OCPS Middle School Suggested Literature




6th Grade

  • Bearstone
  • Because of Winn Dixie
  • Black Water
  • Bridge to Terabithia
  • Bud, Not Buddy
  • Crash
  • Drive By
  • Face on the Milk Carton
  • Family Tree
  • Freak the Mighty
  • Harriet, the Spy
  • Hatchet
  • Holes
  • Maniac Magee
  • Max the Mighty
  • Sounder
  • The Cay
  • The Phantom Toll Booth
  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham
  • Tuck Everlasting
  • View from Saturday

7th Grade

  • Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
  • A Wrinkle in Time
  • Among the Hidden
  • Brian's Return
  • Brian's Winter
  • Flight 116 is Down
  • Letters from Rifka
  • Make Lemonade
  • Nothing but the Truth
  • Swallowing Stones
  • Tangerine
  • The Lottery Rose
  • The Midwife's Apprentice
  • The Outsiders
  • Timothy of the Cay
  • Walk Two Moons
  • Where the Red Fern Grows

8th Grade

  • A Day No Pigs Would Die
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
  • Across Five Aprils
  • Farewell to Manzanar
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • Glory Field
  • I Am the Cheese
  • Jacob Have I Loved
  • Johnny Tremain
  • My Brother Sam is Dead
  • Out of the Dust
  • Soldier's Heart
  • The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  • The Devil's Arithmetic
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • The Giver
  • The Golden Compass
  • The House of Dies Drear
  • The House on Mango Street
  • The Last Silk Dress
  • The Summer of My German Soldier
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond
  • Tunes for Bears to Dance To