

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo is a middle school favorite! Your students will love the award winning book Because of Winn-Dixie. You’ll have it for years and years, and your planning will all be completed for you! Oh, and if you have Pinterest, make sure you pin this page so you will always have this list of middle school novel units! As we continue to create units, we will add them to this page. Check out each title below to download a sample free lesson plan or activity from each one! You can use these free handouts today in your classroom, and if you like them, come back to download the entire unit. While we developed these lessons with middle school in mind, some of the middle school novel units in this list can also be used in upper elementary grades. Each title includes a handout for each chapter of the book and tests as well. Over the years, we have created standards-based, engaging, and fun lesson plans and activities for several novels suitable for middle schoolers.


This profound book is not only a great read, but our students learn so much about the Holocaust. Another book that we love to read as a class is The Devil’s Arithmetic. Our students fall in love with our class a little more each day as we read this book that makes us laugh and makes us cry. Our favorite whole class novel that we begin each year reading is The Man Who Loved Clowns. We have a lengthy list of middle school novel units to share! As seventh grade teachers, we use the following middle school novel units for book clubs, as class reads, and for independent novel studies.
