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| Title | Author | Grade | Required | Buy It |
| Crispin:The Cross of Lead | Avi | 6 | Required | Amazon |
| The Twenty-One Ballons | du Bois, William Pene | 6 | Required | Amazon |
| A View From Saturday | Konigsburg, E. L. | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| After the Last dog Died: The True Life , Hair-Raising Adventure of Douglas Mawson's 1912 Antarctic Adventure | Bredeson, Carmen | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Al Capone Does My Shirts | Choldenko, Gennifer | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| All of the Above | Pearsall, Shellye | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Anne of Greeen Gables | Montgomery, Lucy Maude | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Bella at Midnight | Stanley, Diane | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Dragonsong | McCaffrey, Anne | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Escape: The Story of Harry Houdini | Fleishman, Sid | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Firegirl | Abbott, Tony | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Goose Chase | Kindl, Patricia | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Gossamer | Lowry, Lois | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | O'Dell, Scott | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Lives of Extraordinary Athletes: Thrills, Spills, (and What the Neighbors Thought) | Krull, Kathleen | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought) | Krull, Kathleen | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| On the Wings of Heros | Peck, Richard | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Small Steps | Sachar, Louis | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Egypt Game | Snyder, Zilpha Keatley | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Midwife's Apprentice | Cushman, Karen | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Westing Game | Raskin, Ellen | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Weedflower | Kadohata, Cynthia | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Wings | Loizeaux, William | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Wolf by the Ears | Rinaldi, Anne | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| Wringer | Spinelli, Jerry | 6 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Cay | Taylor, Theodore | 7 | Required | Amazon |
| Three Cups of Tea: Young Reader's Edition | Mortenson, Greg and Relin, David Oliver | 7 | Required | Amazon |
| A Single Shard | Park, Linda Sue | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| Fire Bringer | Clement-Davies, David | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| I Heard the Owl Call My Name | Craven, Margaret | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| Jacob Have I Loved | Paterson, Katherine | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| Kidnapped | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| Kim | Kipling, Rudyard | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| Lord of the Deep | Salisbury, Graham | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| Morning is a Long Time Coming | Greene, Bette | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution | Jiang, Ji-li | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Boy and the Samurai | Haugaard, Erik C. | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Girls | Koss, Amy Goldman | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Rifle | Paulson, Gary | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Samurai's Tale | Haugaard, Erik C. | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Slave Dancer | Fox, Paula | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Sword and the Circle | Sutcliffe, Rosemary | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis | 7 | Choice | Amazon |
| Nothing But the Truth | Avi | 8 | Required | Amazon |
| The Gospel According to Larry | Tasjian, Janet | 8 | Required | Amazon |
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | Smith, Betty | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Across Five Aprils | Hunt, Irene | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Christy | Marshall, Catherine | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Copper Sun | Draper, Sharon | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Farewell to Manzanar | Houston, James D. | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Gone With the Wind | Mitchell, Margaret | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Johnny Tremain | Forbes, Esther | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Little Women | Alcott, Louisa May | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| London Calling | Bloor, Edward | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Rifles for Watie | Keith, Harold | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry | Taylor, Mildred D. | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Summer of My German Soldier | Greene, Bette | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed America | Gillon, Steven M. | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Book Thief | Zusak, Markus | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Education of Little Tree | Carter, Forrest and Strickland, Rennard | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Hiding Place | Boon, Corrie Ten | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| The Walk West | Jenkins, Peter | 8 | Choice | Amazon |
| When Legends Die | Borland, Hal | 8 | Choice | Amazon |