From Pragmatic Mom’s site:
A HUGE thank you to Capability:Mom for creating this list. She knows Middle School children’s literature much better than I do — my oldest is 10-years-old so I’m slowly getting there. She also blogs on children’s literature but skews a little older towards YA (Young Adult) as well as on cooking/baking and other topics of interest. She is a library freak and volunteers at every library in town including both elementary, middle school and public library. Needless to say, I picked an authority on the topic and am excited to read these books myself! Thank you Capability:Mom! Check out her blog for more books as well the Rainbow Cake saga…
p.s. Don’t forget that if your child reads 10 books and fills out a form atBorders, she or he can get one book free from their list of 10. And there are some great books for middle schoolers on their list!
10. Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
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9. The Giver by Lois Lowry
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8. Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
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7. Bud, Not Buddy by Paul Curtis
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6. Holes by Louis Sachar
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5. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
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4. The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Hugo is almost a book within a book. The book IS actually mostly illustrations (284!) , and the illustrations tell their own story. I call The Invention of Hugo Cabret a children’s literature version of The Phantom of the Opera. They are both set in Paris; Hugo is set around 1931. They both sneak around in hidden canals and passageways that they know like that back of their hand. And They both have deep, dark secrets from the past. ( I posted on this book previously…)
3. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
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2. Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
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1. The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
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Honorable Mention
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
15-year-old Eragon, a farm boy, hatches a dragon and learns that he is the last of the Dragon Riders and must battle evil.
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