I, as well as everyone else, am trying to keep my kids off the computer and t.v. this summer. To keep them engaged, I’ve compiled some reading lists for Middle School students. (I’ll have elementary and high school later)
5th Grade:
D'Aulaires' book of Greek myths By Ingrid and Edgar D’Aulaire
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimesh
The Lightning Thief (and sequels) By Rick Riordan
The Red Pyramid (and sequels) By Rick Riordan
The Lost Hero By Rick Riordan
The 39 Clues series by Various authors
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot by Sy MontgomeryD'Aulaires' book of Greek myths By Ingrid and Edgar D’Aulaire
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimesh
The Lightning Thief (and sequels) By Rick Riordan
The Red Pyramid (and sequels) By Rick Riordan
The Lost Hero By Rick Riordan
The 39 Clues series by Various authors
The Book without Words by Avi
Whales on Stilts
6th Grade:
The Broken Tusk By Uma Krishnaswami
Number the Stars By Lois Lowry
Habibi By Naomi Shihab Nye
Night By Elie Wiesel
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Boy Who Dared By Susan Bartoletti
Seven Sons and Seven Daughters By Barbara Chen
The Iron Ring By Lloyd Alexander
Ordinary Magic By Malcolm Bosse
The Conch Bearer By Chitra Bannerjee Divakauruni
Shadow Spinner By Susan Fletcher
Hoot by Carl HiaasenThe Broken Tusk By Uma Krishnaswami
Number the Stars By Lois Lowry
Habibi By Naomi Shihab Nye
Night By Elie Wiesel
Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Boy Who Dared By Susan Bartoletti
Seven Sons and Seven Daughters By Barbara Chen
The Iron Ring By Lloyd Alexander
Ordinary Magic By Malcolm Bosse
The Conch Bearer By Chitra Bannerjee Divakauruni
Shadow Spinner By Susan Fletcher
Blizzard by Jim Murphy
6th & 7th grade:
Maniac Magee, by Spinelli
Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Selznick
Maze of Bones: 39 Clues, by Riordan
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, by Kinney
Watsons Go To Birmingham, by Curtis
The Egypt Game, by Snyder
Walk Two Moons, by Creech
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
The Acorn People by Ron Jones
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick
The Incredible Journey, by Sheila Burnford
100 Cupboards
Because of Winn Dixie
Bud not Buddy
7th grade
Last Chance to See By Douglas Adams
Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From a Medieval Village By Laura Schlitz
Crispin: Cross of Lead By Avi
Anna of Byzantium By Tracy Barrett
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague By Geraldine Brooks
Lady with an AlienBy Michael Resnick
Sand County Almanac By Aldo Leopold
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Last Chance to See By Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
Out of the Dust
8th Grade:
Taking Sides, by Soto
Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer
The Young Man and the Sea, by Rodman Philbrick
Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Carl
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck
The House on Mango Street
Raisin in the Sun
Romeo and Juliet
The Call of the Wild
Treasure Island
Star Girl, by Jerry Spinelli
Septimus Heap- series by Angie Sage
Inkheart Series by Cornelia Funke
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Giver by Lowry
Animal Farm
The Pigman
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird
Gary Paulson
Andrew Clements
Rick Riordan
Louis Sachar
Series:
Peter and the Star Catchers
Narnia
Magik
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