26-27 Summer Reading Information
SUMMER READING LIST
Students select ONE book for their incoming grade level.
Summer of grade 5 to 6: Choices below:
Hatchet, Gary Paulsen (available)
Bridge to Terabithea, Katherine Paterson (available)
Fire From The Rock, Sharon Draper
Front Desk, Kelly Yang
Middle School: Worst Years of My Life, James Patterson
No Talking, Andrew Clements (available)
Summer of the Swans, Betsy Byars (available)
The Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell (available)
The Tree of Life, Rochelle Strauss (available)
Summer of grade 6 to 7: Choices below:
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
Brian’s Winter, Gary Paulsen (available)
A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L’Engle (available)
King of Shadows, Susan Cooper (available)
My Life with the Chimpanzees, Jane Goodall (available)
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
Sea of Monsters, (Book 2-Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series) Rick Riordan
Steal Away Home, Lois Ruby (available)
The Contender, Robert Lipsyte
The Wave, Todd Strasser
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls (available)
Summer of grade 7-8: Choices below:
A Separate Peace, John Knowles (available)
Among The Imposters, (Book 2-Shadow Children Series) Margaret Peterson Haddix (available)
Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, Steven Sheinkin (available)
Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman (available)
Soldier Boys, Dean Hughes (available)
Summer of My German Soldier, Betty Greene (available)
The Chronicles of Vladmir Tod: 8th Grade Bites, Heather Brewer
The Maze Runner, James Dashner
The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin (available)
True Stories of the Second World War, Paul Dowswell (available)