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Middle school reading
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The Codex Aleran Series by Jim Butcher		Average

New Middle School Reads
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2009 World Records
Airman by Eoin Colfer
Bone by Jeff Smith
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Camp Rock Series
Deeper by Roderick Gordon & Brian Williams
The Myth About Homework by Claudia Wallis
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

Newbury Award Winners
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Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices by Paul Fleischman		Average
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant		Average
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech		Challenging
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg		Average
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron		Challenging

Michael L. Printz Award Winner
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how i live now by Meg Rosoff		Challenging

Mystery
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The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Robert Rinehart		Challenging
The Maze by Will Hobbs		Challenging
Thin Ice by Marsha Qualey		Challenging
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett		Average
Haunting at Home Plate by David Patneaude		Average
Tangerine by Edward Bloor		Challenging
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin		Average
Twisted Summer by Willo Davis Roberts		Average
Wolf Rider by Avi		Average

Adventure
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by Rowling		Average
The Game of Sunken Places by M.T. Anderson		Average
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke		Average
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech		Average
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson		Challenging
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis		Average
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman		Average
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin		Challenging
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg		Average
Fearless by Francine Pascal		Average

Fantasy
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Blade of Fire by Stuart Hill		Average
Chestnut Soldier by Jenny Nimmo		Average
Clockwork by Philip Pullman		Average
Daja's Book -Circle of Magic by Tamora Pierce		Average
Fire Star by Chris D'lacey		Average
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins		Average
Nightsong by Michael Cadnum		Average
Pleasing the Ghosts by Sharon Creech		Easy Reading
Redwall by Brian Jacques		Average
The Boggart by Susan Cooper		Average
The City of Gold and Lead by Christopher John		Average
The Pool of Fire by Christopher John		Average
Mountain Light by Laurence Yep		Average

Cultures
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Cool Salsa		Average
Heaven		Average
If it Hadn't Been for You Yoon Jun by Marie Lee		Average
Nation by Terry Pratchett		Average
Sweetgrass by Jan Hudson		Average
Tender Morsels YA Book by Margo Lanagan		Challenging

Ages 9-10
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Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patrica MacLachlan
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech		Average
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein		Average

Historical Fiction
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Becca's Story by James Forman		Average
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman		Average
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Meyers		Challenging
Turn Homeward, Hannalee by Patricia Beatty		Average
Under the Red-Blood Sun by Graham Salisbury		Challenging
With Every Drop of Blood: A Novel of the Civil War by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier		Challenging
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare		Average
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier		Average
I am Regina by Sally M. Keehn		Average
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White		Average

History & Biography
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Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank		Challenging
Barack Obama
Sonia Sotomayor

Humor
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Captain Underpants And The Attack Of The Talking Toilets by Dav Pilkey		Easy Reading
Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy - Part 1		Easy Reading
Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy - Part 2 by Dav Pilkey		Easy Reading
Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds by Dav Pilkey		Easy Reading
Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants by Dav Pilkeu		Easy Reading
Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman by Dav Pilkey		Easy Reading
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahle		Average
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E.Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg		Average
The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey		Easy Reading
The BFG by Roald Dahl		Easy Reading
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl		Average

Picture Books
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Baloney (Henry P. by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin
Detective La Rue: Letters from the Investigation by Mark Teague
Food Fight by Carol Diggory Shields and Doreen Gay-Kasse
Langston Hughes: American Poet by Alica Walker & Catherine Deeter
Meet Danitra Brown by Nikki Grimes & Floyd Cooper
Olivia Saves the Circus by Ian Falconer
Seen Art? by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Sika and the Raven by Carl A. Hammerschlag & Baje Whitehorn
Song and Dance Man by Karen Ackerman & Stephen Gammell
Squids Will Be Squids by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka & Steve Johnson
The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups by David Wisniewski
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka &
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams & Robyn Officer
The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders		Average
This Is The Dream by Diane Z. Shore, Jessica Alexander, & James Ransome

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