Shmoop Isn’t Just for the High School, College (and Older) Crowds.

Middle School. Jr. High. The sometimes forgotten “middle child” of the K-12 years. Awkward years? Pshaw. We at Shmoop prefer to think of them as Wonder Years.

We already have 47 Learning Guides that are well suited for Grades 6-8 and we have many more Young Adult (YA) topics in store for 2010.

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Literature

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
• The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
• The Cask of Amontillado, by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Diary of Anne Frank, by Anne Frank
• Dragonwings, by Laurence Yep
• The Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Gift of the Magi, by O. Henry
• The Giver, by Lois Lowry
• The House of Dies Drear, by Virginia Hamilton
• Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
• Murders in the Rue Morgue, by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant
• The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
• The Scarlet Ibis, by James Hurst
• Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
• The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Westing Game, by Ellen Raskin
• William Wilson, by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle

Poetry

• Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Eagle, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost
• The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes
• Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll
• The Lady of Shalott, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• The Lamb, by William Blake
• The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, by Robert Frost
• The Tyger, by William Blake

Bestsellers

• Breaking Dawn, by Stephenie Meyer
• Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling
• New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan
• Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

US History

• The Columbian Exchange (1492-1845)
• Spanish Colonization (1492-1848)

Biography

• Albert Einstein
• Thomas Jefferson
• John F. Kennedy
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
• Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
• George Washington

Music

• Free Fallin’, by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• I Want to Hold Your Hand, by The Beatles