Middle School Summer Reading List: Nonfiction

Middle School Summer Reading List: Nonfiction

1. Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion, Lorea Griffin Burns

2. Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson

3. In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives, Kenneth C. Davis

4. Sabotage: The Mission to Destry Hitler’s Atomic Bomb, Neal Bascomb

5. Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II, Albert Marrin

6. Chasing Lincoln’s Killer, James L. Swanson

7. Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, Steven Sheinkin

8. Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something that Matters, Laurie Ann Thompson

9. We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March, Cynthia Levinson

10. Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting it Done, Andrea Gonzales and Sophia Houser

11. What’s Really Happening to Our Planet?, Tony Juniper

12. Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution, Gretchen Woelfle

13. Fatal Fever: Tracking down Typhoid Mary, Gail Jarrow

14. Beyond Courage: the Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust, Doreen Rappaport

15. How They Croaked: the Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous, Georgia Bragg

16. Trapped, Marc Aronson

17. Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles into Comics, James Sturm

18. The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team’s Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics (Young Readers Adaptation), Daniel James Brown

19. Moonbird: A Year on the Wind With the Great Survivor B95, Phillip Hoose

20. World Without Fish, Mark Kurlansky

21. Sugar Changed the World: a Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science, Marc Aronson and Marina Tamar Budhos

22. The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, Steve Steinkin

23. Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the Environmental Headlines, Paul Fleischman

24. Red Madness: How a Medical Mystery Changed What We Eat, Gail Jarrow

25. The Freedom Summer Murders, Don Mitchell

26. Titanic: Voices from the Disaster, Deborah Hopkinson

27. Vietnam: A History of the War, Russell Freedman

28. This Land is Our Land: A History of American Immigration, Linda Barrett Osborne

29. The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World’s Most Notorious Nazi, Neal Bascomb

30. Blizzard of Glass: the Halifax Explosion of 1917, Sally M. Walker