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Middle School |
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Books to Love |
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Entering Grade 6: |
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The
Black Stallion
by Walter Farley |
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Dogsong
by Gary Paulsen |
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The
Foundling
by Lloyd Alexander |
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Homesick:
My Own Story by Jean Fritz |
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My Side
of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George |
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Secret
of the Andes
by Ann Nolan Clark |
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Shadow
of the Bull
by Maia Wojciechowska |
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Shane
by Jack Warner |
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A Walk
in Wolf Wood
by Mary Stewart |
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Strider
by Beverly Cleary |
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Shadow
of the Fox
by Ellen Steiber |
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Entering
Grade 7: |
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The
Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster |
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Who Put
That Hair in My Toothbrush?
By Jerry
Spinelli |
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Five
Were Missing
by Lois Lowry |
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Haunted
Summer
by Betty Ren Wright |
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Julie
and the Wolves
by Jean
Craighead George |
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My Name
is not Angelica
by Scott O’Dell |
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Old
Yeller
by Fred Gibson |
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Summer
of the Swans
by Betsy Byars |
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The
Giver
by Lois Lowry |
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The
Teddy Bear Habit by James Collier |
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Tom
Sawyer
by Mark Twain |
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Entering
Grade 8: |
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Blue
Heron
by Avi |
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The Friendship
by Mildred Taylor |
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A Day No
Pigs Would Die
by Robert Newton Peck |
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Dicey’s
Song
by Cynthia Voight |
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The
Double Life of Pocahontas
by Jean Fritz |
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Lyddie
by
Katherine Patterson |
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The
Bridge to Terabithia
by Katharine Patterson |
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Across
Five Aprils
by Irene Hunt |
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The Cay
by Theodore Taylor |
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Song of
Be
by Lesley Be |
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Chain of
Fire
by Beverly Naidoo |
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Middle School Black-Eyed Susan
Nominees 2006 - 2007 |
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Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
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Code Orange by Caroline Cooney
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Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
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Last Shot by John Feinstein
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Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
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Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
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Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz
Ryan |
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Brainboy and the Deathmaster by Tor
Seidler |
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Cryptid Hunter by Roland Smith
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Adam Canfield of the Slash by Michael
Winerip |
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Black-Eyed Susan Past Winners- |
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City of Ember, by Jeanne
DuPrau |
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Heir Apparent, by Vivian VandeVelde
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Point Blank, by Anthony
Horowitz |
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Define
Normal, by
Julie Ann Peters
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There's a Dead Person
Following My Sister, by Vivian Vande Velde
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Holes,
by Louis Sachar |
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Ella
Enchanted,
by Gail Carson Levine
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Don’t
You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunfrey,
by Margaret Haddix
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