2009 Middle School Summer Required Reading

Hot off the press – be sure to check out what’s on the Required Summer Reading list for Middle Schoo.  You can print out a version to go (printable version (.pdf)) or to check availability …

Grade 6 (Two books)

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (required)

And choose one of:

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Ghost Canoe by Will Hobbs
• Heat by Mike Lupica
• Miracle on 49th Street by Mike Lupica
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
• Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech

Grade 7 (Choose two…)

• Eggs by Jerry Spinelli
• Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
• The Girl Who Owned a City by O. T. Nelson
• The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
• Summer Ball by Mike Lupica
• Ties That Bind, Ties That Break by Lensey Namioka
• So B. It by Sarah Weeks

Grade 8 (Choose two…)

• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
• Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Spencer Hesser
• A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly
• Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper & Adam Lowenbein
• The Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin

Or any ONE of the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson

• The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)
• School’s Out – Forever (Maximum Ride, Book 2)
• Saving the World (Maximum Ride, Book 3)
• The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)
• Max (Maximum Ride, Book 5)