This list is full of books perfect for students in 6th-8th grades.
2021-2022 School Year Reading List
Chirp By Kate Messner
Aline by Megan E. Freeman
Tune It Out By Jamie Sumner
Cinders and Sparrows By Stefan Bachmann
Amari and The Night Brothers By B.B. Alston
Love is a Revolution By Renee Watson
One Way or Another By Kara McDowell
Everything Sad is Untrue By Daniel Nayeri
What Lane? By Torrey Maldonado
Closer to Nowhere By Ellen Hopkins
Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander
Before the Ever After By Jacqueline Woodson
My Life in a Fish Tank by Barbara Dee
Star Daughter Shveta Thakrar
Black Canary: Breaking Silence By Alexandra Monir
Friend Me By Shelia M. Averbuch
The Mysterious Disappearance of Aiden S. (as told by his brother) By David Levithan
Recommended for You By Laura Silverman
Fable by Adrienne Young
The True Definition for Neva Beane By Christine Kendall
Glitch By Laura Martin
City of the Plague God By Sarwat Chadda
Efren Divided By Ernesto Cisneros
From the Desk of Zoe Washington By Janae Marks
Hold Back the Tide By Melinda Salisbury
When Life Gives You Mangos By Kereen Getten
Letters from China By Ruth Behar
The Circus of Stolen Dreams By Lorelei Savaryn
The total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez By Adrianna Cuevas
Show Me A Sign By Anne Clare Lezotte
It’s My Party and I Don’t Want to Go By Amanda Panitch
The Wide Starlight By Nicole Lesperance
Lore By Alexandra Bracken
The Losers at the Center of the Galaxy By Mary Winn Heider
Scritch Scratch By Lindsay Currie
Bump By Matt Wallace
The In-Between by Rebecca Ansari
Hush Dylan Farrow
A Taste for Love By Jennifer Yen
A Pho Love Story By Loan Le
Rivals By Tommy Greenwald
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids By Cynthia Leitich Smith (Editor)
Ground Zero By Alan Gratz
2020-2021 School Year Reading List
Alender, Katie—The Companion
Bajpai, Nandini—A Match Made in Mehendi
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn—The Inheritance Games
Bowling, Dusti—The Canyon’s Edge
Callender, Kacen—King and the Dragonflies
Chase, Paula—Turning Point
Firestone, Carrie—Dress Coded
Fukuda, Andrew—This Light Between Us
Gervais, Alison—The Silence Between Us
Harrell, Rob—Wink
Keller, Tae—When You Trap a Tiger
Lee, Lyla—I’ll Be the One
Lloyd-Jones, Emily—The Bone Houses
Maberry, Jonathan (editor)—Don’t Turn Out the Lights
Marshall, Kate Alice—Thirteens
Mejia, Tehlor Kay—Paola Santiago and the River of Tears
Oppel, Kenneth—Bloom
Patrick, Cat—Tornado Brain
Ponti, James—City Spies
Rhodes, Jewell Parker—Black Brother, Black Brother
Robertson, David A.—The Barren Grounds
Rutherford, Mara—Crown of Coral and Pearl
Shovan, Laura and Saadia Faruqi—A Place at the Table
Stevens, Court—The June Boys
Walsh, Bee—Manning Up