5-6. Historical Fiction. Phoenix Rising. Hesse. 5-6. Historical Fiction.
Shakespeare Stealer. Blackwood. 5-6. Historical Fiction. Young Samurai series.
Bradford.
2013 ACS Middle School Summer Reading Recommendations
On the attached link are suggested titles for summer reading for the ACS Middle School students. Since our students tend to read above grade level, I have listed the titles all together in one document. The indicated grade levels are intended to be used as a guide only. As a reader matures, the content of the books becomes more intense. Many of the 7-8 Group recommendations are on a high school reading level. Thus the situations and conflicts the main character must face are appropriate for that age. These books will also deal with the feelings and repercussions of teenage angst, death, and romance. A very useful site to check on the maturity level of a book, movie, or television show is www.commonsensemedia.org. This site includes a short summary; indicated age of a reader, as well as information a parent may want to know about the levels of violence, sex, language, consumerism, drinking, as well as the educational level and positive messages in each review. When using the “what parents need to know” section, either click on or scroll over the indicators to see a more detailed explanation of the rating. I hope your students enjoy they books on this list. Students may also like to choose a book from the Rebecca Caudill Reading Award nominees for 2014. If he/she reads six or more books from the list, they may participate in the voting party I will have in mid-February, 2014.
Middle School by group and genre Group Genre 5-6 Adventure 5-6 Adventure 5-6 Adventure 5-6 Adventure 5-6 Adventure 5-6 Adventure 5-6 Classics 5-6 Classics 5-6 Classics 5-6 Classics 5-6 Fantasy 5-6 Fantasy 5-6 Fantasy 5-6 Fantasy 5-6 Fantasy 5-6 Fantasy 5-6 Fantasy 5-6 Fantasy 5-6 Fantasy
Title Heart of a Samurai I.Q. Alex Rider series Mysterious Benedict Society Kane Chronicles Peak Tales From the Odyssey Little Women Treasure Island Anne of Green Gables Ranger's Apprentice Good Dog Sea of Trolls Underneath Fablehaven Savvy The Incorrigible Children of Aston Place The Hobbit Heroes of Olympus
Author Preus Smith Horowitz Stewart Riordan Smith Osborne Alcott Stevenson Montgomery Flanagan Avi Farmer Applet Mull Law Klassen Tolkien Riordin
5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6
Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Humor Humor Mystery Mystery Mystery Non Fiction Non Fiction Non Fiction Non Fiction Non Fiction Non Fiction Non Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction
Magyk (Septimas Heap) Wildwood Thief Lord Gregor the Overlander Princess Academy Powerless Unwanted Dark Life series Kingdom Keepers Bread and Roses Green Glass Sea Phoenix Rising Shakespeare Stealer Young Samurai series Elephant Run Crispin: Cross of Lead True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle True Meaning of Smek Day The Name of This Book is Secret The Eye, the ear, and the arm Westing Game Rush For the Gold How They Croaked Bomb: the race to build and steal the world's most dan A Black Hole is Not A Hole Trapped: How the World rescued 33 miners American Plague Chew on This Truce Walk Two Moons Ungifted Out of My Mind I Funny The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate Navigating Early A Mango Shaped Space Rules Wednesday Wars Shiloh Almost Home MVP Liar and Spy Guys Write for Guys Read series Pictures of Hollis Woods Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life A Whole Nother Story Touching Spirit Bear Laught With the Moon
Sage Melroy Funke Collins Hale Cody McMann Falls Pearson Patterson Klass Hesse Blackwood Bradford Smith Avi Avi Rex Bosch Farmer Raskin Feinstein Bragg Sheinkin DeChristofano Aronson Murphy Schlosser Murphy Creech Korman Draper Patterson Kelly VanderPoole Mass Lord Schmidt Naylor Bauer Evans Stead Scieszka Giff Mass Soup Michaelson Burg
5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 5-6 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8 6-8
Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Scary Scary Sci Fi Sci Fi Sci Fi Sci Fi Sci Fi Sci Fi Sports Sports Animal Animal Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Fiction Humor Non Fiction Non Fiction Non Fiction Non Fiction Non Fiction Non Fiction Non Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Realistic Fiction Sci Fi Sci Fi Sci Fi Sports
Boys Without Names Sheth Stranded Mikaelson View From Saturday Koenigsburg Mockingbird Erkskine Maniac McGee Spinelli Deep, Dark, and Dangerous Hahn On the Day I Died Fleming City of Ember series DuPrau Future of Us Asher A Wrinkle in Time L'Engle Shadow Children series Haddix Missing Series Haddix When I Reach You Stead Football Hero Green Heat Lupica White Fang London Call of the Wild London Breadcrumbs Ursa Divergent series Roth Everlost Schusterman I Am Four Lore Chains Anderson Watch That Ends the Night Wolff Number the Stars Lowry Treasures in the Dust Porter Elephant Run Smith I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Lieb Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle fire Marren Mountains Beyond Mountains Kidd and French Soul Surfer Hamilton The Great Escape Mesarole Notorious Benedict Arnold Sheinkin Lincoln's Last Days O'Reilly Titanic: Voices from the disaster Hopkinson Rules of the Road Bauer Stargirl Spinelli Breadwinner Ellis A Monster Calls Ness Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie Sonneblick Out of My Mind Draper Tangerine Bloor Peak Smith Surviving the Applewhites Tolan Almost Famous Bauer Life As We Knew It series Pfeiffer Last Book in the Universe Philbrick Ender's game series Card Last Shot Feinstein
6-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8
Steampunk Fantasy Boneshaker Biography Diary of a Young Girl Biography Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Classic Jane Eyre Fantasy Pendragon Series Fantasy Hobbit Fantasy Matched series Fantasy Lord of the Rings Fantasy Life of Pi Fantasy Golden Compass Historical Fiction Book Thief Historical Fiction Soldier's Secret: Incredible Story of Sarah Edmond Historical Fiction Out of the Dust Historical Fiction Between the Shades of Gray Historical Fiction Chains Historical Fiction A Soldier's Secret Historical Fiction Fever 1793 Historical Fiction Bud Not Buddy Historical Fiction Code Talkers Historical Fiction Boy In The Striped Pajamas Mystery London Eye Mystery Mystery Ghost in the Tokaido Inn Mystery Down the Rabbit Hole Trilogy Mystery And Then There Were None Non Fiction Left For Dead Non Fiction World Without Fish Non Fiction Invincible Microbes Realistic Fiction Jefferson's Sons Realistic Fiction Corner of the Universe Realistic Fiction I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You Realistic Fiction The Schwa Was Here Realistic Fiction Things Not Seen Realistic Fiction Hope Was Here Realistic Fiction The Outsiders Realistic Fiction Nothing But the Truth Sci Fi Divergent series Sci FI Ender's Game Sci Fi Lorien Series Sci Fi Hunger Games series Sci Fi Maze Runner series Sci Fi Ender's Game Sci Fi Uglies Sci Fi House of the Scorpion Sci Fi Matched series SciFi Adoration of Jenna Fox
Milford Frank Kamkwamba Bronte MacHale Tolkien Conte Tolkien Martel Pullman Zusak Moss Hesse Sepetys Anderson Moss Anderson Curtis Brushac Boyne Dowd Hoobler Abrahams Christie Nelson Kurlansky Murphy Bradley Martin carter Schusterman Clements Bauer Hinton Avi Roth Card Lore Collins Dashner Card Westerfield Farmer Conde Pearson
