Reading List
Goff Middle School
To see if a particular book is available, click
on the blue title. Most of these books are available at the East
Greenbush Community Library.
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For students entering SIXTH grade
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Andrew Clements
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Frindle
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Christopher Paul Curtis
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Bud, Not Buddy
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James Howe
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Howliday Inn
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E.L. Konigsburg
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View From Saturday
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Ben Mikaelson
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Touching Spirit Bear
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Linda Sue Park
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A Single Shard
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Richard Peck
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Year Down Yonder
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Jerry Spinelli
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Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?
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For students entering SEVENTH grade
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Richard Adams
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Watership Down or second copy
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Frances Burnett
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Secret Garden or second or third copy
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Jean Craighead George
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Julie of the Wolves
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Jean Ferris
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Once Upon a Marigold
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Russell Freedman
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Eleanor Roosevelt: A life of Discovery
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Russell Freedman
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Wright Brothers--How they Invented the Airplane
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Margaret Haddix
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Among the Hidden
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Daniel Hayes
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Trouble With Lemons or second copy
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Brian Jacques
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Redwall
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Madeline L'Engle
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A Wrinkle In Time
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Walter Dean Myers
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Fallen Angels
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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Shiloh or second or third copies
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Richard Peck
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Long Way From Chicago
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Philip Pullman
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The Golden Compass or second copy
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The Subtle Knife or second copy
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The Amber Spyglass or second copy
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Stephanie Tolan
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Surviving the Applewhites
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To see if a particular book is available, click
on the blue title. Most of these books are available at the East
Greenbush Community Library. If you're browsing the library for these
titles, check the cart in the Teen Area labeled "CHS Reading
List."
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Fiction
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| Achebe, Chinua | Things Fall Apart |
| Albom, Mitch | The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women |
| Alvarez, Julia | In The Time of the Butterflies |
| Anonymous | Go Ask Alice |
| Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Auel, Jean | The Clan of the Cave Bear |
| Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice |
| Barron, T. A. | Lost Years of Merlin |
| Barron, T.A. | Seven Songs of Merlin |
| Barron, T.A. | Fires of Merlin |
| Barron, T.A. | Mirror of Merlin |
| Barron, T.A. | Wings of Merlin |
| Berg, Elizabeth | Durable Goods |
| Bissinger, H. G. | Friday Night Lights |
| Blinn, William | Brian’s Song |
| Bloor, Edward | Tangerine |
| Blume, Judy | Tiger Eyes |
| Bradbury, Ray | Martian Chronicles |
| Brashares, Ann | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants,
Second Summer of the Sisterhood |
| Bronte, Charlotte | Jane Eyre |
| Burgess, Melvin | Smack |
| Cabot, Meg | Princess Diaries |
| Cabot, Meg | Princess in the Spotlight |
| Cabot, Meg | Princess in Love |
| Cabot, Meg | Princess in Waiting |
| Cabot, Meg | Princess in Pink |
| Cadnum, Michael | The Book of the Lion |
| Card, Orson Scott | Ender’s Game |
| Cather, Willa | My Antonia, O Pioneers! |
| Chevalier, Tracy | Girl with a Pearl Earring |
| Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness |
| Cooney, Caroline B. | Ransom of Mercy Carter |
| Cormier, Robert | Chocolate War |
| Crutcher, Chris | Whale Talk |
| Cushman, Karen | Catherine, Called Birdy |
| Dickens, Charles | A Tale of Two Cities |
| Donnelly, Jennifer | A Northern Light |
| Fast, Howard | The Immigrants,
April Morning |
| Faulkner, William | Light in August |
| Finn, Alexandra | Breathing Underwater |
| Flake, Sharon | The Skin I’m In |
| Forbes, Esther | Johnny Tremain |
| Gaines, Ernest | A Lesson before Dying |
| Gibbons, Kaye | Ellen Foster |
| Goldman, William | Princess Bride |
| Haddix, Margaret Peterson | Among the Hidden,
Don’t You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey |
| Hayes, Daniel | The Trouble with Lemons |
| Hesse, Hermann | Siddhartha |
| Hesse, Karen | Witness |
| Hinton, S. E. | Rumble Fish |
| Hurston, Zora Neale | Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| Keyes, Daniel | Flowers for Algernon |
| Irving, John | A Prayer for Owen Meaney |
| Jackson, Shirley | The Haunting of Hill House |
| Johnson, Angela | The First Part Last |
| Kadohata, Cynthia | The Floating World |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | Animal Dreams,
The Bean Trees,
Pigs In Heaven,
The Poisonwood Bible |
| Le Guin, Ursula | Wizard of Earthsea |
| Le Guin, Ursula | Tombs of Atuan |
| Le Guin, Ursula | Farthest Shore |
| L’Engle, Madeleine | A Wrinkle in Time |
| Les Becquets, Diane | The Stones of Mourning Creek |
| Lightman, Alan | Einstein’s Dreams |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild |
| Mazer, Harry | Boy at War |
| McCourt, Frank | Angela’s Ashes |
| McCullers, Carson | Member of the Wedding |
| McKinley, Robin | Beauty |
| Mikaelsen, Ben | Touching Spirit Bear |
| Morrison, Toni | Beloved,
The Bluest Eye |
| Myers, Walter Dean | The Beast,
Fallen Angels,
Shooter |
| Na, An | A Step From Heaven |
| Napoli, Donna Jo | The Magic Circle |
| Nolan, Han | If I Should Die Before I Wake |
| Orwell, George | 1984 |
| Paton, Alan | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Peck, Robert Newton | A Day No Pigs Would Die |
| Powell, Randy | Is Kissing a Girl who Smokes Like Licking an Ashtray? |
| Pullman, Phillip | The Golden Compass,
The Subtle Knife,
The Amber Spyglass |
| Quindlen, Anna | Blessings |
| Rawlings, Marjorie | The Yearling |
| Smith, Betty | Joy in the Morning |
| Smith, Betty | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Stargirl |
| Tan, Amy | The Joy Luck Club |
| Tolan, Stephanie | Surviving the Applewhites |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
| Tolkien, J.R.R. | Lord of the Rings: Return of the King |
| Trueman, Terry | Stuck in Neutral |
| Tyler, Anne | Saint Maybe |
| Twain, Mark | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| Undset, Sigrid | Kristin Lavransdatter |
| Voigt, Cynthia | Homecoming |
| Vonnegut, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
| Walker, Alice | The Color Purple |
| Watson, Larry | Montana 1948 |
| Wells, H. G. | The Time Machine |
| Wolff, Virginia Euwer | Make Lemonade |
| Yolen, Jane | Briar Rose |
Nonfiction
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| Albom, Mitch | Tuesdays with Morrie |
| Angelou, Maya | I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings |
| Armstrong, Lance | It’s Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life |
| Bragg, Rick | All Over but the Shoutin’ |
| Bruchac, Joseph | Bowman’s Store: A Journey to Myself |
| Crow Dog, Mary | Lakota Woman |
| Gunther, John | Death Be Not Proud |
| Hillenbrand, Laura | Seabiscuit: An American Legend |
| Hoose, Phillip | We Were There Too!: Young People in U.S. History |
| Jones, Ron | The Acorn People |
| Moody, Anne | Coming of Age in Mississippi |
| Murphy, Jim | The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War |
| Pfeetzer, Mark | Within Reach: My Everest Story |
| Plato | The Apology, The Republic or The Phaedo |
| Schlosser, Eric | Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal |
| Shakespeare, William | Taming of the Shrew |
| Franco, Betsy, ed. | Things I Have To Tell You; Poems and Writing by Teenage Girls |
| Thoreau, Henry David | Walden, Walking |
| Whitman, Walt | Leaves of Grass |
| Wilder, Thornton | Our Town |
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