High-Interest/Lower-Level Book List for Sixth-Eighth Grade

(Compiled with help of the Scholastic Book Wizard)

Title (Author) Reading Level Interest Level
Year
Grade Grade
15 Minutes (Steve Young) 2006 3.5 6-8
100 Cupboards: Book 1 (N. D. Wilson) 2008 3.7 6-8
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Gennifer Choldenko) 2006 4.7 7-10
All The Broken Pieces (Ann Berg) 2009 5.2 6-8
Bone: Out from Boneville: Book 1 (Jeff Smith) 2005 3.6 6-8
Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare: Book 1 (Darren Shan) 2000 5.5 5-8
Crash (Jerry Spinelli) 1996 4.8 6-8
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Book 1 (Jeff Kinney) 2007 5.3 6-8
Fairy Tale Detectives: Sisters Grimm Book 1 (Michael Buckley) 2005 4.5 3-5
How I Survived Middle School: Can You Get an F in Lunch?:
2007 4.2 4-7
Book 1 (Nancy Krulik)
It’s an Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World (Paula Danziger) 2007 3.4 6-8
Lost Treasure of the Emerald Eye: Book 1 (Geronimo Stilton) 2004 3.2 4-7
MAXimum Boy Starring in Maximum Girl Unmasked: Book 5
2002 3.7 4-7
(Dan Greenburg)
Maximum Ride: Angel Experiment: Book 1 (James Patterson) 2002 4.1 6-8
Notes from the Dog (Gary Paulsen) 2009 4.7 4-7
On the Run: Chasing the Falconers: Book 1 (Gordon Korman) 2005 3.7 6-8
Public Enemy Number Two: A Diamond Brothers Mystery
2004 4.1 6-8
(Anthony Horowitz)
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief (Wendelin Van Draanen) 1998 5.9 6-8
Shipwreck: The Island Trilogy: Book 1 (Gordon Korman) 2001 4.1 3-7
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) 2001 5.4 6-8
Stand Tall (Joan Bauer) 2002 5.7 6-8
The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones: Book 1 (Rick Riordan) 2008 3.4 4-6
The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: Home is Where the Heart Is:
2006 3.0 4-7
Book 17 (Anne Mazer)
The Fire Within: Book 1 (Chris d’Lacey) 2007 4.1 5-7
The Mother-Daughter Book Club: Book 1 (Heather Vogel
2008 4.6 4-7
Frederick)
The Prince of Fenway Park (Julianna Baggott) 2009 4.2 4-7
The Secret of Robber’s Cave: Book 1 (Kristiana Gregory) 2008 3.3 3-5
The Seeing Stone: Arthur Trilogy: Book 1 (Kevin Crossley-
2002 4.1 6-8
Holland)
The Thing About Georgie (Lisa Graff) 2008 3.8 4-6
The Unfinished Angel (Sharon Creech) 2009 4.4 5-7
The Vanishings: Left Behind: The Kids: Book 1 (Jerry B. Jenkins) 2005 5.2 6-8
Three of Diamonds: A Diamond Brothers Mystery (Anthony
2005 3.3 6-8
Horowitz)
Waiting for Normal (Leslie Connor) 2008 3.3 6-8
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Grace Lin) 2009 5.5 3-5
Young Heroes: Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (Jane Yolen) 2001 5.2 6-8

E. Swaggerty 2.2011 swaggertye@ecu.edu