Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: BR–300 AD=Adult Directed BR=Beginning Reader GN=Graphic Novel HL=High-Low (high interest books for older, low-level readers; good for reluctant readers)

Fiction Crash by Mary Kate Doman (HL40L), The Heights series CALL# J DOMA Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parrish (50L) CALL# E PARR Taking Control by Katherine Hengel (HL60L), District 13 series CALL# J HENG The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein (AD100L) CALL# J SILV Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (130L) CALL# E SHAR/E-book/E-audiobook Scooby Doo! Howling on the Playground by Gail Herman (140L) CALL# E HERM River by Mary Kate Doman (HL150L), The Heights series CALL# J DOMA Dive by Mary Kate Doman (HL180L), The Heights series CALL# J DOMA The Golly Sisters Go West by Betsy Byars (210L) CALL# E BYAR Zebrafish by Sharon Emerson (GN230L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 EMER Into the Volcano by Don Wood (GN240L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 WOOD Bink and Gollie by Kate DiCamillo (AD270L), Bink and Gollie series #1 CALL# J DICA Caleb’s Story by Patricia MacLachlan (290L), Sarah, Plain and Tall series #3 CALL# J MACL/E-audiobook Pirates Past Noon by Mary Pope Osborne (290L) CALL# J OSBO/E-book A Wish in the Woods by Beth Bracken (290L), Faerieground Series #1 CALL# J BRAC

Nonfiction Goal by Robert Burleigh (BR) CALL# E 811 BURL Whales and Dolphins by Peter Roop (70L) CALL# E 599.5 ROOP How Chipmunk Got His Stripes by Joseph Bruchac (AD260L) CALL# E 398.24 BRUC /J 398.24 BRUC Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey by Maira Kalman (AD280L) CALL# J 974.7 KALM

All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library

Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 300–400 GN=Graphic Novel HL= High-Low (high interest books for older, low-level readers; good for reluctant readers) NC=Nonconforming Text

Fiction Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol (GN300L) CALL# J 741.5 BROS Ghostopolis by Doug TenNapel (GN300L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 TENN Cardboard by Doug TenNapel (GN300L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 TENN The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi (GN310L), Amulet Vol. 1 CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 KIBU Jellaby: The Lost Monster by Kean Soo (GN320L), Jellaby Vol.1 CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 SOO Westward to Home: Joshua's Diary by Patricia Hermes (320L) CALL# J HERM Bad Island by Doug TenNapel (GN340L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 TENN Battling Boy by Paul Pope (GN390L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 POPE Sidekicks by Doug Santat (340L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 SANT Define “Normal” by Julie Anne Peters (350L) CALL# J PETE *Candor by Pam Bachorz (350L) CALL# J BACH Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith (GN360L), Bone series #1 CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 SMIT Mercury by Hope Larson (GN370L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 LARS Bluffton by Matt Phelan (GN370L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 PHEL *Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz (HL380L) CALL# J SAEN/E-audiobook Wilderness by Roddy Doyle (NC380L) CALL# J DOYL Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks (GN390L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 HICK

Nonfiction The Donner Dinner Party by Nathan Hale, Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #3 (GN330L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 HALE The Hunt for Hidden Treasure by Lynda Beauregard (350L) CALL# J 741.5 BEAU Laika by Nick Abadzis (GN370) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5973 ABAD The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss (380L) CALL# J 940.5315 REIS *Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (NC380L) CALL# Graphic Novel: 741.5 SATR

*Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library

Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 400–500 GN=Graphic Novel HL=High-Low (high interest books for older, low-level readers; good for reluctant readers)

Fiction Drama by Raina Telgemeier (GN400L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 TELG *Breaking Point by Alex Flinn (410L) CALL# J FLIN *Don’t Even Think About It by Sarah Mylnowski (HL410L) CALL# J MYLN *Miles from Ordinary by Carol Lynch Williams (HL419L) CALL# J WILL Wild River by P.J. Peterson (420L) CALL# J PETE Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood by Tony Lee (GN420L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 LEE Sugar by Jewell Parker Rhodes (430L) CALL# J RHOD The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan (GN430L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 PHEL The Headless Ghost by R.L. Stine (440L), Goosebumps series #37 CALL# J STIN It Came from Beneath the Sink by R.L. Stine, Goosebumps series #30 (430L) CALL# J STIN Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar (460L) CALL# J SACH/E-audiobook [included in Wayside Stories Collection] Foiled by Jane Yolen (GN460L), Foiled series #1 CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 YOLE *Blood Red Road by Moira Young (HL460L), Dustlands Trilogy #1 CALL# J YOUN The Last Martin by Jonathan Friesen (HL470L) CALL# J FRIE *Annexed by Sharon Dogar (HL470L) CALL# J DOGA/E-book The Boy from the Basement by Susan Shaw (470L) CALL# J SHAW Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter (470L) CALL# J PORT/LT PORT/E-book/E-audiobook How I Became a Ghost: A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story by Tim Tingle CALL# J TING Virals by Kathy Reichs (HL480L), Virals series #1 CALL# J REIC/E-book/E-audiobook *The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams (HL480L) CALL# J WILL *Clay by David Almond (490L) CALL# J ALMO Skellig by David Almond (490L) CALL# J ALMO/E-book/E-audiobook There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom by Louis Sachar (490L) CALL# J SACH/E-book/E-audiobook Crunch by Leslie Connor (HL490L) CALL# J CONN Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli (HL490L) CALL# J SPIN/E-book/E-audiobook *Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys (HL490L) CALL# J SEPE/J SEPE [Large-type copy]/FIC SEPE/E-book/E- audiobook One Day at HorrorLand by R.L. Stine (490L), Goosebumps series #16 CALL# J STIN/E-book

Nonfiction Smile by Raina Telgemeier (GN410L) CALL# J 617.6 TELG *Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library

Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 500–600 GN=Graphic Novel HL=High-Low (high interest books for older, low-level readers; good for reluctant readers)

Fiction Close to Famous by Joan Bauer (500L) CALL# J BAUE Big Nate: In a Class by Himself by Lincoln Pierce (500L), Big Nate series #1 CALL# J PIER/E-audiobook Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale (GN500L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 HALE The Boxer and the Spy by Robert B. Parker (500L) CALL# J PARK/E-book/E-audiobook *Breathing Underwater by Alex Flinn (510L) CALL# J FLIN/E-audiobook Need by Carrie Jones (HL510L), Need series #1 CALL# J JONE/CD J BOOK JONE/E-book Borrowed Children by George Ella Lyon CALL# J LYON Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli (510L) CALL# J SPIN/CD J BOOK SPIN/E-book/E-audiobook A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer CALL# J MAZE Into the Wild by Sarah Beth Durst (HL530L) CALL# J DURS *Wake by Lisa McMann (530L), Wake Trilogy #1 CALL# J MCMA/E-audiobook American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (GN530L) CALL# Graphic Novel: J 741.5 YANG Prisoner of Cell 25 by Richard Paul Evans (550L), Michael Vey #1 CALL: J EVAN Starters by Lissa Price (550L), Starters Duet #1 CALL# J PRIC/CD J BOOK PRIC/E-book The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse (560L) CALL# J HESS/E-audiobook *Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar (560L) CALL# J LUBA/E-audiobook *The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson (560L), Jenna Fox Chronicles #1 CALL# J PEAR/E-audiobook Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage (560L) CALL# J TURN/CJ J BOOK TURN/E-book/E-audiobook *And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (570L) CALL# Mystery: FIC CHRI/E-book/E-audiobook Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor (570L) CALL# J CONN/E-book No Ordinary Day by Deborah Ellis (580L) CALL# J ELLI/E-book Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (580L) CALL# J ANDE/E-book/E-audiobook Perfect by Natasha Friend (590L) CALL# J FRIE/E-book *Shattering Glass by Gail Giles (590L) CALL# J GILE Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (590L), Stargirl series #1 CALL# J SPIN/CD J BOOK SPIN/E-book Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu (HL590L) CALL# J OKOR Texting the Underworld by Ellen Boorawm (HL590L) CALL# J BOOR

Nonfiction *Night by Elie Wiesel, translation by Marion Wiesel (570L) CALL# 940.53 WIES/LT B WEIS/CD BOOK WIES/E-audiobook

*Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library

Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 600–700 HL=High-Low (high interest books for older, low-level readers; good for reluctant readers)

Fiction *The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (600L) CALL# J ALEX/CD J BOOK ALEX Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko (600L), Tales from Alcatraz #1 CALL# J CHOL/CD J BOOK CHOL/E- Audiobook Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (600L), Artemis Fowl series #1 CALL# J COLF/J COLF [Large-type copy]/E-book/E-audiobook Jefferson’s Sons by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (600L) CALL# J BRAD/E-book/E-audiobook The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman (HL600L) CALL# J SHUL/E-book/E-audiobook See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles (HL600L) CALL# J KNOW/E-book No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman (610L) CALL# J KORM Jinx by Sage Blackwood (HL620L), Jinx Trilogy #1 CALL# J BLAC The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney (HL620L) CALL# J PINK Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins (630L), Underland Chronicles #1 CALL# J COLL/CD J BOOK COLL/E-audiobook The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd (640L) CALL# J DOWD/E-book The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney (660L), Janie Johnson series #1 CALL# J COON/E-book The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (660L) CALL# J FARM/CD J BOOK FARM/E-audiobook Holes by Louis Sachar (660L) CALL# J SACH/CD J BOOK SACH/CAS J SACH/E-book/E-audiobook Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine (670L) CALL# J LEVI/E-book/E-audiobook *Monster by Walter Dean Myers (670L) CALL# FIC MYER/E-audiobook Stormbreaker by (670L), Adventures #1 CALL# J HORO/CD J BOOK HORO/E-book/E- Audiobook City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (680L), Books of Ember #1 CALL# J DUPR/CD J BOOK DUPR/E-book/E-audiobook A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd (680L) CALL# J LLOY/E-book/E-audiobook The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (680L), Discworld/Tiffany Aching #1 CALL# J PRAT/E-book/E-audiobook Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith (680L) CALL# J SMIT Alanna: The First Adventure by Tamora Pierce (690L), Song of the Lioness series #1 CALL# J PIER/E-audiobook *Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi (HL690L), Ship Breaker series #1 CALL# J BACI/E-audiobook Tangerine by Edward Bloor (690L) CALL# J BLOO/E-book *Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (690L) CALL# J ANDE/E-book/E-audiobook

Nonfiction Black Whiteness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic by Robert Burleigh (650L) CALL# JB BYRD Remember: The Journey to School Integration by Toni Morrison (660L) CALL# 379.2 MORR

*Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 700–800 HL=High-Low (high interest books for older, low-level readers; good for reluctant readers)

Fiction *Divergent by Veronica Roth (HL700), Divergent Trilogy #1 CALL# J ROTH/J ROTH [Large-type copy]/CD J BOOK ROTH/E-book/E- audiobook Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper (700L) CALL# J DRAP/E-audiobook The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen (710L), Ascendance Trilogy #1 CALL# J NIEL/E-book/E-audiobook *The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines (710L) CALL# FIC GAIN/E-audiobook Eragon by Christopher Paolini (710L), Inheritance Trilogy #1 CALL# J PAOL/CD J BOOK PAOL/E-book/E-audiobook *Legend by Marie Lu (HL710L), Legend Trilogy #1 CALL# J LU/J LU [Large-type copy]/E-book/E-audiobook *The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (720L) CALL# J ZUSA/CD J BOOK ZUSA/E-book/E-audiobook The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens (720L), Books of Beginning series #1 CALL# J STEP/E-book/E-audiobook Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen (720L) CALL# J VAND, CD J BOOK VAND/E-book *Graceling by Krisitn Cashore (730L), Seven Kingdoms Trilogy #1 CALL# J CASH/E-book/E-audiobook A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (730L) CALL# J NESS/CD J BOOK NESS/E-book The Thickety: A Path Begins (730L), Thickety series #1 CALL# J WHIT/E-book/E-audiobook Slob by Ellen Potter (HL740L) CALL# J POTT The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (740L), Percy Jackson and the Olympians series #1 CALL# J RIOR, CD J BOOK RIOR/E- book/E-audiobook Schooled by Gordon Korman (740L) CALL# J KORM Unwind by Neal Shusterman (HL740L) CALL# J SHUS/E-audiobook The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin (750L) CALL# J RASK/E-book/E-audiobook *A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (760L), Gemma Doyle Trilogy #1 CALL# J BRAY/E-book/E-audiobook Hoot by Carl Hiaasen (760L) CALL# J HIAA/CD J BOOK HIAA/E-book/E-audiobook Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy (760L), Skulduggery Pleasant series #1 CALL# J LAND/J LAND [Large-type copy]/E-audiobook The Giver by Lois Lowry (760L), Giver Quartet #1 CALL# J LOWR/CD J BOOK LOWR/E-book/E-audiobook Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan (770L) CALL# J SLOA/E-audiobook Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (770L), Uglies #1 CALL# J WEST Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (770L) CALL# J CREE/CD J BOOK CREE/E-book/E-audiobook The Maze Runner by James Dashner (HL770L), Maze Runner Trilogy #1 CALL# J DASH/E-book/E-audiobook *Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (780L), Ender Wiggin series #1 CALL# Science Fiction: FIC CARD/CD BOOK CARD/E-book/E- audiobook Wonder by R.J. Palacio (790L) CALL# J PALA/PALY J PALA/E-book Into the Wild by Erin Hunter (790L), Warriors series #1 CALL# J HUNT/E-book

Nonfiction The Diary of Ma Yan by Ma Yan, edited by Pierre Haski (720L) CALL# J 951.05 MA Spirit of Endurance: The True Story of the Shackleton Expedition to the Antarctic by Jennifer Armstrong (790L) CALL# J 919.8 ARMS

*Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 800–900

Fiction Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones (800L), Howl’s Moving Castle series #1 CALL# J JONE/CD J BOOK JONE/PLAY FIC JONE/E-audiobook Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix (800L), Shadow Children series #1 CALL# J HADD *The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (810L), Hunger Games Trilogy #1 CALL# J COLL/CD J BOOK COLL/E-book/E- audiobook I’ll Be There by Holly Goldberg Sloan (810L) CALL# J SLOA *West of the Moon by Margi Preus (810L) CALL# J PREU/CD J BOOK PREU The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (820L) CALL# J GAIM/CD J BOOK GAIM/PLAY J GAIM/E-book The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick (820L) CALL# J SELZ/CD J BOOK SELZ/E-audiobook Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (820L) CALL# FIC BRAD/ LT BRAD/E-audiobook The Princess of the Midnight Ball by Jessica Day George (830L), Princess Books #1 CALL# J GEOR/E-book Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede (830L), Enchanted Forest Chronicles #1 CALL# J WRED/E-audiobook The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani (830L), School for Good and Evil series #1 CALL# J CHAI Doll Bones by Holly Black (840L) CALL# J BLAC/E-audiobook Revolution by Deborah Wiles (840L) CALL# J WILE/E-book Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick (840L) CALL# J SONN/E-book/E-audiobook Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin Van Draanen (84OL), Sammy Keyes Mysteries #1 CALL# J VAND/E-book *The Accidental Genius of Weasel High by Rick Detorie (850L) CALL# J DETO/E-book *The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien (860L), Lord of the Rings Trilogy #1 CALL# Science Fiction: FIC TOLK/E- book/E-audiobook *To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (870L) CALL# FIC LEE/LT LEE/CD BOOK LEE/E-book/E-audiobook The Princess Bride by William Goldman (870L) CALL# FIC GOLD/E-book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (880L) CALL# J ROWL/CD J BOOK ROWL/E-book/E-audiobook *The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart (890L) CALL# J LOCK/E-book/E-audiobook The Alchemyst by Michael Scott (890L), Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series #1 CALL# J SCOT/CD BOOK J SCOTT/E-book/E-audiobook

Nonfiction *Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos (840L) CALL# B GANT/LT B GANT/E-audiobook *Dear Bully edited by Carrie Jones & Megan Kelley Hall (850L) CALL# J 302.3 DEAR *In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke with Jennifer Armstrong (890L) CALL# J 940.53 OPDY/E-book

*Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 900–1000

Fiction *Endangered by Eliot Schrefer (900L) CALL# J SCHR Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos (920L) CALL# J GANT/CD J GANT/E-audiobook The Death-Defying Pepper Roux by Geraldine McCaughrean (920L) CALL# J MCCA/E-audiobook Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (920L), Logan Family series #2 CALL# J TAYL/CD J BOOK TAYL/E-audiobook The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner (920L), Queen’s Thief series #1 CALL# J TURN The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan (920L), Ranger’s Apprentice #1 CALL# J FLAN/CD J BOOK FLAN/E-book *Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher (920L) CALL# J CRUT Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer (930L), Artemis Fowl series #1 CALL# J COLF/J COLF [Large-type copy]/E-audiobook Better Nate Than Ever by Tim Federle (930L), Nate series #1 CALL# J FEDE/E-audiobook The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman (930L), His Dark Materials series #1 CALL# J PULL/ J PULL [Large-type copy]/CD J BOOK PULL/E-book/E-audiobook Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick (940L) CALL# J SONN/E-audiobook Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal by Jeff Kinney (950L), Diary of a Wimpy Kid series #1 CALL# J KINN/CD J BOOK KINN The Pigman by Paul Zindel (950L), Pigman #1 CALL# J ZIND My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara (960L) CALL# FIC OHAR Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos (970L), Joey Pigza series #1 CALL# J GANT/E-audiobook Beauty by Robin McKinley (970L) CALL# J MCKI/E-book Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (990L), Anne of Green Gables series #1 CALL# FIC MONT/LT MONT/J MONT/E- book/E-audiobook The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (990L) CALL# J SCHM/E-book/E-audiobook

Nonfiction 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems About the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye (910L) CALL# J 811 NYE Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (920L) CALL# 623.4 SHEI/E- audiobook How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous by Georgia Bragg (950L) CALL# J 920 BRAG The Family Romanov by Candace Fleming (950L) CALL# 947.08 FLEM/E-book Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton (960L) CALL# JB HAMI/E-audiobook Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson (980L) CALL# JB BOOT/E-audiobook Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust by Ruth Thompson (980L) CALL# J 940.53 THOM Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (990L) CALL# JB WOOD/E-book/E-audiobook The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin (990L) CALL# JB ARNO

*Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 1000–1100

Fiction Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick (1000L) CALL# J PHIL/E-book/E-audiobook The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (1000L) CALL# J JUST/FIC JUST (annotated edition)/E-book The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (1000L) CALL# J CURT/E-book/E-audiobook Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell (1000L) CALL# J ODEL/J ODEL [Large-type copy]/CD J BOOK ODEL/E-book/E- audiobook *Nothing by Janne Teller (1000L) CALL# J TELL/CD J BOOK TELL The Hobbit or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien (1000L) CALL# Science Fiction: FIC TOLK/LT TOLK/E-book The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor (1010L), Looking Glass Wars Trilogy #1 CALL# J BEDD/E-audiobook The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (1010L), A Series of Unfortunate Events #1 CALL# J SNIC/E-book/E-Audiobook Love That Dog by Sharon Creech (1010L) CALL# J CREE/E-audiobook The Egypt Game by Zlipha Keatley Snyder (1010L) CALL# J SNYD *Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (1020L) CALL# J WEIN/CD J BOOK WEIN Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (1020L), Brian’s Saga #1 CALL# J PAUL/CD J BOOK PAUL/E-audiobook The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley (1030L), Prequel to The Hero and the Crown CALL# J MCKI Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1030L) CALL# J VERN/FIC VERN [included in Three Novels by Jules Verne]/E-book/E-audiobook Sabriel by Garth Nix (1060L), Old Kingdom Trilogy #1 CALL# J NIX/CD J BOOK NIX/E-book/E-audiobook Savvy by Ingrid Law (1070L) CALL# J LAW/J LAW [Large-type copy]/CD J BOOK LAW *Dracula by Bram Stoker (1070L) CALL# FIC STOK/LT STOK/823 STOK/E-book/E-audiobook *The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (1080L) CALL# J BOYN/E-audiobook

Nonfiction Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Philip Hoose (1000L) CALL# JB COLV/E-audiobook Hello, I’m Johnny Cash by Greg Neri (1020L) CALL# JB CASH We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham’s Children’s March by Cynthia Levinson (1020L) Call# J 323.1196 LEVI Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science by John Fleischman (1030L) Call# B GAGE/E-book Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (1050L) CALL# J 943.086 BART/E-audiobook Blizzard! by Jim Murphy (1080L) CALL# J 974.7 MURP/E-audiobook Courage Has No Color by Tanya Lee Stone (1090L) CALL# 940.54 STON/E-book Woodsong by Gary Paulsen (1090L) CALL# J 796.5 PAUL

*Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 1100–1200

Fiction Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt (1100L) CALL# J HUNT/E-book/E-audiobook Montmorency: Thief, Liar, Gentleman? by Eleanor Updale (1100L), Montmorency series #1 CALL# J UPDA *Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1100L) CALL# FIC MITC/E-book Call of the Wild by Jack London (1120L) Call# J LOND/CD J BOOK LOND/E-book/E-audiobook The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley (1120L) CALL# J MCKI *Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer, Bloody Jack Adventures #1 (1120L) CALL# J MEYE/CD J BOOK MEYE/E-book/E-audiobook The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill (1140L), Icemark Chronicles #1 CALL# J LT HILL Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman (1170L) CALL# J CUSH/E-book *Animal Farm by George Orwell (1170L) CALL# FIC ORWE/LT ORWE/E-book/E-audiobook Larklight by Philip Reeve (1170L), Larklight Series #1 CALL# J REEV/CD J BOOK REEV/E-book/E-audiobook Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (1170L) CALL# 813.4 TWAI [in Historical Romances anthology; please note that the Great Illustrated Classics edition in Juvenile Fiction has a lower Lexile measure of 890L]/E-book/E-audiobook Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin (1190L) CALL# J WIGG/E-book/E-audiobook

Nonfiction Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design by Chip Kidd (1100L) CALL# 740 KIDD Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Russell Freedman (1110L) CALL# J 323.1196 FREE Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business—And Won! by Emily Arnold McCully (1120L) CALL# JB TARB An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 by Jim Murphy (1130L) CALL# 614.5 MURP The Great Fire by Jim Murphy (1130L) CALL# J 977.3 MURP/E-audiobook *The Odyssey by Homer, translation by Stanley Lombardo (1130L) CALL# 883 HOME [Epic Poem] West from Home: Letters of Laura Ingalls Wilder to Almanzo Wilder, San Francisco 1915 by Laura Ingalls Wilder (1140L) CALL# JB WILD Moonbird by Phillip Hoose (1150L) CALL# J 598.072 HOOS/PLAY J HOOS Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck by Margarita Engle (1170L) CALL# J 811 ENGL Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial by Penny Colman (1190L) CALL# 393.09 COLM A Lion Called Christian by John Rendall and Anthony Bourke (1190L) CALL# 599.757092 BOUR/E-book/E-audiobook

*Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library

Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 1200–1300 NC=Nonconforming Text

Fiction Incident at Hawk’s Hill by Allan W. Eckert (1200L) CALL# J ECKE/J ECKE [Large-type copy] The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly (1200L) CALL# J KELL Dodger by Terry Pratchett (1210L) CALL# J PRAT Men of Iron by Howard Pyle (1210L) CALL# FIC PYLE/E-book/E-audiobook Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1210L) CALL# J SWIF/E-book/E-audiobook Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley (1220L) CALL# J MCKI/E-book Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1230L) CALL# FIC ALCO/LT ALCO/J ALCO/E-book/E-audiobook Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley (1230L) CALL# J MCKI/E-book The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman (1240L) CALL# J CUSH/E-book Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1270L) CALL# FIC BURR/J BURR/E-book/E-audiobook The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling (1290L) CALL# J ROWL

Nonfiction The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from the Revolution to the 21st Century by Paul B. Janeczko (1200L) CALL# J 327.73 JANE Beyond: A Solar System Voyage by Michael Benson (1210L) CALL# J 523.2 BENS Harlem Hellfighters by Patrick Lewis (1210L) CALL# J 940.54 LEWI *An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank by Elaine Marie Alphin (1210L) CALL# J 364.152 ALPH Harlem Hellfighters by Patrick Lewis (1210L) CALL# J 940.54 LEWI A Passion for Victory: A Story of the Olympics in Ancient and Early Modern Times by Benson Bobrick(1220L) CALL# J 796.4 BOBR The War to End All Wars: World War I by Russell Freedman (1220L) CALL# J 940.3 FREE/E-audiobook Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books by Gary Paulsen (NC1230L) CALL# J 813.54 PAUL/CD J BOOK PAUL/E-book Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1260L) CALL# J 398.2 HAWT/E-book Building Big by David McCauley (1260L) CALL# 720 MACA In Defense of Liberty: The Story of America's Bill of Rights by Russell Freedman (1270L) CALL# J 342.73 FREE The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (1270L) CALL# J 398.2 PYLE/E-book/E-audiobook The Impossible Rescue by Martin W. Sandler (1270L) CALL# J 979.803 SAND/E-book The Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement by Rick Bowers (NC1290L) CALL# J 323.1196 BOWE/PLAY J BOWE

*Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org Bullitt County Public Library / Bullitt County Public Schools Summer Reading List 2015, Grades 6–8

Lexile Level: 1300+ NC=Nonconforming Text

Fiction The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford (1320L) CALL# FIC BURN, CD J BOOK BURN, E-audiobook Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1360L) CALL# FIC DEFO/E-book/E-audiobook Frenchtown Summer by Robert Cormier (1380L) CALL# E-book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1420L) CALL# FIC HAWT/LT HAWT/CD BOOK HAWT/E- book/E-audiobook The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1440L) CALL# J IRVI/E-book/E-audiobook Alida’s Song by Gary Paulsen (NC1460L) CALL# J PAUL/PLAY J PAUL/E-book Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Edith Grossman (1480L) CALL# 863.3 CERV The Rifle by Gary Paulsen (1480L) CALL# J PAUL *The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1530L) CALL# FIC BUCK/E-book/E-audiobook *How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (NC1620L) CALL# FIC ROSO/E-book/E-audiobook

Nonfiction Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl (1310L) CALL# J 910.45 HEYE, 910.45 HEYE *Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (1320L) CALL# 796.5 KRAK/E-book Muhammad Ali: The World's Champion by John Tessitore (1330L) CALL# J 796.83 TESS Honey Bees: Letters from the Hive by Stephen Buchmann (NC1340L) CALL# J 638 BUCH Calamity Jane: Her Life and Her Legend by Doris Faber (1340L) CALL# J 978 FABE *Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson (NC1420L) CALL# 371.823 MORT, LT 371.823 MORT, PLAY 371.823 MORT/E-book/E-audiobook The Declaration of Independence (1570L) CALL# J 973.3 DECL [complete-text edition illustrated by Sam Fink]

*Title may not be appropriate for all ages All call numbers are for Bullitt County Public Library

Bullitt County Public Library Locations Ridgway Memorial Library Hillview Library Lebanon Junction Library Mt. Washington Library 127 N. Walnut Street 155 Terry Boulevard 11382 S. Preston Highway 311 Snapp Street Shepherdsville, KY 40165 Hillview, KY 40229 Lebanon Junction, KY 40150 Mt. Washington, KY 40047 502-543-7675 502-957-5759 502-833-4648 502-538-7560

Contact: Tracy Weikel (Public Relations Coordinator) at [email protected] or 543-7675 ext. 2003 www.bcplib.org