 | Forged By Fire by Sharon M. Draper
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.65 Sharon Draper's books are exciting and real. My students have liked all of them.
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 | Skin I'm In, The by Sharon Flake
Buy used from: $0.01 Maleeka is a strong heroine and the book is very well written.
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 | The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
Buy used from: $0.01 I love this series, Mia is so much fun. I think I relate to her more than my students, however.
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 | Scorpions (rack) by Walter Dean Myers
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 Myers is an institution. My students really relate to his books.
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 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: $5.47 / Used from: $0.01 EVERYONE loves Harry, myself included.
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 | Seedfolks (Joanna Colter Books) by Paul Fleischman
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.45 A wonderful book. Short and very touching. Makes you believe that we CAN all get along.
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 | Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 Deals with the death of a loved one very well. A great book.
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 | The Adventures of Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 What middle school student can resist poop jokes? A much more savvy book than first appearance would suggest.
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 | Life in Prison by Stanley Williams
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $2.24 The kids loved it. Realistic, but not graphic.
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 | Bronx Masquerade (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner) by Nikki Grimes
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.90 This is a beautifully constructed story, written in prose and poetry, told through the voices of eighteen different students.
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 | Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
Buy used from: $0.01 The story of a highschool outsider. This is an amazing book, which is extremely well written. The voice of the main character is real and strong.
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 | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $0.01 This book is fun, touching, romantic, and heartbreaking all at once. Great book.
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 | If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
Buy used from: $0.01 All of Jacqueline Woodson's books are gorgeous. This one is particularly moving. It is both heartwarmingly romantic and yet devastatingly tragic at the same time.
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 | Witness by Karen Hesse
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $0.01 This story deals with the KKK in 1920s Vermont. It is told in a quasi-poetic style through the voice of several different townspeople, including two young girls. Excellent.
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 | Like Sisters on the Homefront by Rita Williams-Garcia
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 The girls in my class are eating this up. It is very real, and touches on subjects that not every middle school student is ready for. Moving.
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 | The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A great story about brilliant misfit students and their connections to each other. Very well written.
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 | Parrot in the Oven: Mi vida by Victor Martinez
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 This is a touching and realistic story. Each chapter reads almost like a short story. Historical fiction that the students can relate to.
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 | A Step From Heaven by An Na
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.01 The story follows a young Korean girl from her immigration to America through highschool. Na vividly depicts poverty and abuse and the confusion of fitting into a different culture.
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 | Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $0.01 The pressures of conformity!
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 | Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
Buy new: $6.50 / Used from: $0.01 A moving look at how our actions effect others.
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