Middle School Summer Reading List 2018
These are books recommended by your teachers and fellow students:
A Land of Permanent Goodbyes - Atia Abawi Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche The True Blue Scouts of Sugarman Swamp - Kathi Appelt The Crossover - Kwame Alexander The Girl Who Drank the Moon - Kelly Barnhill The Penderwicks - Jeanne Birdsall Leap into Darkness - Leo Bretholz The Wild Robot - Peter Brown The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Hurricane Child - Kheryn Callender The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros The Red Kayak - Priscilla Cummings The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline My Name is Parvana - Deborah Ellis No Ordinary Day - Deborah Ellis Incarceron - Catherine Fisher The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman The Mystery of the Mammoth Bones - James Cross Giblin The Inquisitor's Tale - Adam Gidwitz Wild Girl - Patricia Reilly Giff Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library - Chris Grabenstein The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall - Mary Downing Hahn Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse Vincent and Theo by Deborah Heiligman Hoot - Carl Hiassen The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani Crossing the Wire - Will Hobbs Hello, Universe - Erin Entrada Kelly The View from Saturday - E.L. Konigsburg From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E.L. Konigsburg Buddha Boy - Kathe Koja Freakling - Lana Krumwiede Inside Out and Back Again - Thanhha Lai A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle Isaac the Alchemist by Mary Losure The Willoughbys - Lois Lowry The Sixty-Eight Rooms - Marianne Malone My Own Revolution - Carolyn Marsden Wildwood - Colin Meloy The Stars Beneath Our Feet - David Barclay Moore Wish - Barbara O’Connor Animal Farm - George Orwell A Long Walk to Water - Linda Sue Park Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson Hatchet - Gary Paulson La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman 42 Is Not Just a Number by Doreen Rappaport Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls Words in the Dust - Trent Reedy Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan The Red Pyramid - Rick Riordan Esperanza Rising - Pam Muñoz Ryan Holes - Louis Sachar The Whydah by Martin W. Sandler Trouble - Gary D. Schmidt Endangered - Eliot Schrefer Buried Alive! - Elaine Scott Elephant Run - Roland Smith Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead Dear Blue Sky - Mary Sullivan Nevermore, the Trials of Morrigan Crow - Jessica Townsend Moon over Manifest - Clare Vanderpool Piecing Me Together - Renee Watson One Crazy Summer - Rita Williams-Garcia Brown Girl Dreaming - Jacqueline Woodson If You Come Softly - Jacqueline Woodson Miracle’s Boys - Jacqueline Woodson Star Fisher - Lawrence Yep