Summer Reading List 2017 Reading Public Schools: Grades 6-7-8

Grade 6 (Choose at least two…)  Hatchet by Gary Paulsen**  Lincoln’s Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin***  The Crossover by Kwame Alexander **  The Wanderer by Sharon Creech ***  Gregor the Overlander (Underland Chronicles, Book 1) by Suzanne Collins**  The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm*  Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan ***  The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill**

Grade 7 (Choose at least two…)  Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick *  The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton **  The Girl Who Owned a City by O. T. Nelson *  Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick *  Summer Ball by Mike Lupica *  Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka *  So B. It by Sarah Weeks **  Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper **  If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period by Gennifer Choldenko **  Any ONE of the Chains series by Laurie Halse Anderson (Chains, Forge,Ashes) **  The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien ***

Grade 8 (Choose at least two…)  Bomb: The Race to Build-Steal-the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin **  Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ***  Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt **  House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer ***  A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly ***  Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper *  The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin **  Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser *  Tangerine by Edward Bloor *  Son by Lois Lowry (the final book in the Giver quartet) **  I am Malala (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai **  Any ONE of the Matched series by Ally Condie (Matched, Crossed, Reached) **  Any ONE of the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson (The Angel Experiment, School’s Out – Forever, Saving the World, The Final Warning, Max, Fang, Angel, Nevermore)*

* challenging ** more challenging *** most challenging