Please choose 2
books to read during the summer vacation.
You may choose one from one category (fiction or non-fiction) and one
from the other. Please write three
responses for each book. A list of
possible responses has been provided.
You must type your responses and place in a folder to bring into
school on the first day of school.
Recommended
Reading for summer
Grade 6
(Levels N-V)
Grade 7
(Levels P-W)
Grade 8
(Levels V-Z)
Level N
Fiction
Amber Brown
series –Danziger, Paula
Invisible
Stanley series – Brown, Jeff
Julian’s
Stories series – Cameron, Ann
The Zack
Files series - Greenburg, Dan
Nonfiction
Helen Keller
- Davidson, Margaret
Louis Braille
– “
All Pigs Are Beautiful – King-Smith, David
The Digestive
System – Stille, Darlene
Shark Attack
– Dukbowski, Cathy East
Level O
Fiction
The Boxcar
Children series – Warner, Gertrude C
Ramona series
– Beverly Cleary
Series by
Geronimo Stilton
Pippi
Longstocking – Lindgren, Astrid
Chocolate
Fever – Smith, Robert K
Nonfiction
Ant Cities –
Dorros, Arthur
Baseball’s
Best: Five True Stories – Gutelle, Andrew
Dolphins –
Holmes, Kevin J.
Who Was King
Tut? – Edwards, Roberta
I Wonder Why
Snakes Shed Their Skin and Other Questions About Reptiles – O’Neill, Amanda
Level P
Fiction
Felita –Mohr,
Nicholasa
Stone Fox –
Gardiner, John Reynolds
Sideways
Stories from Wayside School – Sachar, Louis
Dragon
Slayers Academy series – McMullan, Kate
Encyclopedia
Brown series – Sobol, Daniel
Nonfiction
Bats –
Rodriguez, Cindy
Snow Dogs –
Whitelaw, Ian
Henry Ford –
Venezia, Mike
Wild and
Wooly Mammoths – Aliki
The
Automobile – Sinclair, Julie
Level Q
Fiction
Dear Mr.
Henshaw – Cleary, Beverly
James and the
Giant Peach – Dahl, Roald
Anastasia
Krupnik series – Lowry, Lois
Bunnicula
series – Howe, James
Last Summer with Maizon – Woodson, Jacqueline
Nonfiction
If You Lived
100 Years Ago – McGovern, Ann
Nature’s
Green Umbrella – Gibbons, Gail
The Biography
of Bananas – Eagen, Rachel
Black Holes
and Other Bizarre Space Objects – Jefferis, David
Ivan the
Terrible: Tsar of Death – Price, Sean
Level R
Fiction
Because of
Winn-Dixie – DiCamillo, Kate
Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory – Dahl, Roald
Every Living
Thing – Rylant, Cynthia
Hatchet –
Paulsen, Gary
Sarah, Plain
and Tall – MacLachlan, Patricia
Nonfiction
Amelia
Earhart: Young Aviator – Gormley, Beatrice
Everything
Reptile: What Kids Really Want to Know About Reptiles – Winner, Cherie
Spectacular
Sharks – Kalman, Bobbie
Mummies Made
in Egypt – Aliki
Inventing the Television – Richter, Joanne
Level S
Fiction
The
Cricket in Times Square – Selden, George
From the
Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweller – Konigsburg, E.L.
The Great
Gilly Hopkins – Paterson, Katherine
The Pinballs
– Byars, Betsy
Choose Your
Own Adventure series – Montgomery, R.A.
Nonfiction
A Boy Called
Slow – Bruchac, Joseph
The Tarantula
in My Purse – George, Jean C.
How Dogs Came
from Wolves – Myers, Jack
Children’s
Clothing of t he 1800s – Kalman,
Ellis Island
– Jango-Cohen, Judith
Level T
Fiction
Bridge to
Terabithia – Pat erson, Katherine
The Lion, the
Witch, and the Wardrobe – Lewis, C. S.
Love That Dog
– Creech, Sharon
The Tiger Rising – DiCamillo, Kate
The Lion, The
Witch, and the Wardrobe – Lewis, C.S.
Nonfiction
Sharks –
Simon, Seymour
Woodsong –
Paulsen, Gary
Lightning –
Simon, Seymour
Lost Star – Lauber, Patricia
Tools and
Gadgets – Kalman, Bobbie
Level U
Fiction
Baseball in
April and Other Stories – Soto, Gary
The BFG –
Dahl, Roald
Loser –
Spinelli, Jerry
No More Dead
Dogs – Korman, Gordon
Wringer –
Spinelli, Jerry
NonFiction
Insects –
Bird, Bettina
The Salem
Witch Trials – Martin, Michael
Boys Who
Rocked the World: From King Tut to Tiger Woods – Carlsmith, Laura
Breakfast in
the Rainforest – Sobol, Richard
T he
Tarantula Scientist – Montgomery, Sy
Level V
Fiction
Becoming
Naomi Leon – Ryan, Pam Munoz
Esperanza
Rising – Ryan, P am Munoz
Locomotion –
Woodson, Jacqueline
A Long Way
from Chicago – Peck, Richard
Yolanda’s
Genius – Fenner, Carol
Nonfiction
Achoo! The Most Interesting Book You’ll Ever Read
About Germs – Romanek, Trudee
Three Cups of
Tea (Young Reader’s Edition) – Mortenson, Greg
Princess
Diana – Mattern, Joanne
The Snake
Scientist – Montgomery, Sy
Pirates!
Raiders of the High Seas – Maynard, Christopher
Level W
Fiction
Freak the
Mighty – Philbrick, Rodman
Maniac Magee
– Spinelli, Jerry
The Skin I’m
In – Flake, Sharon G
Coraline –
Gaiman, Neil
Harry Potter
and the Half Blood Prince – Rowling, J.K.
Nonfiction
Anne Frank:
Life in Hiding – Hurwitz, Johanna
I Am a
Star: Child of the Holocaust –
Auerbacher, Inge
Tornadoes –
Woods, Michael and Mary
The Hive
Detectives – Burns, Loree Griffin
Mummies!
Secrets of the Dead – Griffey, Harriet
Level X
Fiction
Al Capone
Does My Shirts – Choldenko, Gennifer
Drums, Girls,
and Dangerous Pie – Sonnenblick, Jordan
Somewhere in
the Darkness – Myers, Walter Dean
Out of the
Dust – Hesse, Karen
The Glory
Field – Myers, Walter Dean
Nonfiction
Burp! The
Most Interesting Book You’ll Ever Read About Eating – Swanson, Diane
Through My
Eyes – Bridges, Ruby
Childtimes: A
Three-Generation Memoir – Greenfield, Eloise
Revenge of
the Whale: The True Story of the Whaleship of Essex – Philbrick, Nathaniel
Phineas
Gage: A Gruesome But True Story About
Brain Science – Fleischman, John
Level Y
Fiction
Double Dutch
– Draper, Sharon M
After Tupac
& D Foster – Woodson, Jacqueline
The Devil’s
Arithmetic – Yolen, Jane
Cirque du
Freak series – Shan, Darren
Just Ella – Haddix, Margaret P
Nonfiction
The Story of
Disney – Bodden, Valeria
Hana’s
Suitcase – Levine, Karen
Black
Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 – Bartoletti, Susan C
New Kids in
Town: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens – Bode, Janet
Mountains Around
the World – Green, Jen
Level Z
Fiction
Forged by
Fire – Draper, Sharon M.
1984 - Orwell, George
Lord of the
Flies – Golding, William
Monster –
Myers, Walter Dean
Tears of a
Tiger – Draper, Sharon M
Nonfiction
Chew on This
(Young Reader’s Edition) – Schlosser, Eric
Night –
Wiesel, Elie
When Plague
Strikes: The Black Death, Smallpox, AIDS – Giblin, James Cross
My Thirteenth
Winter: A Memoir – Abeel, Samantha
The Miracle
Worker – Gibson, WilliamoHH
