Reading Lists
Middle School Summer Reading List
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Historical Fiction
HISTORICAL FICTION
Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, Book 1
by Alda Dobbs
This book is about the Mexican Revolution, and how twelve-year-old Petra Luna and her family flee their burning village. They cross desert plains and battlefields, desperate to escape the wrath of the Federales.
Cuba in My Pocket
by Adrianna Cuevas
This book is about a 12-year-old Cuban boy named Cumba who is sent to Miami alone in 1961 to escape military service and Castro’s Cuba. Lost in a sea of English speakers, Cumba has to navigate a new city, a new school, and new freedom all on his own.
Indian No More
by Charlene Willing McManis & Traci Sorell
Told through fifth grader Regina Petit’s point of view, this book is about a girl whose Native American identity is challenged when she and her family move to urban Los Angeles.
Classic Literature
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, a man known for his strictness and discipline, declares that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. He is tasked with completing this mission on his own, this book answer the question of whether or not it is realistic to round the globe in a span of eighty days.
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, a man known for his strictness and discipline, declares that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. He is tasked with completing this mission on his own, this book answer the question of whether or not it is realistic to round the globe in a span of eighty days.
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, a man known for his strictness and discipline, declares that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. He is tasked with completing this mission on his own, this book answer the question of whether or not it is realistic to round the globe in a span of eighty days.
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, a man known for his strictness and discipline, declares that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. He is tasked with completing this mission on his own, this book answer the question of whether or not it is realistic to round the globe in a span of eighty days.
Classic Literature
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, a man known for his strictness and discipline, declares that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. He is tasked with completing this mission on his own, this book answer the question of whether or not it is realistic to round the globe in a span of eighty days.
Classic Literature
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, a man known for his strictness and discipline, declares that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. He is tasked with completing this mission on his own, this book answer the question of whether or not it is realistic to round the globe in a span of eighty days.
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, a man known for his strictness and discipline, declares that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. He is tasked with completing this mission on his own, this book answer the question of whether or not it is realistic to round the globe in a span of eighty days.
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, a man known for his strictness and discipline, declares that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. He is tasked with completing this mission on his own, this book answer the question of whether or not it is realistic to round the globe in a span of eighty days.
Around the World in Eighty Days
by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, a man known for his strictness and discipline, declares that it is possible to travel around the world in eighty days. He is tasked with completing this mission on his own, this book answer the question of whether or not it is realistic to round the globe in a span of eighty days.
Fiction
Give Me a Sign
by Anna Sortino
Lilah, the deaf protagonist in Give Me a Sign is struggling not only with what to say but also how to say it. This novel navigates the intricacies of Deaf culture and how one girl finds her place in it.
Northwind
by Gary Paulsen
When a plague forces Leif, an orphan, to flee for his life in a canoe with barely any food, he embraces his newfound freedom and grows to love the wide open seas.
I Love You So Mochi
by Sarah Kuhn
This book is about a girl named Kimi who thinks she wants to be an artist. After a fight with her mother, Kimi accepts an invitation to go to Japan to meet her grandparents, who her mother is estranged from.
Friendship List #2: 12 Before 13
by Lisa Greenwald
This sequel to 11 before 12 continues to follow BFFs Arianna and Kaylan as they make a new birthday bucket list: twelve goals to meet before they turn 13 years old “to make them even more awesome.”
Skulduggery Pleasant
by Derek Landy
When Stephanie’s uncle dies and leaves her his estate, she learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn’t fiction. Pursued by evil forces, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source – the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer.
Non-Fiction
A Weird and Wild Beauty: The Story of Yellowstone, the World’s First National Park
by Erin Peabody
This book explores the history of America’s first national park. In the summer of 1871, a team of thirty-two men set out on the first scientific expedition across Yellowstone. These scientists and artists explored, sampled, and photographed the extraordinary wonders they found.
A Brief History Of Video Games: From Atari to Virtual Reality
by Rich Stanton
From the first wood-paneled Pong machines in California to the masterpieces of engineering that now sit in countless homes all over the world, A Brief History of Video Games reveals the vibrant history and culture of interactive entertainment.