Summer @ Your Library:
Build a Better World
howard county library system
BOOK LIST 2017:
The titles selected for this Summer Reading list
were chosen especially for those students leaving
grades 6 - 8. Titles included are just a sampling
of the books you may enjoy reading during the
summer. Many of the authors on this list have
written more than one book. Check out some of
those titles, too!
Developed by Howard County Public School Library
Media Specialists and Instructors & Research
Specialists from Howard County Library System.
Black Eyed Susan
Nominees 2016-2017
YA AUX Auxier, Jonathan
Sophie Quire and the Last Storyguard
YA BAU Bauer, Joan Compass South. Book 1, Four Points
Soar
YA GRI Griffin, Paul Snow White
When Friendship Followed Me Home
YA KEY Key, Watt Feathers, Fur & Scales
Terror at Bottle Creek
YA NIE Nielsen, Jennifer A.
A Night Divided
YA REY Reynolds, Jason
Ghost
YA SMI Smith, Roland the Zoo
Beneath
YA SON Sonnenblick, Jordan
Falling Over Sideway
YA VAN VandeVelde, Vivian
23 Minutes
YA WOL Wolk, Lauren
Wolf Hollow
middle school
BES Graphic Novel Beating the Odds
Nominees 2016-2017 CHILDRENS CON Connor, Leslie
741.59C Cliff, Tony All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook
Delilah Dirk and the Kings Shilling
CHILDRENS DIC DiCamillo, Kate
741.59C Cloonan, Becky Raymie Nightingale
Gotham Academy. Volume 1, Welcome to
Gotham Academy TEEN 951.93L Lee, Sungju
Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I
741.59C Corona, Jorge
Survived and Escaped North Korea
Feathers
741.59D Deacon, Alexis TEEN 811.54 N Nelson, Marilyn
Geis: A Matter of Life and Death My Seneca Village
741.59G Gownley, Jimmy TEEN 910.9163T Tougias, Michael
The Dumbest Idea Ever! A Storm Too Soon: A Remarkable True
741.59H Hicks, Faith Erin Survival Story in 80-foot Seas
The Nameless City: Volume 1 TEEN B MINAMOTO T
741.59L Larson, Hope Turner, Pamela
Samurai Rising
741.59P Phelan, Matt TEEN 811.6W Weatherford, Carole
You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen
TEEN 796.092Z Zuckerman, Gregory
Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame
TEEN 599.757 H Hague, Bradley Challenges in Their Youth to Become Stars
Rise of the Lioness
CHILDRENS 590.744O Fantastical Reads
OConnell, Caitlin YA BAR Barron, T.A.
Bridge to the Wild: Behind the Scenes at Atlantis Rising
YA MAB Maberry, Jonathan
TEEN 636.089 R Rich, Mari The Orphan Army
Big-Animal Vets! 741.59M Mizuki, Shigeru
Shigeru Mizukis Kitaro: The Birth of Kitaro
CHILDRENS 577S Suzuki, David
You Are the Earth: Know Your World So CHILDRENS RIC Richards, Jasmine
You Can Help Make it Better Secrets of Valhalla
CHILDRENS 598.864T YA SED Sedgwick, Marcus
Turner, Pamela The Ghosts of Heaven
Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the CHILDRENS SHE Sherman, Delia
Worlds Brightest Bird The Evil Wizard Smallbone
YA TOR Toro, Guillermo del
Trollhunters
Be You
YA ALE Alexander, Kwame
Booked
TEEN 155.232C Cain, Susan
Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of
Introverts
741.59F Fox, Annie
Be Confident in Who You Are
CHILDRENS MAL Malone, Lee Gjertse
The Last Boy at St. Ediths
YA PEA Pearsall, Shelley
The Seventh Most Important Thing
CHILDRENS PEC Peck, Richard
The Best Man
TEEN 618.9289 P Peete, Holly
Robinson
Same but Different: Teen Life on the
Autism Express
TEEN 650.1 P Penn, Maya
You Got This! Unleash Your Awesomeness,
Find Your Path, and Change Your World
YA YOU Young, Karen
Romano
Hundred Percent
Girl Power
TEEN B TYPHOID MARY Boyer, Crispin CHILDRENS BAR Barnhill, Kelly
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell Thats Deadly
Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the
Deadliest Cook in America
TEEN 539.752C Conkling, Winifred
Radioactive! How Irene Curie and Lise
Meitner Revolutionized Science and
Changed the World
TEEN B DEPRINCE DePrince, Michaela
Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star
Ballerina
TEEN B MILLAY G Goddu, Krystyna
Poray
A Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna
St. Vincent Millay
CHILDRENS 509.22I Summer of Lost and Found
Ignotofsky, Rachel YA BEL Bell, Alex YA TAN Tanquary, Kathryn
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers
Who Changed the World
TEEN B BLY N Noyes, Deborah
Ten Days a Madwoman
TEEN 920.72 S Schatz, Kate Ghostly Evidence: Exploring the
Rad
On This Day
YA BAS Baskin, Nora
Raleigh
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story
TEEN 943.086F Freedman, Russell
We Will Not be Silent: The White Rose
Student Resistance Movement that
Defied Adolf Hitler
TEEN BONHOEFFER M
McCormick, Patricia
The Plot to Kill Hitler: Dietrich
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Unlikely Hero
YA MIL Mills, Wendy TEEN 720.483L Latham, Donna
All We Have Left
CHILDRENS B PINKERTON S Engineering
Seiple, Samantha
Lincolns Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton,
Americas First Private Eye
Science In Action
CHILDRENS ANG Angleberger, Tom
Fuzzy
TEEN 130 B Birmingham, Maria
A Beginners Guide to Immortality: From
Alchemy to Avatars
CHILDRENS 031.02 B
TEEN 794.8 H Hansen, Dustin
Game on! Video Game History from Pong
and Pac-man to Mario, Minecraft, and
More
TEEN 614.5732J Jarrow, Gail Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-
Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded
America
TEEN 610.973Y Younker, J.
Bleed, Blister, Puke, and Purge: The Dirty
Secrets Behind Early American Medicine
Uncovering the Truth
CHILDRENS BEH Behrens, Rebecca
Frozen Charlotte
YA FOX Fox, Janet
The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle
TEEN 133.1 H Halls, Kelly Milner
Paranormal
YA HAR Hardinge, Frances
The Lie Tree
TEEN 306.362H Huey, Lois Miner
Forgotten Bones: Uncovering a Slave
Cemetery
YA STE Stewart, Trenton Lee
The Secret Keepers
We Can Build It
CHILDRENS 973.0496B
Bolden, Tonya
How to Build a Museum
Skyscrapers: Investigate Feats of
TEEN 720.92L Lewis, Anna M.
Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational
Architects, Engineers, and Landscape
Designers
CHILDRENS 975.3S
Smith Jr., Charles R.
Brick by Brick
TEEN 005.133W Woodcock, Jon
Coding Games in Scratch
Far Off Places
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
TEEN 741.5973B Bray, Adam
Marvel: Absolutely Everything You Need to
Know
741.59I Inzer, Christine Mari
American Girl Travels to the Land of
Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets and Maid
Cafes
YA NIE Nielsen, Jennifer
The Scourge
741.59S Samanci, Ozge
Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey
CHILDRENS 741.59S Szabla, Anne
Bird Boy. Volume 1, The Sword of Mali Mani
The Night Parade
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