Way Up and Away Reading: 7th & 8th Grade and Young Adult
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 An Old-Fashioned Girl, Louisa May Alcott

 Kit’s Wilderness, David Almond

 Crispin and the Cross of Lead, Avi

In the Hall of the Dragon King, Stephen R. Lawhead

The Smugglers, ​Iain Lawrence

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, ​Avi

Chasing Redbird, Sharon Creech

Man O’War, Walter Farley

House of the Scorpion, Nancy Farmer

A Girl Named Disaster, Nancy Farmer

Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling

The Gift of the Magi, O. Henry

Never Miss a Sunset, Jeanette Gilge

In the Hall of the Dragon King, Stephen Lawhead

The Smugglers, Iain Lawrence

Space Trilogy, C.S. Lewis

Jack London Reader, Jack London

Coronation of Glory, Deberah Meroff

Chronicles of Fairacre, Miss Read

Sarah Bishop, Scott O'Dell

A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park

The Foxman, Gary Paulsen
 
The Bronze Bow, Elizabeth George Spear

The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper

The Slave Dancer, Paula Fox

 The Library Card, Jerry Spinelli

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein

Blitzcat, Robert Westall

The Book of Three, ​Lloyd Alexander

The Black Cauldron: Chronicles of Prydain, ​Lloyd Alexander

​Animal Farm, George Orwell

My Antonia, Willa Cather

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli

This Present Darkness, Frank Peretti

The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom

The Pearl, John Steinbeck

Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkein

War of the Worlds, Wells

Life of Pi, Martel

War Horse, Michael Morpurgo

The Button War, Avi

Character is Destiny, John McCain

The Dead Fathers Club, Matt Haig

Dutch Girl, Robert Matzen

Farm Boy, Michael Morpurgo

A Girl of the Limberlost, Gene Stratton-Porter

Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie

Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

A Christmas Memory, Truman Capote

The Dragon and the Raven, Hentey

The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, Farley Mowat
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The Mouse and His Child, Russel Hoban

​Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham​
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                                            . . . and oh, so many more!