Grades 6 - 8

Springfield MA

Summer Reading List

kids with books

 

Entering Grade 6 Summer Reading List

Mandatory Book - Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

All students are required to read at least two other books besides the one mandatory book listed above. Please select two from the list below.

Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder

The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Coatsworth

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Curtis

Lily's Crossing by Patricia Giff

Willow Run by Patricia Giff

Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech

The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder

What Could Go Wrong by Willow Davis Roberts
(Available through CWMars)

The Twenty One Balloons by William Pene DuBois

Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief by Wendelin van Draanen

Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island by Eve Bunting

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis

Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury

The Duplicate by William Sleator

Woodsong by Gary Paulsen

PS Longer Letter Later by Aula Danziger

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

Stand Tall, Harry by Mary Mahony
Not available in CWMars

Harry Scores a Hat Trick by Mary Mahony
Not available in CWMars

Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

On the Far Side of the Mountain by J. C. George

Any Sequel to Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
(The River, Brian's Return, Brian's Winter)

 

Entering Grade 7 Summer Reading List

Mandatory Book - The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

All students are required to read at least two other books besides the one mandatory book listed above. Please select two from the list below.

Crispin - The Cross of Lead by Avi

Squashed by Joan Bauer

The Skin I'm In by Sharon Flake

Hoot by Carl Hiassen

Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey

The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell

Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

The View from Saturday by E.L. Koenigsburg

The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney

Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Bull Rider by Marilyn Halvorson

Slam by Walter Dean Myers

Redwall by Brian Jacques

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

Money Hungry by Sharon Flake

Begging for Change by Sharon Flake

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

The Lost Years of Merlin by T.A. Barron

Jazmin's Notebook by Nikki Grimes

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

Free the Children by Craig Kielburger

The City of Ember by Jeanne DePrau

Cuba 15 by Nancy Osa

The Schwa Was Here by Neal Schusterman

The Pinballs by Betsy Byars

The House on Mango Street by Sarah Cisneros

 

Students Entering Grade 8

Mandatory Book - Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

All students are required to read at least two other books besides the one mandatory book listed above. Please select two from the list below.

Dean Duffy by Randy Powell
CWMARS

Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix

California Blue by David Klass

Lisa Bright and Dark by John Neufeld

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers

My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier

Tulsa Burning by Anna Myers

Zel by Donna Jo Napoli

Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais

First Test by Tamora Pierce

I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

Hoop Dreams by Ben Joravsky

Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines

Taking Sides by Gary Soto

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

Hoops by Walter Dean Myers

Farewell to Manzanar by Jean Houston and James Houston

The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong

 

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updated : June 26, 2010