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 ​ .