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Grades 6-8

128 stories that start in grades 6-8.

Short stories

62 titles · One sitting, one story.
A Martian Odyssey Stanley G. Weinbaum Grades 7-10short story A Pail of Air Fritz Leiber Grades 6-9short story A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs Grades 7-10short story A Retrieved Reformation O. Henry Grades 7-10short story A Scandal in Bohemia Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story The Adventure of the Copper Beeches Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 7-10short story The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 7-10short story The Adventure of the Speckled Band Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story After Twenty Years O. Henry Grades 6-9short story Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne Grades 6-9short story Beyond Lies the Wub Philip K. Dick Grades 7-10short story The Big Trip Up Yonder Kurt Vonnegut Grades 8-12short story The Cabuliwallah Rabindranath Tagore Grades 6-10short story The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Grades 8-11short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain Grades 7-10short story The Cop and the Anthem O. Henry Grades 8-11short story The Cosmic Express Jack Williamson Grades 7-10short story The Crystal Crypt Philip K. Dick Grades 8-11short story Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster Grades 6-9short story The Dark Frigate Charles Boardman Hawes Grades 6-9short story The Defenders Philip K. Dick Grades 8-11short story The Doll's House Katherine Mansfield Grades 7-10short story The Eyes Have It Philip K. Dick Grades 6-9short story The Final Problem Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 7-10short story The Gift of the Magi O. Henry Grades 6-10short story The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story The Interlopers Saki Grades 8-11short story The Invisible Man H. G. Wells Grades 7-10short story The Last Leaf O. Henry Grades 7-10short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving Grades 6-9short story Little Fuzzy H. Beam Piper Grades 6-10short story The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story The Masque of the Red Death Edgar Allan Poe Grades 8-11short story The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Grades 7-10short story The Most Dangerous Game Richard Connell Grades 8-11short story The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie Grades 8-12short story The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie Grades 8-12short story The Musgrave Ritual Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 7-10short story The Mysterious Affair at Styles Agatha Christie Grades 7-10short story The Necklace Guy de Maupassant Grades 8-11short story The Open Window Saki Grades 7-10short story Partners in Crime (selected stories) Agatha Christie Grades 7-10short story Piper in the Woods Philip K. Dick Grades 8-11short story Poirot Investigates (selected stories) Agatha Christie Grades 7-10short story Printcrime Cory Doctorow Grades 8-12short story The Ransom of Red Chief O. Henry Grades 6-9short story The Red-Headed League Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story Rocket Summer Ray Bradbury Grades 6-9short story The Runaway Skyscraper Murray Leinster Grades 6-9short story The Sargasso of Space Edmond Hamilton Grades 7-10short story Silver Blaze Arthur Conan Doyle Grades 6-9short story The Stainless Steel Rat Harry Harrison Grades 8-12short story The Story-Teller Saki Grades 6-9short story The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe Grades 8-11short story To Build a Fire Jack London Grades 8-11short story Tony and the Beetles Philip K. Dick Grades 8-12short story Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne Grades 6-9short story Vanka Anton Chekhov Grades 6-9short story Year of the Big Thaw Marion Zimmer Bradley Grades 6-9short story Youth Isaac Asimov Grades 6-9short story Zero Hour Ray Bradbury Grades 6-9short story

Poems

27 titles · Read them out loud. Then read them again.
A Dream Within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe Grades 8-12poem A narrow fellow in the grass Emily Dickinson Grades 6-12poem Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe Grades 7-12poem The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver Edna St. Vincent Millay Grades 7-12poem Barter Sara Teasdale Grades 6-12poem Caroling Dusk: Harlem Renaissance poems (selected) Countee Cullen (editor) Grades 8-12poem The Creation James Weldon Johnson Grades 6-12poem Dream Variations Langston Hughes Grades 6-12poem Fire and Ice Robert Frost Grades 7-12poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth Grades 6-12poem I, Too Langston Hughes Grades 6-12poem Incident Countee Cullen Grades 8-12poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree W. B. Yeats Grades 7-12poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes Grades 7-12poem Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost Grades 6-12poem O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman Grades 6-12poem Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley Grades 8-12poem The Raven Edgar Allan Poe Grades 7-12poem The Road Not Taken Robert Frost Grades 7-12poem Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare Grades 8-12poem The Stolen Child W. B. Yeats Grades 7-12poem Success is counted sweetest Emily Dickinson Grades 8-12poem Sympathy Paul Laurence Dunbar Grades 8-12poem There Will Come Soft Rains Sara Teasdale Grades 6-12poem The Tiger William Blake Grades 6-12poem We Wear the Mask Paul Laurence Dunbar Grades 8-12poem When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Walt Whitman Grades 7-12poem

Myths, fables and folk tales

1 titles · Stories people told long before anyone wrote them down.
The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde Grades 6-9fairy tale

Chapter books and novels

31 titles · Longer reads, chapter by chapter.
At the Earth's Core Edgar Rice Burroughs Grades 6-9chapter set The Big Four Agatha Christie Grades 8-12chapter set The Call of the Wild Jack London Grades 6-9chapter book Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini Grades 8-12chapter set Key Out of Time Andre Norton Grades 6-9chapter set Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson Grades 6-9chapter set The Land That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs Grades 7-10chapter set Little Women Louisa May Alcott Grades 6-9chapter book Lone Star Planet H. Beam Piper Grades 8-11chapter set The Man in the Brown Suit Agatha Christie Grades 8-12chapter set The Mark of Zorro Johnston McCulley Grades 6-9chapter set The Mysterious Island Jules Verne Grades 6-9chapter set The Mystery of the Blue Train Agatha Christie Grades 8-12chapter set Plague Ship Andre Norton Grades 6-9chapter set The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy Grades 8-12chapter set The Secret Adversary Agatha Christie Grades 7-10chapter set The Seven Dials Mystery Agatha Christie Grades 8-12chapter set The Skylark of Space E. E. Smith Grades 8-11chapter set Space Prison Tom Godwin Grades 8-11chapter set Space Tug Murray Leinster Grades 6-9chapter set Star Born Andre Norton Grades 6-9chapter set Star Hunter Andre Norton Grades 7-10chapter set Star Surgeon Alan E. Nourse Grades 7-10chapter set Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg Grades 6-9chapter set Storm Over Warlock Andre Norton Grades 6-9chapter set The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan Grades 8-12chapter set The Time Machine H. G. Wells Grades 8-11chapter book The Time Traders Andre Norton Grades 6-9chapter set Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Grades 6-9chapter book Triplanetary E. E. Smith Grades 8-11chapter set The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells Grades 8-11chapter book

Plays

3 titles · Parts for the whole class.
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare Grades 7-12play Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Grades 8-12play Twelfth Night William Shakespeare Grades 8-12play

True stories

4 titles · Memoir, essays and real lives.
Impressions of an Indian Childhood Zitkala-Sa Grades 6-10memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Grades 8-12memoir The School Days of an Indian Girl Zitkala-Sa Grades 6-10memoir Up from Slavery Booker T. Washington Grades 8-12memoir