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MIDDLE SCHOOL SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST

Created by Peggy Dillner - Director of The Education Resource Center at the University of Delaware

GRADE SIX

BLIZZARD: THE STORM THAT CHANGED AMERICA by Jim Murphy (nonfiction)

INKHEART by Cornelia Funke (fantasy)

LITTLE VAMPIRE DOES KUNG FU! By Joann Sfar (graphic novel)

CHAMPION: THE STORY OF MUHAMMED ALI by Jim Haskins (biography)

GIRL IN A CAGE by Jane Yolen and Robert J. Harris (historical fiction)

CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE by Ann Martin (fiction)

LOCOMOTION by Jacqueline Woodson (African-American protagonist & poetry novel)

EVERYTHING ON A WAFFLE by Polly Horwath (fiction - humor)

FAIR WEATHER by Richard Peck (fiction)

JACKIE & ME by Dan Gutman (fiction – sports)

GRADE SEVEN

HIDDEN TALENTS by David Lubar (FOW list)

ERAGON by Christopher Paolini (fantasy & Blue Hen list)

BEFORE WE WERE FREE by Julia Alvarez (Latino protagonist)

THE WAY A DOOR CLOSES by Hope Anita Smith (poetry)

BONE: OUT FROM BONEVILLE by Jeff Smith (graphic novel)

THE KITE RIDER by Geraldine McCaughrean (fiction)

HOPE WAS HERE by Joan Bauer (fiction)

DOUBLE DUTCH by Sharon Draper (fiction & African-American protagonist)

SILENT TO THE BONE by E.L. Konigsburg (fiction)

PHINEAS GAGE: A GRUESOME BUT TRUE STORY ABOUT BRAIN SCIENCE by John Fleischman (nonfiction)

GRADE EIGHT

MERIDIAN: FLYING SOLO by Barbara Kesel (FOW list & graphic novel)

MILKWEED by Jerry Spinelli (WWII historical fiction & Blue Hen list)

GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER: THE TRUE STORY OF THE EMMETT TILL CASE by Chris Crowe (nonfiction)

MISSISSIPPI TRIAL , 1955 by Chris Crowe (fiction – based on above incident)

THE HOUSE OF THE SCORPION by Nancy Farmer (science fiction)

THE LAND by Mildred Taylor (fiction & African-American protagonist)

WITNESS by Karen Hesse (poetry novel)

LOVE THY NEIGHBOR: THE TORY DIARY OF PRUDENCE EMERSON by Ann Turner (historical fiction)

NO MORE DEAD DOGS by Gordon Korman (fiction – humor)

THE JUMPING TREE by Rene Saldana, Jr. (short stories – Latino protagonists)