Recommended Summer Reading 2005 - Grades 6-8

Summertime Reading

Fiction

The City of Ember by Jeanne Du Prau Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes Define Normal by Julie Anne Peters Lion Boy by Zizou Corder Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism by Georgia Byng Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson So B. It by Sara Weeks Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko Kira Kira by Cynthia Kadohata People of Sparks by Jeanne Du Prau Messenger by Lois Lowry Travel Team by Mike Lupica The Warriors by Joseph Bruchac The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen Never Mind: A Twin Novel by Avi and Rachel Vail Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett King of Shadows by Susan Cooper

Nonfiction

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet retold by Bruce Coville (play) William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night retold by Bruce Coville (play) Fantastic Feats and Failures by Editors of Yes Mag The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman George vs George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides by Rosalyn Schanzer George Washington, Spymaster by Thomas Allen The Usborne Book of Art Ideas by Fiona Watt What's Living in Your Bedroom ? (Hidden Life Series) by Andrew Solway The Salem Witch Trials: An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen and Heidi E. Yolen Stemple  Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson (Free Verse Poetry) An American Plaque by Jim Murphy

 Authors to look for: Grades 6-8

Avi T. A. Barron Joan Bauer Andrew Clements Sharon Creech Patricia Reilly Giff Karen Hesse Eva Ibbotson Iain Lawrence Lois Lowry Kenneth Oppel Jerry Spinelli Jane Yolen

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