Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Warriors by Erin Hunter

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Gilda Joyce by Jennifer Allison

The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan

The 39 Clues by various authors

The Red Blazer Girls by Michael Beil

The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan

Death by… by Linda Gerber

Zoobreak by Gordon Korman

Children of the Lamp by P.B. Kerr

A Clique Novel by Lisi Harrison

The Missing by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Pendragon by D. J. MacHale

Septimus Heap by Angie Sage

Enola Holmes Mysteries by Nancy Springer

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Five Ancestors Books by Jeff Stone

Jacky Faber by L. A. Meyer

Magic in Manhattan by Sarah Mlynowski

Maximum Ride by James Patterson

The Youngest Templar by Michael Spradlin

The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

Eragon by Christopher Paolini

Redwall by Brian Jacques

The Seems by John Hulme

Gorgeous by Rachel Vail

Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Shadow by James Rollings

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman

Antsy Does Time by Neal Shusterman

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Genifer Choldenko

Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller by Sarah Miller

Standford Wong Flunks Big Time by Lisa Yee

The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

All Shook Up by Shelley Pearsall

Scat by Carl Hiassen

Need by Carrie Jones

The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had by Kristin Levine

Leviathan by Scott Westerfield

Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks

Flygirl by Sherri Smith

Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba by Margarita Engle

Amiri & Odette: A Love Story by Walter Dean Myers

The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney by Suzanne Harper

Technically, It’s Not My Fault by John Grandits

Art of the Video Game by Josh Jenisch

Are You Afraid Yet? The Science Behind Scary Stuff by Stephen J. O’Meara

The Tarantula Scientist by Syd Montgomery

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson

The Word Snoop by Ursula Dubosarsky

The Boys’ Book of Survival: How to Survive Anything Anywhere by Guy Campbell

Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Sing and Shout by Paul Janeczko

The Girls’ Book of Glamour: A Guide to Being a Goddess by Sally Jeffrie

Barbarians! by Steven Kroll

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey… adapted by Sarah Thomson, written Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of… by Sally M. Walker

Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose

Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True… by Jon Scieszka

Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream by Tanya Lee Stone

When Royals Wore Ruffles: A Funny & Fashionable Alphabet! by Chesley McLaren and Pamela Jaber

The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis

Children of the Sea by Daisuke Igarashi

Omega the Unknown by Jonathan Lethem and Farel Dalrymple

Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Sidell

1985 by Millar, Mark and Tommy Lee Edwards

Animal Academy by Moyamu Fujino

Ender's Shadow: Battle School by Mike Carey and Sebastian Fiumara

Meanwhile: Pick Any Path: 3,856 Story Possibilities by Jason Shiga

Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis

Cirque du Freak Manga by Darren Shan and Takahir Arai

Coraline: A Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman

Runaways by Brian K. Vaughn

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling, read by Jim Dale

Jazz by Walter Dean Myers,read by James “D-Train” Williams and Vaneese Thomas

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, read by Rupert Degas

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Alfred Molina

Blood Red Horse by K.M. Grant, read by Maggie Mash

Gatekeepers series by Anthony Horowitz, read by Simon Prebble

Heat by Mike Lupica, read by Paolo Andino

So Much to Tell You by John Marsden, read by Kate Hosking

Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis, read by Mirron Willis

Fairest by Gail Carson Levine, read by Sarah Naughton and the Full Cast Family

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, read by the author

Nation by Terry Pratchett, read by Stephen Briggs

Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel, read by David Kelly and the Full Cast Family

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Summertime Recommended Reads

For Sixth, Seventh, & Eighth Graders