Middle School Summer Reading List 2015 Book List: Contemporary and Dystopian – Non Fiction & Fiction • Swipe by Evan Angler • Somebody On This Bus is Going to Be Famous by J.B. Cheaney • City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau • The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart (suggested grade: 8th) • Island of Dr Libris by Chris Grabenstein • Chomp by Carl Hiassen (suggested grade: 8th) • Fish in a Tree by Linda Mullaly Hunt (suggested grade: 6th) • Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition • Half a Chance by Cynthia Lord • Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin (suggested grade: 6th) • Wake Up Missing by Kate Messner • How to Speak Dolphin by Ginny Rorby • Any title in the Scientists in the Field Series by William Kamkwamba Historical – Non Fiction & Fiction • Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb • The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti • Deadly by Julie Chibbaro (suggested grade: 8th) • Al Capone Does My Homework or any book in the Al Capone series • Mad Man of Piney Woods or any title by Christopher Paul Curtis • Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis by Gennifer Choldenko (suggested grade: 8th) ✮ Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis • Prisioner B-3087 by Ruth & Jack Gruener Page 1 of 2 • The Watcher by Joan Hiatt Harlow (suggested grade: 6th) • Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin • Into the Killing Seas by Michael P. Spradlin (suggested grade: 8th) • Keeper of the Grail (Youngest Templar series book 1) by Michael P. • True Grit: Young Readers Edition by Charles Portis • Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt (suggested grade: 8th) Spradlin (suggested grade: 8th) ✮ Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson (Corresponding movie: The Conspirator (PG13); not based on this book but compliments the book.) (suggested grade: 8th) • Arcady’s Goals by Eugene Yelchin • Breaking Stalin’s Nose by Eugene Yelchin Classics – includes modern classics ✮ ' Little Women by Louisa May Alcott ✮ Incredible Journey by Sheila Bumford ✮ Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (suggested grade: 8th) ✮ Black Stallion by Walter Farley (suggested grade: 6th) ✮ The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton (suggested grade: 8th) ✮ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (suggested grade: 8th) ✮ The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis ✮ Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery ✮ Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien ✮ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ✮ The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (suggested grade: 8th) ✮ The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again or any book in the Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R. Tolkien (suggested grade: 8th) Page 2 of 2