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Summer Reading List
Middle and Upper School
This list contains the required reading for each grade. Students should be prepared to discuss the required reading in class during the first week of school. Don’t put it off until the last minute.
There is also a list of suggested books to supplement the required reading for each grade. Students are asked to read some from this list as well for their own pleasure. The book suggestions cover a broad range of subjects and reading levels, and are designed to interest both boys and girls. Feel free to look for and read books on other grade lists too!
Enjoy reading all summer long!
Entering 5th Grade
Read More
Required:
A Single Shard
by Linda Sue Park
The Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
Suggested:
A Well Timed Enchantment:
Vivian VandeVelde
Anne of Green Gables:
L.M. Montgomery
Becoming Naomi Leon:
Pam Munoz Ryan
Bookstore Mouse:
Peggy Christian
Bud, Not Buddy:
Christopher Paul Curtis
Chasing Redbird
: Sharon Creech
Chasing Vermeer:
Blue Balliett
City of Ember:
Jeanne DuPrau
Ella Enchanted/ *Fairest :
Gail Carson Levine
Everything on a Waffle:
Polly Horvath
Freak the Mighty:
Rodman Philbrick
Harry Potter:
J.K. Rowling
Hook, Line, and Seeker:
Jim Arnosky (nonfiction)
I, Coriander:
Sally Gardener
Last Shot/ Vanishing Act:
John Feinstein
Liberation of Gabriel King:
K.L. Going
Lion, the Witch , and the Wardrobe:
C.S. Lewis
Listening for Lions:
Gloria Whelan
Molly Moon Stops the World:
Georgia Byng
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH:
Robert O’ Brien
Navigator:
Eoin McNamee
Number the Stars:
Lois Lowry
Out of the Dust:
Karen Hesse
Out of Patience:
Brian Meehl
Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver:
E.L. Konigsburg
Redwall Series:
Brian Jacques
Sahara Special:
Esme Codell
Search for Delicious:
Natalie Babbit
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars:
Tracy Mack
Sounder:
William Armstrong
Tail of Emily Windsnap:
Liz Kessler
Tale of Desperaux:
Kate DiCamillo
To the Summit:
Claire Murphy
Tutankhamun:
Mysteries of the Boy King: Z. Hawass (nonfiction)
Wolf Brother:
Michelle Paver
Entering 6th Grade
Read More
Required:
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
by Avi
Holes
by Louis Sachar
Suggested:
Amulet of Samarkand:
Jonathan Stroud
Borgel / Lizard Music:
Daniel Pinkwater
Boy / Going Solo:
Roald Dahl
Conch Bearer:
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Far North:
Will Hobbs
Gathering Blue:
Lois Lowry
Goose Girl/ Princess Academy:
Shannon Hale
Hatchet/ How Angel Peterson Got His Name:
Gary Paulsen
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
Douglas Adams
Hoot:
Carl Hiaasen
Invisible Allies/ Invisible Enemies:
J. Farrell
Kiki Strike:
Kirsten Miller
Letters from the Inside:
John Marsden
Lily’s Crossing:
Patricia Reilly Giff
Lightning Thief / Sea of Monsters:
Rick Riordan
Midnight Magic:
Avi
Milkweed / Loser:
Jerry Spinelli
My Side of the Mountain:
Jean Craighead George
Old Yeller:
Fred Gipson
Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place/ Silent to the Bone:
E.L. Konigsburg
Ruins of Gorlan/ Burning Bridge:
John Flanagan
Sea of Trolls:
Nancy Farmer
Secret Garden:
Francis Hodgson Burnett
Secrets of A Civil War Submarine:
S. Walker
Shabanu:
Suzanna Staples
Stormbreaker:
Anthony Horowitz
Sherlock Holmes Stories:
Arthur Conan Doyle
Skellig:
David Almond
Slam:
Walter Dean Myers
So B.
It: Sarah Weeks
Tangerine:
Edward Bloor
Thief Lord:
Cornelia Funke
The Trap:
John Smelcer
Travel Team / Heat:
Mike Lupica
Entering 7th Grade
Read More
Required:
The Giver
by Lois Lowry
The Red Pony
by John Steinbeck
Suggested:
13 Little Blue Envelopes:
Maureen Johnson
A River Runs Through It:
Norman MacLean
Autobiography of My Dead Brother:
Water Dean Myers
A Walk Across America:
Peter Jenkins
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass:
Lewis Carroll
Broken Bridge:
Lynn Reid Banks
Cold Sassy Tree:
Olive Burns
Cry of the Icemark / Blade of Fire:
Stuart Hill
Deliver Us from Normal:
Kate Klise
Down the Rabbit Hole:
Peter Abrahams
Farewell to Manzanar:
Jeanne Houston
Flipped:
Wendelin Van Draanen
Golden Compass:
Philip Pullman
Goodbye Mr. Chips:
James Hilton
Grayson:
Lynne Cox
Great and Terrible Beauty/ Rebel Angels:
Libba Bray
Hitler Youth:
Susan Bartoletti (nonfiction)
Inkheart:
Cornelia Funke
Little Women:
Louisa May Alcott
Moves Make the Man:
Bruce Brooks
Peter and the Starcatchers:
Dave Barry
Phoenix Rising:
Karen Hesse
Rules of the Road / Best Foot Forward:
Joan Bauer
Scarlet Pimpernel:
Baroness Orczy
Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants:
Ann Brashares
Stargirl:
Jerry Spinelli
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes / Sledding Hill:
Chris Crutcher
Summerland:
Michael Chabon
Treasure Island:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Understanding the Holy Land:
M. Frank (nonfiction)
Uglies/ Pretties/ Specials:
Scott Westerfield
Who Am I Without Him:
Sharon G. Flake
Year of Secret Assignments/ Murder of Bindy Mackenzie:
Jaclyn Moriarity
Entering 8th Grade
Read More
Required:
Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
The Pearl
by John Steinbeck
Suggested:
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn:
Betty Smith
Alive:
Piers Paul Read
Beauty:
Robin McKinley
Black and White:
Marjorie Blackman
Blackbeard, Real Pirate of the Caribbean:
D. Perry (nonfiction)
Big Mouth and Ugly Girl:
Joyce Carol Oates
Black Like Me:
John Griffin
Candy / Lucas:
Kevin Brooks
Chew on This:
Eric Schlosser (nonfiction)
Child of the Jungle:
S. Kuegler (nonfiction)
Dairy Queen:
Caroline Murdoch
Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie/ Notes from the Midnight Driver:
Jordan Sonnenblick
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Emma:
Jane Austen
Frankenstein:
Mary Shelley
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent:
Julia Alvarez
Illustrated Man:
Ray Bradbury
Inherit the Wind:
Jerome Lawrence
Killer Angels:
Michael Shaara
Life of Pi:
Yann Martel
Minister’s Daughter:
Julie Hearn
Mists of Avalon:
Marion Bradley
1984:
George Orwell
No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency:
Alexander McCall Smith
Old Man and the Sea:
Ernest Hemingway
Old School:
Tobias Wolf
Power of One:
Bryce Courtenay
Princess Bride:
William Goldman
Run Boy Run:
Uri Orlev
Separate Peace:
John Knowles
Taming of the Shrew:
Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Travels With Charley:
John Steinbeck
Twilight / New Moon:
Stephanie Meyer
Wicked:
Gregory Maguire
Entering 9th Grade
Read More
Required:
Into the Wild
by John Krakauer
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
Suggested:
A Prayer for Owen Meany:
John Irving
A Lesson Before Dying:
Ernest J. Gaines
A Walk in the Woods:
Bill Bryson
All Quiet on the Western Front:
Erich Maria Remarque
Autobiography of Malcolm X
Bean Trees:
Barbara Kingsolver
Brave New World:
Aldous Huxley
Cold Mountain:
Charles Frazier
Color of Water:
James McBride
Crank/ Burned/ Impulse:
Eileen Hopkins
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime:
Mark Haddon
Cut/ Sold:
Patricia McCormick
DaVinci Code:
Dan Brown
Everything is Illuminated / Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close:
Jonathan Safran Foer
Five People You Meet in Heaven:
Mitch Albom
Handmaid’s Tale:
Margaret Atwood
Harmless/ Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life:
Dana Reinhardt
House of Spirits:
Isabel Allende
How I Live Now:
Meg Rosoff
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings:
Maya Angelou
Invisible / Godless:
Pete Hautman
Killing Sea:
R. Lewis
Kite Runner:
Khalid Hoseini
Longitude:
Dava Sobel
Looking for Alaska / An Abundance of Katherines:
John Green
Maus I /II:
Art Spiegelman
My Sister’s Keeper:
Jodi Picoult
Our Town / The Bridge of San Luis Ray:
Thornton Wilder
Perfect Storm:
Sebastian Junger
Please Don’t Kill the Freshman:
Zoe Trope
Pride and Prejudice:
Jane Austen
She’s Come Undone:
Wally Lamb
Speak / *Prom:
Laurie Halse Anderson
Upstream:
Melissa Lion
Wait for Me:
An Na