Summer Reading List

2008

Fiction

• Avi: Midnight Magic, Poppy and Rye*
• Babbitt, Natalie: Search for Delicious
• Banks, Lynne, Reid: Adventures of King Midas
• Bauer, Marion Dane: On My Honor
• Bellairs, John: Curse of the Blue Figurine
• Brittain, Bill: Wish Giver
• Christopher, Matt: Any title
• Cleary, Beverly: Dear Mr. Henshaw
• Clements, Andrew: No Talking, Landry News*
• Conrad, Pam: My Daniel
• Coville, Bruce: My Teacher Is an Alien
• Creech, Sharon: Bloomability, Replay, Walk Two Moons*  
• Curtis, Christopher Paul: Bud, Not Buddy,* Elijah of Buxton*
• DiCamillo, Kate: Tale of Despereaux, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
• Eager, Edward: Half Magic*
• Gardiner, John: Stone Fox*
• Giff, Patricia Reilly: Pictures of Hollis Woods*
• Gilson, Jamie:  Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs
• Gutman, Dan: The Million Dollar Kick, The Kid Who Ran for President, The Homework Machine*
• Hesse, Karen: The Music of Dolphins, Letters from Rifka
• Horvath, Polly: Everything on a Waffle
• Hunter, Erin: Into the Wild*
• Ibbotson , Eva: The Secret of Platform 13
• Kerr, Judith: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
• Konigsburg, E.L.: The View from Saturday
• Lawson, Robert:  Mr. Revere and I
• Lowry, Lois:  Number the Stars
• Newman, Leslea: Hachiko Waits
• Paulsen, Gary: Tracker
• Rodda, Emily: Rowan of Rin
• Scholastic Publishing:  Dear America/My Name Is America Series
• Scieszka, Jon: The Time Warp Trio Series
• Selznick, Brian: The Invention of Hugo Cabret* 
• Spinelli, Jerry:  Crash, Wringer
• Taylor, Mildred:  Song of the Trees, The Gold Cadillac*
• Van Draanen, Wendelin: Sammy Keyes series
• Woodruff, Elvira: Dear Levi: Letters from the Overland Trail

Non Fiction

• Adoff, Arnold: Sports Pages
• Christopher, Matt: At the Plate with...Ken Griffey, Jr.
• Cobb, Vicki: Science Experiments You Can Eat
• Ferris, Jeri: Walking the Road to Freedom
• Getz, David: Frozen Man
• Hamilton, Virginia: The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
• Kehret, Peg: Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays

*Reading Olympics book

Grade Six

Don't forget to keep a reading log of all the books you read this summer! Bring the log to school in September and give it to your teacher.

• Avi: Never Mind!, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle*
• Balliet, Blue: Chasing Vermeer
• Barron, T.A.: The Lost Years of Merlin*
• Barry, Dave: Peter and the Starcatchers
• Birdsall, Jeanne: The Penderwicks
• Bryant, Jen: The Trial
• Choi, Sook Nyui: Year of Impossible Goodbyes
• Choldenko, Gennifer: Al Capone Does My Shirts
• Clements, Andrew: Things Not Seen*
• Colfer, Eoin: Artemis Fowl
• Creech, Sharon: Replay,  Walk Two Moons  
• Curtis, Christopher Paul: The Watsons Go to Birmingham, Elijah of Buxton
• Ellis, Deborah: Parvana’s Journey, Mud City
• Enzensberger, Hans Magnus: The Number Devil
• Farmer, Nancy: The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
• Funke, Cornelia: The Thief Lord*
• Haddix, Margaret Peterson: Running Out of Time*
• Hahn, Mary: Downing: Stepping on the Cracks*
• Hamilton, Virginia: The House of Dies Drear
• Hiassen, Carl: Hoot*
• Hobbs, Will: The Maze
• Horowitz, Anthony: Public Enemy Number Two, Point Blank*
• Hunter, Erin: Warriors Series
• Jackson, Donna M.: E.R. Vets: Life in an Animal Emergency Room
• Jacques, Brian: Redwall Series
• Kadohata, Cynthia: Kira Kira
• Kinney, Jeff: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Konigsburg, E.L.: The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
• L'Engle, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time
• Lord, Cynthia: Rules
• Lupica, Mike: Summer Ball, Miracle on 49th Street, Heat*
• Park, Linda Sue: A Single Shard, Project Mulberry
• Parks, Rosa: Rosa Parks, My Story*
• Patneaude, David: Someone Was Watching
• Paulsen, Gary: How Angel Peterson Got His Name
• Peck, Richard: A Long Way from Chicago
• Philbrick,  Rodman: The Young Man and the Sea
• Rawls, Wilson: Where the Red Fern Grows
• Riordan, Rick: The Lightning Thief, Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse
• Ritter, John: The Boy Who Saved Baseball
• Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter series
• Ryan, Pam Munoz: Esperanza Rising
• Selzniak, Brian: The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Siebold, Jan: Doing Time Online*
• Sleator, William: Rewind, The Boy Who Reversed Himself
• Spinelli, Jerry: Milkweed
• Stewart, Trenton Lee: The Mysterious Benedict Society*
• Taylor, Mildred: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• Temple, Frances: Grab Hands and Run
• Uchido, Yoshiko: The Invisible Thread
• Van Draanan, Wendelin: Flipped
• Wells, H.G.: The Time Machine
• Whelan, Gloria: Homeless Bird
• Williams, Laura: Behind the Bedroom Wall
• Wolff, Virginia Euwer: Bat 6*

*Reading Olympics book

Grade Seven

      Each seventh grader is required to read one of the following books during summer vacation and to be prepared to participate in a Back-to-School Literature Circle in September.

• Avi: Nothing But the Truth
• Farmer, Nancy: The House of the Scorpion
• Philbrook, Rodman: Freak the Mighty
• Sonnenblick, Jordan: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
• Woodson, Jacqueline: Hush