Summer Recommended Reading for Middle Schoolers

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
The Anybodies by N.E. Bode
Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney
Under the Same Sky by Cynthia DeFelice
Chicken Boy by Franes Dowell
The Old Willis Place by Mary Downing Hahn
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Jackie's Wild by Will Hobbs
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
Heat by Mike Lupica
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
House of the Red Fish by Graham Salisbury
Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 by Andrea White
The Ravenmaster's Secret by Elvira Woodruff
A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Artemis Fowl by Eion Colfer
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul by Jack Canfield, Mark Hansen, Patty Hansen
Dicey's Song by C. Voight
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Granny Tortelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
Harry Potter and the Half Blooded Prince by J.K. Rowling
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Old Yeller by Fred Gibson
Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Sadoko and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Small Steps by Louis Sachar
Speak by Laurie Halse Paterson
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Tear of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Princess Diaries: Volumes I and II by Meg Cabot
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson