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 .