Summer Reading MVMS 2008
Access our summer reading website where you will find lots of links providing background knowledge, something about the authors, podcasts, and more. Access summer reading anytime and anywhere!
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Why Is There Conflict?
Incoming Grade 8 should read one of the following titles to prepare for Social Studies book discussions.
Nation by Terry Pratchett
More Fabulous Summer Reading
Not of This World: Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Supernatural
Bartimaeus Trilogy (series) by Jonathon Stroud
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
City of Ember (series) by Jeanne DePrau
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Lost Years of Merlin by T. A. Barron
Maximum Ride (series) Patterson
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Pendragon (series) by D. J. McHale
Rash by Pete Hautman
Summerland by Michael Chabon
Trickster’s Choice by (series) Tamora Pierce
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Wee Free Men (series) by Terry Pratchett
In this World: Realistic Fiction
Battle of Jericho by Sharon Flake
Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja
I Am the Wallpaper Mark Peter Hughes
Invisible by Pete Hautman
Jack Henry series by Jack Gantos
Keesha’s House by Helen Frost
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson
Middle School Is Worse than Meatloaf: A Year Told through
Stuff by Jennifer L. Holm
Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings
Runner by Carl Deuker
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Mystery, Espionage, Sports, and Adventure
Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz
Cherub series by Robert Muchamore
Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson
Cover-Up by John Feinstein
Double Identity by Margaret Haddix
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abramson
Operation Red Jericho by Joshua Mowll
Summer Ball by Mike Lupica
Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
Non-Fiction and Poetry
Escape: the Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story
about Brain Science by John Fleischman
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree
Griffin Burns
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