Seaford Middle School Library
Available Common Core Books
Got Text Complexity?Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-8
TitleAuthorStatus
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to DreamTanya Lee StoneHave
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia EarhartCandace FlemingHave
Comic Book Century: The History of American Comic BooksStephen KrenskyCan’t order now
The Frog Scientist Pamela S. Turner& Andy CominsHave
George Washington, Spymaster: How the Americans OutspiedThomas B. AllenHave
the British and Won the Revolutionary War
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till CaseChris CroweHave
How to Survive in AntarticaLucy Jane BledsoeHave
M.L.K.: The Journey of a KingTonya BoldenHave
SmileRainaTelgermeierHave
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the MoonCatherine ThimmeshHave
The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron CurtainPeter SisOn order
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League BaseballKadir NelsonHave
ELA & Literacy Text Exemplars fromthe Common Core Appendix B for Grades 6-8
TitleAuthorStatus
The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark TwainHave
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young GirlAnne FrankHave
Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the IliadRosemary Sutcliff & Alan LeeHave
The Book of Questions Pablo NerudaHave
Cathedral: The Story of Its ConstructionDavid MacaulayHave
Chicago PoemsCarl SandburgOn order
The ConstitutionPaul FinkelmanOn order
The Dark is RisingSusan CooperHave
DragonwingsLaurence YepHave
ElevenPatricia Reilly GiffHave
The Evolution of Useful ThingsHenry PetroskiHave
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus BoycottRussell FeedmanHave
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of IdahoJon KatzHave
The Great FireJim MurphyHave
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground RailroadAnn PetryHave
I, Too, Sing AmericaLangston HughesHave
JabberwockyLewis Carroll StephaneJorischHave
Leaves of GrassWalt WhitmanHave
Little WomenLouisa May AlcottHave
& Deanna McFadden
Math Trek: Adventures in the Math ZoneIvars Peterson & Nancy HendersonHave
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveFrederick DouglassHave
A Night to RememaberWalter Lord & Nathaniel PhilbrickHave
The Number Devil: A Mathematical AdventureHans MagnusEnzensbergerHave
Rotraut Susanne Berner
OrangesJohn McPheeOn order
Paul Revere’s RideHenry Wadsworth LongfellowHave
& Ted Rand
The People Could Fly: American Black FolktalesVirginia Hamilton, LeoDillonHave
& Diane Dillon
The Road Not TakenRobert FrostHave
Roll of Thunder, Hear My CryMildred D. TaylorHave
Short Walk around the Pyramids & Through the World of ArtPhilip M. IsaacsonNot Available/Later
The Tale of the Mandarin DucksKatherine Paterson Have
& Leo Dillon
This Land Was Made for You and Me: Elizabeth PartridgeHave
The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie
Travels with Charley in Search of AmericaJohn SteinbeckHave
Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an ArtistJan Greenberg & Sandra JordanOn order
The Words We Live by: Your Annotated Guide to the ConstitutionLinda R. MonkHave
A Wrinkle in TimeMadeleine L’EngleHave
Earth & Space Science Books for Grades 6-12
TitleAuthorStatus
Are We Alone?: Scientists Search for Life in SpaceGloria SkurzynskiHave
Bodies form the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the PastJames M. Deem Have
CosmicFrank Cottrell BoyceHave
Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster andRichard FarrHave
Survival in the Antarctic 1910-13
Every Soul a StarWendy MassHave
How to Survive in AntarcticaLucy Jane BledsoeHave
Life as We Knew ItSusan Beth PfefferHave
Life on Earth: And Beyond: An Astrobiologist’sQuestPamela S. TurnerHave
The Mysterious Universe: Supernovae, Dark Energy, and Black HolesEllen Jackson & Nic BishopHave
Ninth WardJewell Parker RhodesHave
Ship BreakerPaolo BacigalupiHave
SiberiaAnnHalamOn order
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean MotionLoree Griffin BurnsHave
Race & Identity: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12
TitleAuthorStatus
The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, M. T. AndersonNot Available/Later
Traitor to the Nation: Volume One, The Pox Party
Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American FamilyShannon Lanier & Jane FeldmanNot Available/Later
The Other Half of My HeartSundee T. FrazierHave
What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young PeoplePearl Fuyo GaskinsOut of Print
Women’s Rights: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12
TitleAuthorStatus
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to DreamTanya Lee StoneHave
Crossing StonesHelen FrostHave
FlygirlSherri L. SmithHave
A Northern LightJennifer DonnellyHave
With Courage and Cloth: Ann BausumHave Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote
Physical Science/Engineering & TechnologyBooks for Grades 6-12
TitleAuthorStatus
Built to LastDavid Macaulay Have
FeedM. T. AndersonHave
First Day on EarthCecil CastellucciOn order
Genius: A Photobiography of Albert EinsteinMarfe Ferguson DelanoHave
IncarceronCatherine FisherHave
It’s a BookLane SmithOn order
Leonardo, the Beautiful DreamerRobert ByrdHave
Little BrotherAllan BaillieNot Available/Later
The Reinvention of Edison ThomasJacqueline HoutmanHave
Secrets of Sound: Studying the Calls and Songs of Whales, April Pulley SayreOn order Elephants, and Birds
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the MoonCatherine ThimmeshHave
The UnidentifiedRae MarizHave
When You Reach MeRebecca SteadHave
Life Science Books for Grades 6-12
TitleAuthorStatus
The Adoration of Jenna FoxMary E. PearsonHave
Billions of Years, Amazing Changes: The Story of EvolutionLaurence Pringle & Steve JenkinsHave
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of FaithDeborah HeiligmanHave
Fourth WorldKate ThompsonNot Available/Later
The Frog ScientistPamela S. Turner & Andy CominsHave
Guinea Pig ScientistsMel Boring, Leslie A. DendyHave
& C. B. Mordan
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee CastastropheLoree Griffin Burns Have
& Ellen Harasimowicz
How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal PartnershipsRobin Page& Steve JenkinsHave
A Life In the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle Pamela S. TurnerHave
to Save the Last Great Beasts& George Schaller
Little Monsters: The Creatures That Live on Us and in UsAlbert MarrinHave
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95Phillip M. HooseHave
The Mysteries of Beethoven’s HairRussell Martin & Lydia NibleyHave
The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin,Peter SisHave
Naturalist, Geologist and Thinker
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s SurvivorsJoyce SidmanBeckiePrangeHave
Environmental Loss & Extinction: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12
TitleAuthorStatus
The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee CatastropheLoree Griffin BurnsHave
& Ellen Harasimowicz
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest ParrotSy Montgomery Nic BishopHave
The Race to Save the Lord God BirdPhillip M. HooseHave
Stripes of the Sidestep WolfSonya HartnettHave
Where Things Come BackJohn Corey WhaleyHave
Common Core Science Books for Grades 6-8
TitleAuthorStatus
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story Jim MurphyHave
of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know about Fast FoodErick Schlosser & Charles WilsonHave
Clan ApisJay HoslerNot Available/Later
ER VetsDonna M. JacksonHave
The Frog ScientistPamela S. Turner& Andy CominsHave
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the MoonCatherine ThimmeshHave
The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin,Peter SisHave
Naturalist, Geologist and Thinker
Got Text Complexity? Poetry Books for Grades 6-8
TitleAuthorStatus
Birmingham, 1963Carole BostonWeatherfordHave
Blues JourneyWalter Dean Myers Have
& Christopher Myers
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888Ernest Lawrence ThayerHave
& Joe Morse
Ellington Was Not a StreetNtozakeShangeKadir NelsonHave
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval VillageLaura Amy Schlitz & Robert ByrdHave
LocomotionJacqueline WoodsonHave
Tap Dancing on the Roof:Sijo (Poems)Linda Sue Park IstvanBanyaiHave
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s SurvivorsJoyce SidemanBeckiePrangeHave
The Way a Door ClosesHope Anita Smith Have
& Shane W. Evans
Got Text Complexity? Short Stories/Wordless Books for Grades 6-8
TitleAuthorStatus
The ArrivalShaun TanHave
I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with ReligionMarilyn SingerNot Available/Later
Island BoyzGraham SalisburyHave
Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and HopeBeverley Naidoo& Desmond TutuHave
Tales from Outer SuburbiaShaun TanHave
Who Am I Without Him? Short Stories aboutGirls andSharon G. FlakeHave
the Boys in Their Lives
Got Text Complexity? Fiction Books for Grades 6-8
TitleAuthorStatus
CosmicFrank Cottrell BoyceHave
Elijah of BuxtonChristopher Paul CurtisHave
HiddenHelen FrostHave
The London Eye MysterySiobhan DowdHave
March Toward the ThunderJoseph BruchacHave
Ninth WardJewell Parker RhodesHave
Prime BabyGene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk KimHave
Red GlassLaura ResauHave
TroubleGary D. SchmidtHave
When You Reach MeRebecca SteadHave
Where the Streets Had a NameRanda Abdel-FattahHave
Yellow StarJennifer RoyOn order
NYS Common Core Aligned Module Titles for Grade 6
TitleAuthorStatus
Bud, Not BuddyChristopher Paul CurtisHave
D’Aulaires Book of Greek MythsIngriD’AulaireHave
& Edgar ParinD’Aulaire
DragonwingsLaurence YepHave
Frightful’s MountainJean Craighead GeorgeOn order
TheLightning ThiefRick RiordanHave
NYS Common Core Aligned Module Titles for Grade 7
TitleAuthorStatus
A Long Walk to WaterLinda Sue ParkOn order
LyddieKatherine PatersonHave
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveFrederick DouglassHave
NYS Common Core Aligned Module Titles for Grade 8
TitleAuthorStatus
Inside Out & Back AgainThanhha LaiHave
Omnivore’s Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You EatMichael PollanHave
To Kill a MockingbirdHarper LeeHave
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, Laura HillenbrandHave
andRedemptio
Common Core Biography, History, Social Studies Books for Grades 6-8
TitleAuthorStatus
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to DreamTanya Lee StoneHave
Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chiefon the Joseph Medicine CrowHave
Reservation and Beyond& Herman Viola
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Elizabeth PartridgeHave
Don’t You Grow Weary
Maus: A Survivor’s TaleArt SpiegelmanHave
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League BaseballKadir NelsonHave
Who Was First?: Discovering the AmericasRussell FreedmanHave
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for Ann BausumHave
a Woman’s Right to Vote
Civil Rights Movement: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12
TitleAuthorStatus
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward JusticePhillip M. HooseHave
A Dream of FreedomDiane McWhorterHave
Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till CaseChris CroweHave
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don’tElizabeth PartridgeHave
You Grow Weary
The Road to MemphisMildred D. TaylorHave
The Rock and the RiverKeklaMagoonHave
A Wreath for Emmett TillMarilyn Nelson Phillippe LardyOn order
Immigrant Experience & Identity: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12
TitleAuthorStatus
American Born ChineseGene Luen YangHave
The ArrivalShaun TanHave
Dark WaterLaura McNealHave
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side ofAnnBausumHave
American Immigration
The King of Mulberry StreetDonna Jo NapoliHave
La LineaAnn JaramilloHave
RemixMarina BudhosOn order
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924Deborah HopkinsonHave
A Step from HeavenAn NaHave
Justice System: Paired Fiction & Nonfiction Books for Grades 6-12
TitleAuthorStatus
LockdownWalter Dean MyersHave
MonsterWalter Dean MyersHave
& Christopher Myers
No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death RowSusan KuklinHave