Middle School English Language Arts Instructional Guide

Approved, Commonly Taught Novels for Grades 7-8

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang Among The Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Bomb - The Race to Build… by Steve Sheinkin Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson Deathwatch by Robb white Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradberry Freak the Mighty by Phillbrick Rodman Ghost: The Track Series by Jason Reynolds Greetings From Witness Protection by Jake Burt Guts by Gary Paulsen Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Holes by Louis Sachar Homeless Bird by Whelen Hoot By Carl Hiaasen Journey to Topaz by Kamil Harrison Matched by Allie Condie

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys Scythe by Neal Shusterman Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Steelheart by Bandon Sanderson Stop Pretending, What Happened When My Big Sister Went Crazy by Sonya Sones The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Boy on the Wooden Box By Leon Leyson The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba The Diary of Anne Frank (play version in textbook) by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron The Giver by Lois Lowry The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams by Daniel Nayeri The Maze Runner By James Dashner

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton The Selection by Kiera Cass

The Skin I’m In By Sharon G. Flake The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelson Turning 15 On The Road To Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery

Nothing But the Truth by Avi Okay for Now by Gary Schmidt Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard Refuge by Alan Gratz Restart by Gordon Korman

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Unwind by Neal Shusterman Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy

*This list is not comprehensive of all approved novels. To see all approved novels for your grade level, please check the Novel DataBase.

Last Updated May 30th, 2024 Middle School ELA, Page 71