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Hall Summer 2001 Reading Lists
What do you want to read today?
Adventure |
Fantasy | Historical Fiction
| Mysteries |
REALISTIC FICTION | Nonfiction/Biography
RECOMMENDED REALISTIC
& CONTEMPORARY FICTION
These are the stories of today kids of
all ages, having fun, facing challenges, getting along with their friends
and families.
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AUTHOR
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TITLE
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Abelove, Joan
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Saying It Out Loud
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Avi
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Blue Heron
Nothing But the Truth
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Banks, Lynne Reid
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Angela and Diabola
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Bauer, Joan
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Hope Was Here
Thwonk
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Block, Francesca
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Weetzie Bat
I Was a Teenage Fairy
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Bloor, Edward
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Tangerine
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Blume, Judy
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Just as Long as Were Together
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Brooks, Bruce
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The Moves Make the Man
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Byars, Betsy
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Burning Questions of Bingo Brown (series)
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Cabot, Meg
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The Princess Diaries
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Cameron, Ann
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The Secret Life of Amanda K. Woods
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Christopher, Matt
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Dirt Bike Racer
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Coman, Carolyn
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Tell Me Everything
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Conly, Jane Leslie
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Crazy Lady
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Cooney, Caroline
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Flight #116 is Down
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Cormier, Robert
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The Chocolate War
We All Fall Down
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Couloumbis, Audrey
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Getting Near to Baby
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Creech, Sharon
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Absolutely Normal Chaos
The Wanderer
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Crew, Linda
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Children of the River
Long Time Passing
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Crutcher, Chris
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Stotan
Ironman
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Danziger, Paula
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P.S. Longer Letter Later
Snail Mail No More
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DeClements, Barthe
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Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You
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DiCamillo, Kate
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Because of Winn-Dixie
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Drannen, Wendelin Van
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How I Survived Being a Girl
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Draper, Sharon
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Forged by Fire
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Deuker, Carl
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On the Devils Court
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Fenner, Carol
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Yolandas Genius
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Fleischman, Paul
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Whirligig
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Frank, Lucy
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I am an Artichoke
Oy, Joy!
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Freymann-Weyr, Garret
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When I was Older
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Gantos, Jack
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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Joey Pigza Loses Control
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Garden, Nancy
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Hollys Secret
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Griffin, Adele
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The Other Shepards
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Hahn, Mary Downing
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Daphnes Book
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Hautzig, Deborah
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Second Star to the Right
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Henkes, Kevin
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The Birthday Room
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Hinton, S.E.
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The Outsiders
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Holm, Jennifer
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Our Only May Amelia
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Holt, Kimberly
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My Louisiana Sky
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
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Johnson, Angela
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Heaven
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Jukes, Mavis
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Cinderella 2000
Expecting the Unexpected
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Kerr, M.E.
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Fell
What Became of Her
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Klass, David
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You Dont Know Me
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Konigsburg, E.L.
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The View from Saturday
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Koss, Amy Goldman
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The Girls
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Knowles, John
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A Separate Peace
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Levine, Gail Carson
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The Wish
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Lipsyte, Robert
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The Contender
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Lowry, Lois
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Anastasia on Her Own (series)
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Lynch, Chris
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Iceman
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Mazer, Harry
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The War on Villa Street
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Mazer, Norma Fox
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Silver
After the Rain
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McKay, Hilary
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The Exiles
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Myers, Walter Dean
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Scorpions
SLAM
Monster
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Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
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The Grooming of Alice (series)
Ice
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Nolan, Han
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Dancing on the Edge
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Osborne, Mary Pope
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Run, Run, Run as Fast as You Can
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Park, Barbara
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Beanpole
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Paterson, Katherine
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Bridge to Terabithia
The Great Gilly Hopkins
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Paulsen, Gary
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Car
The Beet Fields
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Peck, Richard
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A Year Down Yonder
Princess Ashley
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Perl, Lila
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The Secret Diary of Katie Dinkerhoff
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Pevsner, Stella
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Sister of the Quints
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Pfeffer, Susan Beth
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Make Believe
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Philbrick, Rodman
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Freak the Mighty
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Rennison, Louise
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Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
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Roberts, Willo Davis
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Dont Hurt Laurie
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Ross, Adrienne
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In the Quiet
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Sachar, Louis
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The Boy in the Girls Bathroom
Holes
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Shalant, Phyllis
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The Transformation of Faith Futterman
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Slote, Alfred
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Finding Buck McHenry
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Snyder, Zilpha Keatley
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The Witches of Worm
The Runaways
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Soto, Gary
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Taking Sides
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Spinelli, Jerry
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Space-Station Seventh Grade
Wringer
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Strasser, Todd
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Give a Boy a Gun
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Tashjian, Janet
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True Confessions
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Voigt, Cynthia
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Homecoming (series)
Its Not Easy Being Bad
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Weeks, Sarah
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Regular Guy
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Weston, Carol
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The Diary of Melanie Martin
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White, Ruth
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Memories of Summer
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Wolff, Virginia Euwer
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Bat 6
Make Lemonade
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Woodson, Jacqueline
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I Hadnt Meant to Tell You This
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Zindel, Paul
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The Pigman
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Other recommended titles:
Adventure |
Fantasy | Historical Fiction
| Mysteries |
REALISTIC FICTION | Nonfiction/Biography
| other reading lists
updated
16-Jan-2005
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