Lit Circle Themes Middle School (Grades 6-9) Exploitation & Child Labor Boys without Names – Kashmira Sheth Bitter Chocolate – Sally Grindley I am a Taxi – Deborah Ellis Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster – Jonathan Auxier Iqbal – Francesco D’Adamo The Bitter Side of Sweet – Tara Sullivan Lost Riders- Elizabeth Laird Poverty & Homelessness Crenshaw – Katherine Applegate Homecoming – Cynthia Voigt The Seventh Most Important Thing – Shelley Pearsall The Bridge Home – Padma Venkatraman The Hundred Dresses – Eleanor Estes Death By Toilet Paper – Donna Gephart Paper Things – Jennifer Richard Jacobson The Garbage King – Elizabeth Laird Refugee Crisis & Immigration Refugee – Alan Gratz A Long Walk to Water – Linda Sue Park Walking Home – Eric Walters The Only Road – Alexander Diaz Shooting Kabul – N.H. Senzai Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees – Mary Beth Leatherdale The Red Pencil – Andrea Davis Pinkney Immigration Experience Inside Out and Back Again – Thanhha Lai It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel! – Firoozeh Dumas The Turtle of Oman – Naomi Shihab Front Desk – Kelly Yang Drita, My Homegirl – Jenny Lombard The Wish Tree – Katherine Applegate Chloe in India – Kate Darnton Children in War I am David – Anne Holm Number the Stars – Lois Lowry The Breadwinner – Deborah Ellis The Boy at the Top of the Mountain – John Boyne The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne The War that Saved My Life – Kimberly Brubaker Bradley The Devil’s Arithmetic – Jane Yolen Making Bombs for Hitler – Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch Oranges in No Man’s Land – Elizabeth Laird Segregation & Racism Iggie’s House – Judy Blume Stella by Starlight – Sharon M. Draper Ninth Ward – Jewell Parker Rhodes Full Cicada Moon – Marilyn Hilton Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson The Wish Tree – Katherine Applegate Maniac Magee – Jerry Spinelli Sylvia & Aki – Winifred Conkling LBGTQ & Gender Identity George – Alex Gino Girl Mans Up – M. E. Girard (for 13 and up) Gracefully Grayson – Ami Polonsky My Life as A Diamond – Jenny Manzer The Boy in the Dress – David Walliams Better Nate Than Ever – Tim Federle Lily and Dunkin – Donna Gephart The Stars Beneath Our Feet – David Barclay Moore Diversity, Inclusion & Overcoming Adversity Out of My Mind – Sharon M. Draper A Boy Called Bat – Elana K. Arnold Rules – Cynthia Lord El Deafo – Cece Bell Stargirl – Jerry Spinelli Fish in a Tree – Lynda Mullaly Hunt Wonder – R.J. Palacio Jane, the Fox and Me – Fanny Britt A Mango-Shaped Space – Wendy Mass Save Me a Seat – Sarah Weeks Counting By 7’s – Holly Goldberg Sloan Paperboy – Vince Vawter Truth & Reconciliation Wenjack – Joseph Boyden Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience – Monique Gray Smith My Name is Seepeetza – Shirley Sterling Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation – Monique Gray Smith A Stranger at Home: A True Story – Christy Jordan-Fenton Fatty Legs – Christy Jordan Fenton Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story – David Alexander Robertson Read more articles Previous PostIt’s Monday! What Are You Reading? 2018 Top Summer Picks for 9-12 yr olds (part 2) Next PostLit Circle Themes Grades 3 – 6
