| Junior High Reading List | |
| Author | Title |
| Alexander, Lloyd | The Prydain Chronicles |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| Armstrong, William | Sounder |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Avi | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
| Bagnold, Enid | National Velvet |
| Banks, Sarah | Remember My Name |
| Benchley, Nathaniel | Bright Candles: A Novel of the Danish Resistance |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Bronte, Emily | Wuthering Heights |
| Burks, Brian | Runs With Horses |
| Burnford, Sheila | The Incredible Journey |
| Byars, Betsy | Summer of the Swans |
| Carroll, Lewis | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass |
| Cather, Willa | Neighbor Rosicky |
| O Pioneers | |
| Caudill, Rebecca | Tree of Freedom |
| Chekhov, Anton | The Evildoer |
| Cleaver, Vera | Dust of the Earth |
| Queen of Hearts | |
| Where the Lilies Bloom | |
| Trial Valley | |
| Cooney, Caroline | The Face on the Milk Carton |
| Whatever Happened to Janie | |
| Cooper, James F. | The Last of the Mohicans |
| Cooper, Susan | The Dark is Rising |
| The Grey King | |
| Silver on the Tree | |
| Over Sea, Under Stone | |
| Cormier, Robert | I am the Cheese |
| Covington, Dennis | Lizard |
| Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
| Curie, Eve | Madame Curie; A Biography |
| Cushman, Karen | Catherine, Called Birdy |
| Dalgliesh, Alice | The Silver Pencil |
| Day, Clarence | Life with Father and other Writings |
| DeFoe, Daniel | Robinson Crusoe |
| Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol |
| Great Expectations | |
| Oliver Twist | |
| A Tale of Two Cities | |
| Donovan, Robert, J. | PT109: John F. Kennedy in World War II |
| Dorris, Michael | Guests |
| Doyle, Arthur Conan | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Hound of the Baskervilles | |
| Dumas, Alexandre | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| The Three Musketeers | |
| Duncan, Lois | Stranger with My Face |
| Killing Mr. Griffin | |
| Don't Look Behind You | |
| Earhart, Amelia | The Fun of it; Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation |
| Edmonds, Walter | Drums along the Mohawk |
| Eliot, George | Silas Marner |
| Fleischman, Sid | The Whipping Boy |
| Flexner, James T. | Washington: The Indispensable Man |
| Forbes, Esther | Johnny Tremaine |
| Fox, Paula | One-Eyed Cat |
| Slave Dancer | |
| Monkey Island | |
| Frank, Anne | Diary of a Young Girl |
| Freedman, Russell | Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery |
| Gaines, Ernest J. | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman |
| George, Jean | Julie of the Wolves |
| My Side of the Mountain | |
| Gilbreth, Frank & Ernestine Carey | Cheaper by the Dozen |
| Belles on their Toes | |
| Golding, William | Lord of the Flies |
| Gollumb, Joseph | Albert Schweitzer: Genius in the Jungle |
| Gray, Elizabeth Janet | Adam of the Road |
| Greene, Graham | The Destructors |
| Gunther, John | Death be not Proud |
| Hale, Edward Everett | The Man without a Country |
| Hansberry, Lorraine | A Raisin in the Sun |
| Harte, Bret | The Outcasts of Poker Flats |
| Hautzig, Esther | The Endless Steppe: Growing up in Siberia |
| Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The House of Seven Gables |
| Hemingway, Ernest | Islands in the Stream |
| The Old Man in the Sea | |
| Henry, O. | The Gift of the Magi and other Stories |
| Herriot, James | All Creatures Great and Small |
| Hersey, John | Hiroshima |
| Heyerdahl, Thor | Kon Tiki |
| Hilton, James | Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
| Lost Horizon | |
| Hinton, S.E. | The Outsiders |
| That Was Then, This Is Now | |
| Rumble Fish | |
| Tex | |
| Hunt, Irene | Across Five Aprils |
| No Promises in the Wind | |
| Up a Road Slowly | |
| Irving, Washington | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle |
| Jacques, Brian | Redwall |
| Salmandastron | |
| Martin the Warrior | |
| Keller, Helen | Story of My Life |
| Kelly, Eric P. | The Trumpeter of Krakow |
| Kendall, Lace | Houdini: Master of Escape |
| Kennedy, John F. | Profiles in Courage |
| Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon |
| Kipling, Rudyard | Captains Courageous |
| Kim | |
| Knowles, John | A Separate Peace |
| Krumgold, Joseph | And Now Miguel |
| Onion John | |
| Latham, Jean Lee | Carry On, Mr. Bowditch |
| Lawrence, D.H. | The Rocking Horse Winner |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill A Mockingbird |
| London, Jack | The Call of the Wild |
| Sea Wolf | |
| White Fang | |
| Lord, Walter | A Night to Remember (The Titanic) |
| Lowry, Lois | Number the Stars |
| The Giver | |
| Lyons, Mary E. | Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs |
| Mac Lachlan, Patricia | Baby |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | |
| Journey | |
| Magorian, Michelle | Good Night, Mr. Tom |
| Meigs, Cornelia | Invincible Louisa |
| Melville, Herman | Billy Budd |
| Moby Dick | |
| Meltzer, Milton | Never To Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust |
| Moody, Ralph | Little Britches |
| Morris, Jeannie | Brian Piccolo: A Short Season |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Fallen Angels |
| Hoops | |
| Somewhere in Darkness | |
| Naylor, Phyllis | Shiloh |
| Neufeld, John | Lisa, Bright and Dark |
| Twink | |
| Neville, Emily | It's Like This Cat |
| Nordhoff, Charles & J.N. Hall | Mutiny on the Bounty |
| O'Dell, Scott | The Feathered Serpent |
| Streams to the River, River to the Sea | |
| Sing Down the Moon | |
| The Black Pearl | |
| The Serpent Never Sleeps | |
| The Spanish Smile | |
| Oke, Janeete | Love's Unfolding Dream |
| Orczy, Baroness Emma | The Scarlet Pimpernel |
| Orwell, George | Animal Farm |
| 1984 | |
| Paterson, Katherine | Bridge to Terabithia |
| Come Sing, Jimmie Joe | |
| Jacob Have I Loved | |
| Lyddie | |
| Paulsen, Gary | Canyons |
| The Foxman | |
| Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered | |
| Dog song | |
| The Island | |
| The Voyage of the Frog | |
| Night John | |
| Tracker | |
| The Winter Room | |
| Peck, Robert Newton | A Day No Pigs Would Die |
| Voices After Midnight | |
| Potok | The Chosen |
| Raskin, Ellen | The Wrestling Game |
| Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan | The Yearling |
| Rawls, Wilson | Summer of the Monkeys |
| Reiss, Johanna | The Upstairs Room |
| Richter, Conrad | The Light in the Forest |
| Rylant, Cynthia | Missing May |
| Sachs, Marilyn | A Pocket Full of Seeds |
| Schaefer, Jack | Shane |
| Scott, Sir Walter | Ivan Hoe |
| Shakespeare, William | Romeo and Juliet |
| Shelley, Mary | Frankenstein |
| Smith, Robert K. | The War with Grandpa |
| Speare, Elizabeth | The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
| The Sign of the Beaver | |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Space Station Seventh Grade |
| Steele, William O. | The Perilous Road |
| Steinbeck, John | Of Mice and Men |
| The Pearl | |
| The Red Pony | |
| Travels with Charley | |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis | Black Arrow |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | |
| Kidnapped | |
| Treasure Island | |
| Stoker, Bram | Dracula |
| Street, James | Goodbye, My Lady |
| Swift, Jonathon | Gulliver's Travels |
| Taylor, Mildred | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| Song of the Trees | |
| Taylor, Theodore | The Cay |
| Timothy of the Cay | |
| Tolkien, J.R. | The Hobbit (The Series) |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| The Prince and the Pauper | |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
| Ullman, James R. | Banner in the Sky |
| Vern, Jules | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
| Mysterious Island | |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | |
| Voigt, Cynthia | A Solitary Blue |
| Come A Stranger | |
| Homecoming | |
| Dicey's Song | |
| Izzy Willy-Nilly | |
| Wings of a Falcon | |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Cat's Cradle |
| Slaughterhouse Five | |
| Well, H.G. | The Invisible Man |
| Island of Dr. Moreau | |
| The Time Machine | |
| War of the Worlds | |
| Wister, Owen | The Virginian |
| Wojciechowska, Maia | The Shadow of a Bull |
| Yep, Lawrence | Child of the Owl |
| Dragon Wings | |
| The Star Fisher | |
| Zindel, Paul | The Pigman |
| The Pigman's Legacy | |
| The Pigman and Me | |
| The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigold | |