Whether you’re looking for your next family read-aloud or a list of titles to draw from when supplying your tween with reading material, these living books are ideal for your middle schooler. This list includes 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
- The Bark of the Bog Owl by Jonathan Rogers
- 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 Door in the Wall by Marguerite de Angeli
- Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
- The Found Boys by S. D. Smith
- The Green Ember Series by S. D. Smith
- The Hiding Place Graphic Novel by Corrie ten Boom with Elizabeth and John Sherrill
- 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
- The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry by Anna Rose Johnson
- A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
- The Misadventured Summer of Tumbleweed Thompson by Glenn McCarty
- 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
- The Penderwicks Series by Jeannie Birdsall
- Redwall Series by Brian Jacques
- The Restorationists Series by Carolyn Leiloglou
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
- The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- Sounder by William H. Armstrong
- Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
- Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
- Sweet Home Alaska by Carole Estby Dagg
- 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
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Year of Miss Agnes by Kirkpatrick Hill
- The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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