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Excerpts or Sections
How many classes?
MIS
As of 1-2012
Literature by Grade Level: GRADE_5

Literature by Grade Level: Grade 8
NOTE: Do not list Open Court or Scott Foresman selections here
Please list trade books and short stories used in your grade level as part of your instruction:
School
How is the book used?
Book / Short Story Title
Author (if possible)
Whole class read
Small group / Lit. Circles
Read Aloud
Excerpts or Sections
How many classes?
As of 1-2012
Literature by Grade Level: GRADE_5
NOTE: Do not list Open Court or Scott Foresman selections here
Please list trade books and short stories used in your grade level as part of your instruction:

whole 7th
As of 1-2012
Literature by Grade Level: GRADE_5
NOTE: Do not list Open Court or Scott Foresman selections here
Please list trade books and short stories used in your grade level as part of your instruction:
School
How is the book used?
Book / Short Story Title
Author (if possible)
Whole class read
Small group / Lit. Circles
Read Aloud
Excerpts or Sections
How many classes?
As of 1-2012

X
3
McK
Among the Hidden
Haddix
X
X
2
McK
Westing Game
Raskin
X
X
X
2
As of 1-2012
Literature by Grade Level: GRADE_5

Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes
Yes/No
Yes
blue pod SSSS/green LA/SS
RAL
Soldier's Heart
Gary Paulsen
Yes
blue pod SSblue/green LA/SS
RAL
Behind Rebel Lines
Seymour Reit
Yes
green SS/LA
RAL
The Wave
Todd Strasser
Yes
green LA
RAL
The Outsiders
SE Hinton
yes
green LA
RAL
Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
yes
green LA
RAL
Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan
No
Yes
green LA
RAL
Maximum Ride
James Patterson
No
Yes
green LA/SCI
RAL
Freak the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick
No
Yes
green LA/SCI
RAL
Mockingbird
Kathryn Erskine
No
Yes
green LA/SCI
RAL
Deadly
Julie Chibbaro
No
Yes
green LA/SCI
RAL
Eleventh Plague
Jeff Hirsch
No
Yes
green LA/SCI
RAL
Code Orange
Caroline Cooney
No
Yes
green LA/SCI
RAL
Turnabout
Margaret Haddix
No
Yes
green LA/SCI
RAL
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko
No
Yes
green LA/SCI
RAL
Mango Shaped Space
Wendy Mass
No
Yes
green LA/SCI
RAL
Time Enough for Drums
Ann Rinaldi
No
Yes
green LA/SS
RAL
Secrets of Sarah Revere
Ann Rinaldi
No
Yes
green LA/SS
RAL
Fighting Ground
Avi
No
Yes
green LA/SS
RAL
Bloody Country
James Collier
No
Yes
green LA/SS
RAL
My Brother Sam Is Dead
James Collier
No
Yes
green LA/SS
RAL
Early Thunder
Jean Fritz
No
Yes
green LA/SS
RAL
George Washington's Socks
Elvira Woodruff
No
Yes
green LA/SS
RAL
Charles
Shirley Jackson
Yes
whole 7th
RAL
Examination Day
Henry Slesar
Yes
green
RAL
I Used to Live Here Once
Jean Rhys
Yes
green
RAL
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Mark Twain
Yes
whole 7th
RAL
Lady or the Tiger
Frank Stockton
Yes
green
RAL
The Lottery
Shirley Jackson
Yes
whole 7th
RAL
Monkey's Paw
WW Jacobs
Yes
whole 7th
RAL
Nothing to Worry About
Jim Bishop
Yes
green
RAL
Ransom of Red Chief
O Henry
Yes
green
RAL
Tell Tale Heart
Edgar Allan Poe
Yes
whole 7th
RAL
Diamond Necklace
Guy du Maupassant
yes
whole 7th
RAL
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving
yes
whole 7th
RAL
Those Three Wishes
Judith Gorog
yes
green
RAL
King Arthur & the Knights of the Round Table
Lancelyn Green
no
yes
green
RAL
Encounters book (short story collection)
various
no
yes
whole 7th
As of 1-2012
Literature by Grade Level: GRADE_5

Excerpts or Sections
How many classes?
RAL
Johnny Tremain
Esther Forbes
Yes
blue pod SS
RAL
Soldier's Heart
Gary Paulsen
Yes
blue pod SS
As of 1-2012
Literature by Grade Level: GRADE_5

Excerpts or Sections
How many classes?
McK
Freak, the Mighty
Rodman Philbrick
X
3
McK
Crash
Spinelli
X
3
McK
The Cay
Theodore Taylor
X
3
McK
Roll of Thunder
Mildred Taylor
X
X
X
3
McK
Swear to Howdy
Van Dranaan
X
3
As of 1-2012
Literature by Grade Level: GRADE_5