Summer Reading List

8th graders heading to Brush, your list is at the bottom

 

Incoming 8th graders select from the following lists:

ADVANCED:

The Messenger by Lois Lowry

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

Bystander by James Preller

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Rules by Cynthia Lord

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

REGULAR:

Bystander by James Prelle 

Money Hungry by Sharon Flake 

The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman

Go Big or Go Home by Will Hobbs

Slob by Ellen Potter

Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli

 

Incoming 7th graders select books from this list:

Title                                              Author                                          Level

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy   Gary Schmidt    M

Where the Red Fern Grows    Wilson Rawls    M

Jacob Have I Loved    Katherine Patterson   M

The Call of the Wild    Jack London    H

Inkheart      Cornelia Funke    M

Chasing Redbird     Sharon Creech    M

Among the Hidden    Margaret Haddix    M

Speak      Laurie Anderson    L

The Chocolate War    Robert Cormier    M

Out of My Mind    Sharon Draper    M

The Hunger Games   Suzanne Collins    M 

Wednesday Wars    Gary Schmidt    M

The Midwife’s Apprentice   Karen Cushman    H

The Incredible Journey   Sheila Burnford    H 

Walk Two Moons    Sharon Creech    M 

Freak the Mighty    Rodman Philbrick    M

Rag and Bone Shop   Robert Cormier    M

Devil’s Arithmetic    Jane Yolen    M

A Single Shard    Linda Sue Park    M

Million Dollar Throw    Mike Lupica    H  

Framed     Gordon Korman    L

The Graveyard Book   Neil Gaiman    M

Standing Against the Wind             Traci Jones       M

Lightning Thief                                Rick Riordan       M

Monster                                          Walter Dean Myers      H

Uglies     Scott Westerfeld    M

Dreamland    Sarah Dessen    M

Dicey’s Song    Cynthia Voight    L

 

Non-Fiction Titles              Author

 

Bill Gates, Billionaire Computer Genius      Joan D. Dickenson

Who Was Harriet Tubman       Yona McDonough

My Life in Dog Years       Gary Paulsen

Helen’s Eyes: A photobiography of Annie Sullivan    Marfie Ferguson Delano 

Swish: The Quest for Basketball’s Perfect Shot     Stewart and Kennedy

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice      Phillip Hoose

Marching for Freedom       Elizabeth Partridge

The Spies of Mississippi: The true story of the spy agency that tried                           Rick Bowers 
    to destroy the civil rights movement

Marley A Dog Like No Other       John Krogan 

Michelle Obama: An American Story       David Colbert  

Yes We Can: A Biography of President Barack Obama      Garen Thomas 

Locomotion a story written in poetry)      Jacqueline Woodson 

Winning Words: Sports Stories and Photographs      Charles R. Smith Jr. 

Michael Jackson: King of Pop        Mary K. Pratt   

Rosa Parks          Ruth Ashby    

 

Going to Brush High School? Select books below, based on the class you forecasted to take.

Introduction to Literature and Writing -- The Giver, by Lois Lowry

Western Tradition in Literature -- Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Marc Haddon

Honors Prep -- Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns. Also read To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee