse Jackson, JFK, ML King, Lewis and Clark, Abe Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Golda Meir, Sandra Day O’Connor, Sally Ride, FDR, Harriet Tubman, Lech Walesa, and the Wright Bros.

Cool anthology: PUSH–You are here, This is now

Holes, by Loius Sachar

Scorpia, by Anthony Horowitz

Shadow Children sequence, Haddix, by Margaret Peterson

Moby Dick

Around the World in 80 Days

Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh

Confessions of a Slacker Mom, by Muffy Mead-Ferro

Red Scarf Girl, by Ji-li Jiang: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution

Eragon, by Christopher Paolini–another series

Al Capone Does my Shirts, and Notes from a liar and her dog, both by Gennifer Choldenko

The Whipping Boy, by Sid Fleischman

Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli-Nazi occupied Warsaw through the eyes of a young orphan

Walk Two Moons, and Replay, both by Sharon Creech-Newberry Medal winner