5th-8th Grade Reading List

Middle School Book List / Jr. High Book List

What books do we recommend for our junior high kids?

All of the following are classes with completed lesson plans for our class sites.

  • If you are not a member of Life Adventures, contact us below to purchase a digital copy of the lesson plans from the author for $25 per class.
  • If you are teacher for Life Adventures, get with your site coordinator for access to the lesson plans.

Book Club Meets

6 week plans for each of the Book Club Meets

… Love of Learning




The entire series is completely worth reading and immersing yourself in every subject under the sun!

… World War II

I Survived

12 weeks of lesson plans


This books set is for a younger reading level, 4th grade, but are about 100 pages each. That’s a lot of pages, but at an easier reading level, it’s reasonable to do around 1 per week.

  • I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
  • I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916
  • I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001
  • I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944
  • I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941
  • I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
  • I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79
  • I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  • I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake, 1906
  • I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011