Reading List for Catholic Middle School Students Honors List

Read three (3) books from each category.

Updated December 16, 2003

Faith

Bill Peet: An Autobiography by Bill Peet

A Night to Remember by Walter Lord

No Places To Be: Voices of Homeless Children by Judith Berck

Hope

Julie by Jean Craighead George

Land of Hope by Joan Lowery Nixon

Last Summer with Maizon by Jacqueline Woodson

Mama, Let’s Dance by Patricia Hermes

The Yearling by Marjorie Kennan Rawlings

Love

After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazur

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voight

Going Home by Nicholas Mohr

I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Midnight Hour Encores by Bruce Brooks

Randall’s Wall by Carol Fenner

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

Community

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank Gilbreth, Jr. & Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Indian Chiefs by Russell Freedman

Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred P. Walter

S. O. R. Losers by Avi

The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg

Justice

Caleb’s Choice by G. Clifton Wisler

Just Like Martin by Ossie Davis

The Land by Mildred D. Taylor

Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

Nothing but the Truth by Avi

The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo

The Star Fisher by Lawrence Yep

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen

Courage

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

The Boy’s War by Jim Murphy

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

Flight #116 Is Down by Caroline B. Cooney

Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples

The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles

Reconciliation

Blue Heron by Avi

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins

Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn

Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo by Zlata Filipovic

Service

All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot

Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

Christy by Catherine Marshall

Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman

Native American Doctor by Jeri Ferris