2010 Middle School Summer Required Reading

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

Grade 6 (Two books)

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (required)

And choose one of:

• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Heat by Mike Lupica
• The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
• Gregor the Overlander (Book 1) by Suzanne Collins
• Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
• Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies …. by Nan Marino

Grade 7 (Two books)

• Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick (required)

And choose one of:

• Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• 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)
• Fang (Maximum Ride, Book 6)