Help your child succeed in school by encouraging reading at home. The following list of Authors and Titles are age-appropriate for middle school age (grades 6 to 8) children (as suggested by the Baltimore City Public School System District Web Site).
Author(s) - Title
Archer, Jules - They Had a Dream
Asher, Sandy - Out of Here
Bauer, Marian - On My Honor
Beatty, Patricia - Sarah and Me and the Lady from the Sea
Bellairs, John - The Vengeance
Bernotas, Bob - Spike Lee, Filmmaker
Birdseye, Tom - Just Call Me Stupid
Bohl, Al - Guide to Cartooning
Brancato, Robin - Uneasy Money
Brown, Irene - Answer Me, Answer Me
Carson, Benjamin - Gifted Hands
Cebulash, Mel - Ruth Marini: World Series Star
Childress, Alice - Rainbow Jordon
Cleary, Beverly - Fifteen
Cohen, Barbara - Thank You, Jackie
Collier, James & Christopher - Jump Ship to Freedom
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
Danziger, Paula - This Place Has No Atmosphere
Davidson, Nicole - Crash Course
Davies, Mark - Malcolm X: Another Side of the Movement
Deaver, Julie - Say Goodnight, Gracie
De Felice, Cynthia - The Light on Hogback Hill
Downer, Lesley - Japan
Duncan, Lois - Stranger with My Face
Dygard, Thomas - Winning Kicker
Ferris, Jean - Across the Grain
Filipovic, Zlata - Zlata's Diary
Frank, Anne - Diary of a Young Girl
Fuchs, Carol - Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Gilliam, Scott - Discrimination
Goldin, Barbara - Bat Mitzvah
Golla, Donald - Within Reach
Gonzales, Doreen - Alex Haley: Author of Roots
Grant, Cynthia - Shadow Man
Greenfield, Eloise - Koya Delaney and the Good Girl Blues
Grimes, Nikki - Jazmin's Notebook
Guy, Rosa - The Friends
Hahn, Mary D. - The Wind Blows Backward
Hamilton, Virginia - M.C. Higgins, The Great
Hanson, Joyce and Gary McGowan - Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground
Hawks, Robert - This Stranger, My Father
Herda, D.J. - Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Champion
Hesse, Karen - Out of the Dust
Hewitt, Catherine - Buddhism
Hughes, Langston - The Dreamkeeper and Poems
Ifemesia, Chieka - Turkana
Jacques, Brian - Salamandastron
Johnson, Angela - The Other Side: Shorter Poems
Jones, Diana - Stopping for a Spell
Kerr, M.E. - Linger
Kimmel, Eric - Bar Mitzvah
Klass, David - A Different Season
Lawrence, Louise - Keeper of the Universe
Lester, Julius - Long Journey Home
Lester, Julius - To Be A Slave
Levitin, Sonia - The Golem and the Dragon Girl
Lewis, E.B. - The Bat Boy and His Violin
Lindbergh, Anne - Three Lives to Live
Lisle, Janet Taylor - Afternoon of the Elves
Littke, Lael - Shanny on Her Own
Lowry, Lois - Anastasia and the Answers
Lyon, Mary E. - Letters from a Slave Girl
Matas, Carol - Lisa's War
McGraw, Eloise - Tangled Webb
Medearis, Angela - Skin Deep
Miller, Sandy - Freddie the Thirteenth
Moore, Elaine - Grandma's Smile
Murphy, Jim - Death Run
Myers, Walter - Fallen Angels
Nixon, Joan L. - The Other Side of Dark
O'Connor, Karen - Homeless Children
O'Dell, Scott- Island of the Blue Dolphins
Pandell, Karen - Learning from the Dalai Lama
Peck, Robert - A Day No Pigs Would Die
Pendleton, Scott - The Ultimate Guide to Student Contests
Penn, Malka - The Hanukkah Ghosts
Petersen, P.J. - Going for the Big One
Pfeffer, Susan Beth - The Year without Michael
Pfoutz, Sally - Missing Person
Pinckney, Andrea D. - The Piano Prince and His Orchestra
Porte, Barbara - Something Terrible Happened
Rappaport, Doreen - Be the Judge/Be the Jury: Tinker VS. Des Moines
Rembeck, Richard - Dream Team
Reynolds, Moira - Coping with an Immigrant Parent
Rice, Earle - The Cuban Revolution
Richmond, Sandra - Wheels for Walking
Rochelle, Belinda - Witness to Freedom
Rozakis, Laurie - Magic Johnson
Rylant, Cynthia - The Van Gogh Cafe
Sagan, Carl - Contact
Sanford, William - Sitting Bull: Sioux Warrior
Savage, Jeff - Kristi Yamaguchi
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Shiefman, Vicky - Good-Bye to the Trees
Sierra, Patricia - A Boy I Never Knew
Sinykin, Sherri C. - Slate Blues
Smith, Kay - Skeeter
Sneve, Virginia - The Iroquois
Snyder, Carol - Leave Me Alone, Ma
Stewart, Gail - Life in an Eskimo Village
Strasser, Todd - The Accident
Sullivan, George - Slave Ship
Swamp, Chief Jake - Giving Thanks
Swisher, Clarice -Pablo Picasso
Swisher, Clarice - The Ancient Near East
Talbert, Marc - A Sunburned Prayer
Tamar, Erika - It Happens at Cecelia's
Taylor, Mildred - Let The Circle Be Unbroken
Taylor, Mildred - The Road to Memphis
Theman, Jean - Was It Something I Said?
Thomas, Joyce Carol - The Golden Pasture
Tolan, Stephanie - Save Halloween
Uchida, Yoshiko - The Invisible Thread
Warburton, Lois - Aztec Civilization
Waugh, Sylvia - The Mennyms
Weidhorn, Manfred - Jackie Robinson
Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine
Whitcher, Susan - Real Mummies Dont Bleed
Wigand, Molly - How to Write and Sell Greeting Cards, Bumper Stickers, Tee Shirts, And Other Fun Stuff
Williams, Mark - Malcolm X
Wood, Angela - Judaism
Woodruff, Elvira - Dear Napoleon
Woodson, Jacqueline - Last Summer With Maizon
Yates, Elizabeth - Amos Fortune, Free Man
