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rzab




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Oct 18 2017, 4:08 am
I recently started teaching middle school English. It's my first time teaching English!

I am trying to put together a good reading list for my students.

Does anyone have any suggestions for must reads for 7th and 8th graders?
Anything you remember reading, or your kids love.

TIA!
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esuss




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Oct 18 2017, 6:33 am
Anne of green gables n
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saw50st8




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Oct 18 2017, 7:11 am
Where the Red Fern Grows
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momX4




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Oct 18 2017, 8:16 am
I loved A Little Princess.
My ds is reading Animal farm now in school, I did it in HS.
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PinkFridge




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Oct 18 2017, 8:25 am
Nothing at all objectionable in any of the suggestions so far but I do wonder: is the school going to approve the list first?
Do you have a school library?
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water_bear88




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Oct 18 2017, 8:31 am
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. (I don't think that was in class; I chose it off an approved list for a book report.)
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rzab




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Oct 18 2017, 9:40 am
Thanks! Keep them coming!

This list is only for my class and I will look into the books a little before I put them on.

Just for frame of reference its a dating leumi girls school in israel. So we don't really have a large English library but most of my students have a kindle or similar app.
I teach the native speakers so they are on a pretty high reading level
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amother
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Post Wed, Oct 18 2017, 9:48 am
Little Women
Watership Down
Tuck Everlasting
The Martian Chronicles
A Raisin in the Sun
A Wrinkle in Time
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Hobbit
Tom Sawyer
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seeker




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Oct 18 2017, 9:54 am
Hatchet (there's a brief reference to parent having an affair but IIRC it's pretty subtle. You'll want to read it to make sure)
Call it Courage
Jerry Spinelli writes some interesting books for that age
Holes
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emzod42




 
 
    
 

Post Wed, Oct 18 2017, 10:42 am
if you're looking for more contemporary titles:
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
Fever 1793 and Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Hunger Games trilogy
Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullally Hunt
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Forget Me Not by Ellie Terry
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
haven't read, but female students really like Wendy Mass's books (Heaven Looks a Lot Like the Mall, etc.), and books by Todd Strasser, and if they like dystopian, Divergent by Veronica Roth
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