SUGGESTED SUMMER READING

Looking for a good book to take to the beach? Try some of my suggestions below! Want to share your reading experience with other students? Consider joining our SMS Summer Reading E-mail Discussion Group.
*These novels are listed by interest level and do not necessarily reflect reading level.  Choose from any list. Also, these novels were chosen for recreational reading, and are NOT required reading.  All titles have Reading Counts! quizzes.

Incoming 6th Grade

Avi.  The Fighting Ground.

Bellairs, John.  House with a Clock in Its Walls.

Blume, Judy.  Just As Long As We’re Together.

Brittain, Bill.  Shape Changer.

Clements, Andrew. A Week in the Woods.

Griffin, Peni. Switching Well.

Hahn, Mary Downing.  Wait Till Helen Comes.

Ibbotsen, Eva.  The Secret of Platform 13

L’Engle, Madeline.  A Wrinkle in Time.

Lupica, Mike. Travel Team

Merrill, Jean.  The Pushcart War.

Paterson, Katerine. The Same Stuff as Stars.

Peck, Richard.  Lost in Cyberspace.

Roberts, Willo Davis.  The Kidnappers.

Ryan, Pam Munoz. Esperanza Rising.

Shreve, Susan. Goodbye, Amanda the Good

Skurzynski, Gloria. The Hunted. (Mysteries in our National Parks #5; these do not have to be read in order)

Sleator, William.  The Boxes

Smith, Roland. Cryptid Hunters

Strickland, Brad. The Bell, the Book & the Spellbinder

Tamar, Erika.  The Junkyard Dog.

Van Draanen, Wendelin.  Sammy Keyes & the Hotel Thief (and others in the series).

 

Incoming 8th Grade

Christie, Agatha.  And Then There Were None.

Cooney, Caroline B.  Wanted!

Duncan, Lois.  Locked in Time.

Hamilton, Virginia.  The House of Dies Drear.

Holm, Jennifer L. Boston Jane.

Horowitz, Anthony. Stormbreaker

Lawrence, Ian. The Wreckers.

Lubar, David. Hidden Talents.

Lunn, Janet.  The Root Cellar.

Mazer, Norma Fox.  Taking Terri Mueller.

Mazer, Norma & Harry.  The Solid Gold Kid.

Murphy, Jim.  The Great Fire.

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Jade Green.

Paulsen, Gary.  A Soldier’s Heart.

Peck, Richard.  Are You In The House Alone?

Rinaldi, Ann.  The Fifth of March.

Sachar, Louis.  Holes.

Sleator, William.  Interstellar Pig.

Smith, Roland.  Sasquatch.

Sykes, Shelley.  For Mike.

Taylor, Theodore.  The Weirdo.

Vande Velde, Vivien. Alison, Who Went Away.

White, Ellen Emerson. The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty. United States Marine Corp.

Zindel, Paul.  The Undertaker’s Gone Bananas.

Incoming 7th Grade

Bellairs, John. Eyes of the Killer Robot

Bloor, Edward.  Tangerine.

Cooney, Caroline B. Mummy.

Cooney, Caroline B.  Flash Fire.

Cooper, Susan.  The Dark is Rising.

Duncan, Lois.  Stranger With My Face.

Dygard, Thomas. The Rookie Arrives

Hale, Shannon. Princess Academy

Jacques, Brian.  Redwall series.

Keehn, Sally.  I Am Regina.

Kehret, Peg.  Cages.

Keith, Harold.  Rifles for Watie.

Levine, Gail Carson.  Ella Enchanted.

Nix, Garth. Mister Monday. (First in the Keys to the Kingdom series.)

Nixon, Joan Lowery.  The Dark and Deadly Pool.

Nixon, Joan Lowery. The Haunting.

Peck, Richard.  Voices After Midnight.

Philbrick, Rodman.  The Fire Pony.

Reiss, Kathryn.  Paperquake.

Ritter, John H.  Choosing Up Sides.

Sleator, William.  The Beasties.

Tolan, Stephanie. Surviving the Applewhites.

Voigt, Cynthia.  Homecoming.

Yancey, Richard. The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp

Zindel, Paul.  Raptor.
 

Incoming 9th Grade

Anderson, Laurie Halse. Speak.

Brickhill, Paul. The Great Escape.

Clements, Andrew. Things Not Seen.

Collier, James. The Empty Mirror

Deaver, Julie Reis.  Say Goodnight, Gracie.

Deuker, Carl.  Heart of a Champion

Du Maurier, Daphne.  Rebecca.

Friend, Natasha. Lush.

Grisham, John. The Firm

Kantor, Melissa. If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s

        My Prince Charming?

Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Turnabout.

Korman, Gordon.  Losing Joe’s Place

Lynch, Chris.  Iceman.

Mikaelsen, Ben. Touching Spirit Bear.

Myers, Walter Dean.  Fallen Angels.

Paulsen, Gary.  The Transall Saga.

Peters, Juli Anne. Define “Normal”.

Rinaldi, Ann.  Finishing Becca.

Shelley, Mary.  Frankenstein.

Sleator, William.  Singularity.

Smith, Betty.  A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Twain, Mark.  Pudd’nhead Wilson.

Voigt, Cynthia.  Izzy Willy-Nilly.

Werlin, Nancy.  The Killer’s Cousin.

White, Robb.  Deathwatch.

 

 

 

 

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