The bully and the outcast. Belle Prater's boy by Ruth White ; Blubber by Judy Blume ; The goats by Brock Cole ; Holes by Louis Sachar ; Hoot by Carl Hiaasen ; When Zachary Beaver came to town by Kimberly Willis Holt ; Wringer by Jerry Spinelli ; One fat summer by Robert Lipsyte Racism and bigotry. Roll of thunder, hear my cry by Mildred D. Taylor ; The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis ; Monster by Walter Dean Myers; illustrated by Christopher Myers ; The hate u give by Angie Thomas Reality and tough choices. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo ; Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson ; George by Alex Gino ; The higher power of lucky by Susan Patron ; Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor ; Walk two moons by Sharon Creech ; Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson ; The contender by Robert Lipsyte Other cultures and other lands. Julie of the wolves by Jean Craighead George; illustrated by John Schoenherr ; Kira-kira by Cynthia Kadohata ; American born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang; illustrated by Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien The past and the future. Bud, not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis ; My brother Sam is dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier ; The midwife's apprentice by Karen Cushman ; Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson ; The book thief by Markus Zusak ; The giver by Lois Lowry ; The house of the scorpion by Nancy Farmer This was my life. Bad boy: a memoir by Walter Dean Myers ; Hold in my life by Jack Gantos
