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Middle School 2017

Build a Better Summer

Reading List

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The titles selected for this recommended summer reading list were chosen specifically for those students leaving
grades 6, 7, and 8. Titles included are just a sampling of the books you may enjoy reading during this summer.
Many of the auth ors on this list have written more than one book. Check out some of these titles, too!
Developed by Howard County Public School
Library Media Specialists and Childrens
Instruction and Research Staff from the Howard
County Library System.

Be You
Booked
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverts
Be Confident in Who You Are
Alexander, Kwame
Cain, Susan
Fox, Annie
X
The Last Boy at St. Edith's
The Seventh Most Important Thing
The Best Man
Malone, Lee Gjertsen
Pearsall, Shelley
Peck, Richard
Eat. Sleep. Read
Same But Different: Teen Life on the Autism Peete, Holly Robinson
Express Black Eyed Susan
You Got This!: Unleash Your Awesomeness, Penn, Maya
Find Your Path, and Change Your World Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard Auxier, Jonathan
Hundred Percent Young, Karen Romano Soar Bauer, Joan
When Friendship Followed Me Home Griffin, Paul

Beating the Odds Terror at Bottle Creek Key, Watt

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A Night Divided Nielsen, Jennifer
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook Connor, Leslie Ghost Reynolds, Jason
Raymie Nightingale DiCamillo, Kate Beneath Smith, Roland
Every Falling Star: The True Story of Lee, Sungj u Falling Over Sideway Sonnenblick, Jordan
How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
23 Minutes VandeVelde, Vivian
My Seneca Village Nelson, Marilyn
Wolf Hollow Wolk, Lauren
A Storm Too Soon: A Remarkable True Tougias, Michael
Survival Story in 80-foot Seas
Samurai Rising Turner, Pamela BES Graphic Novels
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen Weatherford, Carole
Delilah Dirk and the King 's Shilling Cliff, Tony
Rising Above: How 11 Athlete s Overcame Zuckerman, Gregory
Challenges in Their Youth to Become Stars Gotham Academy: Welcome to Gotham Cloonan, Becky
Academy

Fantastical Reads Feathers

Geis: A Matter of Life and Death
Corona, Jorge
Deacon, Alexis
Atlantis Rising Barron, T.A. The Dumbest Idea Ever! Gownley, Jimmy
The Orphan Army Maberry, Jonathan The Nameless City: Volume 1 Hicks, Faith Erin
Shigeru Mizuki's Kitaro: The Birth of Kitaro Mizuki, Shigeru Four Points: Compass South Larson, Hope
Secrets of Valhalla Richards, Jasmine
Snow White Phelan, Matt
The Ghosts of Heaven Sedgwick, Marcus
The Evil Wizard Smallbone Sherman, Delia
Trollhunters Toro, Guillermo del

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Hitthenailonthehead. Science In Action

~1REIDI Far Off Places

Fuzzy
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality:
From Alchemy to Avatars
That's Deadly
Game ON!: Video Game History from
Pong and Pac-man to Mario, Minecraft,
Angleberger, Tom
Birmingham, Maria

Boyer, Crispin
Hansen, Dustin

The Girl Who Drank the Moon Barnhill, Kelly and More
Marvel: Absolutely Everything You Bray, Adam Bubonic Panic: When Plag ue Jarrow, Gail
Need to Know Invaded America
Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-American Inzer, Christine Mari Bleed, Blister, Puke, and Purge: The Dirty Younker, J.
Girl Travels to the Land of Trendy Fashion, Secrets Behind Early American Medicine
High-Tech Toilets and Maid Cafes
The Scourge
Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey
Nielsen, Jennifer
Samanci, Ozge
Uncovering the Truth
Bird Boy. Volume 1, The Sword of Mali Mani Szabla, Anne Summer of Lost and Found Behrens, Rebecca
The Night Parade Tanquary, Kathryn Frozen Charlotte Bell, Alex
The Charmed Children of Rookskill Fox, Janet
Feathers, Fur & Scales Castle
Ghostly Evidence: Exploring the Halls, Kelly Milner
Rise of the Lioness Hague, Bradley Paranormal
Brid ge to the Wild: Behind the Scenes O'Connell, Caitlin The Lie Tree Hardinge, Frances
at the Zoo
Forgotten Bones: Uncovering a Slave Huey, Lois Miner
Big-Animal Vets! Rich, Mari Cemetery
You Are the Earth: Know Your World Suzuki, David The Secret Keepers Stewart, Trenton Lee
So You Can Help Make it Better
Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the
World's Brightest Bird
Turner, Pamela
We Can Build It
Girl Power How To Build a Museum Bolden, Tonya
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Skyscrapers: Investigate Feats of Latham, Donna
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of Bartoletti, Susan Campbell Engineering
the Deadliest Cook in America
Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Lewis, Anna M.
Radioactive!: How Irene Curie and Lise Conkling, Winifred Inspirational Architects, Engineers,
Meitner Revolutionized Science and and Landscape Designers
Changed the World
Brick By Brick Smith Jr., Charles R.
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to DePrince, Michaela
Coding Games in Scratch Woodcock, Jon
Star Ballerina
A Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Goddu, Krystyna Poray
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Women in Sc ience: 50 Fearless Ignotofsky, Rachel
Pioneers Who Changed the World
Ten Days a Madwoman Noyes, Deborah
Rad Women Worldwide: Artists and Schatz, Kate
Athletes, Pirates and Punks, and Other
Revolutionaries Who Shaped History

On This Day
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story Baskin, Nora Raleigh
We Will No t be Silent: The White Rose Freedman, Russell
Student Resistance Movement that Defied
Adolf Hitler
The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich Bonhoeffer: McCormick, Patricia
Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
All We Have Left Mills, Wendy
Lincoln's Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton, Seiple, Samantha
America's First Private E ye

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