Thornton Burgess Middle School

Suggested Summer Reading Lists

From Mrs. Bergeron, Director of Library Services, K-8

The lists below represent my favorites for summer reading.  Some titles are new, some are “old classics” and some are award winners.  They are organized by grade level.  An * before the title indicates the book is available in paperback.  The complete list K-8 is posted on the district’s web site under K-8 libraries.  Enjoy!

The web is also a great source for more suggestions.  The site below contains links to many schools’ and organizations’ summer reading lists.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr244.shtml

FOURTH GRADE:

Author

Title

Clements

*Janitor's Boy

Cline-Ransome

Major Taylor, Champion Cyclist

Cooney

*Beloved Dearly

Creech

*Ruby Holler

Crisp

* My Dog, Cat

Dahl

*Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

DiCamillo

*Because of Winn Dixie

Gutman

*Jackie and Me

Hannigan

Ida B, and Her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster…

Ibbotson

*Secret of Platform 13

Kerley

Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins

Konigsburg

*From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Lynch

*Gold Dust

MacLachlan

*More Perfect than the Moon

Marsden

Silk Umbrellas

Montgomery

*Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans

Moss

*Amelia's Notebook

Myers

Lewis and Clark and Me, A Dog's Tale

Rumford

Sequoyah

Ryan

*Esperanza Rising

Scieszka

*Not-So-Jolly Roger

William

* Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart

FIFTH GRADE:

Author

Title

Ballliett

*Chasing Vermeer

Bellairs

*House With a Clock in its Walls

Clements

* Jacket

Creech

*Ruby Holler

Curtis

*Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963

DiCamillo

Tale of Despereaux

Fogelin

*Crossing Jordan

Freedman

Voice That Challenged a Nation

Giff

*Pictures of Hollis Woods

Granger

*Adirondack Gold

Holt

*When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

L'Engle

*Wrinkle in Time

Lord

*In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

Lynch

*Gold Dust

Montgomery

*Anne of Green Gables

Morpurgo

*Kensuke's Kingdom

Murphy

Blizzard!

Osborne

*One-Eyed Giant

Paterson

* Same Stuff as Stars

Rawls

*Where the Red Fern Grows

Spinelli

*Loser

Voigt

*Homecoming

SIXTH GRADE:

Author

Title

Avi

 *Crispin, Cross of Lead

Chabon

* Summerland

Choldenko

Al Capone Does My Shirts

Codell

*Sahara Special

Creech

Heartbeat

Crossley-Holland

*The Seeing Stone

Fox

*Slave Dancer

Funke

*Thief Lord

Funke

*Inkheart

Giff

House of Tailors

Haddix

*Among the Hidden

Koller

Someday

Montgomery

*Anne of Green Gables

Murphy

An American Plague

Osborne

*Adaline Falling Star

Paterson

*Same Stuff as Stars

Peck

*Fair Weather

Stanley

*Children of the Dust Bowl

Voigt

* Homecoming

Wolff

*Bat 6

SEVENTH GRADE:

Author

Title

Abeel

*My Thirteenth Winter

Almond

*Kit's Wilderness

Appelt

* Kissing Tennessee

Avi

*Nothing But the Truth

Bauer

*Hope Was Here

Bloor

*Tangerine

Clements

*Things Not Seen

Collier

*Clock

Creech

*Walk Two Moons

Fleischman

*Whirligig

Hesse

*Witness

Hiassen

*Hoot

Hobbs

*Down the Yukon

Ibbotson

Star of Kazan

Paulsen

Brian's Hunt

Schmidt

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy

Schyffert

Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon

Spinelli

*Stargirl

Tolan

* Surviving the Applewhites

Van Draanen

*Flipped

Voigt

*Runner

Woodson

*Hush

EIGHTH GRADE:

Author

Title

Carvell

*Who Will Tell My Brother

Cooney

*Ransom of Mercy Carter

Cormier

* Rag and Bone Shop

Curtis

Bucking the Sarge

Farmer

* House of Scorpion

Fleischman

*Disappearing Act

Freedman

Voice That Challenged a Nation

Hobbs

*Jackie's Wild Seattle

Knowles

* A Separate Peace

Lasky

*Beyond the Burning Time

Levine

*Two Princesses of Bamarre

Lowry

Messenger

McWhorter

A Dream of Freedom

Mikaelsen

*Touching Spirit Bear

Peck

*River Between us

Plum-Ucci

*Body of Christopher Creed

Pratchett

*Wee Free Men

Pullman

* Trilogy:  Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass

Rabin

Betsy and The Emperor

Sis

Tree of Life a book depicting the life of Charles Darwin

Woolf

* Make Lemonade, True Believer

Yolen

*Armageddon Summer