Middle School Summer Reading Sorted by Call Number / Author. 641.5 STE
Stern, Sam, 1990. Get cooking. 1st U.S. ed. Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2009, c2007. Contains more than one hundred healthy recipes, including crunchy garlic breadcrumb linguine, carrot pasta, lime chicken, sweet potato gnocchi, top chocolate soufflé, and others.
FIC AGO
Agosín, Marjorie. I lived on Butterfly Hill. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2014]. When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear.".
FIC ALE
Alexander, Kwame. The crossover. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]. Fourteenyearold twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
FIC AND
Anderson, Laurie Halse. The impossible knife of memory. New York, N.Y. : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014. "Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a 'normal' life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"Provided by publisher.
FIC ARN
Arnett, Mindee. Avalon. 1st ed. New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2014]. "Seventeenyearold Jeth Seagrave, the leader of a ragtag team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between honor and the law in an attempt to win freedom for his sister and himself in the form of their parents' old spaceship, Avalon."Provided by publisher.
FIC BED
Bedford, Martyn. Flip. 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2011. Sixteenyearold Alex awakens to find that six months have gone by and he seems to be living in another boy's body, and as Alex tries to figure out what happened, he wonders if he will ever be able to return to the life he once knew.
FIC BIR
Birdsall, Jeanne. The Penderwicks : a summer tale of four sisters, two rabbits, and a very interesting boy. 1st ed. New York : Knopf :, c2005. While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
FIC CON
Connor, Leslie. Waiting for normal. 1st ed. New York : Katherine Tegen Books, c2008. Twelveyearold Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and halfsisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
FIC FER
Ferris, Jean, 1939. Love among the walnuts. 1st ed. San Diego, CA : Harcourt Brace, c1998.
Born and raised in isolation in a wealthy, eccentric family, Sandy is shocked when he, his parents, and their servants become victims of a vicious plot by his greedy uncles to incapacitate them and take their money. FIC GAN
Gantos, Jack. Dead end in Norvelt. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011. In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelveyearold Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
FIC GRA
Grant, Helen, 1964. The glass demon : a novel. New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, c2010. When seventeenyearold Lin and her family move to an ancient German castle for a year while her medievalist father searches for the famed Allerheiligen glasslost stained glass windows that are said to be haunted by a terrifying demonshe becomes involved in a horrific murder mystery.
FIC GRI
Griffin, Adele. The unfinished life of Addison Stone. New York, NY : Soho Teen, [2014]. When a celebrated New York City teenager, known for her subversive street art, mysteriously dies, her life is examined in a series of interviews with her parents, friends, boyfriends, mentors, and critics.
FIC HEN
Henkes, Kevin. Junonia. 1st pbk. ed. New York : Greenwillow Books, 2012, c2011. Alice and her parents spend the week of Alice's tenth birthday as they always do on Sanibel Island, Florida, but Alice gets upset when she discovers some of the people who are always there are missing and new ones have arrived, and Alice wants things to be like they have always been.
FIC HIL
Hilmo, Tess. With a name like Love. 1st ed. New York : Margaret Ferguson Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2011. Thirteenyearold Olivene Love gets tangled up in a murder mystery when her itinerant preaching family arrives in the small town of Binder, Arkansas in 1957.
FIC HOW
Howe, James, 1946. Addie on the inside. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2011. Outspoken thirteenyearold Addie Carle learns about love, loss, and staying true to herself as she navigates seventh grade, enjoys a visit from her grandmother, fights with her boyfriend, and endures gossip and meanness from her former best friend.
FIC HUN
Hunt, Lynda Mullaly. Fish in a tree. New York, NY : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2015]. "Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"Provided by publisher.
FIC KIN
King, A. S. (Amy Sarig), 1970. Glory O'Brien's history of the future. 1st ed.: October 2014. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2014. "As her high school graduation draws near, Glory O'Brien begins having powerful and terrifying visions of the future as she struggles with her longburied grief over her mother's suicide"Provided by publisher.
FIC LEV
Levine, Kristin (Kristin Sims), 1974. The paper cowboy. New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), [2014]. In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelveyearold Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.
FIC LOC
Lockhart, E. We were liars. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, [2013]. Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
FIC LON
London, Matt. Build it, run it, rule it. New York, N.Y. : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC, [2014]. Evie and Rick Lane want to build an eighth continent with no rules or regulations.
FIC MAG
Maguire, Gregory. Egg & spoon. 1st ed. 2014. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2014. "Impoverished Russian country girl Elena Rudina and the aristocratic Ekatrina meet and set in motion an escapade that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and the witch Baba Yaga"OCLC.
FIC NEL
Nelson, Jandy. I'll give you the sun. New York, N.Y. : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014]. "A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah" Provided by publisher.
FIC OFL
O'Flynn, Catherine. What was lost : a novel. 1st U.S. ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2008. Lisa, working as an assistant manager at a record store in Green Oaks mall in 2004, teams up with security guard Kurt to investigate sightings of a little girl clutching a toy monkey that have begun to appear on security tapes and which Lisa believes must have some link to the disappearance of tenyearold Kate Meaney twenty years earliera crime that ruined her brother's life when he became a suspect.
FIC PAL
Palacio, R. J. Wonder. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, c2012. Tenyearold Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being homeschooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
FIC PAT
Patterson, James. Middle School, the worst years of my life. Great Britain : Random House, 2011.
FIC ROS
Rosoff, Meg. The bride's farewell. New York : Viking, 2009. Pell Ridley, having left home on the day she was to marry her childhood sweetheart with the intention of finding a more fulfilling life, meets a poacher with whom she travels through the countryside, but soon becomes overwhelmed by her emotional ties to her family, home, and lover.
FIC ROS
Rosoff, Meg. How I live now. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2004. To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteenyearold Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
FIC SAN
Sanderson, Brandon. The Rithmatist. 1st trade pbk. ed. New York : Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2014. As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.
FIC SCH
Schmidt, Gary D. Okay for now. Boston : Clarion Books, 2011. Fourteenyearold Doug Swieteck faces many challenges, including an abusive father, a brother traumatized by Vietnam, suspicious teachers and police officers, and isolation, but when he meets a girl known as Lil Spicer, he develops a close relationship with her and finds a safe place at the local library.
FIC SMI
Smith, Andrew (Andrew Anselmo), 1959. Grasshopper jungle : a history. New York, N.Y. : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC, [2014]. "Austin Szerba narrates the end of humanity as he and his best friend Robby accidentally unleash an army of giant, unstoppable bugs and uncover the secrets of a decadesold experiment gone terribly wrong"Provided by publisher.
FIC STE
Stead, Rebecca. When you reach me. 1st ed. New York : Wendy Lamb Books, c2009. As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelveyearold New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
FIC STI
Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981. Blue Lily, Lily Blue. 1st ed., November 2014. New York : Scholastic Press, 2014. The Raven boys have taken in Blue Sargent, and she now has friends she can trust and belong to, but her problems becomes theirs and their problems become hers.
FIC TRI
Tripp, Ben, 1966. The accidental highwayman : being the tale of Kit Bristol, his horse Midnight, a mysterious princess, and sundry magical persons besides. 1st ed., October 2014. New York : Tor, 2014. In eighteenthcentury England, young Christopher "Kit" Bristol unwittingly takes on the task of his dead master, notorious highwayman Whistling Jack, who pledged a fairy he would rescue feisty Princess Morgana from an arranged marriage with King George III.
FIC URS
Ursu, Anne. Breadcrumbs. 1st ed. New York : Walden Pond Press, c2011. Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a runin with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life.
FIC VAI
Vail, Rachel. Unfriended. New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2014. "When thirteenyearold Truly is invited to sit at the Popular Table, she finds
herself caught in a web of lies and misunderstandings, made unescapable by the hyperconnected social media world"Provided by publisher. FIC VAN
Vanderpool, Clare. Moon over Manifest. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2010. Twelveyearold Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
FIC VAN
Vanderpool, Clare. Navigating Early. 1st ed. New York : Delacorte Press, c2013. "Odysseylike adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters" Provided by publisher.
FIC WAL
Walton, Leslye J. (Leslye Jo Anne). The strange & beautiful sorrows of Ava Lavender. 1st ed. 2014. Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2014. Ava Lavender tells the story of her young life starting with her birth in 1944 Seattle, Washington; she was born with wings.
FIC WOL
Wolitzer, Meg. Belzhar : a novel. New York, N.Y. : Dutton Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014. Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journalwriting assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
FIC YAN
Yancey, Richard. The 5th Wave. New York, N.Y. : Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), 2015. "Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them" Provided by publisher.
GRA APO
Apollo, 1969. Bourbon Island 1730. 1st ed. New York : First Second, 2008. On Bourbon Island off the coast of Madagascar, a French ornithologist and his assistant are caught up in an adventure involving slavery, colonialism, and the last days of the great pirates.
GRA BUR
Burgan, Michael. Bram Stoker's Dracula. Minneapolis : Stone Arch Books, c2008. A graphic novel adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic story that finds Jonathan Harker, a guest at an eerie castle owned by Count Dracula, investigating the strange nighttime activities of his host.
GRA BUR
Burgan, Michael. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Minneapolis : Stone Arch Books, c2008. A retelling of Mary Shelley's classic horror story "Frankenstein" written in graphic novel format.
GRA COL
Coleman, Wim. Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Mankato, Minn. : Stone Arch Books, c2007. A graphicnovel retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's story, in which young Jim Hawkins discovers an old treasure map, sets out on a harrowing voyage to a faraway island, and soon learns that dangerous men are seeking the same treasure.
GRA DAV
Davis, Terry. The invisible man. Minneapolis : Stone Arch Books, c2008. Presents H.G. Wells' classic story "The Invisible Man" written in graphic novel format.
GRA SAT
Satrapi, Marjane, 1969. Persepolis : The story of a childhood. 1st American pbk. ed. New York : Pantheon, c2003. Contains blackandwhite comic strip images in which the author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime.
GRA SCH
Schultz, Mark, 1955. The stuff of life : a graphic guide to genetics and DNA. 1st ed. New York : Hill and Wang, 2009. Bloort 183, an asexual alien scientist, explains the fundamentals of genetics, covering human DNA, evolution, and other scientific concepts in graphic novel format.
GRA SMA
Small, David, 1945. Stitches : a memoir 1st ed. New York : W.W. Norton, c2009. A graphic novel that chronicles the life of American author and illustrator David Small, detailing his sickly childhood and teenage years, relationship with his parents, his cancer, and more.