Middle School Summer Reading  

Middle School is the time when sophisticated reading skills are developed to allow students the opportunity to analyze literature and master the content of the entire curriculum including social studies, science, math, and world languages.  Reading becomes a powerful tool to find information, make sense of complex material, and find enjoyment in literature.  The summer reading books are offered for their wide appeal, literary value, varied genres, and curriculum connections.

Middle School English

**All Middle School students, with the exception of Grade 8 Lyceum English, must read Titanic, Book One: Unsinkable by Gordon Korman.  (ISBN 9780140348101).

In addition, over the summer students must read one book from the following list:

The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger

The Prince of Fenway Park by Julianna Baggott

Flawed Dogs: The Shocking Raid on Westminster by Tim Green

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

Dark Life by Kat Falls

Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story by T. Hegamin & M. Nelson

Skat by Carl Hiaasen

Alibi Junior High by Greg Logsted

The Day of the Pelican by Katherine Paterson

Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen

Bystander by James Prellar

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

Jolted by Arthur Slade

Killer Pizza by Greg Taylor

Peace Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson

Grade 8 Lyceum English:

English 8 Lyceum will read A Night to Remember by Walter Lord and The Pearl by John Steinbeck.  These are the only two required books for English 8 Lyceum.

Middle School History

Grade 6:  The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner

Grade 7:  The Wave  by Todd Strasser

Grade 8: Where Have All the flowers Gone: The Diary of Molly Mackenzie Flaherty by Ellen Emerson White or My Name is America: The Journal of Patrick Seamus Flaherty by Ellen Emerson White.

Grade 8 Lyceum History:  10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War by Philip Caputo