Middle School Literature Fifth - Eighth Grades AR Required Reading Levels* 5th Grade 4.5 and above
6th Grade 5.5 and above
7th Grade 6.0 and above
8th Grade 7.0 and above
RL Author Last Author First Title 4.1 Lathan Jean Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 4.3 Lincoln Abraham The Gettysburg Address 4.6 Paterson Katherine The Bridge to Terabithia 4.6 Warner Gertrude The Box-Car Children 4.7 L'Engle Madeleine A Wrinkle in Time 4.7 Henry Marguerite Stormy, Misty's Foal 4.7 Neville Emily It's Like This, Cat 4.7 Konigsburg E. L. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 4.7 De Jong Meindert The Wheel on the School 4.8 Rawks Wilson Summer of the Monkeys 4.8 Krumgold Joseph And Now Miguel 4.9 Lewis C.S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe 4.9 Soto Gary Neighborhood Odes 4.9 White E.B. The Trumpet of the Swan 4.9 Wilder Laura Ingalls Little House on the Prairie 4.9 Beatty Patricia Turn Homeward, Hannalee 4.9 Byars Betsy The Summer of the Swans 4.9 Cleary Beverly Dear Mr. Henshaw 4.9 Rawls Wilson Where the Red Fern Grows 5 St. Exupery Antoine The Little Prince 5 De Jong Meindert Journey from Peppermint Street 5 Eager Edward Half-Magic 5 L'Engle Madeleine A Wind in the Door 5 Eager Edward The Time Garden 5.1 Hemingway Ernest The Old Man and the Sea 5.1 Soto Gary Baseball in April and other Stories 5.1 O'Brien Robert Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 5.2 Farley Walter The Black Stallion 5.2 Lindgren Astrid Pippi Longstocking 5.2 Kehret Peg Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio 5.2 Alexander Lloyd The Black Cauldron 5.2 L'Engle Madeleine A Swiftly Tilting Planet 5.2 George Jean Craighead My Side of the Mountain