Spring ISD Middle School 2018 Summer Reading List

1. The Crossover Me and My Big Mouth Breakthrough: How One by Jeff Anderson 2. Booked (Grade 6-8) Teen Innovator Is Changing by Kwame Alexander (Grade 6-8) the World Zack has drifted through school by Jack Andraka (Grade 6-8) Josh and Jordan, twin almost invisibly until he stands The true story of Jack Andraka, basketball stars, try to live up to up to someone bullying another who, overcoming depression and their father’s basketball prowess person. Suddenly, he’s thrust bullying, invents an early detection in The Crossover. It reads fast into a leadership role as head device to pancreatic, ovarian, and and furiously, like a rap! Highly of the school fundraiser – and lung cancer that is cheaper and recommended. Booked is the he has to work with the bully. much more effective than other sequel. Other problems ensue. Zack has devices. (Includes biographical to decide what he will do when information.) things go wrong. The Girl Who Drank the Moon Book Scavenger by Kelly Barnhill by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman (Grade 6-8) (Grade 6-8) A fairy tale packed with a big punch, The Girl Who Drank the Moon tells the story of Emily and her friend James try a town that sacrifices an infant each year to the witch who lives in the forest. In this to solve the mystery of the very particular year, the witch (who cannot understand why people leave a baby in the odd book they found before the woods) rescues the girl and accidentally enmagics her. Knowing from experience attackers of her hero find them. that growing up with magic is difficult, she decides to keep the child, whom she names Luna. Luna grows up with the witch, the bog monster (old and wise and a fan of poetry) and a tiny dragon who thinks he is huuuuuge! Meanwhile, an inquisitive young man from the village is determined to hunt down the witch and end the barbaric tradition of his town. A seriously funny tale.

The Magesterium Series Somebody On This Bus Is Callum is determined to obey 1. The Iron Trial Going to Be Famous his father and fail the test, but in by J.B. Cheaney 2. The Copper Gauntlet the end he is selected to attend (Grade 6-8) 3. The Bronze Key training with the Magesterium. Bender the bully and nine by Holly Black He’s a bit of a misfit there because (Grade 6-8) students are determined to the other students have been solve the school bus mystery. In The Iron Trial, Callum, whose raised learning magic at home. father has always warned Every morning, the bus arrives. He’s teamed with two other Nobody get on. Nobody gets him away from magic, is students, and they have many summoned to a magical trial off. Each of the students has a tests to perform, and success is clue to the mystery. designed to expose his talents. not guaranteed at all.

Bone Jack Hour of the Bees Hello Universe by Sara Crowe (Grade 6-8) by Lindsay Eager (Grade 6-8) by Erin Entrada Kelly (Grade 6-8) Ash and Mark were once best friends, but grief Carol has to help her parents this and struggles have divided them. This year, Ash is summer to move the grandfather she A bully’s prank lands going to be the Stag Boy in his village’s Stag Hunt, never met into an assisted living home a quiet boy and his where he will be chased by Hound Boys in an old for people with dementia. The more crazy guinea pig in the ritual designed at one time to bring prosperity to stories her grandfather tells her, the more bottom of a well. Told their village. But Mark has been delving into magic she is drawn into imagining the magical from the point of view and the creature Bone Jack, who guards the door things he describes: a healing tree, a of four neighborhood between life and death. Be warned: this is not for green-glass lake, and bees who will bring misfits as they go on the faint-hearted! rain to end the drought. a quest to find and rescue the boy. The Battle of The Brotherband We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Hackham Heath series Student Resistance Movement That by John Flanagan by John Flanagan Defied Adolf Hitler (Grade 6-8) (Grade 6-8) by Russell Freedman Fans of The Ranger’s Meet Hal, Stig, and the (Grade 6-8) Apprentice series others of Flanagan’s Hans and Sophie Scholl belonged to Hitler Youth will want to read this Ranger’s Apprentice in Nazi Germany. But when they were teens, backstory. This tale world. The boys are not they began to doubt the ideology and formed a reveals how Halt became typical Skandians – far resistance group known as The White Rose. This the most famous ranger from it. But they do true story gives insight into how young people of all as he climbs have skills of their own. resisted Hitler. a terrifying hill and If you love The Ranger’s ventures into enemy Apprentice series, you territory to spy out a way will want to read this to win the war. one too.

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Garvey’s Choice In the Country We Love: My Children of Exile by Nikki Grimes (Grade 6-8) Family Divided by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Grade 6-8) This novel-in-verse reveals by Diane Guerrero (Grade 6-8) The first of a new trilogy. The Children of how Garvey is pressured by his The true story of how the parents of Exile have been raised by the Freds, who father to play sports – which Diane Guerrero, the star of Orange Is raise all the children in the village, telling he doesn’t care for. He likes the New Black, were deported while them they are safest away from their science and reading, anything she was attending school. Since she parents. But when they are suddenly sent but sports. He seeks comfort in was born in the U.S., she was able to back to their parents, the children have food until his friend persuades stay, depending on the help of friends to learn to adjust to a life that is nothing him to join the school chorus, to live and continue her education, at all like the Freds describe and for where he finds his true self. but separated from her family. which they are not prepared.

Hidden Girl: The True Story House Arrest 1. Randoms of a Modern-Day Child by K.A. Holt (Grade 6-8) 2. Rebels Slave Timothy keeps a journal by David Liss (Grade 6-8) by Shyima Hall (Grade 6-8) for a year of the time he Shyima was eight when her poor lives under house arrest Zeke’s catapulted into parents sold her to a wealthy with his sick brother and space to save the Earth in family in Egypt. She slaved for grieving mother. He has Randoms. After becoming them 17 hours a day, 7 days a to meet weekly with his a superhero in Randoms, week. When she was ten, they very tough probation he has to return to Earth smuggled her to California and officer and a therapist. The and be normal? Or not? kept her hidden, where she journal is a requirement Read these two hilarious continued to work as their slave. of house arrest. He gets novels just for the chaos. Learn about modern-day slavery in in a jam when his family this true story. needs him.

Fablehaven series Monster: A Graphic We Are All Made of Molecules by Brandon Mull (Grade 6-8) Novel by Susin Nielsen (Grade 6-8) Seth and Kendra’s parents drop by Walter Dean Myers, Guy Sims, Stewart and Ashley are thrown together when their them off with their grandfather in and Dawad Anyabwile parents marry. Stewart is more open to having a his remote estate for the summer (Grade 6-8) step-sibling than Ashley is. Each tells the story while they travel. They discover Myers’ hit novel Monster is of their daily life at school and home. Stewart is their grandfather doesn’t want now a graphic novel. Steve adjusting from attending a private school for the them there because his estate tells his story in script form gifted to a public school full of bullies. Ashley can’t is a haven for mythical, magical while he awaits trial for abide her freakazoid stepbrother and she’s only creatures, both good and evil. robbery and accomplice to interested in one boy at school, one that Stewart When a compact is broken, murder. Is he guilty or not? knows is not good for her. everyone but Kendra is enslaved. You decide.

As Brave As You Ghost Magnus Chase series. by Jason Reynolds (Grade 6-8) by Jason Reynolds (Grade 6-8) Trials of Apollo series. Genie and Ernie are Ghost and some other boys on his track by Rick Riordan (Grade 6-8) spending the summer with team have the ability to qualify for the their grandfather in the Junior Olympics – if they can get their For fans of Percy Jackson, Magnus country. Grandfather says act together. Ghost has been running his Chase is a new Norse mythology to be a man, you have to whole life – running from trouble and series by the same author. If you know how to shoot a gun. sometimes from trouble that he caused. loved Thor and Loki, you will want to The brothers are determined The coach, a former Olympic hopeful, read this new series. Trials of Apollo to prove their courage, but ruined his own chances by using drugs, is for fans of Greek mythology. chaos ensues. but he’s determined to help his track stars make it. The Girl in the Well Is Me Fuzzy Mud The Bone Snatcher by Karen Rivers (Grade 6-8) by Louis Sachar (Grade 6-8) by Charlotte Salter (Grade 6-8) Kammie has fallen into a well When Tamaya and during an initiation with the Marshall take a new Sophie is stuck. In a decaying house. With sea popular girls, giving her time to route home through the monsters. All because of madness and her parents think about her life and how she forbidden woods to avoid selling her off as a servant. And she’s not at all ended up here. As time passes Marshall having to fight happy about it. She has to find the Monster Box – and the girls have not returned a bully, they get lost. As her only hope of escape. If you like Lemony Snicket with help, she grows tired and they wander and as people or Tim Burton films, then rush out to get this one. imagines she has company in search for them, they the form of a French-speaking discover a substance that coyote and zombie goats. could potentially destroy the world.

The Great Good Summer The Kat Sinclair Files: Beneath by Liz Garton Scanlon (Grade 6-8) Dead Air by Roland Smith (Grade 6-8) Ivy’s mom has run off with a preacher by Michelle Shusterman (Grade 6-8) Pat’s older brother Coop is different. named Hallelujah Dave to the Great Kat has become a ghostbuster. Not He doesn’t use the phone, for one Good Church of Panhandle Florida. in her plans at all. But her dad is the thing. He likes to dig tunnels. He Ivy wants to find her and bring her new host of the TV show Passport to imagines digging tunnels under home. Paul has always wanted to be an Paranormal. As they tour the country Washington D.C. After a fight with astronaut but he thinks his chances are hunting ghosts, Kat begins a blog his parents, Coop runs away and one over because the Space Shuttle is being to disclose what it’s like behind the year later, Pat receives a recorded scrapped. These two head to Florida to scenes. And the annoying nephew of message. Now he must brave the find Ivy’s mom and the say goodbye to the producer is along for the ride. If it underground community of D.C. to the Space Shuttle before it is gone. can go wrong, it will. find his brother and bring him home.

Orange: The Ghosts Love and Gelato Complete Collection by Raina Telgemeier (Grade 6-8) by Jenna Evans Welch (Grade 6-8) by Ichigo Takano Raina Telgemeier’s popular graphic Lina is in Italy to meet her father (Grade 6-8) novels are frequently checked out. because of her mother’s dying This is translated from Beat the crowd to the public library wish. She wishes she weren't Japanese in manga form. or the bookstore to grab one of her there at all. But when she finds Naho receives a letter books. Ghosts – a story about two her mother’s journal from her from her future self telling sisters who must overcome their life in Italy, Lina goes in search her to find a new boy, own fears as they grow closer to of her mother’s secrets. This is Kakeru, who is going to each other – is her most recent. your novel if you’re looking for be her future salvation. Other popular Telgmeier titles mystery, romance, and adventure. include Drama, Smile, and Sisters.

Brown Girl Dreaming I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World by Jacqueline Woodson (Grade 6-8) (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai, with Patricia McCormick (Grade 6 and up) Jacqueline Woodson tells what it’s The young readers edition of Malala Yousafzai’s memoir is a must-read for all kids Grade 6 and like to be a girl who struggles to up. Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban because she and her father advocated for girls’ education learn to read while being a great in Pakistan. Her memoir not only provides a historical background to the Taliban’s control of her storyteller and shuffling between hometown, but also her ongoing fight for education. Yousafzai – a Nobel Peace Prize Winner – is life in New York and the deep an inspiring figure because she advocates for human rights and education for all. Readers of South. This autobiography of this moving memoir will learn about Middle Eastern politics, what it’s like to live in other parts of growing up is written in verse and the world, and Yousafzai’s social activism. This book is both a call to action and an inspirational won the National Book Award. account of a young person who works tirelessly for others.

March Trilogy by John Lewis, co-written by Andrew Aydin (Grade 7 and up) These graphic novels are written by Congressman John Lewis. Together, they comprise the story of Lewis’ life, focusing on his fight for civil rights, beginning with his childhood in rural Alabama. The books continue through his fight for justice through nonviolent protest and the others who dedicated their lives to equality. Culminating in a scene where Lewis receives a Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama, this memoir is a piercing reminder of how much work there is still to do. With an informative, inspiring story such as this one, young people will have the tools necessary to continue Lewis’ mission. The third book in the trilogy won the National Book Award for young people’s literature.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Grade 8 and up) In Darkness This novel is an important read for teens and adults alike. The protagonist, Starr, witnesses the shooting of her friend by a by Nick Lake (Grade 8 and up) police officer, changing her life forever. Realistically capturing Merging the past and present, In Darkness is a vivid the repercussions of the event, as well as the political and account of one boy’s struggle in the aftermath of the 2010 cultural environment of the moment, this book is about far earthquake that shook – literally and figuratively – Haiti. more than one girl’s experience of a tragic event. With its fierce Opening as the earthquake hits, the main character, Shorty, social commentary on race, power, and police brutality in nearly dies. Just a teenager, Shorty suddenly feels the America, The Hate U Give is a textured, profound story of how presence of the revolutionary leader Toussaint L’Ouverture, past and present racism and violence impact lives. Through and the journey of the book unfolds as the past and present this perspective, readers will also gain a better understanding influence each other through these two lives. Readers will of the Black Lives Matter movement. learn about the Haitian Revolution and the harsh historical realities of colonization, slavery, and natural disasters that led to Shorty’s life in the slums of one of the world’s poorest countries.