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SUMMER READING SUGGESTIONS 2013 Grades 6-8 The following is a list of suggested quality titles for summer reading. Feel free to read anything else that interests you! Avi. City of Orphans In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.
Bruchac, Joseph. Dragon Castle Young Prince Rashko, frequently frustrated with his family which he has come to think of as a pack of fools, learns they are not as witless as he thought when his parents disappear leaving him to manage the castle and kingdom.
Burgan, Michael. Breaker Boys : How a Photograph Helped End Child Labor Recounts photographer Lewis Hines' fight against child labor in the early 1900s and discusses how his work and the work of others revealed truths about the issue to the public.
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl : the Last Guardian (final book in The Artemis Fowl Series) Opal Koboi after reanimating fairy warriors from thousands of years in the past, plans to destroy all human life on Earth, unless Artemis Fowl teen genius, can stop her, and the Fowl Estate is ground zero for the battle.
D'Lacey, Chris. The Fire Ascending (The Fire Within; Icefire; Fire Star; The Fire Eternal; Dark Fire; and Fire World) Young Agawin, apprentice to the healer Yolen, finds that his life is linked to that of the last of the dragons of the Wearle of Hautuuslanden, Galen, and he must journey far in time and space to protect the future of dragon-kind.
Evans, Lissa. Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery & a Very Strange Adventure Ten-year-old Stuart is forced to move far away from all his friends. But on his very first day in his new home, Stuart is swept up in a quest to find his great-uncle Tony--a famous magician who literally disappeared off the face of the earth--and Tony's marvelous, long-lost workshop.
Fitzmaurice, Kathryn. A Diamond in the Desert After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, thirteen-year-old Tetsu and his family are sent to the Gila River Relocation Center in Arizona where a fellow prisoner starts a baseball team, but when Tetsu's sister becomes ill and he feels responsible, he stops playing.
Gordon, Roderick. Spiral (Tunnels, Deeper, Freefall, Closer) The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way--but the Styx also have problems of their own.
Green, Tim. Deep Zone (Football Champ, Football Hero, Football Genius) Star quarterback Troy White and wide receiver Ty Lewis, rivals who want their teams to win a tournament that is being held at the Super Bowl in Miami, find themselves in danger when they are trapped together in a shack in the Everglades and realize they have links to the same mob and their lives have been entangled for a long time.
Greenwald, Lisa. My Life in Pink & Green When the family's drugstore is failing, seventh-grader Lucy uses her problem-solving talents to come up with a solution that might resuscitate the business and help the environment.
Greenwald, Tom. Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his success at avoiding reading, but eventually his schemes go too far.
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. The Always War In a war-torn future United States, fifteen-year-old Tessa, her childhood friend Gideon, now a traumatized military hero, and Dek, a streetwise orphan, enter enemy territory and discover the shocking truth about a war that began more than seventy-five years earlier.
Hiaasen, Carl. Chomp The difficult star of the reality television show, "Expedition Survival," disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him, but they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father.
Horowitz, Anthony. Scorpia Rising (Crocodile Tears, Snakehead, Ark Angel, Scorpia…) Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.
Korman, Gordon. Collision Course (Unsinkable, S.O.S.) Four children--Paddy, Sophie, Juliana, and Alfie--are the only people on the Titanic who know that a killer is on the loose, and the threat becomes even bigger when the ship hits an iceberg.
Lupica, Mike. Game Changers When the coach's son, Shawn O'Brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old Ben McBain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent Shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want the position.
Lüsted, Marcia Amidon. The 2011 Japan Disasters Discusses the disasters that struck Japan in 2011, including a major earthquake followed by a tsunami that caused an accident in a nuclear power plant.
Markle, Sandra. The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs : a Scientific Mystery Follows a team of scientists as they try to save Panamanian golden frogs, which began to disappear fifteen years ago, and looks at the reasons behind their decline.
Mass, Wendy. 13 Gifts Tara, a self-proclaimed shrinking violet, tries to break out of her shell by stealing the school mascot, a goat, but she gets caught and is shipped off for the summer to stay with relatives in the quirky town of Willow Falls, which she decides is as good a place as any to reinvent herself.
Pearson, Ridley. Kingdom Keepers (Disney After Dark, Disney at Dawn, Disney in Shadow) When a group of Disney villains known as the Overtakers threaten to release two of their leaders from Disney captivity, the five teens of the Kingdom Keepers must work together to protect the Disney magic and keep the evil locked up.
Rappaport, Doreen. Beyond Courage : the Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust Provides detailed accounts of twenty-one acts of defiance committed against Nazis in Nazi-occupied countries during World War II.
Reedy, Trent. Words in the Dust Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.
Riordan, Rick. The Mark of Athena (The Lost Hero, The Son of Neptune) “The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land--Greece itself--to find the Doors of Death"--Provided by publisher.
Scott, Elaine. Buried alive! : How 33 Miners Survived 69 Days Deep Under the Chilean Desert Relates the experiences of thirty-three Chilean miners who were trapped two thousand feet below the surface of the earth in August 2010.
Smith, Roland. Eruption (Storm Runners, The Surge) Chase, heading south of the border with Nicole Rossi, faces a threat to his survival while searching for the Rossi Brothers' Circus after an earthquake in Mexico.
Swanson, James L. Bloody Times : the Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis Discusses how Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, was blamed for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, and describes how the hunt for Davis continued even after Lincoln's body was put in its final resting place.
Tolan, Stephanie S. Applewhites at Wit's End (Surviving the Applewhites) Great changes are in store for the highly creative and somewhat eccentric Applewhite family when money problems force them to open a summer camp for gifted children, who almost immediately begin to rebel, while a mysterious interloper watches from the woods.
Vanderpool, Clare. Navigating Early "Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters"--Provided by publisher.
Yelchin, Eugene. Breaking Stalin's Nose In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
Yolen, Jane. Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.
Notes: Additional books in a series have been included in parentheses next to the title. Unless otherwise noted, annotations have been taken from Follett’s Titlewave listings.
