Text Exemplars Grades 6-8 Stories

Grade: 6-8

These texts exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the State Standards require all students in grades 6-8 to engage with.

Includes 10 stories:

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad
• The Dark is Rising
• Dragonwings
• Eleven (included in Woman Hollering Creek)
• Little Women
• The People Could Fly
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks
• A Wrinkle in Time