"Must-haves" (Middle School Library)

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Recommended by members of LM-NET

• 1984: a novel, Orwell, George
• A girl of the Limberlost, Stratton-Porter, Gene
• A tale of two cities, Dickens, Charles
• A tree grows in Brooklyn, Smith, Betty
• A wizard of Earthsea, Le Guin, Ursula K.
• A wrinkle in time, L’Engle, Madleine
• Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl, Falstein, Mark
• Bearstone, Hobbs, Will
• Bridge to Terabithia, Paterson, Katherine
• Christy, Marshall, Catherine
• Dicey’s song, Voigt, Cynthia
• Ella enchanted, Levine, Fail Carson
• Ender’s game, Card, Orson Scott
• Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury, Ray
• Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s stone, Rowling, J. K.
• Hatchet, Paulsen, Gary
• Hiroshima, Hersey, John
• Holes, Sachar, Louis
• Homecoming, Voigt, Cynthia
• Jane Eyre, Bronte, Charlotte
• Just Ella, Haddix, Margaret Peterson
• Little women, Alcott, Louisa May
• Lord of the flies:  a novel, Golding, William
• Lost horizon, Hilton, James
• Night, Wiesel, Elie
• Of mice and men, Steinbeck, John
• Petey, Mikaelsen, Ben
• Roll of thunder, hear my cry, Taylor, Mildred D.
• Stargirl, Spinelli, Jerry
• Summer of my German soldier, Greene, Bette
• Survival in Auschwitz:  the Nazi assault on humanity, Levi, Primo
• Tangerine, Bloor, Edward
• The call of the wild, London, Jack
• The chocolate war, Cormier, Robert
• The circuit:  stories from the life of a migrant child, Jiminez, Francisco
• The coffin quilt:  the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys, Rinaldi, Ann
• The exchange student, Gilmore, Kate
• The giver, Lowry, Lois
• The golden compass, Pullman, Philip
• The grapes of wrath, Steinbeck, John
• The heart is a lonely hunter, McCullers, Carson
• The hobbit, or, There and back again, Tolkein J. R. R.
• The Joy Luck Club, Tan, Amy
• The light in the forest, Richter, Conrad
• The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe, Lewis, C. S.
• The lord of the rings, Tolkien, J. R. R.
• The machine gunners, Westall, Robert
• The Outsiders, Hinton, S. E.
• The perfect storm:  a true story of men against the sea, Junger, Sebastian
• The poisonwood Bible:  a novel, Kingsolver, Barbara
• The Scarlet Pimpernel, Orczy Emmuska, Orczy, Baroness
• The secret garden, Burnett, Frances Hodgson
• The squire’s tale, Morris, Gerald
• The true confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
• The wanderer, Creech, Sharon
• The yearling, Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan
• To kill a mockingbird, Lee, Harper
• Watership Dow, Adams, Richard
• When the legends die, Borland, Hal

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