Grades6-8SummerReadingList
Fiction
The Future of Us
By Jay Asher
Close to Famous
By Joan Bauer
Fahrenheit 451
By Ray Bradbury
Ender’s Game
By Orson Scott Card
And Then There Were None
By Agatha Christie
The Hunger Games Trilogy
By Suzanne Collins
The Maze Runner Series
By James Dashner
Better Nate than Ever
By Tim Federle
The Outsiders
By S.E.Hinton
Stormbreaker
By Anthony Horowitz
Epic
By Connor Kostick
The Giver
By Louis Lowry
Maximum Ride
By James Patterson
Hatchet
By Gary Paulsen
Life As We Knew It
By Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Queen of Water
By Laura Resau
The Red Pyramid Series
By Rick Riordan
Small Steps
By Louis Sachar
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
By Michael Scott
Wodnerstruck
By Brian Selznick
Notes from the Midnight Driver
Jordan Sonnenblick
Stargirl
By Jerry Spinelli
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
By J.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit
By J.R. Tolkien
Three Times Lucky
By Shelia Turnage
Uglies Series
By Scott Westerfield
One Crazy Summer
By Rita Williams-Garcia
American Born Chinese
By Gene Luen Yang
Nonfiction
Flag of Our Fathers
By James Bradley
The Power of One: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
By Judith Bloom Fradin & Dennis Brindell Frandin
Left for Dead
By Peter Nelson
Guts: the True Stories Behind hatcher and the Brian Books
By Gary Paulsen
Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changes America
By Sharon Robinson
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon
By Catherine Thimmesh
GRADES9–10RecommendedSummer
ReadingList
Fiction
Compound
By S.A. Bodeen
Ender’s Game
By Orson Scott Card
One Whole and Perfect Day
By Judith Clarke
The Alchemist
By Paulo Coelho
Matched
By Allie Condie
The Fault in Our Stars
By John Green
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
By Mark Haddon
Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley
To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee
Divergent (#1 of Insurgent Trilogy)
By Veronica Roth
The Catcher in the Rye
By J.D. Salinger
Between Shades of Grey
By Ruta Sepetys
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By Betty Smith
Of Mice and Men
By John Steinbeck
The Help
By Katheryn Stocket
The Uglies series
By Scott Westerfield
Nonfiction
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
By Dee Brown
The Basketball Diaries
By Kim Caroll
7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens
By Sean Covey
Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America
By Firoozeh Dumas
Unbroken: a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption
By Laura Hillenbrand
Angela’s Ashes: a memoir
By Frank McCourt
The Things They Carried
By Tim O’Brien
Dreams From My Father: a story of race and inheritance
By Barack Obama
A Child Called “it”
By Dave Pelzer
Dawn
By Elie Wiesel
Night
By Elie Wiesel
Grades11-12RecommendedSummer
ReadingList
Fiction
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
By Mitch Albom
Acceptance
By Susan Coll
The Last of the Mohicans
By James F. Cooper
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
By Kim Edwards
The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises
By Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
By Ernst Hemingway
The Kite-Runner
By Khaled Hosseini
Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
By Ken Kesey
The Secret Life of Bees
By Sue Monk Kidd
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Life of Pi
By Yann Martel
The Crucible
By Arthur Miller
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By Betty Smith
The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
Gulliver’s Travels
By Jonathan Swift
Nonfiction
Band of brothers
By Stephen Ambrose
I Know Why the Caged bird Sings
By Maya Angelou
A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a Boy Soldier
By Ishmael Beah
The Pursuit of Happyness
By Chris Gardner
Enrique’s’ Journey
By Sonia Nazario
The importance of being Earnest
By Oscar Wilde