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Reading Aloud for Pleasure and Proficiency
Listed here are exciting, moving, funny books middle schoolers will love to hear you read aloud.Books are listed alphabetically by author. Click on curriculum areas to find more books on that topic. Post your comments on the books here.  Print Friendly Format |
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Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance by Jennifer Armstrong 1998 Narrative description of the amazing 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition. Subjects: Adventure | Character Education |
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More of Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story by Paul Aurant 1986 Short chapters about famous people. Each section leaves the reader guessing who until the end. Subjects: History |
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Beyond the Western Sea; Book One: The Escape From Home by Avi 1996 Driven from their impoverished Irish village, two siblings and a rich runaway meet in Liverpool to wait for a ship to America. Suggested for ages 12 - 14 Subjects: Adventure | Emigration | Fiction | Immigration | Ireland | New England | Runaways | Stories |
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Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer 1998 The funny, fast-paced story of sixteen-year-old Jenna, who gets a job driving the elderly owner of a chain of successful shoe stores from Chicago to Texas to confront the son who is trying to force her to retire. Subjects: Economics | Humor |
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On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer 1986 Joel’s best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a river that the boys had promised never to go near. Joel hides the tragedy with lies and is terrified to tell the truth to both sets of parents. Subjects: Character Education |
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Tangerine by Edward Bloor 1997 Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness. As he begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight he also learns his own self worth. Subjects: Character Education |
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Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges 1999 Ruby Bridges tells the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the integration of her school in New Orleans in 1960. Subjects: American History | Civil Rights Movement |
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The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper 1973 On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to fight the evil forces of the Dark. Subjects: Character Education | Fantasy Average rating: 
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