Heartland Middle School Required Reading

Help support the Heartland Middle School library by purchasing your required reading books from Best of Books! Please mention Heartland Middle School in the order comments. These purchases are nonrefundable as they are a fundraiser for the library, but a store credit may be issued for a return if the book is removed from the reading list. 

6th Grade English

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

6th Grade Literacy

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau

The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

7th Grade English 

The Giver by Lois Lowry  

7th Grade Literacy 

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelson

7th grade students may choose one of the following three novels to read during the 2nd nine weeks in Literacy.

CHOICE OF:

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes,

Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson,

OR Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

8th Grade English

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson 

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank