Recommended FINDING THE MORE TRUTH…

Middle School TRUTH >The Frog Scientist -

Summer Reading 2010 >Teens Cook: How To Turner, Pamela S.
Make What >Earthquakes, Volcanoes,
ADVENTURE You Want To Eat - and Tsunamis: Projects
>Project Sweet Life - Hartinger, Brent Carle, Megan and Principles for
>Blood Fever: A James Bond >Chew On This: Beginning Geologists -
Adventure (Series) - Higson, Charlie Everything You Don’t Levy, Matthys
>Jake Ransom and the Skull King’s Want to Know About >Our Living Earth: A Story
Shadow - Rollins, James Fast Food - of People, Ecology, and
>Independence Hall (IQ series) - Schlosser, Eric Preservation -
Smith, Roland >What Really Sank the Delannoy, Isabelle
>Operation Storm City (Series) - Titanic: New Forensic >Punk Rock Etiquette: The
Mowil, Joshua Discoveries - Ultimate How-to-Guide for
>The Airman - Colfer, Eion McCarty, Jennifer DIY, Punk, Indie, and
>Under Siegel: Three Underground Bands -
BLACK EYE SUSAN NOMINEES Children at the Civil Nichols, Travisa
>Anything but Typical - Baskin, Nora War Battle for >Written in Bone: Buried
>All the Broken Pieces - Burg, Ann E. Vicksburg - Lives of Jamestown and
>Waiting for Normal - Connor, Leslie Warren, Andrea Colonial Maryland -
>Boost - Mackel, Kathryn >The Omnivore’s Walker, Sally
>Every Soul a Star - Mass, Wendy Dilemma: The Secrets >Recycle This Book: 100
>Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Behind What You Eat Top Children’s Book
Survival - Slade, Arthur (Young Readers Authors Tell you How to
>When the Whistle Blows - Slayton, Fran Edition) - Pollan, Go Green - Gutman, Dan
>When You Reach Me - Stead, Rebecca Michael >The Real Spy’s Guide
>Chasing Lincoln’s Killer - Swanson, >How to Improve at to Becoming a Spy -
James L. Skateboarding - Earnest, Peter
Horsley, Andy >Wicked History Series…
DISCOVER A NEW WORLD >The Mysterious Various Authors
>The Roar - Clayton, Emma Universe: Supernovae, >Three Cups of Tea (Young
>Dull Boy - Cross, Sarah Dark Energy, and Black Readers Edition) -
>Leviathan - Westerfeld, Scott Holes - Jackson, Ellen Mortenson, Greg
>The Comet’s Curse - Testa, Dom
>The Secret Hour - Westerfeld, Scott

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from Howard County Library. >Closed for the Season - Hahn, Mary Downing
>Chasing the Bear: A Young Spenser Novel - Parker, Robert
>Dani Noir - Suma, Nova Ren
>The Name of This Book is Secret - Bosch, Pseudonymous
>The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: An Enola Holmes Mystery -
Springer, Nancy
>The Hound of the Baskervilles - Doyle, Arthur Conan
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>The Georges and the >Calamity Jack - Hale, Shannon
Jewels - Smiley, Jane & Dean
>When the Snow Fell - >Max Quigley: Technically Not a
Mankell, Henning Bully - Roy, James
>Love, Aubrey - >Flawed Dogs: The Novel: The
LaFleur, Suzanne Shocking Raid on Westminster -
>Pop - Korman, Gordon Breathed, Berkeley
>I Am a Genius of Unspeakable
Evil and I Want to be Your Class
President - Lieb, Josh
>Malice - Wooding, Chris
>Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last
Straw - Kinney, Jeff
IT’S NOT ALL ABOUT YOU
>Keeping Corner - Sheth,
Kashmira
>Hannah’s Winter - Meehan,
Kierin
>Red Glass - Resau, Laura
MAKE WAVES
GO RETRO… >How to Ditch Your Fairy -
>After Tupac & D Foster - Larbalestier, Justine
Woodson, Jacqueline >The Season - MacLean, Sarah
>Chains - Anderson, >Models Don’t Eat Chocolate
Laurie Halse Cookies - Dionne, Erin
>The Evolution of >The Big Splash - Ferraiolo,
Calpurnia Tate - Kelly, Jack
Jacqueline >Firegirl - Abbott, Tony
>Blood Red Horse - >Boy Proof - Castellucci, Cecil
Grant, K.M.
>Al Capone Shines My
Shoes - Choldenko,
Gennifer
GRAPHIC NOVEL
>Wolverine: Worst Day
The titles selected for this
Ever - Lyga, Barry recommended summer reading list
>Outlaw: The Legend of were chosen especially for those
Robin Hood: A Graphic students in middle school. Titles
Novel - Lee, Tony included are just a sampling of the
>Frankenstein: The books you may enjoy reading
Graphic Novel - during the summer. Many of the
Shelley, Mary authors on this list have written
more than one book. Check out
>Bone 9, Crown of Horns
some of those titles, too!
- Smith, Jeff
>Artemis Fowl: The Artic HOWARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 2010
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>The Surrender Tree: Poems of
Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom -
Engle, Margarita
>Locomotion - Woodson,
Jacqueline
>This is Just to Say: Poems of
Apology and Forgiveness -
Sidman, Joyce
>Pieces of Georgia: A Novel -
Bryant, Jennifer
SERIES-LY FANTASTIC
>Once Upon a Time in the North
- Pullman, Philip
>The Museum of Mary Child -
Golds, Cassandra
>The Eyeball Collector -
Higgins, F.E.
>Frogs & French Kisses -
Mlynowski, Sarah
>City of Glass -
Clare, Cassandra
>Last Olympian - Riordan, Rick
WEIRD SCIENCE
>Bodies from the Ice: Melting
Glaciers and the Recovery of
the Past - Deem, James
>The Human Brain: Inside Your
Body’s Control Room - Simpson,
Kathleen
>How Loud Can You Burp?:
More Extremely Important
Questions (And Answers) -
Murphy, Glenn
>Are You Afraid Yet?: The
Science Behind Scary Stuff -
O’Meara, Stephen
>Why is Snot Green?: More
Extremely Important Questions
(And Answers!) - Murphy,
Glenn