Queen of Angels 2017 Summer Reading List

Middle School – Grades 6 – 8 Reading is joy!

Summer reading allows children to choose whatever book they want which helps instill a love of reading for recreation. Kids who read for fun often out-perform students who don’t read. Therefore, we encourage all students at Queen of Angels to stay active in their reading over the summer. This reading list is designed to be a guide for families to discover and identify age appropriate books to enjoy together. The books on the list are available at public libraries or local bookstores. Please, remember to look for other books by the same authors if they suggested book is not available.

Abrahams, Peter. Down the Rabbit Hole, Behind the Curtain, Into the Dark Adams, Douglas. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Richard. Watership Down Amato, Mary. Guitar Notes Anderson, MT. The Game of Sunken Places Asimov, Isaac. The Stars, Like Dust Avi. The Cross of Lead; The Seer of Shadows Balliett, Blue. Chasing Vermeer series, Hold Fast Baum, Frank. Wizard of Oz series Bell, Catherine Davitt. Little Blog on the Prairie Berry, Julie. The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place Borden, Louis. The Journey that Saved Curious George Bradbury, Ray. Bruchac, Joseph. Code Talker Burg,Shana. Laugh With the Moon Burnett, Frances. A Little Princess Card, Orson Scott. Ender’s Game Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Carson, Ben. Gifted Hands Collins, Suzanne. Gregor the Overlander series and The Hunger Games series Creech, Sharon. The Great Unexpected Crichton, Michael. The Andromeda Strain Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles, other Sherlock Holmes stories duMaurier, Daphne. Rebecca DuPrau. Jeanne. The City of Embers series Dutton, Judy. Science Fair Season: Twelve Kids, A Robot Named Scorch…and What it Takes to Win Feinstein, John. Rush for the , Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery Ferris, Anne. Love Among the Walnuts Frank, Anne. A Diary of a Young Girl Gaiman, Neil. Gantos, Jack. Dead End in Norvelt Green, Tim. The Big Time: A Football Genius Grisham, John. Theodore Boone: The Accused, Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer Haddix, Margaret Peterson. The Missing series Hamilton, Bethany. Soul Surfer Herbert, Frank. series Higson, Charles. The Enemy series Hunt, Irene. Across Five Aprils Jacques, Brian. Redwall series Juster, Norton. The Phantom Tollbooth Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon Kipling, Rudyard. The Jungle Book Lai, Thanhha. Inside Out and Back Again LeGuin, Ursula. The Wizard of Earthsea series L’Engle, Madeleine. Wrinkle in Time series Lipsyte, Robert. Center Field London, Jack. Call of the Wild Montgomery, LM. Anne of Green Gables series Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Dairy Queen Trilogy Na, An. A Step from Heaven Paolini, Christopher. Inheritance Cycle, Eragon Paterson, Katherine. Bread and Roses, Too Paulson, Gary. Soldier’s Heart, My Life in Dog Years, Road Trip Philbrick, Rodman. The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg Pollack, John. The Pun Also Rises Pratchett, Terry. Truckers series, Dodger Price, Olive. Three Golden Rivers Rawls, Wilson. Where the Red Fern Grows Remarque, Erich. All Quiet on the Western Front Riordan, Rick. The Kane Chronicles, BookII: The Serpent’s Shadow Rohmer, Harriet. Heroes of the Environment Schmidt, Gary. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, Okay for Now Scott, Michael. The Alchemyst Selznick, Brian. Wonderstruck Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty Shusterman, Neal. Everlost (Skinjacker Trilogy) Spinelli, Jerry. Stargirl Stewart, Trenton. The Mysterious Benedict Society: The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict Whelan, Gloria. Small Acts of Courage Williams, Brian. Tunnels Yelchik, Eugene. Breaking Stalin’s Nose Yolen, Jane. Foiled series

Non-Fiction Bragg, Georgia. How They Croaked and How They Choked Fleischman, John. Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science Hopkinson, Deborah. Titanic: Voices From the Disaster Levine, Ellen. Rachel Carson: A Twentieth Century Life MacLeod, Elizabeth. Royal Murder: The Deadly Intrique of Ten Sovereigns Nelson, Peter. Left For Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis Santiago, Wilfred. 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente Symons, Mitchell. The Book of Perfectly Useless Information Turner, Pamela. The Frog Scientist