HAISLN 7th-8th Grade Middle School Recommended Reading List

1.
Posted
Posted 3.90 avg rating — 8,254 ratings
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Refugee
Refugee 4.37 avg rating — 78,601 ratings
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Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America
Spooked!: How a Radio Broadcast and The War of the Worlds Sparked the 1938 Invasion of America 4.01 avg rating — 661 ratings
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The Crossover
The Crossover 4.22 avg rating — 68,005 ratings
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The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 4.11 avg rating — 4,163 ratings
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The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi 3.96 avg rating — 5,628 ratings
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Lovely War
Lovely War 4.22 avg rating — 66,689 ratings
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Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School, #1)
Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 51,390 ratings
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Hour of the Bees
Hour of the Bees 4.19 avg rating — 6,872 ratings
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Buzz Kill
Buzz Kill 3.68 avg rating — 2,095 ratings
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Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West
Presenting Buffalo Bill: The Man Who Invented the Wild West 4.02 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Braced
Braced 4.19 avg rating — 2,725 ratings
13.
Ruby Red (Precious Stone Trilogy, #1)
Ruby Red (Precious Stone Trilogy, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 167,463 ratings
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club
The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club 4.11 avg rating — 6,210 ratings
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Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease
Blood and Germs: The Civil War Battle Against Wounds and Disease 3.86 avg rating — 299 ratings
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How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World 4.11 avg rating — 15,320 ratings
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Kalahari (Corpus, #3)
Kalahari (Corpus, #3) 4.13 avg rating — 3,765 ratings
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Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery
Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery 4.21 avg rating — 22,456 ratings
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The Downstairs Girl
The Downstairs Girl 3.96 avg rating — 39,913 ratings
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The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century
The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century 3.66 avg rating — 3,612 ratings
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Frogkisser!
Frogkisser!
by: Garth Nix
3.81 avg rating — 6,530 ratings
22.
West of the Moon
West of the Moon 3.72 avg rating — 3,871 ratings
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Black Brother, Black Brother
Black Brother, Black Brother 4.17 avg rating — 7,679 ratings
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The Birds of Pandemonium: Life Among the Exotic & the Endangered
The Birds of Pandemonium: Life Among the Exotic & the Endangered 4.16 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
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The Prince of Mist (Niebla, #1)
The Prince of Mist (Niebla, #1) 3.80 avg rating — 64,281 ratings
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The Hired Girl
The Hired Girl 3.98 avg rating — 13,761 ratings
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The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild, Young Readers Adaptation
The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild, Young Readers Adaptation 4.41 avg rating — 899 ratings
28.
The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1)
The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 25,669 ratings
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 4.28 avg rating — 35,446 ratings
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The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding (Prosper Redding, #1)
The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding (Prosper Redding, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 6,114 ratings
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A Week of Mondays
A Week of Mondays 3.86 avg rating — 4,158 ratings
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Watched
Watched 3.52 avg rating — 716 ratings
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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)
by: Don Brown
4.04 avg rating — 9,073 ratings
33.
Piecing Me Together
Piecing Me Together 4.08 avg rating — 26,714 ratings
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The Forgetting (The Forgetting, #1)
The Forgetting (The Forgetting, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 13,074 ratings
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 4.25 avg rating — 9,243 ratings
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No Such Person
No Such Person 3.35 avg rating — 1,627 ratings
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The Weight of Water
The Weight of Water 3.80 avg rating — 8,988 ratings
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The Wonder of Us
The Wonder of Us 3.67 avg rating — 803 ratings
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Longbow Girl
Longbow Girl 3.88 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
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Maybe He Just Likes You
Maybe He Just Likes You 4.21 avg rating — 8,024 ratings
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Swagger
Swagger 4.16 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
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Stepsister
Stepsister 4.05 avg rating — 29,840 ratings
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Court of Fives (Court of Fives, #1)
Court of Fives (Court of Fives, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 8,394 ratings
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96 Miles
96 Miles 4.07 avg rating — 3,406 ratings
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Vietnam: A History of the War
Vietnam: A History of the War 4.10 avg rating — 249 ratings
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Love or Something Like It (The Mostly Miserable Life of April Sinclair, #4)
Love or Something Like It (The Mostly Miserable Life of April Sinclair, #4) 3.95 avg rating — 88 ratings
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The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog
The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog 4.15 avg rating — 12,844 ratings
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Planet Middle School
Planet Middle School 3.79 avg rating — 1,352 ratings
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One Dead Spy (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, #1)
One Dead Spy (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales, #1) 4.21 avg rating — 7,116 ratings
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Nightfall
Nightfall 3.44 avg rating — 5,494 ratings
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A Face Like Glass
A Face Like Glass 4.18 avg rating — 8,890 ratings
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The Dead and Buried
The Dead and Buried 3.99 avg rating — 3,867 ratings
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Sweeping Up the Heart
Sweeping Up the Heart 3.81 avg rating — 1,723 ratings
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The Girl I Used to Be
The Girl I Used to Be 3.88 avg rating — 11,575 ratings
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Full Cicada Moon
Full Cicada Moon 4.31 avg rating — 6,116 ratings
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The Keeper Young Readers' Edition
The Keeper Young Readers' Edition 4.33 avg rating — 329 ratings
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Secret Soldiers
Secret Soldiers 4.20 avg rating — 281 ratings
59.
Losers Take All
Losers Take All 3.68 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
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Insignia (Insignia, #1)
Insignia (Insignia, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 16,038 ratings
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Blackbird Fly
Blackbird Fly 4.15 avg rating — 2,878 ratings
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The Art of Secrets
The Art of Secrets 3.46 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Hell & High Water
Hell & High Water 3.76 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Far Far Away
Far Far Away 3.87 avg rating — 8,818 ratings
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Tracking Pythons: The Quest to Catch an Invasive Predator and Save an Ecosystem
Tracking Pythons: The Quest to Catch an Invasive Predator and Save an Ecosystem 4.24 avg rating — 80 ratings
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A Corner of White (The Colours of Madeleine, #1)
A Corner of White (The Colours of Madeleine, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 4,724 ratings
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Proud: Living My American Dream
Proud: Living My American Dream 4.32 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1)
Dairy Queen (Dairy Queen, #1) 3.75 avg rating — 28,311 ratings
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How I Discovered Poetry
How I Discovered Poetry 3.93 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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We Are All Made of Molecules
We Are All Made of Molecules 3.82 avg rating — 16,232 ratings
71.
When the Ground Is Hard
When the Ground Is Hard 4.13 avg rating — 1,569 ratings
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Auma's Long Run
Auma's Long Run 4.07 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 37,837 ratings
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Dog Songs: Poems
Dog Songs: Poems 4.24 avg rating — 18,081 ratings
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The Nest
The Nest 3.73 avg rating — 11,284 ratings
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Snow White
Snow White 3.81 avg rating — 7,704 ratings
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I Am Princess X
I Am Princess X 4.06 avg rating — 13,911 ratings
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Long Way Down
Long Way Down 4.25 avg rating — 132,974 ratings
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You 4.47 avg rating — 53,567 ratings
80.
Nikki on the Line
Nikki on the Line 4.30 avg rating — 777 ratings
81.
Skyward (Skyward, #1)
Skyward (Skyward, #1) 4.47 avg rating — 160,736 ratings
82.
1919 The Year That Changed America
1919 The Year That Changed America 3.88 avg rating — 478 ratings
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The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found 3.86 avg rating — 684 ratings
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The Blackthorn Key (The Blackthorn Key, #1)
The Blackthorn Key (The Blackthorn Key, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 14,028 ratings
85.
She Is Not Invisible
She Is Not Invisible 3.60 avg rating — 5,684 ratings
86.
Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray 4.37 avg rating — 268,410 ratings
87.
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team 4.18 avg rating — 3,175 ratings
88.
Sherwood
Sherwood 3.71 avg rating — 5,971 ratings
89.
Goodbye Stranger
Goodbye Stranger 3.92 avg rating — 14,528 ratings
90.
The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1)
The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 133,386 ratings
91.
Love and First Sight
Love and First Sight 3.76 avg rating — 6,620 ratings
92.
Orchards
Orchards 3.76 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
93.
The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1)
The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 91,903 ratings
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Well, That Was Awkward
Well, That Was Awkward 3.91 avg rating — 3,067 ratings
95.
Flipped
Flipped really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 124,336 ratings
96.
Game Seven
Game Seven really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Loot (Loot, #1)
Loot (Loot, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 7,111 ratings
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Other Words for Home
Other Words for Home 4.41 avg rating — 33,596 ratings
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Spy Runner
Spy Runner 3.48 avg rating — 384 ratings
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White Rose
White Rose 3.96 avg rating — 5,266 ratings