Read Alouds, School Theme (Middle)

Contributor's Form (list #90)

• ? Freak the Mighty.
• Avi. Romeo & Juliet...
• Barrons, ? The Ancient One.
• Bloor, ? Tangerine. (It takes place in Florida and
• Conly, Leslie. Crazy Lady.
• Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watson's Go to Birmingham.
• Danziger, Paula. Korman's "Twinkie Squad."
• Danziger, Paula. Remember me to Harold's Square.
• Duncan, Lois. Twisted Window.
• Fleischman, Sid. The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life.
• includes issues of discrimination against migrant workers, lots of soccer, football, parental favoritism of one child over another - sounds gloomy, but it's not. It's a fantastic story of friendship and is also humorous. The kids absolutely loved it!)
• Korman, Gordon. The Chicken Can't Skate"? (For his science fair project, a boy is doing the life cycle of a chicken and at the beginning the whole class is involved in taking care of the egg and chick.)
• Murphy, ? Ace Hits the Big Time.
• Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Alice books.
• Park, Barbara. Mick Harte Was Here.
• Paterson, Katherine. Jip.
• Paulsen, Gary. Harris and Me. (Very funny, but with lots of 4-letter words)
• Paulsen, Gary. The Boy who Owned the School.
• Peck, Richard. Bel-Air Bambi and the Mall Rats. (Bambi, Buffie, and Brick, three totally cool siblings from Los Angeles, move with their parents to Hickory Fork, a small town terrorized by a high school gang.)
• Peck, Richard. Those Summer Girls I Never Met (The main character is a 16 year old boy whose summer plans are blown when he and his 14-year-old sister are invited to go on a cruise with a grandmother he's never met.)
• Pinkwater, Daniel. Alan Mendleson, Boy from Mars.
• Pinkwater, Jill. Buffalo Brenda.
• Spinelli, Jerry. Crash.
• Spinelli, Jerry. Space Station Seventh Grade.
• Woolf, Virginia Euwer Make Lemonade. (The setting is a little more after school, but the female character's after school activities affect her school work. It also has a serious side. Would be particularly good for students from lower middle class or lower class backgrounds.)

And two Internet sites:
Read-Aloud Books Too Good to Miss--1997-1998
Read Alouds (Grade 5-8)

List originally assembed by Audrey Glick, LMS, Worthington, Ohio

Acknowledgement

Joan Kimball (NY) contributed most of the titles on this list.