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Grades 6 – 8 Summer Reading Challenge List

Adolescence

 

Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women

Bloor, Edward

Tangerine

Brink, Carol

Caddie Woodlawn

Brooks, Bruce

The Moves Make the Man

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

The Secret Garden

Cole, Brock

The Goats

Cushman, Karen

The Midwife's Apprentice

Cushman, Karen

The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

Filipovic, Zlata

Zlata's Diary: A Childs Life in Sarajevo

Fine, Anne

Flour Babies

George, Jean Craighead

Julie of the Wolves

Henkes, Kevin Olive's Ocean

Hesse, Karen

Out of the Dust

Hobbs, Will

Bearstone

Holt, Kimberly Willis

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Keller, Helen

The Story of My Life

Klass, David

Danger Zone

Konigsburg, E. L.

Silent to the Bone

Lauber, Patricia

Lost Star

Lenski, Lois

Strawberry Girl

Lipsyte, Robert

One Fat Summer

Lowry, Lois

Gathering Blue

MacLachlan, Patricia

Sarah, Plain and Tall

Montgomery, L.M.

Anne of Green Gables

Paterson, Katherine

Jacob Have I Loved

Peck, Richard

A Year Down Yonder

Peck, Robert Newton

A Day No Pigs Would Die

Rinaldi, Ann

Mine Eyes Have Seen

Rylant, Cynthia

Missing May

Snyder, Zilpha Keatly

Libby on Wednesday

Snyder, Zilpha Keatly

Witches of Worm

Sorenson, Virginia

Miracles on Maple Hill

Speare, Elizabeth George

Calico Captive

Speare, Elizabeth George

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Stevenson, R.L.

Treasure Island

Stolz, Mary

Cezanne Pinto: A Memoir

Strasser, Todd

The Wave

Trembath, Don

The Tuesday Café

Voigt, Cynthia

Homecoming

Voigt,Cynthia

Dicey's Song

Zindel, Paul

The Pigman

 

 

Animals

Burnford, Sheila

The Incredible Journey

George, Jean C.

Julie of the Wolves

Hemingway, Ernest

The Old Man and the Sea

Hobbs, Will

Beardance

Kalnay, Francis

Chucaro, Wild Pony of the Pampas

London, Jack

The Call of the Wild

London, Jack

White Fang

North, Sterling

Rascal

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

The Yearling

Rawls, Wilson

Where the Red Fern Grows

Rawls, Wilson

Summer of the Monkeys

Civil War

Beatty, Patricia

Jayhawker

Bradford, Sarah

Harriet Tubman: The Moses of her People

Dolan, Edward F.

American Civil War: A House Divided

Donahue, John

An Island Far From Home

Duey, Kathleen

Amelina Carrett: Bayou Grand Coeur, Louisiana, 1863

Hamilton, Virginia

The House of Dies Drear

Lyon, George Ella

Here and Then

Morris, Gilbert

Drummer Boy at Bull Run

Murphy, Jim

Boys War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War

Murphy, Jim

The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier

Nixon, Joan Lowery

A Dangerous Promise: The Orphan Train Adventures

Reit, Seymour

Behind Rebel Lines; The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy

Rinaldi, Ann

In My Father's House

Travis, Lucille

Captured by a Spy

 

 

Ethnic Literature

Angelou, Maya

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Armstrong, William H.

Sounder

Chambers, Veronica

Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom

Curtis, Christopher Paul

Bud, not Buddy

Freedman, Russell

The Life and Death of Crazy Horse

Jackson, Livia B.

I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust

Jiang, Ji-Li

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

Kherdian, David

The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl

Myers, Walter Dean

Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom

O'Dell, Scott

Sing Down the Moon

Rabinovici, Schoschana

Thanks to My Mother

Silverman, Robin Landew

A Bosnian Family (Journey Between Two World Series)

Taylor, Mildred

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry / The Song of the Trees

Family

Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women

Avi

The Barn

Byars, Betsy

Summer of the Swans

Cannon, A. E.

Amazing Grace

Couloumbis, Audrey

Getting Near to Baby

Fox, Paula

The One-Eyed Cat

Haas, Jessie

Unbroken

Jiang, Ji-Li

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution

McDaniels, Lurlene

Angels Watching Over Me

McKay, Hilary

The Exiles

Nixon, Joan Lowery

A Family Apart

Paterson, Katherine

Park's Quest

Paterson, Katherine

Jacob Have I Loved

Rinaldi, Ann

A Stitch in Time

Rylant, Cynthia

Missing May

Salisbury, Graham

Under the Blood Red Sky

Voigt, Cynthia

Dicey's Song

Yep, Laurence

Child of the Owl

Fantasy

Adams, Richard

Watership Down

Alexander, Lloyd

The High King

Alexander, Lloyd

The Book of Three

Alexander, Lloyd

Taran Wanderer

Almond, David

Skellig

Billingsley, Franny

The Folk Keeper

Brooks, Terry

Sword of Shannara

Cooper, Susan

The Grey King

DeAngeli, Marguerite

The Door in the Wall

Jacques, Brian

Redwall

Juster, Norton

The Phantom Tollbooth

L'Engle, Madeleine

A Wrinkle in Time

L'Engle, Madeleine

A Wind in the Door

Lewis, C.S.

The Horse and His Boy

Lewis, C.S.

The Magicians Nephew

Lewis, C.S.

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

McKinley Robin

The Hero and the Crown

McKinley, Robin

Rose Daughter

Pearce, Philippa

Tom’s Midnight Garden

Rowling, J.K.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Stevenson, R.L.

Treasure Island

Tolkien, J. R.

The Hobbit

Wells, H.G.

The Time Machine

Wrede, Patricia

Searching for Dragons

Wrede, Patricia

Calling on Dragons

Friendship

Adler, C. S.

Always and Forever Friends

Armstrong, Jennifer

Steal Away

Giff, Patricia Reilly

Lily's Crossing

Guy, Rosa

The Friends

Hahn, Mary

Stepping on the Cracks

Montgomery, L.M.

Anne of Green Gables

Philbrick, W.R.

Max the Mighty

Rostkowski, Margaret

After the Dancing Days

Sachar, Louis

Holes

Staples, Suzanne F.

Dangerous Skies

Woodson, Jacqueline

I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This

Yumoto, Kazumi

The Friends

Zindel, Paul

The Pigman

Holocaust/WW II

Bergman, Tamar

Along the Tracks

Bishop, Claire Hutchet

Twenty and Ten

Boas, Jacob

We Are Witness: Five Diaries of Teenagers who Died in the Holocaust

Comier, Robert

Tunes for Bears to Dance To

Drucker, Malka

Jacob's Rescue, A Holocaust Story

Friedman, Carl

Nightfather

Ippisch, Hanneke

Sky: A True Story of Courage During World War II

Kodama, Tatsuharu

Shin's Tricycle

Levitin, Sonya

Journey to America

Matas,

After the War

Mazer, Harry

The Last Mission

Taylor, Theodore

The Bomb

Yep, Lawrence

Hiroshima

 

 

Immigration

 

 

Avi

The Escape from Home

Conlon-McKenna, Marita

Wildflower Girl

Denboer, Helen

The Journey of Pieter and Anna

Duey, Kathleen

Nell Dunne: Ellis Island, 1899

Hesse, Karen

Letters from Rifka

Hest, Amy

When Jessie Came From Across the Sea

Hicyilmaz, Gaye

The Frozen Waterfall

Hoehne, Marcia

The Journey of Emilie

Kudlinski, Kathleen

Shannon: A Chinatown Adventure San Francisco, 1880

Lasky, Kathryn

Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Felmen, a Jewish Immigrant Girl

Little, Jean

The Belonging Place

Ross, Lillian Hammer

Sarah, Also Known as Hannah

Whelan, Gloria

Goodbye, Vietnam

Woodruff, Elvira

The Orphan of Ellis Island: A Time-Travel Adventure

Mystery & Suspense

 

 

Almond, David

Kit’s Wilderness

Avi

The Man who was Poe

Banks, Lynne Reid

Melusine: A Mystery

Christie, Agatha

And Then There Were None

Duncan, Lois

Summer of Fear

Duncan, Lois

Locked in Time

Hamilton, Virginia

The Mystery of Drear House

Hoobler, Dorothy & Thomas

The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn

McGraw, Eloise Jarvis

The Golden Goblet

Nixon, Joan Lowery

Who Are You?

Nixon, Joan Lowery

The Haunting

Peck, Richard

Are You in the House Alone?

Pullman Phillip

The Tiger in the Well

Pullman, Phillip

The Ruby in the Smoke

Raskin, Ellen

The Westing Game

 

Revolutionary War

 

 

Avi

The Fighting Ground

Cox, Clinton

Come All You Brave Soldiers: Blacks in the Revolutionary War

Denenberg, Barry

The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot

Dolan, Edward F.

The American Revolution: How We Fought the War of Independence

Fritz, Jean

And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

Goodman, Joan

Hope’s Crossing

Greenberg, Judith E.

Journal of a Revolutionary War Woman (In their own words)

Gregory, Kristiana

The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart

Keehn, Sally

Moon of Two Dark Horses

Roop, Peter

An Eye for an Eye

 

Science Fiction

 

 

Card, Orson Scott

Enders Game

Hogan, James Patrick

Bug Park

McCaffrey, Anne

Dragonsong

Sleator, William

Interstellar

Sleator, William

The Beasties

Sleator, William

The Boxes

Sleator, William

Dangerous Wishes

Zindel, Paul

Reef of Death

 

 

Sports

 

 

Brooks, Bruce

The Moves Make the Man

Copley, Robert E.

The Tall Mexican: The Life of Hank Aquirre All-Star Pitcher, Businessman, Humanitarian

Deuker, Carl

On the Devil's Court

Gilbert, Thomas W.

The Soaring Twenties: Babe Ruth and the Home Run Decade

Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Wait Till Next Year

Harrington, Geri

Jackie Joyner Kersee: Champion Athlete

Jones, Tristan

Adrift

Lovit, Chip

Skating for the Gold: Michelle Kwan and Tara Lipinski

Lynch, Chris

Slot Machine

Margolies, Jacob

The Negro Leagues: The Story of Black Baseball

Myers Walter Dean

The Outside Shot

Myers, Walter Dean

Hoops

Pfetzer, Mark

Within My Reach: My Everest Story

Wallace, Rich

Wrestling Sturbridge

Weaver, Will

Farm Team

Weaver, Will

Hard Ball: A Billy Baggs Novel

Weaver, Will

Striking Out

Wright, David K.

Arthur Ashe: Breaking the Color Carrier in Tennis

 

 

Survival

Avi

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Baillie, Allan

Adrift

Campbell, Eric

The Place of Lions

George, Jean C.

My Side of the Mountain

Hobbs, Will

Far North

Houston, James

A Frozen Fire

Osborne, Mary Pope

Adaline Falling Star

Lasky, Kathryn

True North

Lenski, Lois

Indian Captive

Paulsen, Gary

Brian's Winter

Stevermer, Caroline

The River Rats

Whelan, Gloria

Goodbye, Vietnam

 

 

 

Vietnam War

 

 

Boyd, Candy Dawson

Charlie Pippin

Denenberg, Barry

Voices of Vietnam

Nelson, Theresa

And One for All

Pevsner, Stella

Sing for Your Father, Su Phan

 

 

Westward Expansion

 

 

Bohner, Charles

Bold Journey: West With Lewis and Clark

Carter, Peter

Borderlands

   

Conrad, Pam

Prairie Songs

Garland, Sherry

A Line in the Sand: the Alamo Diary of Lucinda Laurence, Gonzales, Texas 1835

Herb, Angela M.

Beyond the Mississippi; Early Westward Expansion of the United States

Moss, Marissa

Amelia Hits the Road

Myers, Walter Dean

The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy

Paulsen, Gary

Call Me Francis Tucket

Reef, Catherine

The Buffalo Soldiers

Poetry Selections are at the end of the 9 – 12 List

 

 

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