Middle School Summer Reading 2017 FORM II (8th Grade) Summer Reading List
Directions: I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young
Readers Edition) is required, and you must choose three other books from this list. Select a
total of two from either fiction or non-fiction. Select one book from Summer Reads or Hot Off
the Press.
All-Form Book : Required for all entering Form II students
Yousafzai, Malala
I am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and
Changed the World (young readers edition)
Fiction : Select a total of two from either fiction or non-fiction
Austen, Jane
Bradbury, Ray
Bradbury, Ray
Card, Orson Scott
Christie, Agatha
Dickens, Charles
Doerr, Anthony
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Goldman, William
Goldman, Richard
Keyes, Daniel
LeGuin, Ursula
Martel, Yann
Myers, Walter Dean
Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi
Schiltz, Laura
Stockett, Kathryn
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Venkatraman, Padma
Weir, Andy
Woodson, Jacqueline
Pride and Prejudice
Fahrenheit 451
Martian Chronicles
Ender’s Game
And Then There Were None
A Tale of Two Cities
All the Light We Cannot See
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Lord of the Flies
The Princess Bride
Flowers for Algernon
The Wizard of Earthsea
Life of Pi
Monster
Akata Witch
The Hired Girl
The Help
The Hobbit
A Time to Dance
The Martian (classroom edition)
If You Come Softly
Explore • Engage • Excel
Non-Fiction : Select a total of two from either fiction or non-fiction
Alifirenka, Caitlin
Asgedon, Mawi
Brown, Daniel James
Dumas, Fioozeh
Fleming, Candace
Higashida, Naoki
Hillenbrand, Laura
McCullough, David
Moore, Wes
Sheinkin, Steve
Sheinkin, Steve
Sotomayor, Sonya
Van Wagenen, Maya
I will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
Of Beetles and Angels
The Boys in the Boat (young readers edition)
Funny in Farsi
The Family Romanov
The Reason I Jump
Unbroken (young readers edition)
The Wright Brothers
Discovering Wes Moore (young readers edition)
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the
Vietnam War
The Port Chicago 50
My Beloved World
Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek
Summer Reads : Select one book from this list or “Hot off the Press”
Abdel-Fattah, Randa
Adams, Douglas
Alcott, Kate
Dinnison, Kris
Dowell, Frances O’Roark
Graudin, Ryan
Leavitt, Martine
Luurtsema, Nat
Meyer, Marissa
Nielsen, Susin
Priest, Cherie
Riggs, Ransom
Sachar, Louis
Sanderson, Brandon
Sedgwick, Marcus
Sonnenblick, Jordan
Van Draanen, Wedelin
Welch, Jenna Evans
Does My Head Look Big In This?
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Dressmaker
You, Me, and Him
Ten Miles Past Normal
Wolf by Wolf
Calvin
Goldfish
Cinder or any in the series
We are All Made of Molecules
I am Princess X
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
The Cardturner
Steelheart or any in the series
She is not Invisible
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
The Running Dream
Love and Gelato
Hot Off the Press : Select one book from this list or “Summer Reads”
De La Cruz, Melissa
Gratz, Alan
Hand, Cynthia, Brodi Ashton
& Jodi Meadows
Hughes, Dean
Meyers, Marissa
Watson, Renee
Alex and Eliza
Code of Honor
My Lady Jane
Four-Four-Two
Heartless
This Side of Home