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The Mysterious Benedict Society (series)...... Stewart Fiction Ghostopolis...... TenNaple Legends and Myths The Crossover...... Alexander The New Policeman Triology (series)...... Thompson The Snow Queen...... Andersen Return to Sender...... Alvarez Breadcrumbs...... Ursu The Coming of the Dragon...... Barnhouse El Deafo...... Bell Trickster: Native American Tales: Tangerine...... Bloor A Graphic Collection...... Dembicki, ed. The Girl Who Threw Butterflies...... Cochrane Biography Odd and the Frost Giants...... Gaiman Better Nate Than Ever (series)...... Federle Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings, a Memoir...... Engle Princess and the Midnight Ball...... George Jack Henry (series)...... Gantos Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of The Wise Fool: Fables from the Islamic World...... Husain My Life in Pink and Green...... Greenwald Amelia Earhart...... Fleming Outlaw: The Legend of Robin Hood...... Lee Bird...... Johnson Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Maker's Son Egg and Spoon...... Maguire The Great Greene Heist...... Johnson Helped Light the Flame of Liberty...... Freedman Cinder (Lunar Chronicles series)...... Meyer The Thing About Luck...... Kadohata The Boys who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen Treasury of Egyptian Mythology...... Napoli Schooled...... Korman and the Churchill Club...... Hoose Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find Confetti Girl...... Lopez Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice...... Hoose the Real John Henry...... Nelson In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse...... Marshall Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution...... Jiang Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm...... Pullman Rain Reign...... Martin Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx...... Manzano Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes...... Riordian Keeper...... Peet FDR and the American Crisis...... Marrin Can You Guess My Name?...... Sierra Bamboo People...... Perkins Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World...... Montgomery The Red Pencil...... Pinkney Mystery Slob...... Potter Rad American Women A-Z...... Schatz Hold Fast...... Balliet Esperanza Rising...... Ryan Babe Conquers the World: the Legendary Life of The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place...... Berry Holes...... Sachar Babe Didrikson Zaharias...... Wallace Tangerine...... Bloor Shooting Kabul (series)...... Senzai Brown Girl Dreaming...... Woodson Zora and Me...... Bond Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie...... Sonnenblick I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education The Grace Mysteries (series)...... Cavendish Emma-Jean Lazurus Fell Out of a Tree...... Tarshis and Changed the World...... Yousafzi Under the Egg...... Fitzgerald Sisters...... Telgemeier The House on the Gulf...... Haddix Make Lemonade...... Wolff From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.....Konigsburg After Tupac and D Foster...... Woodson Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life...... Mass Millicent Min, Girl Genius...... Yee Kiki Strike (series)...... Miller The Boy Sherlock Holmes (series)...... Peacock Science Fiction / Fantasy Sally Lockhart (series)...... Pullman Doll Bones...... Black The Egypt Game ...... Snyder Things Not Seen...... Clements A Whole Nother Story...... Soup Artemis Fowl (series) ...... Colfer Liar and Spy...... Stead Underland Chronicles (series)...... Collins Sammy Keyes (series)...... Van Draanen Books of Ember (series)...... DuPrau Inkheart Trilogy (series)...... Funke Historical Fiction Akata Witch...... Okorafor I Lived on Butterfly Hill...... Agosin Endymion Spring...... Skelton Chains (series)...... Anderson Alcatraz Smedry (series)...... Sanderson Jefferson's Sons...... Bradley The Marvels...... Selznick March Toward Thunder...... Bruchac Bone (series) ...... Smith The Firefly Letters...... Engle Lumberjanes (series)...... Stevenson (Continued on other side) Historical Fiction (continued) Boston Public Library Hero on a Bicycle...... Hughes 2016 Summer Reading The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate...... Kelly The Green Glass Sea...... Klages Inside Out and Back Again...... Lai On Your Mark, Get Set, Kampung Boy...... Lat READ! 2016 The Seventh Most Important Thing...... Pearsall Boston Public Library’s 2016 summer program features books and Summer Bird in a Box...... Pinkney activities about all kinds of sports enjoyed by all kinds of people. Heart of a Samurai (series)...... Preus For more information, contact or visit any BPL location. Echo...... Ryan Book List The Hired Girl...... Schlitz Allston: 300 N. Harvard St...... 617-787-6313 Grades 6–8 Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy...... Schmidt Brighton: 40 Academy Hill Rd...... 617-782-6032 419 Faneuil St...... 617-782-6705 One Came Home...... Timberlake Charlestown: 179 Main St...... 617-242-1248 Climbing the Stairs...... Venkatraman Copley Square: 700 Boylston St...... 617-536-5400 Countdown (series)...... Wiles Dorchester: 690 Adams St...... 617-436-6900 Dear Students and Parents/Guardians, One Crazy Summer (series)...... Williams-Garcia 500 Columbia Rd...... 617-265-0139 1520 Dorchester Ave...... 617-436-2155 he summer months are a wonderful time to explore the world Informational Books 41 Geneva Ave...... 617-427-3337 Tof books and reading—and the staff of the Boston Public 27 Richmond St...... 617-298-7841 Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Schools and Boston Public Library look forward to helping you 690 Washington St...... 617-436-8214 plan a reading program to last the whole summer. Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science...... Aronson East Boston: 365 Bremen St...... 617-569-0271 Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from Hyde Park: 35 Harvard Ave...... 617-361-2524 This Summer Book List will help you choose high quality 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert...... Aronson Jamaica Plain: 433 Centre St...... 617-522-1960 literature geared to the interests of middle school students. All The Hive Detectives: A Chronicle of a Mattapan: 1350 Blue Hill Ave...... 617-298-9218 North End: 25 Parmenter St...... 617-227-8135 the books on the list are available at your neighborhood library. Honey Bee Catastrophe...... Burns Your local librarian can suggest additional titles. Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Roslindale: 4246 Washington St...... 617-323-2343 Roxbury: 2044 Columbus Ave...... 617-445-4340 Recovery of the Past...... Deem 1497 Tremont St...... 617-427-3820 The Boston Public Schools is working to ensure high standards Master George's People: George Washington, His Slaves, 65 Warren St...... 617-442-6186 and high achievement for every student in every classroom, and and His Revolutionary Transformation...... Delano South Boston: 646 East Broadway...... 617-268-0180 literacy is a priority at all grade levels. We expect our students to Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain...... Freedman South End: 685 Tremont St...... 617-536-8241 work hard at reading and writing, and to keep reading year- Go: A Kidd's Guide to Graphic Design...... Kidd West End: 151 Cambridge St...... 617-523-3957 round; and we need the support and encouragement of families Bones Never Lie: How Forensics Helps Solve West Roxbury: 1961 Centre St...... 617-325-3147 to help us reach the goal of every student becoming an excellent History's Mysteries...... MacLeod www.bpl.org reader. Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition On Your Mark, Get Set, READ! is sponsored by your local library, Happy reading! Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia...... Montgomery the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the An Eye for Art: Focusing on Great Artists and Their Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Sincerely, Work...... National Gallery of Art This book list was compiled by librarians from the Boston Public Library and Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and was prepared by the And Don't You Grow Weary...... Partridge BPS Office of Library Services with support from the Tommy Chang, Ed.D. David Leonard Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—The World's BPS Communications Office. Superintendent Interim President Most Dangerous Weapon...... Sheinkin Boston Public Schools | 2300 Washington Street | Boston, MA 02119 Boston Public Schools Boston Public Library Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickels: 617-635-9000 | www.bostonpublicschools.org America's First Black Paratroopers...... Stone Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917...... Walker