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Middle School
Summer Reading List
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6th Grade
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Stone Fox
By John Reynolds Gardiner |
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. |
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Babe and Me
By Dan Gutman |
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. |
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
By Eleanor Coerr |
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. |
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Crossing Jordan
By Adrian Fogelin |
This is a moving, coming-of-age story of a young girl who overcomes family prejudice and cultural differences when she befriends a black girl in a small working-class town. |
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
By Patricia Reilly Giff |
Hollis, who was abandoned at birth, makes a habit of running away from foster homes until she finds Josie, a retired art teacher. Hollis begins to feel wanted. They share the joy and appreciation of art. Through Hollis’s artwork, readers learn about the family that Hollis last lived with and her longing to be a part of a family. |
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MIllion Doller Kick
By Dan Gutman |
Thirteen-year-old Whisper, who hates sports, is torn when she gets a chance to win a million dollars by kicking a goal against a local soccer hero. |
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Esperanza Rising
By Pam Munoz Ryan |
Esperanza is a rich, young girl living in Mexico on her father’s large ranch. Bandits kill Esperanza’s father and their estate is left to a wicked uncle. Esperanza and her mother escape to work in the migrant fields of California. She eventually finds “hope” in the English translation of her name. |
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Regular Guy
By Sarah Weeks |
Because he is different from his eccentric parents, twelve-year-old Guy is convinced he has been switched at birth with a classmate whose parents seem more normal. |
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The Bad Beginnings
By Lemony Snicket |
This book is the first book in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. This story is about three siblings (14, 12, and an infant) who are orphaned when their house burns down and they have to live with an evil relative who plots to deviously obtain their sizable inheritance. |
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Black Beauty
By Anna Sewell |
Black Beauty tells us the story of his sometimes pleasant and often difficult life as a horse in the 19th century. |
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7th Grade
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Crash!
By Jerry Spinelli |
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family |
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The Revealers
By Doug Wilhelm |
Tired of being bullied and picked on, three seventh-grade outcasts join forces and, using scientific methods and the power of the Internet, begin to create a new atmosphere at Parkland Middle School. |
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Chasing the Falconers
By Gordon Korman |
Aidan and Meg Falconer are their parents' only hope. The Falconers are facing life in prison-unless Aidan and Meg can follow a trail of clues to prove their innocence. The problem? Right now they're trapped in a juvenile detention center. Until they escape one night-and find themselves on the run, both from the authorities and from a sinister attacker who has his own reason to stop them. The Falconers must use their wits to make it across the country, with plenty of tests along the way. Gordon Korman takes readers into FUGITIVE territory-with thrilling results. |
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Tangerine
By Edward Bloor |
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. |
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101 Ways to Bug Your Parents
By Lee Wardlaw |
Steve’s parents call off the family vacation and enroll him in a creative writing class instead. As a result, Steve comes up with a ridiculous moneymaking project. |
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Surviving the Applewhites
By Stephanie Tolan |
Jake, a budding delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family’s Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interest he never knew he had. |
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Survivors: True Stories of the Holocaust
By Allan Zullo and Marva Bovsun |
Tells the stories of nine Jewish children who survived the Holocaust. |
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Slake's Limbo
By Felice Holman |
Aremis Slake, unloved and neglected, runs away to live in the subway tunnels. Slake is ingenious in the way he learns to survive the urban terrain without parents |
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Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
By Jennifer Allison |
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower |
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Treasure Island
By Robert Stevenson |
Come aboard the good ship Hispaniola and set sail in a thrilling story of buried treasure, piracy, and derring-do in days past. |
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8th Grade
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Zach's Lie
By Roland Smith |
When 13-year-old Jack Osborne's father is arrested for drug trafficking, Jack, his older sister Joanne, and their mother are forced to flee their comfortable home and take on new identities through the Witness Relocation Program. |
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Stargirl
By Jerry Spinelli |
Stargirl Caraway, a 10th grader at Arizona’s High School, who wears pioneer dresses and kimonos to school, strums a ukulele in the cafeteria, laughs when there are no jokes, and dances when there is no music. She stuns the whole school. |
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Red Midnight
By Ben Mikaelsen |
After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States. |
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Small Steps
By Louis Sachar |
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes alon |
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Ransom
By Lois Duncan |
Held hostage on a bus, five kids make some startling discoveries about themselves when they are forced to cooperate in order to escape. |
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The Young Landlords
By Walter Dean Myers |
Five devoted friends become landlords and try to make their Harlem neighborhood a better place to live. |
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Z for Zachariah
By Robert C. O'Brien |
Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape. |
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Robinson Crusoe
By Danial Defoe |
The original solitary castaway and his attempt to establish his life on a deserted island. |
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Bucking the Sarge
By Christoper Paul Curtis |
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher. |
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Downsiders
By Neal Shusterman |
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures. |
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