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CA Reading List for Middle Schools

California Reading List

Title

Author

Reading List #

Grade Level

Beauty of the Beast: Poems from the Animal Kingdom

Prelutsky, Jack

NP

Upper Elementary (3-5),
Middle School (6-8)

Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life

Hopkins, Lee Bennett

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Black Is Brown Is Tan

Adoff, Arnold

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Canterbury Tales, The

Chaucer, Geoffrey; Hastings, Selina (adapter)

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888

Thayer, Ernest L.

NP

Upper Elementary (3-5),
Middle School (6-8)

Celebrating America: A Collection of Poems and Images of the American Spirit

Whipple, Laura (compiler)

NP

Upper Elementary (3-5),
Middle School (6-8)

Dream Keeper and Other Poems, The

Hughes, Langston

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Falling Up

Silverstein, Shel

NP

Middle School (6-8),
Primary (K-2),
Upper Elementary (3-5)

Grassroots: Poems by Carl Sandburg

Sandburg, Carl

NP

Middle School (6-8),
Upper Elementary (3-5)

Great Frog Race and Other Poems, The

George, Kristine O'Connell

NP

Upper Elementary (3-5),
Middle School (6-8),
Primary (K-2)

Hailstones and Halibut Bones

O'Neill, Mary

NP

Upper Elementary (3-5),
Middle School (6-8)

Heartland

Siebert, Diane

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems

Greenfield, Eloise

NP

Middle School (6-8),
Upper Elementary (3-5),
Primary (K-2)

I Am Wings: Poems About Love

Fletcher, Ralph

NP

Middle School (6-8)

I See the Rhythm

Igus, Toyomi

NP

Middle School (6-8)

If

Perry, Sarah

1

Upper Elementary (3-5),
Primary (K-2),
Middle School (6-8)

If You're Not from the Prairie

Bouchard, David

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Insectlopedia: Poems and Paintings

Florian, Douglas

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Jar of Tiny Stars: Poems by NCTE Award-Winning Poets, A

Cullininan, Bernice E.

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, A

Fleischman, Paul

NP

High School (9-12),
Middle School (6-8),
Upper Elementary (3-5)

Knock at a Star: A Child's Introduction to Poetry

Kennedy, X. J.; Kennedy, Dorothy

NP

Upper Elementary (3-5),
Middle School (6-8)

Light in the Attic, A

Silverstein, Shel

NP

Upper Elementary (3-5),
Middle School (6-8),
Primary (K-2)

Lives: Poems About Famous Americans

Hopkins, Lee Bennett (selector)

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Maples in the Mist: Children's Poems from the Tang Dynasty

Ho, Minfong

NP

Primary (K-2),
Upper Elementary (3-5),
Middle School (6-8)

Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo

Feelings, Tom

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Mind's Eye

Fleischman, Paul

NP

Middle School (6-8),
High School (9-12)

Mojave

Siebert, Diane

NP

Middle School (6-8)

Neighborhood Odes

Soto, Gary

NP

Middle School (6-8)