Middle School Library
Recommended Summer Reading
Grade 5
Keeper by Kathi Appelt
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall
Blood on the River: James Town 1607 by Lynn Elisa Carbone
Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles
What the Moon Saw by Laura Resau
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Defiance by Valarie Hobbs
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Bird Lake Moon by Kevin Henkes
Grade 6
The Seer of Shadows by AVI
The London Eye Mystery by Siobhan Dowd
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Vernon
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleishman
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
My One Hundred Adventures by Polly Horvath
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacquline Kelly
Calder Game by Blue Balliett
Slob by Ellen Potter
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
Kaliedoscope Eyes by Jen Bryant
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Chlodenko
Grade 7 & 8
Witness by Karen Hesse
Book of A Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Bamboo People by Metali Perkins
The Alchymyst by Michael Scott
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Someone Named Eva by Joan Wolf
Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrope
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick