Summer Reading List Grades 6-8

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The Summer Reading List is a Suggested List. If students are unable to find a particular title on the list they may read a book by an author from the list. Please be aware that some children’s authors write books suited for mature readers. Therefore, parent previewing of texts not specifically identified by title on this list is recommended. The suggested reading level for the book is in the last column. It is a guide for student and parent selection.  Assessments and response criteria information are available for each grade level in the individual school libraries and are also provided below in electronic format.

Grade 6-8 Suggested Titles

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Grade 6-8 
Suggested Titles

Title

Author

Suggested Reading Level

Across Five Aprils

Hunt

6
Adam of the Road

Gray

6
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twain

6-8
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Twain

6-8
Afternoon of the Elves

Lisle

6-8
Aliens in the Family

Mahy

6
Always to Remember

Ashabranner

6-8
Amos Fortune, Free Man

Yates

6-8
…And Now Miguel

Krumgold

6
Animal Farm

Orwell

6-8
Anna Karenina

Tolstoy

7-8+
Around the World in Eighty Days

Verne

7-8+
Banner in the Sky

Ullman

6-8
Baseball in April and Other Stories

Soto

6-8
Beat the Turtle Drum

Greene

6
Beetles, Lightly Toasted

Naylor

6
The Bells of Christmas
The House of Dies Drear

Hamilton

6
Ben and Me

Lawson

6-8
Best Short Stories of Jack London

London

7-8+
Big Red

Kjelgaard

6-8
Billy Budd

Melville

7-8+
Black Pearl

O’Dell

6-8
Black Stallion Mystery

Farley

6
Bless the Beasts and Children

Swarthout

7-8+
Bone From a Dry Sea Bed

Dickinson

6-8
The Boys’ War

Murphy

6-8
Bridge to Terabithia

Paterson

6
The Bronze Bow

Speare

6-8
Bummer Summer

Martin

6
Call of the Wild

London

7-8+
Captains Courageous

Kipling

7-8+
The Cat Who Went to Heaven

Coatsworth

6-8
Celebrated Jumping Frog

Twain

7-8+
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Dahl

6
A Christmas Carol

Dickens

7-8+
The Chronicles of Narnia (Series)

Lewis

6-8
Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas

7-8+
The Cricket in Times Square

Selden

6-8
David Copperfield

Dickens

7-8+
Death Comes for the Archbishop

Cather

7-8+
The Door in the Wall

DeAngeli

6-8
Ella Enchanted

Levine

6
Emma

Austen

6-8
The Enormous Egg

Butterworth

6
Fall of the House of Usher and other Tales

Poe

7-8+
Fahrenheit 451

Bradbury

7-8+
Farmer Boy

Wilder

6
Farewell to Arms

Hemingway

8+
Fellowship of the Ring

Tolkien

6
The Fledgling

Lanton

6-8
Flowers for Algernon

Keyes

7-8+
The Forgotten Door

Key

6
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Konigsburg

6-8
The Ghost Belonged to Me

Peck

6
Ghost Host

Singer

6
Ginger Pye

Estes

6-8
The Giver

Lowry

6-8
The Ghost in the Picture

Schneider

6
Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck

7-8+
Golden Pasture

Thomas

6
The Good Earth

Buck

7-8+
Great Expectations

Dickens

6-8
The Great Gilly Hopkins

Paterson

6
The Green Book

Paton Walsh

6
The Grey King

Cooper

6-8
Hatchet

Paulsen

6
Harriet the Spy

Fitzhugh

6-8
Harry Potter (Series)

Rowling

6-8
Heart of Darkness and Secret Agent

Conrad

7-8+
The Hero and the Crown

McKinley

6-8
Hero Over Here: A Story of World War I

Kudinski

6-8
The High King

Alexander

6-8
The Hobbit

Tolkien

6-8
Holes

Sachar

6-8
Homer Price

McCloskey

6
House of the Seven Gables

Hawthorne

7-8+
I Know What You Did Last Summer

Duncan

6-8
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Angelou

8+
I, Columbus

Roop

6-8
I, Juan de Pareja

Trevino

6-8
Illustrated Man

Bradbury

8+
Indian in the Cupboard

Banks

6
Island of the Blue Dolphins

O’Dell

6
It’s Like This, Cat

Neville

6-8
Ivanhoe

Scott

8+
Jack London’s Stories of the North

London

7-8+
Jacob Have I Loved

Paterson

6
James and the Giant Peach

Dahl

6
Jane Eyre

Bronte

6-8
Johnny Tremain

Forbes

6-8
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices

Fleischman

6-8
Julie of the Wolves

George

6
Jungle Book

Kipling

8+
Justin Morgan had a Horse

Henry

6
The Kid in the Red Jacket

Park

6
Kim

Kipling

8+
King of the Wind

Henry

6-8
Last of the Mohicans

Cooper

7-8+
Leroy and the Old Man

Butterworth

6
Lily’s Crossing

Giff

6-8
Lincoln: A Photobiography

Freeman

6-8
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Lewis

6
Little House in the Big Woods

Wilder

6-8
Little Women

Alcott

6-8
A Long Way to Go: Black and White in America

O’Neill

6
Les Miserables

Hugo

8+
Long Winter

Wilder

6-8
Lord of the Flies

Golding

6-8
M.C. Higgins, The Great Hamilton 6-8
Maniac Magee Spinelli 6
The Martian Chronicles Bradbury 7-8+
The Matchlock Gun Edmonds 6-8
Mayor of Casterbridge Hardy 7-8+
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Pyle 6-8
The Midwife’s Apprentice Cushman 6-8
Miracles on Maple Hill Sorenson 6-8
Miss Hickory Bailey 6-8
Missy May Rylant 6-8
Misty of Chincoteague Henry 6-8
Mom, You’re Fired! Robinson 6-8
The Moorchild

McGraw

6-8
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM

O’Brien

6-8
My Antonia

Cather

7-8+
My Brother Sam is Dead

Collier

6-8
My Daddy Was a Soldier

Kogan

6-8
My Side of the Mountain

George

6-8
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Douglass

6-8
Number the Stars

Lowry

6-8
Night

Wiesel

7-8+
Nightly Nightmares

Howe

6
Night of the Twisters

Ruckman

6
Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck

7-8+
The Old Man and the Sea

Hemingway

6-8
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

Eliot

 
Old Yeller

Gipson

6
Oliver Twist

Dickens

7-8+
Onion John

Krumgold

6-8
Out of the Dust

Hesse

6-8
Outsiders

Hinton

6-8
Park’s Quest

Paterson

6-8
Pearl

Steinbeck

7-8+
Pedro’s Journal

Conrad

6-8
The Perilous Road

Steele

6-8
Peter Pan

Barrie

6-8
Pygmalion/My Fair Lady