Northside Independent School District - San Antonio, TX
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*Required for Reading Department
Note: Reading teachers are required to teach one novel from the Academic Standards Grade-level List. Likewise, English teachers are also required to teach one novel from the Academic Standards Grade-level List. Middle school students will receive direct teacher instruction in novel study by reading and discussing at least two required novels from the above Academic Standards Grade-level List per year.
| Author | Title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Adams | Watership Down | Recommended for 8th Academic Standards |
| Alcott | Little Men | |
| Alcott | Little Women | |
| Alcott | Eight Cousins | |
| Alvarez | T. Rex and the Crater of Doom | Recommended for Science Connection |
| Ames | Anna to the Infinite Power | |
| Archer | A House Divided | |
| Armor | Farewell to Manzanar | |
| Arrick | Chernowitz | |
| Avi | Something Upstairs | |
| Avi | The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle | |
| Avi | The Fighting Ground | |
| Avi | Nothing but the Truth | Recommended for 8th Academic Standards |
| Babbitt | Tuck Everlasting | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| Bauer | On My Honor | |
| Baum | The Wizard of Oz | |
| Beatty | Lupita Manana | 6th grade |
| Beatty | Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee | |
| Bertrand | Trino's Choice | |
| Bradbury | Dandelion Wine | |
| Bradbury | The Martian Chronicles | |
| Bradbury | Something Wicked This Way Comes | |
| Bunting | Someone Is Hiding on Alcatraz Island | |
| Burnett | Secret Garden | |
| Byars | The Pinballs | |
| Calvert | Bigger | |
| Carter | I'd Tell You I Love You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You | Small group study, 6th-8th |
| Chima | The Warrior Heir | |
| Christie | Murder on the Orient Express | |
| Clare | City of Bones | |
| Cleaver | Where the Lilies Bloom | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| Coerr | Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes | |
| Collier | My Brother Sam Is Dead | |
| Collier | With Every Drop of Blood | English only |
| Collins | Catching Fire | Small group instruction, 7-8 |
| Collins | The Hunger Games | |
| Collins | Mockingjay | Small group instruction, 8 |
| Colum | The Children's Homer: Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy | |
| Condi | Matched | |
| Conrad | My Daniel | |
| Cooney | The Face on the Milk Carton | |
| Cormier | Tunes for Bears to Dance to | |
| Creech | Walk Two Moons | |
| Curtis | Bud, Not Buddy | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| Curtis | Watsons Go to Birmingham | |
| Daly | Seventeenth Summer | |
| Dashner | The Maze Runner | Small group instruction, 7th and 8th |
| DeFelice | Weasel | |
| DeFoe | Robinson Crusoe | |
| Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Donnelly | A Northern Light | Small group instruction for 8th |
| Draper | Romiette and Julio | Small group instruction only |
| Duncan | Stranger with My Face | |
| Duncan | Down a Dark Hall | |
| DuPrau | City of Ember | |
| Edwards | Stand and Deliver (anthology 8th) | |
| Early | Jim the Boy | Small group instruction only |
| Evslin | The Trojan War | |
| Fast | April Morning | |
| Flake | The Skin I'm In | Small group instruction only |
| Fleischman | Seedfolks | |
| Finn | Beastly | Small group instruction, 8th |
| Forbes | Johnny Tremain | |
| Fox | Monkey Island | |
| Frank | Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl | Required for 8th Academic Standards in English |
| Gaines | A Gathering of Old Men | |
| Garland | Line in the Sand | |
| George | Julie of the Wolves | |
| Gipson | Savage Sam | |
| Goldman | The Princess Bride | Whole class, 7th and 8th |
| Greene | Summer of My German Soldier | |
| Griffin | The Switching Well | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Gurasich | Letters to Oma | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Haddix | Among the Hidden | |
| Haddix | Running Out of Time | |
| Hahn | Stepping on the Cracks | |
| Hahn | Wait Till Helen Comes | |
| Hale | Dark Water Rising | Small group instruction, 7th |
| Halmam | Taylor Five | |
| Halvorson | Cowboys Don't Cry | |
| Hamilton | The House of Dies Drear | |
| Han | Shug | Small group instruction, 7th and 8th |
| Hesse | Out of the Dust | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| Heyerdahl | Kon Tiki | |
| Hinton | That Was Then, This Is Now | |
| Hinton | The Outsiders | Recommended for 8th Academic Standards |
| Hinton | Tex | Small group instruction, 8th |
| Ho | Clay Marble | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Hobbs | Beardance | |
| Hobbs | Bearstone | |
| Hobbs | Changes in Latitudes | |
| Hobbs | Kokopelli's Flute | |
| Hobbs | The Maze | |
| Hobbs | Downriver | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Hobbs | River Thunder | |
| Holm | I Am David | |
| Holt | My Louisiana Sky | |
| Holt | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | |
| Hunt | Across Five Aprils | Recommended for 8th Academic Standards |
| Hunt | The Lottery Rose | |
| Ingold | Pictures, 1918 | |
| Johnson | Heaven | Small group instruction only |
| Jones | The Acorn People | |
| Juster | The Phantom Tollbooth | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| King | I Have a Dream | |
| Kipling | The Jungle Book | |
| Korman | No More Dead Dogs | Small group instruction only |
| Korman | Schooled | |
| LeGuin | A Wizard of Earthsea | |
| L'Engle | A Wrinkle in Time | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Lewis | The Chronicles of Narnia | |
| Lewis | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | |
| Lewis | The Magician's Nephew | |
| Lewis | The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | |
| Lipsyte | The Contender | |
| London | Call of the Wild | Recommended for 8th Academic Standards |
| London | White Fang | |
| Lord | A Night to Remember | |
| Lord | Rules | |
| Lowry | Gathering Blue | |
| Lowry | The Giver | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Lowry | Messenger | Small group instruction, 7th |
| Mah | Chinese Cinderella | |
| Mass | Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life | |
| Matas | Daniel's Story | |
| McGraw | The Golden Goblet | |
| Mikaelsen | Touching Spirit Bear | Required for 8th graders in Reading |
| Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | |
| Meyer | Twilight | Small group instruction only |
| Myers | The Glory Field | Recommend for 8th Academic Standards |
| Naylor | Shiloh Season | |
| Nixon | Search for the Shadowman | |
| Nixon | The Weekend Was Murder | |
| Nye | Habibi | Recommended for 8th Academic Standards |
| O'Brien | Z for Zachariah | |
| Paolini | Eragon | |
| Park, Linda Sue | A Single Shard | Required for 6th graders in Reading |
| Paterson | Bridge to Terabithia | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| Paterson | Lyddie | |
| Paterson | Jacob Have I Loved | |
| Patterson | Maximum Ride: Angel Experiment | |
| Paulsen | The Crossing | |
| Paulsen | Guts | Small group instruction for 6th |
| Paulsen | Nightjohn | |
| Paulsen | The River | |
| Paulsen | Woodsong | |
| Peck | Long Way from Chicago | |
| Perkins | Criss Cross | Recommended for 8th Academic Standards |
| Peters | Define Normal | |
| Philbrick | Freak, the Mighty | |
| Pierson | The Adoration of Jenna Fox | |
| Raskin | The Westing Game | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| Rawls | Where the Red Fern Grows | |
| Reeder | Shades of Gray | |
| Reiss | The Upstairs Room | |
| Richter | The Light in the Forest | |
| Richter | Friedrich | |
| Rinaldi | Wolf by the Ears | |
| Riordan, Rick | Lightning Thief | Required for 7th graders in Reading |
| Riordan, Rick | Sea of Monsters | Small group, 7th and 8th |
| Rock | A House Without a Christmas Tree | |
| Sachar | Holes | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Saroyan | The Human Comedy | |
| Schaefer | Shane | |
| Sebestyen | Words by Heart | |
| Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | |
| Shefelman | A Paradise Called Texas | |
| Shusterman | The Schwa Was Here | |
| Snyder | The Egypt Game | Small group instruction, 6th |
| Sonnenblick | Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie | |
| Sonnenblick | Notes From a Midnight Driver | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Sonnenblick | Zen and the Art of Faking It | |
| Sorensen | Miracles on Maple Street | |
| Soto | Living up the Street | |
| Soto | Neighborhood Odes | |
| Soto | Taking Sides | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| Soto | Pool Party | |
| Soto | The Skirt | |
| Speare | The Witch of Blackbird Pond | Recommended for 8th Academic Standards |
| Spinelli | Crash | Small group instruction only |
| Spinelli | Maniac Magee | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards in Reading |
| Spinelli | Stargirl | |
| Steinbeck | The Red Pony | |
| Stevenson | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Whole class, 8th |
| Stevenson | Kidnapped | |
| Stevenson | Treasure Island | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Swanson | Chasing Lincoln's Killer | Whole class instruction, 7th and 8th |
| Taylor | The Cay | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| Taylor | Let the Circle Be Unbroken | |
| Taylor | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| Taylor | Trouble with Tuck | |
| Taylor | The Weirdo | Recommended for 8th Academic Standards |
| Tolkien | The Hobbit | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Turner | The Thief | Small group instruction only |
| Twain | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Twain | The Prince and the Pauper | |
| Ursu | The Shadow Thieves | |
| Verne | Around the World in Eighty Days | |
| Voigt | The Callender Papers | |
| Voigt | Dicey's Song | Recommended for 6th Academic Standards |
| Voigt | The Homecoming | Recommended for 7th Academic Standards |
| Voigt | Izzy, Willy-Nilly | |
| Voigt | Jackaroo | |
| Voigt | The Runner | |
| Voigt | A Solitary Blue | |
| Wells | The War of the Worlds | Small group instruction, 8th |
| Whelan | Homeless Bird | |
| Whitney | The Other Half of Life | |
| Wisler | All for Texas | |
| Yolen | The Devil's Arithmetic |