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Middle School Summer Reading List

Click on the title to view the item in the Public Library Catalog and once there you can place a hold on it by clicking Request-a-Title.

Grade 6

Select one from the following list:
A Boy at War: a novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer
Blackwater by Eve Bunting
Chronicles of Darkness #1: Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
Danger on Midnight River: World of Adventure Series, Book 6 by Gary Paulsen
Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede
Everyone Else's Parents Said Yes by Paula Danziger
A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children by Caroline Kennedy
Heartlight by T.A. Baron
How Angel Peterson Got His Name by Gary Paulsen
The Liberation of Gabriel King by Kelly Going
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Skellig by David Almond
A Week in the Woods by Andrew Clements
When the Soldiers Were Gone by Vera W. Propp
Year of No Rain by Alice Mead

 


 

Grade 7

Select one from the following list:
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Emako Blue by Brenda Woods
Escape from Fire Mountain by Gary Paulsen
Heat by Mike Lupica
Knucklehead: tall tales and mostly true stories about growing up by Jon Scieszka
Local News: stories by Gary Soto
Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Mission: In Search of the Time and Space Machine (Spy Force) by Deborah Abela
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Pedro's Journal by Pam Conrad
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About Brain Science by John Fleischman
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

 


 

Grade 8

Select one from the following list:
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
Freak the Mighty by W. Rodman Philbrick
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Greatest, Muhammad Ali by Walter Dean Myers
Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by Walter Dean Myers
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko
It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
Johnny Hangtime by Dan Gutman
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples