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Shannon's "Recommended Books for Middle Schoolers"

These are books recommended for grades 4-6. I am using this list to build a library for my son.
1. The Shrinking of Treehorn
by Florence Parry Heide
  
2. Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
by Stephen Manes
  
4. The Great Piratical Rumbustification & the Librarian and the Robbers
by Margaret Mahy
  
5. The Hundred Dresses
by Eleanor Estes
  
7. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang (Jacob Two-Two Adventures (Paperback))
by Mordecai Richler
  
8. Soup
by Robert Newton Peck
  
9. A Taste of Blackberries
by Doris Buchanan Smith
  
10. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More
by Roald Dahl
  
11. Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
  
12. Caddie Woodlawn
by Carol Ryrie Brink
  
13. The Case of the Baker Street Irregular (An Aladdin Book)
by Robert Newman
  
14. The Curse of the Blue Figurine (Johnny Dixon)
by John Bellairs
  
16. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
by E. L. Konigsburg
  
17. The Girl With the Silver Eyes (Apple Paperbacks)
by Willo Davis Roberts
  
18. Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood
by Willie Morris
  
19. Great Brain,The (Great Brain)
by John D. Fitzgerald
  
20. Hang Tough, Paul Mather (A Harper Trophy Book)
by Alfred Slote
  
21. Humbug Mountain
by Sid Fleischman
  
23. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh (Aladdin Fantasy)
by Robert C. O'Brien
  
25. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor
  
26. A Stranger Came Ashore (Harper Trophy Book)
by Mollie Hunter
  
27. Thank You, Jackie Robinson
by Barbara Cohen
  
28. The Twenty-One Balloons
by William Pene du Bois
  
30. The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree
by Bill Brittain
  
31. Casey At the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (Caldecott Honor Book)
by E ; Bing, C Thayer
  
32. The Cremation of Sam McGee
by Robert Service
  
This is Shannon's list. Only Shannon can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by Shannon on Feb 25, 2009.