Middle School Summer Reading List

6^th Grade:

Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
The Girls by Amy Goldman Koss
Iqbal by Francesco D’Adamo
Keys to the Kingdom – Mr. Monday by Garth Nix
Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata
Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
Sarny by Gary Paulsen
So You Want to Be a Wizard – The First Book in the Young Wizard Series by Diane Duane
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan
Tangerine by Edward Bloor

7^th Grade: 

A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
Buried Onions by Gary Soto
Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
Magic or Madness by Laura Larbalestier
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
The Bully by Paul Langan
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Schwa Was Here by Neal Shustermann
Estrella’s Quinceaera by Malin Alegria
The Eyes of the Emporer by Graham Salisbury
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

8^th Grade:

47 by Walter Mosely
A Step from Heaven by An Na
The Afterlife by Gary Soto
Assassin by Anna Myer
Autobiography of My Dead Brother by Walter Dean Myers
Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters by Gail Giles
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale Volume I: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Notes From a Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick
Red Riders Hood by Neal Shustermann
Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper
Sleeping Freshman Never Lie by David Lubar

** Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli is also a cross-grade level selection

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