Junior High Summer Reading List     2017/2018

Choose one book from the list below. Must read the book before returning to school in August. A project will be assigned at the beginning of school and an Accelerated Reader quiz will be required.

6th Grade (Choose One)

• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros 
• Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell
• The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
• Before Columbus: The Americans of 1491 by Charles C. Man
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
• Brian's Song by William Blinn
• James and Giant Peach by Roald Dahl​

7th Grade (Choose One)​

• Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
• Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
• Izzy, Willy-Nilly by Cynthia Voigt
• Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus
• Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
• Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt
• The Fourth Stall by Christ Rylander
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean C. George

8th Grade (Choose One)

• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
• A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer
• Moon Over Manifest by Clara Vanderpool
• Phantom Tollboth by Norton Juster
• Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor​