Read Alouds (Grade 5-8)

Contributor's Form (list #29)

• ? Bad Behavior. (collection, including recommended titles: "The Dare," Carol Ellis; "The Framing Game," Paul Bishop; and "The Green Killer," M.E. Kerr)
• Andrews, Andy. "Baseball, Boys, and Bad Words," from Tales from Sayertown Springs.
• Asimov, Isaac, ed., "Good-by, Miss Patterson," in Young Monsters.
• Avi. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.
• Babbit, ?. The Search for Delicious.
• Bierce, Ambrose. "The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
• Brooks, ?. The Moves Make the Man.
• Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
• Coman, Carolyn. What Jamie Saw.
• Conly, ?. Crazy Lady.
• Cooper, Susan. The Boggart.
• Crutcher, Chris. Athletic Shorts. (stories)
• Curtis, ?. The Watsons Go to Birmingham.
• Curtis, Edward. The Girl Who Married a Ghost. New York: Four Winds Press, 1978.
• Dahl, Roald. The Hitchhiker. (and just about anything else
• De Felice, ?. Weasel.
• Deedy, Carmen Agra. The Library Dragon.
• Doyle, Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes stories.
• Fenner, Carol. Randall's Wall.
• Fleischman, Paul. Graven Images. (stories)
• Gallo, Donald. Sixteen. (stories)
• Gallo, Donald. Visions. (stories)
• Hamilton, ?. The House of Dies Drear.
• Hesse, ?. Phoenix Rising.
• Jacobs, W.W. "The Monkey's Paw"
• Jennings, Paul. Unreal! (and others; off-beat, Dahl-esque, slightly gross)
• Lowry, Lois. The Giver.
• McCaughrean, ?. Greek Myths.
• McManus, Patrick F. A Good Deed Goes Wrong.
• McManus, Patrick F. How to Go Splat!
• Myers, ?. The Righteous Revenge of Artemis Bonner.
• Nelson, ?. And One for All.
• Nelson, ?. The 25% Miracle.
• Park, Barbara. Junie B. Jones series
• Paulsen, Gary. Dancing Carl.
• Paulsen, Gary. Harris and Me.
• Paulsen, Gary. Puppies, Dogs, and Blue Northers.
• Paulsen, Gary. The Winter Room.
• Philbrick. Rod Freak the Mighty
• Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Tell-Tale Heart"; "A Cask of Amontillado"; "Hop-Frog"
• Polacco, Patricia. Pink and Say.
• Rylant, Cynthia. Missing May.
• Sachar, Louis. Sideways Stories. (School themes)
• Sachar, Louis. Sixth Grade Secrets.
• San Souci, Robert. Sukey and the Mermaid.
• Spinelli, Jerry. Crash.
• --. The Library.
• --. Wringer.
• Stockton, Frank. "The Lady or the Tiger?"
• Woolrich, Cornell. The Fingernail.
• Woolrich, Cornell. Something Always Happens.
• Yolen, Jane. Encounter.
• Zindel, ?. Loch.