Summer Reading Recommendations
#1 Read a HISTORICAL FICTION book.:
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
- Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Any volume of the Dear America or My America series
#2 A book that has been TURNED INTO A MOVIE you have seen before or after you read the book.
- Any of the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling
- Any of the Hunger Games books by Suzanne Collins
- How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
- Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
#3 Read a SCIENCE-FICTION book.
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Feed by M.T. Anderson
- The Maze Runner by James Dashner
- The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
#4 A fiction or non-fiction book about SOMEONE WITH A VERY DIFFERENT LIFE FROM YOURS.
- Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
- Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by Bryan Mealer and William Kamkwamba
#5 Read a book that has NOT BECOME A GRAPHIC NOVEL.
- The One and Only Ivan and its sequel The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
- The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
- Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
- Spy School or Belly Up by Stuart Gibbs
#6 Read a book TOLD FROM AN ANIMAL'S POINT OF VIEW.
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
- Into the Wild: the first book of the Warriors series by Erin Hunter
- The One and Only Ivan and its sequel The One and Only Bob by Katherine Applegate
- Bunnicula and any of its sequels by Deborah and James Howe
- The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
#7 Read a book that has WON AN AWARD.
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
- The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
- The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
- Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
#8 Read or reread a book YOU REALLY LOVE.
YOU tell US!
#9 Read a “CLASSIC” BOOK THAT IS MORE THAN 50 YEARS OLD OR ASK A PARENT FOR THEIR FAVORITE BOOK FROM WHEN THEY WERE YOUR AGE and read it.
- Call of the Wild or White Fang by Jack London
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Secret Garden or A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#10 Read a BOOK OF POETRY OR A BOOK TOLD ENTIRELY IN POETRY.
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
- Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
- Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha La
- Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson or any of the "Poetry for Young People" series
- The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes