Whether you’re looking for your next family read-aloud or a list of titles to draw from when supplying your child with reading material, these living books are ideal for your upper elementary or middle school student. This list recently published titles as well as tried-and-true classics. We hope you’ll find a new favorite here!
- Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Adam of the Road by Elizabeth Janet Gray
- Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
- Anne of Green Gables Series by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
- Ben and Me by Robert Lawson
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewall
- Black Ships Before Troy by Rosemary Sutcliff
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
- Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Latham
- The Chronicles of Narnia Series by C. S. Lewis
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- The Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
- Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Series by J. R. R. Tolkien
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
- Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
- Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguerite Henry
- King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green
- Little Britches by Ralph Moody
- Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
- The Penderwicks Series by Jeannie Birdsall
- Redwall Series by Brian Jacques
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
- Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
- Sounder by William H. Armstrong
- Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Watership Down by Richard Adams
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- The Wingfeather Saga Series by Andrew Peterson
- Wonder by R. J. Palacio
- The Wrinkle in Time Series by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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