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GRADE 6
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RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HIGHLY ABLE LEARNERS (Middle School)
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GRADE 6
Fiction
Al Capone Does My Shirts, Gennifer Choldenko
All the Broken Pieces, Ann Burg
Because of Winn Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
Bystander, James Preller
Chomp, Carl Hiaasen (or 7)
Christmas Carol, A, Charles Dickens
Closed for the Season, Mary Downing Hahn
Defense of Thaddeus Ledbetter, The, John Gosselink
Diceys Song, Cynthia Voigt
Dragonwings, Laurence Yep
Everything for a Dog, Ann M. Martin
False Princess, Eilis ONeal
Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson
Fish, Gregory Mone
Holes, Louis Sachar
Homecoming, Cynthia Voigt
Incident at Hawk Hill, Allen W. Eckert
Incredible Journey, The, Sheila Burnford
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott ODell
Jolted: Newton Starkers Rules for Survival, Arthur Slade
London Eye Mystery, The, Siobhan Dowd
Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli
No More Dead Dogs, Gordon Korman
Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate (or 7)
Pinballs, Betsy Byars
Red Kayak, Priscilla Cummings
Rewind, William Sleator
Schooled, Gordon Korman
Sing Down the Moon, Scott ODell
Sounder, William H. Armstrong
Soup, Robert Newton Peck
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
Touching Spirit Bear, Ben Mikaelsen
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, The, Avi
Waiting for Normal, Leslie Connor
Westing Game, The, Ellen Raskin
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
Wonder, R.J. Palacio
Non-Fiction
Dogsong, Gary Paulsen
My Life in Dog Years, Gary Paulsen
Night to Remember, A, Walter Lord
Short Stories
Eleven, Sandra Cisneros

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GRADE 7
Fiction
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The, Mark Twain
Almost Home, Joan Bauer
Anything but Typical, by Nora Raleigh Baskin
Becoming Naomi Leon, Pam Munoz Ryan
Boost, Kathryn Mackel
Boxes, The, William Sleator
Catherine Called Birdy, Karen Cushman
Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett
Chomp, Carl Hiaasen (or 6)
Compound, The, S. A. Bodeen
Crash, Jerry Spinelli
Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
Freak the Mighty, Rodman Philbrick
Grab Hands and Run, Frances Temple
Hidden Talents, David Lubar
Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
Jacob I Have Loved, Katherine Paterson
Lions of Little Rock, Kristin Levine (or 8)
Miracles Boys, Jacqueline Woodson
My Brother Sam is Dead, James Lincoln Collier
One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate (or 6)
Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
Parvanas Journey, Deborah Ellis
Rumble Fish, S. E. Hinton
Shane, Jack Schaefer
Slave Dancer, The, Paula Fox
So B. It, Sarah Weeks
Someone Named Eva, Joan M. Wolf
Son of the Mob, Gordon Korman
Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
Tangerine, Edward Bloor
Time Machine, The, H. G. Wells
Trash, Andy Mulligan
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
Tunes for Bears to Dance To, Robert Cormier
Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963, The, Christopher Paul Curtis
Where the Lillies Bloom, Bill Cleaver
Wrinkle in Time, A, Madeleine LEngle
Zachs Lie, Roland Smith
Non-Fiction
Within Reach: My Everest Story, Mark Pfetzer
Poetry
Annabelle Lee, Edgar Allen Poe
Mother to Son, Langston Hughes
Road Not Taken, The, Robert Frost

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GRADE 8
Drama
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Fiction
Bless the Beasts and Children, Glendon Swarthout
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The, John Boyne
City of Ember, The, Jeanne DuPrau
Cosmic, Frank Cottrell Boyce
Curveball, Jordan Sonnerblick
Day No Pigs Would Die, A, Robert Newton Peck
Devils Arithmetic, The, Jane Yolen
Downsiders, Neal Shusterman
Eyes of the Emperor, Graham Salisbury
Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Houston
Giver, The, Lois Lowry
Grimm Legacy, Polly Shulman
Half Brother, Kenneth Oppel
Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
Higher Power of Lucky, The, Susan Paltrow
Hobbit, The, J. R. R. Tolkien
I Am the Cheese, Robert Cormier
Limit, The, Kristen Landon
Lions of Little Rock, Kristin Levine (or 7)
Nothing But the Truth, Avi
Old Man and the Sea, The, Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
Outsiders, The, S. E. Hinton
Parallel Journeys, Eleanor Ayer
Pearl, The, John Steinbeck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor
Scorpions, Walter Dean Myers
See You at Harrys, Jo Knowles
Shift, M. R. Merrick
Soldiers Heart, Gary Paulsen
Solitary Blue, A, Cynthia Voigt
Tears of a Tiger, Sharon Draper
White Fang, Jack London
Non-Fiction
Brians Song, William Blinn
Chasing Lincolns Killer, James L. Swanson
Diary of a Young Girl, The, Anne Frank
Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln
I Have a Dream, Martin Luther King
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science, John Fleischman
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
Travels with Charley, John Steinbeck
Poetry
Chicago, Carl Sandburg
I, Too, Sing America, Langston Hughes
O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman

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Paul Reveres Ride, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Raven, The, Edgar Allen Poe

GRADE 9
Drama
A Midsummer Nights Dream, William Shakespeare
Antigone, Sophocles
Inherit the Wind, Jerome, Lawrence
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice, The, William Shakespeare (or 10)
Miracle Worker, The, William Gibson
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose
Non-Fiction
All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot
Night, Elie Wiesel
Fiction
Alchemist, The, Paulo Coelho
Anthem, Ayn Rand
Book Thief, The, Markus Zusak
Call of the Wild, The, Jack London
Chocolate War, The, Robert Cormier
Cold Sassy Tree, Olive Ann Burns
Contender, The, Robert Lipsyte
Enders Game, Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Gathering of Old Men, A, Ernest J. Gaines
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
House on Mango Street, The, Sandra Cisneros
Hunger Games, The, Suzanne Collins
Killer Angels, The, Michael Shaara
Monster, Walter Dean Myers
Neverending Story, The, Michael Ende
Odyssey, The, Homer
Pigman*, The, Paul Zindel
Pop, Gordon Korman
Separate Peace, A, John Knowles
Slam! Walter Dean Myers
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
True Grit, Charles Portis
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Short Stories
Cask of Amontillado, The, Edgar Allen Poe
Gift of the Magi, The, O. Henry
I Stand Here Ironing, Tillie Olsen

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GRADE 10
Drama
Beowulf
Gilgamesh
Iliad, The, Homer
Importance of Being Earnest, The, Oscar Wilde
Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare (or 9)
Oedipus, Sophocles
Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
Tempest, The, William Shakespeare
Fiction
1984*, George Orwell
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich M. Remarqu
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Candide, Voltaire
Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
Grapes of Wrath, The, John Steinbeck
Gullivers Travels, Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Ironman, Chris Crutcher
Joy Luck Club, The, Amy Tan
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Rupert S. Holland
Legend of King Arthur and His Knights, The, Sir James Knowles
Lord of the Flies*, William Golding
Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Princess Bride, The, William Goldman
Saint Maybe, Anne Tyler
Scarlet Pimpernel, The, Baroness Orczy
Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13, The, Sue Townsend
Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Chris Crutcher
Tale of Two Cities, A, Charles Dickens
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
Thousand Splendid Suns, A, Khaled Hosseini
Non-Fiction
Angelas Ashes: A Memoir, Frank McCourt
Cellist of Sarajevo, The, Steven Galloway

Poetry
Canterbury Tales, The, Geoffrey Chaucer
Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelly
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Anonymous
Short Stories
Alices Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Metamorphosis, The, Franz Kafka
Nose, The, by Nikolai V. Gogol

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GRADE 11
Drama
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tenessee Williams
Crucible, The*, Arthur Miller
Fences, August Wilson
Glass Menagerie, The*, Tennessee Williams
Hamlet, William Shakespeare (or 12)
Our Town, Thornton Wilder
Raisin in the Sun, A, Lorraine Hansberry
Richard III, William Shakespeare
Streetcar Named Desire, A*, Tennessee Williams
Fiction
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, The, Sherman Alexie
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The*, Mark Twain
And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini (or 12)
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Awakening, The, Kate Chopin
Black Boy, Richard Wright
Bread Givers, Anzia Yezierska
Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
Farewell to Arms, A, Ernest Hemmingway
Great Gatsby, The, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (or 12)
Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane
My Name is Asher Lev, Chiam Potok
Natural, The, Bernard Malamud
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Outcast United, Warren St. John
Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Red Badge of Courage, The, Stephen Crane
Scarlet Letter, The, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Secret Life of Bees, Sue Kidd
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
Song Yet Sung, James McBride
Things They Carried, Tim OBrien
William Faulkner novels (or 12)
Non-Fiction
Band of Brothers, Stephen Ambrose
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings*, Maya Angelou
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The, Rebecca Skloot
King Peggy, Eleanor Herman
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Poetry
Emily Dickinson
Short Stories
Garden of Forking Paths, The, Jorge Luis Borges
Welcome to the Monkey House*, Kurt Vonnegut

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White Heron, A, Sarah Orne Jewett

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GRADE 12
Drama
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Dolls House, A, Henrik Ibsen
Hamlet, William Shakespeare (or 11)
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Lysistrata, Aristophanes
Othello, William Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew, The, William Shakespeare
Tartuffe, Molire
Fiction
Accidental Tourist, The, Anne Tyler
And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini (or 11)
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Catcher in the Rye, The, J. D. Salinger
Color Purple, The, Alice Walker
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
Dubliners, The, James Joyce
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront
Kite Runner, The, Khaled Hosseini (or 11)
Les Misrables, Victor Hugo
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Namesake, The, Jhumpa Lahiri
Native Son, Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
Ordinary People*, Judith Guest
Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, The, James Joyce
Prayer for Owen Meany, A, John Irving
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Stranger, The, Albert Camus
Sun Also Rises, The, Ernest Hemingway
Tess of the Durbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
William Faulkner novels (or 11)
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bront
Non-Fiction
Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Mans Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl
Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
Poetry
John Keats

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HIGHLY ABLE LEARNERS

Here is a list of novels that are already approved at the middle school level that may be appropriate for HAL students.
Some of the books below are likely to be more appropriate for a particular grade (i.e. sixth, eighth), and they have been
marked as such. Still, departments at each school have the flexibility to move novels among grade levels as long as an
agreement can be reached. (If a conflict arises, defer to the list.)
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL HAL:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1030L)

Adventures of Tom Sawyer (930L) -- seventh grade

And Then There Were None (570L)

Catherine Called Birdy (1170L) -- seventh grade

Dragonwings (870L) -- sixth grade

Hunchback of Notre Dame (950L)

I Am the Cheese (810L, complex text structure) -- eighth grade

Incident at Hawk Hill (1200L) -- sixth grade

The Incredible Journey (1320L) -- sixth grade

Invisible Man (980L)

Island of the Blue Dolphins (1000L) -- sixth grade

Julie of the Wolves (860L) -- sixth grade

Last of the Mohicans (930L) -- eighth grade

Light in the Forest (870L)

My Side of the Mountain (810L) -- sixth grade

The Old Man and the Sea (1370L) -- eighth grade

Oliver Twist (970L) -- eighth grade

Out of the Dust (NP) -- seventh grade

The Pearl (1010L) -- eighth grade

Rip Van Winkle (930L)

Sing Down the Moon (820L) -- sixth grade

Slave Dancer (970L) -- sixth grade

The Time Machine (1070L) -- seventh grade

Treasure Island (1100L) -- seventh grade

Tunes for Bears to Dance To (870L) -- seventh grade

Walkabout (800L) -- eighth grade

War of the Worlds (1040L) -- eighth grade

Further, the following novels have been approved at the middle and high school level, but they are currently assigned
to high school. If high school ELA teachers are NOT using the novels, they may be used in middle school. Middle School
literacy specialists may talk to their feeder high school literacy specialist to see if they are using the books below. Middle
School LA teachers may only use a book from the following list with their HAL students if their feeder high school is not
using the book.
ASSIGNED TO HIGH SCHOOL, BUT ALSO APPROVED AT MIDDLE SCHOOL:

Good Earth (1530L)

Pigman (950L)

Miracle Worker (880L)

Call of the Wild (990L)

Red Badge of Courage (680L)

Many of these books are already in your book closet, but if you need help borrowing these books from another school,
please contact Jan Shaff.

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Elementary Only
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Sarah Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan
Sign of the Beaver, The, Elizabeth George Speare

Middle Only
Giver, The, Lois Lowry
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
Tex, S. E. Hinton

High Only
Book Thief, The, Markus Zusak
Good Earth, The, Pearl S. Buck
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Hunger Games, The, Suzanne Collins
Midsummer Nights Dream, A, William Shakespeare
Pigman, The, Paul Zindel

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