"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
-Toni Morrison
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.
For Reading Out Loud!
by Margaret Mary Kimmel
1983
Gives suggestions and booklists for reading aloud.
Subjects: Professional Resource
Readers Theatre for Young Adults; scripts and script development
by Kathy Latrobe
1989
Scripts and ideas for using young adult books to develop scripts for readers theater productions.
Subjects: Professional Resource
The Wreckers
by Iain Lawrence
1998
Exciting tale of John Spencer who attempts to save his father after being shipwrecked in an English town with an evil secret.
Subjects: Adventure | World History
Darkness over Denmark
by Ellen Levine
2000
An account of the people of Denmark who risked their lives to help the Jews escape from the Nazis.
Subjects: Holocaust | World War II
Anastasia Krupnik
by Lois Lowry
1979
Humorous view of Anastasia's 10th year, as told by Anastasia.
Subjects: Humor | Poetry
Extraordinary People in Extraordinary Times
by Patrick M. Mendoza
1999
Short folklore and true tales related to real historical figures
Subjects: History | Multicultural
The Squire's Tale
by Gerald Morris
1998
In medieval England, fourteen-year-old Terence finds his tranquil existence suddenly changed when he becomes the squire of the young Gawain of Orkney and accompanies him on a long quest.
Subjects: Character Education | Humor | World History
Blizzard
by Jim Murphy
2000
This vivid account of the blizzard of 1888, which paralyzed the Northeast, illuminates the profound changes, political, legal and personal that are often the aftermath of a cataclysmic event.
Suggested for ages 10 - 14
Subjects: American History | Civics | History | New York City | Sibert Honor | Snow | Weather