Maranacook Community Middle School
Summer Reading List
2015
Suggested titles:
Any Maine Student Book Award 2015-2016 title
(look for the link on the Media Center webpage)
The Lions of Little Rock, Kristin Levine
Peak, Roland Smith, adventure
Counting by 7s, Holly Goldberg Sloan
Wonderstruck, Brian Selznick
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library, Chris Grabenstein
Bluefish, Pat Schmatz
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
Touching Spirit Bear, Ben Mikaelson, survival
Freak the Mighty, Rodman Philbrick
The Running Dream, Wendelin VanDraanen
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
Alabama Moon, Watt Key, survival
Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
One for the Murphys, Linda Mullaly Hunt
Wonder, R.J. Palacio
Love, Aubrey, Suzanne LaFleur
Poetic narrative:
All the Broken Pieces, Ann Burg
Shakespeare Bats Clean-up, Ronald Koertge
Shakespeare Makes the Play-offs, Ronald Koertge
Hugging the Rock, Susan Taylor Brown
Addie on the Inside, James Howe
Spinning through the Universe, Helen Frost
Hidden, Helen Frost
Kaleidoscope Eyes, Jennifer Bryant
Reaching for Sun, Tracie Vaughn Zimmer
Heartbeat, Sharon Creech
Love That Dog, Sharon Creech
Home of the Brave, Katherine Applegate
Planet Middle School, Nikki Grimes
Hard Hit, Ann Turner
Suggested authors:
Carl Hiassen
Gordon Korman (humor)
Tim Green (sports)
Carl Deuker (sports)
Mike Lupica (sports)
Dan Gutman
Meg Cabot
Gary Schmidt
Dan Poblocki (ghost stories)
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Lauren St. John
Rachel Vail
Gail Carson Levine
Joan Lowery Nixon (mystery)
Shannon Hale (fantasy)
Gary Paulsen
John Green (older readers)
Mystery & ghost stories:
Any book by Mary Downing Hahn
Any book by Joan Lowery Nixon
Jade Green, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Down the Rabbit Hole, Peter Abrahams
Sammy Keyes series, Wendelin Van Draanen
The Ghost of Graylock, Dan Poblocki
The Young Sherlock Holmes series- Andrew Lane
Kepler’s Dream - Juliet Bell
Malcolm at Midnight - W.H. Beck
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be
Found, Sara Nickerson

Popular series:
The Giver series, Lois Lowry
The 39 Clues, various authors
Maximum Ride, James Patterson
The Divergent series, Veronica Roth
The Inheritance series, Christopher Paolini
The City of Ember series, Jeanne DuPrau
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The Unwanteds series - Lisa McMann
Hex Hall series, Rachel Hawkins
The Brian series (Hatchet, etc.), Gary Paulsen
The Alex Rider Adventures, Anthony Horowitz
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card, science fiction
Daniel X series, James Patterson
Monument 14 - Emmy Laybourne, suspense
The Maze Runner series, James Dashner
I am Number Four series - Pittacus Lore
The Missing, Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Ranger’s Apprentice series, John Flanagan
The Shadow Children series, Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Kane Chronicles, Rick Riordan, adventure, mythology
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan, adventure, mythology
The Heroes of Olympus, Rick Riordan, adventure, mythology
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, Michael Scott, magic
Graphic novels:
The Bone series, Jeff Smith
Smile, Raina Telgemeier
Sisters, Raina Telgemeier
Drama, Raina Telgemeier
Sidekicks, Dan Santat
Informational Text (non-fiction titles)
Rapunzel’s Revenge, Shannon Hale
Outlaw: the Legend of Robin Hood, Tony Lee
Lost Trail, Donn Fendler, with Lynn Plourde
The Olympians, George O’Connor (series of books about Greek gods and goddesses)
Nubs: the true story of a mutt, a marine, and a miracle, Brian Dennis
The Notorious Benedict Arnold: a true story of adventure, heroism & treachery, Steve Sheinkin
The Boy on the Wooden Box - Leon Leyson
Freedom Summer: the 1964 struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi, Susan Goldman Rubin
National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry
The Technology of Football, Shane Frederick
How the Beatles Changed the World, Martin W. Sandler
How They Croaked: the awful ends of the awfully famous, Georgia Bragg
Amelia Lost: the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart, Candace Fleming
The Chimpanzees I Love: saving their world and ours, Jane Goodall
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World, Jennifer Armstrong
Angel Island: gateway to Gold Mountain, Russell Freedman
Suggested websites to check for lists of young adult books: http://www.reading.org/resources/booklists/youngadultschoices.aspx (grades 7 -12) http://www.ala.org/yalsa/best-fiction-young-adults http://www.readkiddoread.com (fiction and non-fiction) http://c-t-l.org/kids-recommend/