GRADE SIX

LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM BOOK LIST

 

 

Boy

Cracker Jackson

Door In the Wall

The Giver

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Julie of the Wolves

Maniac Magee

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Number the Stars

Phantom Tollbooth

Pushcart Wars

Shiloh

Stepping on the Cracks

Summer of the Monkeys

Tracker

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Tuck Everlasting

Van Gogh Café

Walk Two Moons

Where the Red Fern Grows

A Wrinkle In Time

 

 

Other Resources

 

The Language of Literature

 

 

Selections will be made for teaching plays, poetry, short stories, and read alouds.

 

 

 

 

 

GRADE SEVEN

LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM BOOK LIST

 

 

A Day No Pigs Would Die

And Then There Were None

Brian’s Winter

The Cay

Don’t Look Behind You

The Education of Little Tree

Holes

Homeless Bird

The Incredible Journey

Kiss the Dust

The Rain Catchers

Ransom

Ring of Endless Light

Shabanu

Shackleton’s Adventure

Slave Dancer

Sleeping Murder

They Never Came Home

Timothy of the Cay

Twisted Window

The Wish

The Upstairs Room

Waiting for the Rain

 

Other Resources

The Language of Literature

 

 

 

Selections will be made for teaching plays, poetry, short stories, and read alouds.

 

 

 

GRADE EIGHT

LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM BOOK LIST

 

 

A River Runs Out of Eden

Acorn People (Advisory)

Bless the Beasts and the Children

The Blue Heron

The Boy Who Drank Too Much

The Contender

Head’s You Win, Tails I Lose

Incident at Hawk’s Hill

It’s Not the End of the World

Light in the Forest

Out of Control

Outsiders

Phoenix Rising

The Pigman

Romeo and Juliet

Tex

That Was Then, This is Now

Tunnel Vision

War on Villa Street

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Star Girl

There’s a Girl in My Hammerlock

This School is Driving Me Crazy

 

American History     

Depression/Dust Bowl

Animal Farm

No Promises in the Wind

Lyddie

Out of the Dust

Nothing But the Truth

Roll of Thunder,Hear My Cry

 

 

Civil War

WWII/Holocaust

Andersonville Trial

The Diary of Anne Frank

The Boys’ War       

Night

Bull run

Under the Blood Red Sun

Frederick Douglas

The Wave

Red Cap

 

 

Other Resources

The Language of Literature

 

 

Selections will be made for teaching plays, poetry, short stories, and read alouds.