FCPL/FCPS Collaborative Summer Reading List

Grades 6-8
2009-2010

Adventure/Survival
• Crossing the Wire by Will Hobbs
• Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury
• Peak by Roland Smith
• Go Big or Go Home by Will Hobbs
• Killing Sea by Richard Lewis
• Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline Cooney

Classics
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Indian in the Cupboard by L.R. Banks
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raski
• Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Fantasy
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) by Rick Riordan
• Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks
• Princess Ben by Catherine Murdock
• Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
• Gatekeeper Series by Anthony Horowitz
• H.I.V.E. by Mark Walden
• Thornspell by Helen Lowe
• Dragon's Keep by Janet Carey

Graphic Novels
• Bone series by Jeff Smith
• Diary of A Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney
• Middle School is Worse than Meatloaf : A Year Told Through Stuff by Jennifer L. Holm ??
• Rapunzel's Revenge by Shannon Hale
 • Into the Volcano by Don Wood

Historical Fiction
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Fly Girl by Sherri Smith
• Thousand Never Evers by Shana Burg
• Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
• Spy! by Anna Myers
• Someone Named Eva by Joan Wolf
• The Diary of Laura's Twin by Kathy Kacer

Mystery
• London Eye Mystery by S. Dowd
• Eye of the Crow by Shane Peacock
• I'd Tell You I Love You But then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
• The Big Splash by Jack D. Ferraiolo
• The Postcard by Tony Abbott

Realistic Fiction
• The Secret Language of Girls and the Kind of Friends We Used to Be by Frances O'Roark Dowell
• All Shook Up by Shelly Pearchall
• Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor
• The Truth about Truman School by Dori Hillestad Butler
• Rules by Cynthia Lord
• Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Anything But Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin

Science Fiction
• Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
• Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
• The Ruins of Gorlan (Ranger’s Apprentice, Book 1, series) by John Flanagan
• Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Short Stories/Poetry
• Shark Girl by Kelly Bingham
• She's All That!: poems about Girls selected by Belinda Hollyer
• Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
• Hip Hop Speaks to Children: a Celebration of Poetry with a Beat by Nikki Giovanni
• The Surrender Tree:Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
• Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States by Lori Carlson, editor
Home of the Brave by Katharine Applegate
• Immersed in Verse: An Informative, Slightly Irreverent & Totally Tremendous Guide to Living the
Poet’s Life by Allan Wolf

Non-Fiction
• Bodies from the Ice by James Deem
• What the World Eats by Peter Menzel
• Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James Swanson
• 3 Cups of Tea by Sara Thompson
• One Well-the Story of Water on Earth by Rochelle Strauss
• Written in Bone by Sally M. Walker
• The Way We Work-Getting to Know the Human Body by David Macaulay
• Teens Cook Dessert by Megan & Jill Carle
• We Are The Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson
• All Stations! Distress! April 15, 1912, the day the Titanic Sank by Don Brown

Short Books for Tall Readers

• Bluford High Series by Ann Schraff or Paul Langan
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• BFG by Roald Dahl
• Hate that Cat by Sharon Creech
• 39 Clues Series by various authors

Biography
• Houdini: The Handcuff King by John Grogan
• Knucklehead by Jon Scieska
• Trouble begins at 8 by Sid Fleischman
• Barack Obama: 44th U.S. President by Tom Robinson
Sports
• Six Innings by James Preller
• Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock
• Off Season by Catherine Murdock
• Free Baseball by Sue Corbett
• The Big Field by Mike Lupica

Scary Stories
• The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein
• The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
• All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn
• Curse of the Campfire Weenies: and Other Warped and Creepy Tales by David Lubar
• Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Oldies but Goodies

• Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Blood Red Horse series by K. M. Grant
• Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
• Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• Ink Spell series by Cornelia Funke
• Hidden Talents by David Lubar

Audio Books
• Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Bloody Jack Adventure Series by L.A. Meyer
• The Compound by S.A. Bodeen

List prepared by: Adrienne Barbee, FCPL

Kim Gessner, FCPL

Julie Dixon, FCPS