Middle School Language Arts: Merry Christmas from 7th & 8th Grade

Students' Reading Recommendations

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
A Work in Progress by Connor Franta
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
House of Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
Let It Snow by John Green
Mark of the Thief by Jennifer Neilsen
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohen and David Levithan
That Was Then This is Now by S.E. Hinton
The Book of David by Anonymous
The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
The Maze Runner (Series) by James Dashner
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Mrs. Moussa's Favorite Reads

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein