Here are some additional books that cluster around topics for this age group.
Golden Age Girls book group
(plus one)--Pollyanna,
Anne of Green Gables, A Little Princess, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Roald Dahl book group--Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Witches, James and the Giant Peach, Danny the
Champion of the World
Memorable Children book group--M.C. Higgins
the Great, Pippi Longstocking, Maniac Magee, Stargirl, Harriet the Spy
Survival/Wilderness Stories book
group--A
Girl Named Disaster, My Side of the Mountain, Hatchet, Julie of the Wolves,
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Nonfiction: Close
to Shore, An American Plague, Kids on Strike, Made You Look, Black
Potatoes
Animal Stories--Old
Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Music of Dolphins, The Black
Stallion, Because of Winn-Dixie
Race Relations--The Watsons Go
to Birmingham 1963: A Novel, Bat 6, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry,
Dragonwings, Walk Two Moons
Historical Fiction: War--The Devil's
Arithmetic, Number the Stars, My Brother Sam is Dead, Milkweed, Johnny Tremain
American History--Out
of the Dust, Fever 1793, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, The Witch of
Blackbird Pond, Sacajawea
Historical Fiction: Medieval:
Catherine
Called Birdy, The Midwife's Apprentice, The Ramsay Scallop, Matilda Bone,
The Door in the Wall
Fantasy--The Ear,
The Eye, and the Arm, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, The
Book of Three, Ella Enchanted, The Golden Compass
Speculative Fiction:The
Giver, A Wrinkle in Time, Tom's Midnight Garden, Tuck Everlasting,
Children of Green Knowe