Please read your class required book and at least two more books of your choice from the grade level lists that follow. You should choose books that interest you! Everyone is encouraged to read more than the minimum from the suggested list, including books not on this list. Keep a reading log of ALL the books you read this summer. It is fine if some of them are not on your grade list. Happy reading!
Students Entering 6th Grade
Required: Madeline L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
Please choose at least two more from the following list:
William H. Armstrong, Sounder
Avi, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
Cotrell Boyce, Millions
Christopher Paul Curtis, Bud, Not Buddy
Sharon M. Draper, Out of my Mind
Kristine L. Franklin, Lone Wolf
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Lois Lowry, Number the Stars
Katherine Paterson, Bridge to Terabithia
Robert Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die
Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game
Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways; A Story Told in Ten Blocks
Jerry Spinelli, Maniac McGee
Louis Sachar, Holes
Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me* (pair with A Wrinkle In Time)
Mildred D. Taylor, Mississippi Bridge
Laurence Yep, Dragonwings
Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons and/or Absolutely Normal Chaos
Margaret Peterson Haddix, Running Out Of Time
Carl Hiaasen, Hoot
Students Entering 7th Grade
Required: Nancy Farmer, The Sea of Trolls
Please choose two or more from the following list:
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Lynne Reid Banks, Tiger, Tiger
Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatchers
Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
William Gibson, The Miracle Worker
Roderick Gordon, Tunnels
M.E. Kerr, Fell
Nancy Mercado, ed., Baseball Crazy (Short Stories)
Ellen Oh, Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Linda Sue Park, A Single Shard
Gary Paulsen, Hatchet, Brian’s Winter, Brian’s Hunt
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Mary Renault, Bull From The Sea
Anne Rinaldi, Wolf by the Ears
Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle
Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7’s
Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Jane Yolen, The Devil’s ArithmeticChris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Students Entering 8th Grade
Required: Chris Crutcher, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Please choose two or more from the following list:
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Avi, Nothing But The Truth
Karen Blumenthal, Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Suzanne Collins, any from The Hunger Games series
Michael Crichton, Timeline
Alan Gratz, Refugee
John Knowles, A Separate Peace
Farley Mowatt, Never Cry Wolf
Eric Gansworth, If I Ever Get Out of Here
Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped; Racism, Antiracism and You
Layla F. Saad, Me and White Supremacy; Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
Rosemary Sutcliff, Beowulf: Dragonslayer
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Rings, (The Lord of the Rings trilogy)
Ellen Emerson White, Voyage on the Great Titanic
Jane Yolen, Sword of the Rightful King
Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, I Am Malala
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief