100 Books for Middle School

We are a literature-based family. I build much of our lessons around good literature. I want the children to be well versed in literature. I decided on this list because I had read them before or they came very highly recommended by friends. There are so many books and I had a hard time keeping the list down to 100.

Here is my list of books for middle school. I have not read every single one and I may not get through them all with this set of kids. However, it is a nice place to start when I am thinking about what to read to them next. Of course, I encourage them to read many of them on their own. The books in bold we have already read, and I plan to come back over the next few years and highlight the ones we complete. They are in no particular order.

1. The House on Mango Street
2. Old Yeller
3. Snow Treasure
4. Julie of the Wolves
5. The Endless Steppe
6. Stone Fox
7. Inkheart
8. Redwall
9. The Thief Lord
10. The City of Ember
11. Out of the Dust
12. Johnny Tremain
13. The Indian in the Cupboard
14. Pollyanna
15. Chains
16. Homer Price
17. Emil and The Detectives
18. Harriet the Spy
19. The Wheel on the School
20. A Long Way from Chicago
21. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
22. Tales From Shakespeare
23. Carry on Mr. Bowditch
24. Jacob I Have Loved
25. An Elephant in the Garden
26. The Pushcart Wars
27. The Voyage of Dr. Doolittle
28. Tuck Everlasting
29. To Kill a Mockingbird
30. Call It Courage
31. A Christmas Carol
32. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
33. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
34. Anne of Green Gables
35. Around the World in 80 Days
36.  Black Beauty
37. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
38. Heidi
39. The Hobbit
40. Robinson Crusoe
41. The Secret Garden
42. Mama's Bank Account
43. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
44. Cheaper by the Dozen
45. The Mysterious Benedict Society
46. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
47. Bridge to Terabithia
48. The Wednesday Wars
49. The Witch of Blackbird Pond
50. Bud, Not Budy
51. The Phantom Tollbooth
52. The Watsons Go to Birmingham
53. The Diary of a Young Girl
54. A Wrinkle in Time
55. The Harry Potter Series
56. The Giver
57. The Narnia Series
58. Mary Poppins
59. Holes
60. From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
61. Lassie Come-Home
62. The Westing Game
63. Because of Winn Dixie
64. Hatchet
65. Matilda
66. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
67. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
68. The Invention of Hugo Cabret
69. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
70. The Door in the Wall
71. Island of the Blue Dolphins
72. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
73. Little Women
74. Little Men
75. Hitty's First 100 Years
76. The Tales of Despereaux
77. All of a Kind Family
78. A Little Princess
79. Charlie in the Chocolate Factory
80. The Twenty-One Balloons
81. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
82. The Saturdays
83. Are You There God, It's Me Margaret
84. Ballet Shoes
85. My Side of the Mountain
86. The Egypt Game
87. The Four Story Mistake
88. The Witches
89. The Cricket in Times Square
90. Peter Pan
91. Pippi Longstocking
92. The Little Prince
93. Fever 1793
94. Elijah of Buxton
95. Sounder
96. Dead End in Norvelt
97. The Swiss Family Robinson
98. Doll Bones
99. The First Four Years
100. Alice in Wonderland

Do you have a "must read" that I have missed for 5th through 8th grade? If so, please list it in the comments.

Blessings, Dawn