Listed below (in no particular order) are books my students have enjoyed reading .   * Indicates easier to read books.           Indicates a must read!
The Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot

Bloomability - Sharon Creech

Turnabout - Margaret Peterson Haddix
*Among the Hidden - Haddix
Just Ella - Haddix

Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli

*A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket

*Lisa, Bright and Dark - John Neufeld

Tomorrow When theWar Began (series) - John Marsden
So Much to Tell You -John Marsden

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson
Fever 1692 - Laurie Halse Anderson

Peeling the Onion - Wendy Orr

Soldier's Heart - Gary Paulsen

Cast Two Shadows - Ann Rinaldi

Secret Realms - Tom Cool

Rocket Boys - Homer Hickam

The Ransom of Mercy Carter - Caroline B. Cooney

Rules of the Road - Joan Bauer

Dreamland - Sarah Dessen

*Kissing Doorknobs - Terry Spencer Hesser

*Holes - Louis Sachar




Alice Alone (series) - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Running with the Demon (series) - Terry Brooks

The Golden Compass (series) - Philip Pullman

Flowers for  Algernon - Daniel Keyes

The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien

Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
The Wish - Gail Carson Levine

The Wave -  Todd Strasser

The Stones Are Hatching - Geraldine McCaughrean

Silent to the Bone - E.L. Konigsbury

Confessions of Georgia Nicolson - Louise Rennison

*Because of Winn Dixie - Kate DiCamillo

Stuck In Neutral - Terry Trueman

Timeline - Michael Crichton

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Holes - Louis Sachar

Sammy Keyes (series) - Wendelin Van Draanen


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