Recommended Reading for Middle School Leaders

Study Skill 14.1 Recommended Reading for Middle School Leaders

When your middle school students ask for book recommendations, you don't waste anytime getting back to them. After an inspiring visit with a group of Mizzou Global Scholars, Brian Stuhlman, our Middle School Coordinator, and Kathryn Fishman-Weaver, our Interim Executive Director, sat down to share some of their favorite reads for middle school leaders. We can't wait to hear what our middle grade scholars think of these titles and also what books they might add to our list.

Title	Author	Mizzou Global Scholars Themes	A Brian Fave	A Kathryn Fave
Nothing But the Truth	Avi		X
Ender’s Game	Orson Scott Card		X
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie		X
Zlata’s Diary	Zlata Filipovic		X
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	X	X	X
Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People	Nikki Giovanni	X		X
The Outsiders	S.E. Hinton		X
Inside Out and Back Again	Thanhhà Lai	X		X
The View from Saturday	E.L. Konigsburg		X
A Wrinkle in Time	Madeleine L'Engle	X		X
The Giver	Lois Lowry			X
A Mango Shaped Space	Wendy Mass		X
Wonder	R.J. Palacio	X	X
Hatchet	Gary Paulsen		X
A Long Way from Chicago	Richard Peck		X
The Last Book in the Universe	Rodman Philbrick	X	X
With the Might of Angels	Andrea Davis Pinkney	X		X
Various mythology series	Rick Riordan		X
Esperanza Rising	Pam Muñoz Ryan	X
The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry		X	X
Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition	Margot Lee Shetterly	X		X
Stargirl	Jerry Spinelli	X
The Wave	Todd Strasser	X	X
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Mildred Taylor	X	X
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World *Note: Preview ahead of time. A couple chapters mention violence that will need to be processed compassionately with younger readers.	Malala Yousafzai	X		X