Grade 6-8 Summer Reading Assignment: All students
are expected to read two books over the summer from
the list provided.
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Middle School Summer Reading List
Title
Fiction:
Close to Famous
Middle School: Get Me Out of Here
Chomp
Harry Potter Series
Totally Joe
The Apothecary
Wonder
Fallen Angels
The Monstrumologist
My Name is Not Easy
Little Brother
Graceling
What Happened to Goodbye
Trash
Food, Girls and Other Things I Can't Have
Evil Genius
Monsoon Summer
Lady Grace Mysteries (Elizabeth I)
King of Shadows
Delirium Series
The Hunger Games Series
Divergent Series
39 Clues Series
The Crossing
So B.It
Milkweed
City of Bones
Percy Jackson Series/Lost Hero Series
Beautiful Creatures
Classics/Modern Classics:
Wind in the Willows
Swiss Family Robinson
Call of the Wild
Anne of Green Gables
All Creatures Great and Small
Graphic Novels
Around the World
Bayou
Houdini: The Handcuff King
Take What You Can Carry
Hades
Anya’s Ghost
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
American Born Chinese
Non-Fiction:
Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the
bicycle to freedom
The Lemon Tree
Snow Falling in Spring: Coming of Age During
the Cultural Revolution
Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories From the
Dark Side of American Immigration
Author
Grade Level
Lexile Level
Joan Bauer
James Patterson
Carl Hiassen
J.K. Rowling
James Howe
Maile Meloy
R.J Palacio
Walter Dean Myers
Rick Yancey
Debby Edwardson
Cory Doctorow
Kristin Cashore
Sara Dessen
Andy Mulligan
Allen Zadoff
Catherine Jinks
Mitali Perkins
Grace Cavendish
Susan Cooper
Lauren Oliver
Suzanne Collins
Veronica Roth
Mallory Cass
Gary Paulsen
Sarah Weeks
Jerry Spinelli
Cassandra Clare
Rick Riordan
K. Garcia and M. Stohl
5-7
5-7
6-8
5-8
6-8
6-8
5-7
7-9
6-8
8-9
8-9
8-10
8-10
6-7
8-10
6-8
8-9
6-8
5-8
7-9
6-9
7-9
6-8
5-8
6-8
5-9
7-9
6-8
7-9
540
680
800
800-900
910
740
790
650
990
NA
900
730
820
860
NA
720
750
840
1010
810
810
700
660
1150
860
510
740
740
670
K. Grahame
J. Wyss
Jack London
L.M. Montgomery
James Herriot
5-8
5-8
5-8
5-8
5-9
1140
820
1120
990
990
Matt Phelan
Jeremy Love
J. Lutes and N. Bertozzi
Kevin Pyle
George O'Connor
Vera Brosgol
Ann Marie Fleming
Gene Luen Yang
6-8
6-8
6-8
6-8
6-8
7-9
6-8
7-9
Sue Macy
6-8
Sandy Tolan
Moying Li
6-8
6-8
Ann Bausum
7-9
1280
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