Grades 6 - 8
Springfield MA
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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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