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The 2016 Summer Reading Book List was created by members of the Association for Library Service to Children’s Quicklists Consulting Committee. For more booklists from ALSC visit www.ala.org/alsc/booklists. SUMMER READING LIST Grades 6-8 Beetle Boy Dead to Me Fish in a Tree campaign to make a beloved Masterminds Saki Yamamoto does by M. G. Leonard by Mary McCoy by Lynda Mullaly Hunt teacher’s favorite book “go by Gordon Korman not want to spend her Illustrated by Julia Sarda Disney-Hyperion, 2015, ISBN: Penguin/Nancy Paulsen Books, viral.” Balzer + Bray, 2015, ISBN: summer vacation visiting Scholastic/Chicken House, 9781423187127 2015, ISBN: 9780399162596 9780062299963 her grandma’s small village. 2016, ISBN: 9780545853460 Veronica Mars meets L.A. Ally struggles to hide her The Iron Trial After living in a perfect town Things get more interesting A giant talking beetle and Confidential as sixteen- dyslexia by continually getting by Holly Black and his whole life, Eli discovers than she expected when cast of crazy characters year-old Alice tries to piece into trouble, until a substitute Cassandra Clare there are secrets that will she unintentionally invokes a help Darkus search for his together the events that lead teacher discovers what she is Scholastic, 2014, ISBN: change everything. First in a death curse, and she must missing father, a famous to her older sister winding up really hiding. 9780545522250 series. enter the dangerous spirit entomologist. First in a series. in a coma. Despite his father’s warnings world at the Night Parade to The Great Greene Heist about the dangers of Me & Miranda Mullaly break the curse. The Bitter Side of Sweet Dream On, Amber by Varian Johnson magic, Callum enrolls in the by Jake Gerhardt by Tara Sullivan by Emma Shevah Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, Magisterium and begins to Viking, 2016, ISBN: Serafina and the Black Putnam, 2016, ISBN: Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, 2014, ISBN: 9780545525527 learn about himself and his 9780451475404 Cloak 9780399173073 2015, ISBN: 9781492622505 Jackson Greene vowed never own bewildering powers. Three boys all trying to gain by Robert Beatty Amadou and his brother, Amber’s father left when she to get involved in another the attention of the same girl Disney-Hyperion, 2015, ISBN: Seydou, are modern-day was little, so now she fills in middle-school con, but he is Lost in the Sun become rivals in this hilarious 9781484709016 child slaves on a cacao the frustrating gap in her life put to the test when the girl by Lisa Graff tale of misunderstandings. At the turn of the century, plantation, until Khadija with imagined conversations of his dreams runs for class Philomel Books, 2015, ISBN: a twelve-year-old secretly arrives. The three band to to help her deal with art president. 9780399164064 Most Dangerous: Daniel living in the basement of the make their escape from the projects, bullies, and little Trent blames an unfortunate Ellsberg and the Secret Biltmore Estate solves an Ivory Coast to freedom. sisters. Grounded: The event for his misfortunes and History of the Vietnam ancient evil and unravels her Adventures of tries to turn things around. War family history. Booked Fatal Fever: Tracking Rapunzel He is able to make that turn by Steve Sheinkin by Kwame Alexander Down Typhoid Mary by Megan Morrison when he meets Fallon, and Roaring Brook Press, 2015, Some Kind of Courage Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, by Gail Jarrow Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, together they help him find ISBN: 9781596439528 by Dan Gemeinhart 2016, ISBN: 9780544570986 Calkins Creek, 2015, ISBN: 2015, ISBN: 9780545638265 the healing and redemption From the Oval Office to the Scholastic, 2016, ISBN: The thrill of a soccer 9781620915974 After leaving her tower for the he seeks. editor’s office of the New 9780545665773 tournament, the pressure Learn about this dreaded first time, Rapunzel joins Jack York Times, Sheinkin tells a Bears, bandits, and raging of family expectations, the disease that ravaged our Beanstalker on a perilous The Mark of the gripping tale of government rapids can’t stop Joseph from social minefield of crushes country early in the twentieth journey through the lands of Dragonfly secrecy and manipulation that searching for what’s left of his and bullies, and the beauty of century in this nonfiction Tyme. First in a series. by Jaleigh Johnson is still relevant today. family— his beloved horse, words are all explored in this title that reads like a medical Random House/Delacorte, Sarah—across the American exciting, extraordinary novel mystery. Hour of the Bees 2014, ISBN: 9780385376150 The Night Gardener Northwest frontier. in verse. By Lindsay Eagar When plucky machinist Piper by Jonathan Auxier Fearsome Creatures of Candlewick Press, 2016, ISBN: saves Anna after a meteor Abrams/Amulet Books, 2014, Tesla’s Attic The Boys Who the Lumberwoods 9780763679224 shower, both girls stow ISBN: 9781419711442 by Neal Shusterman and Eric Challenged Hitler: by Hal Johnson Carol is stuck in the New away on an armored train Molly and Kip are orphaned Elfman Knud Pedersen and the Illustrated by Tom Mead Mexican desert one summer to escape the man chasing and must find a way to take Disney-Hyperion, 2014, ISBN: Churchill Club Workman Publishing, 2015, with her family and her them. care of themselves. Molly 9781423148036 by Phillip Hoose ISBN: 9780761184614 grandfather, who suffers from finds work as a maid but When Nick holds a yard Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015, This reworking of American dementia. Her world is rocked Mark of the Thief soon discovers the family is sale to get rid of the junk in ISBN: 9780374300227 tall tales features stories of by the stories he tells her by Jennifer A. Nielsen being haunted, and she and the attic of his new home, A group of teenagers in fearsome legendary creatures during that time. Scholastic, 2015, ISBN: her brother are soon targeted he realizes too late that all Denmark resist the Nazi of the wooded wilds of early 9780545561549 by the Night Gardener as the objects have mysterious invasion of their country and North America, including the I Kill the Mockingbird Nic, a slave in the mines of well. powers and he needs to get inspire others to follow suit in snoligoster, the hodag, and by Paul Acampora ancient Rome, escapes after them back. First in a series. this award-winning nonfiction the hoop snake. Glow-in-the- Roaring Brook Press, 2014, discovering a magical amulet. The Night Parade book. dark illustrations add to the ISBN: 9781596437425 First in a series. by Kathryn Tanquary alternately fun and creepy tone Over summer break, Lucy, Sourcebooks/Jabberwocky, of this collection of stories. Elena, and Michael launch a 2016, ISBN: 9781492623243