Sixth - Eighth Grade Summer Reading List
2018-2019 School Year
*This is a suggested list of titles. You are not required to choose any books from this list.
2018-2019 School Year
*This is a suggested list of titles. You are not required to choose any books from this list.
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* Indicates YA titles
Nonfiction:
I Am Malala - Malala Yousef (YA Edition or Young Reader’s Edition)
The Boy in the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...On Schindler’s List - Leon Leyson
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers - Steve Sheinkin (or any other non-fiction by the same author)
Candy Bomber; The Story of the Berlin Airlift’s Chocolate Pilot - (There are numerous great books with this title that tell the same story)
The Finest Hours - Michael J. Tougias
March: Book One, Two & Three - John Lewis
*The Boys Who Challenged Hitler - Phillip Hoose
*Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March - Lynda Blackmon Lowery
*Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football’s Make-or-Break Moment - Carla Killough McClafferty
Mystery:
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library - Chris Grabenstein
Greenglass House - Kate Milford
The Goldfish Boy - Lisa Thompson
Framed!: A T.O.A.S.T. Mystery - James Ponti
Knightley & Son - Rohan Gavin
Three Times Lucky - Sheila Turnage
*Accomplice - Eirann Corrigan
*When - Victoria Laurie
*Liars, Inc. - Paula Stokes
*They All Fall Down - Roxanne St. Claire
*Dead Ringer - Jessie Rosen (2015)
*Panic - Lauren Oliver (2014)
*Gone Too Far - Natalie Richards
*Dead Girls Don’t Lie - Jennifer Shaw Wolf
*Truly, Madly, Deadly - Hannah Jayne
*Rubbernecker - Belinda Bauer
*One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus
*Code of Honor - Alan Gratz
*Colin Fischer - Ashley Edward Miller
Graphic Novels:
Smile - Raina Telgemeier
Sisters - Raina Telgemeier
El Deafo - Cece Bell
Science Fiction/Dystopian:
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Last Day on Mars - Kevin Emerson
Among the Hidden - Margaret Peterson Haddix
City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
*The Martian (Young Readers Edition) - Andy Weir
*The Program - Suzanne Young
*The Testing - Joelle Charbonneau
*The 5th Wave - Richard Yancey
*Stung - Bethany Wiggins
*Gone - Michael Grant
*The Hunger Games Series - Suzanne Collins
*Divergent Series- Veronica Roth (2011)
*The Infinite Sea - Richard Yancey
*H2O - Virginia Bergin (2014)
*Uglies - Scott Westerfeld (2005)
*We All Looked Up - Tommy Wallach
*Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Realistic Fiction:
Rain Reign - Ann M. Martin
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie - Jordan Sonnenblick
The Honest Truth - Dan Gemeinhart
The Seventh Most Important Thing - Shelley Pearsall
Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan
Zebra Forest - Adina Rishe Gewirtz
Firegirl - Tony Abbott
One for the Murphys - Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The Thing About Jellyfish - Ali Benjamin
Bubble - Stewart Foster
Ghost - Jason Reynolds
Sara Lost and Found - Virginia Castleman
Short - Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Ethan I Was Before - Ali Standish
When Friendship Followed Me Home - Paul Griffin
Twerp - Mark Goldblatt
George - Alex Gino
Hello Universe - Erin Entrada Kelly
*Until I Break - Kara Bietz
*The Lifeboat Clique - Kathy Parks
*Backlash - Sarah Littman
*Faceless - Alyssa B. Sheinmel
*All American Boys - Jason Reynolds
*The Look - Sophia Bennett
*Paper Towns - John Green
*The Beginning of Everything
*Looking For Alaska - John Green (2006)
*Tears of a Tiger - Sharon Draper Mills )1994)
*Gym Candy - Carl Deuker (2007)
*How it Went Down - Kekla Magoon (2014)
*Monster - Walter Dean Myers (2004)
*The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
*Backlash - Sarah Darer Littman
*The One Memory of Flora Banks - Emily Barr
*All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven
*Stolen - Lucy Christopher
*Dear Martin - Nic Stone
*This is Where It Ends - Marieke Nijkamp
*Read Between the Lines - Johanna Knowles
*Turtles All the Way Down - John Green
*100 Days - Nicole McInnes
*Don’t Get Caught - Kurt Dinan
Humor:
Welcome to Wonderland - Home Sweet Motel –
Chris Grabenstein
The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) –
Geoff Rodkey
The Loser List - Holly Kowitt
Frank Einstein and the Anti-Matter Motor - Jon Scieszka
Skink: No Surrender - Carl Hiassen
The Worst Class Trip Ever - Dave Barry
Five Six Seven Nate - Tim Federle
Ungifted - Gordon Korman
Fantasy:
Mark of the Thief - Jennifer Nielson
Magnus Chase Series - Rick Riordan
Bad Magic (Bad #1) - Pseudonymous Bosch
The Eighth Day - Dianne K. Salerni
11 Birthdays - Wendy Mass
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
Rules for Stealing Stars - Corey Ann Haydu
Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
*The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare
*Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard (2015)
*Cinder - Marissa Meyer (2012)
*Children of Eden - Joey Graceffa
*The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
Adventure:
Ice Dogs - Terry Lynn Johnson
The Boundless - Kenneth Oppel
Shipwreck - Gordon Korman
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Scar Island - Dan Gemeinhart
*Empty - Suzanne Weyn
*The Raft - S.A. Bodeen
Historical Fiction:
A Night Divided - Jennifer A. Nielsen (Cold War)
Stella by Starlight - Sharon M. Draper (Civil Rights/Segregation)
Revolution - Deborah Wiles (1960’s)
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere - Julie Lamana (Hurricane Katrina)
Wolf Hollow - Lauren Wolk (WWII Era)
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story - Nora Raleigh Baskin
Echo - Pam Munoz Ryan (Discrimination)
Chains - Laurie Halse Anderson (Slavery)
The Lions of Little Rock - Kristin Levine (Segregation)
Beyond the Bright Sea - Lauren Wolk (1920’s)
*Milkweed - Jerry Spinelli (Holocaust)
*Seeing Red - Kathryn Erskine
*Salt to the Sea - Ruta Supetys (WWII Nazi Germany)
*The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne (WWII Holocaust)
*The Boy Who Dared - Susan Campbell Bartoleti (WWII Nazi Germany)
*The Help - Kathryn Stockett (2009)
*Projekt 1065 - Alan Gratz (WWII Nazi Germany)
*Refugee - Alan Gratz
*Prisoner B-3087 - Alan Gratz (Holocaust)
*The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah (Vietnam War Veteran)
*As Bright As Heaven - Susan Meissner (Spanish Flu Epidemic)
Animal Character Fiction:
The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate
Pax - Sara Pennypacker
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp - Kathi Appelt
Novels in Verse:
Heartbeat - Sharon Creech
Words with Wings - Nikki Grimes (Realistic Fiction)
House Arrest - K.A. Holt (Realistic Fiction)
Rhyme Schemer - K.A. Holt
*Paper Hearts - Meg Wiviott (Historical Fiction - Holocaust
*The Crossover - Kwame Alexander (Sports)
*Sold - Patricia McCormick (Realistic Fiction)
*Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds
*Solo - Kwame Alexander
Thriller/Horror:
The Night Gardener - Jonathon Auxier
Skeleton Man - Joseph Bruchac
The Nest - Kenneth Oppel
Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story) - Mary Downing Hahn
*H2O - Virginia Bergin
*Cuckoo Song - Frances Hardinge
*Dorothy Must Die - Danielle Paige
*The Cellar - Natasha Preston
*The Silence of Six - E.C. Myers
*Silver - Chris Wooding
*The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die - April Henry
*The Escape - Hannah Jayne
*The Enemy - Charles Higson
Romance:
*The Sound of Letting Go - Stasia Ward Kehoe
*The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
*If I Stay - Gayle Forman
*What You Left Behind - Jessica Verdi
*Love and First Sight - Josh Sundquist
*My Kind of Crazy - Robin Reul
*Love and Other Four Letter Words - Carolyn Mackler
Nonfiction:
I Am Malala - Malala Yousef (YA Edition or Young Reader’s Edition)
The Boy in the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible...On Schindler’s List - Leon Leyson
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers - Steve Sheinkin (or any other non-fiction by the same author)
Candy Bomber; The Story of the Berlin Airlift’s Chocolate Pilot - (There are numerous great books with this title that tell the same story)
The Finest Hours - Michael J. Tougias
March: Book One, Two & Three - John Lewis
*The Boys Who Challenged Hitler - Phillip Hoose
*Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March - Lynda Blackmon Lowery
*Fourth Down and Inches: Concussions and Football’s Make-or-Break Moment - Carla Killough McClafferty
Mystery:
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library - Chris Grabenstein
Greenglass House - Kate Milford
The Goldfish Boy - Lisa Thompson
Framed!: A T.O.A.S.T. Mystery - James Ponti
Knightley & Son - Rohan Gavin
Three Times Lucky - Sheila Turnage
*Accomplice - Eirann Corrigan
*When - Victoria Laurie
*Liars, Inc. - Paula Stokes
*They All Fall Down - Roxanne St. Claire
*Dead Ringer - Jessie Rosen (2015)
*Panic - Lauren Oliver (2014)
*Gone Too Far - Natalie Richards
*Dead Girls Don’t Lie - Jennifer Shaw Wolf
*Truly, Madly, Deadly - Hannah Jayne
*Rubbernecker - Belinda Bauer
*One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus
*Code of Honor - Alan Gratz
*Colin Fischer - Ashley Edward Miller
Graphic Novels:
Smile - Raina Telgemeier
Sisters - Raina Telgemeier
El Deafo - Cece Bell
Science Fiction/Dystopian:
The Giver - Lois Lowry
Last Day on Mars - Kevin Emerson
Among the Hidden - Margaret Peterson Haddix
City of Ember - Jeanne DuPrau
*The Martian (Young Readers Edition) - Andy Weir
*The Program - Suzanne Young
*The Testing - Joelle Charbonneau
*The 5th Wave - Richard Yancey
*Stung - Bethany Wiggins
*Gone - Michael Grant
*The Hunger Games Series - Suzanne Collins
*Divergent Series- Veronica Roth (2011)
*The Infinite Sea - Richard Yancey
*H2O - Virginia Bergin (2014)
*Uglies - Scott Westerfeld (2005)
*We All Looked Up - Tommy Wallach
*Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Realistic Fiction:
Rain Reign - Ann M. Martin
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie - Jordan Sonnenblick
The Honest Truth - Dan Gemeinhart
The Seventh Most Important Thing - Shelley Pearsall
Counting by 7s - Holly Goldberg Sloan
Zebra Forest - Adina Rishe Gewirtz
Firegirl - Tony Abbott
One for the Murphys - Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The Thing About Jellyfish - Ali Benjamin
Bubble - Stewart Foster
Ghost - Jason Reynolds
Sara Lost and Found - Virginia Castleman
Short - Holly Goldberg Sloan
The Ethan I Was Before - Ali Standish
When Friendship Followed Me Home - Paul Griffin
Twerp - Mark Goldblatt
George - Alex Gino
Hello Universe - Erin Entrada Kelly
*Until I Break - Kara Bietz
*The Lifeboat Clique - Kathy Parks
*Backlash - Sarah Littman
*Faceless - Alyssa B. Sheinmel
*All American Boys - Jason Reynolds
*The Look - Sophia Bennett
*Paper Towns - John Green
*The Beginning of Everything
*Looking For Alaska - John Green (2006)
*Tears of a Tiger - Sharon Draper Mills )1994)
*Gym Candy - Carl Deuker (2007)
*How it Went Down - Kekla Magoon (2014)
*Monster - Walter Dean Myers (2004)
*The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
*Backlash - Sarah Darer Littman
*The One Memory of Flora Banks - Emily Barr
*All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven
*Stolen - Lucy Christopher
*Dear Martin - Nic Stone
*This is Where It Ends - Marieke Nijkamp
*Read Between the Lines - Johanna Knowles
*Turtles All the Way Down - John Green
*100 Days - Nicole McInnes
*Don’t Get Caught - Kurt Dinan
Humor:
Welcome to Wonderland - Home Sweet Motel –
Chris Grabenstein
The Tapper Twins Go to War (With Each Other) –
Geoff Rodkey
The Loser List - Holly Kowitt
Frank Einstein and the Anti-Matter Motor - Jon Scieszka
Skink: No Surrender - Carl Hiassen
The Worst Class Trip Ever - Dave Barry
Five Six Seven Nate - Tim Federle
Ungifted - Gordon Korman
Fantasy:
Mark of the Thief - Jennifer Nielson
Magnus Chase Series - Rick Riordan
Bad Magic (Bad #1) - Pseudonymous Bosch
The Eighth Day - Dianne K. Salerni
11 Birthdays - Wendy Mass
Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
Rules for Stealing Stars - Corey Ann Haydu
Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
*The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare
*Red Queen - Victoria Aveyard (2015)
*Cinder - Marissa Meyer (2012)
*Children of Eden - Joey Graceffa
*The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
Adventure:
Ice Dogs - Terry Lynn Johnson
The Boundless - Kenneth Oppel
Shipwreck - Gordon Korman
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Scar Island - Dan Gemeinhart
*Empty - Suzanne Weyn
*The Raft - S.A. Bodeen
Historical Fiction:
A Night Divided - Jennifer A. Nielsen (Cold War)
Stella by Starlight - Sharon M. Draper (Civil Rights/Segregation)
Revolution - Deborah Wiles (1960’s)
Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere - Julie Lamana (Hurricane Katrina)
Wolf Hollow - Lauren Wolk (WWII Era)
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story - Nora Raleigh Baskin
Echo - Pam Munoz Ryan (Discrimination)
Chains - Laurie Halse Anderson (Slavery)
The Lions of Little Rock - Kristin Levine (Segregation)
Beyond the Bright Sea - Lauren Wolk (1920’s)
*Milkweed - Jerry Spinelli (Holocaust)
*Seeing Red - Kathryn Erskine
*Salt to the Sea - Ruta Supetys (WWII Nazi Germany)
*The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne (WWII Holocaust)
*The Boy Who Dared - Susan Campbell Bartoleti (WWII Nazi Germany)
*The Help - Kathryn Stockett (2009)
*Projekt 1065 - Alan Gratz (WWII Nazi Germany)
*Refugee - Alan Gratz
*Prisoner B-3087 - Alan Gratz (Holocaust)
*The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah (Vietnam War Veteran)
*As Bright As Heaven - Susan Meissner (Spanish Flu Epidemic)
Animal Character Fiction:
The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate
Pax - Sara Pennypacker
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp - Kathi Appelt
Novels in Verse:
Heartbeat - Sharon Creech
Words with Wings - Nikki Grimes (Realistic Fiction)
House Arrest - K.A. Holt (Realistic Fiction)
Rhyme Schemer - K.A. Holt
*Paper Hearts - Meg Wiviott (Historical Fiction - Holocaust
*The Crossover - Kwame Alexander (Sports)
*Sold - Patricia McCormick (Realistic Fiction)
*Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds
*Solo - Kwame Alexander
Thriller/Horror:
The Night Gardener - Jonathon Auxier
Skeleton Man - Joseph Bruchac
The Nest - Kenneth Oppel
Deep and Dark and Dangerous (A Ghost Story) - Mary Downing Hahn
*H2O - Virginia Bergin
*Cuckoo Song - Frances Hardinge
*Dorothy Must Die - Danielle Paige
*The Cellar - Natasha Preston
*The Silence of Six - E.C. Myers
*Silver - Chris Wooding
*The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die - April Henry
*The Escape - Hannah Jayne
*The Enemy - Charles Higson
Romance:
*The Sound of Letting Go - Stasia Ward Kehoe
*The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
*If I Stay - Gayle Forman
*What You Left Behind - Jessica Verdi
*Love and First Sight - Josh Sundquist
*My Kind of Crazy - Robin Reul
*Love and Other Four Letter Words - Carolyn Mackler