Middle School Summer Reading
Suggested Summer Reading List
Middle School
Book Title
Author’s Name
Watership Down
Born Free
Living Free
Little Women
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sounder
Books by this author
Emma
Pride & Prejudice
Sense & Sensibility
National Velvet
The Indian in the Cupboard
Secret of the Cupboard
The Mystery of the Indian
The Return of the Indian
Richard Adams
Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson
Louisa May Alcott
Maya Angelou
William Armstrong
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Enid Bagnold
Lynne Reid Banks
Lynne Reid Banks
Lynn Reid Banks
Lynn Reid Banks
Janet & Geoff Benge
Rhoda Blumberg
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
John Bunyan
Larry Burkett
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sheila Burnford
Betsy Byars
Agatha Christie
Beverly Cleary
James & Christopher Collier
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper
Sharon Creech
Sharon Creech
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Walter Farley
Esther Forbes
Jean Craighead George
Christian Heroes: Then and Now Series
The Incredible Journey with Lewis & Clark
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
The Pilgrim’s Progress
Books by this author
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
The Incredible Journey
The Summer of the Swans
And Then There Were None
Dear Mr. Henshaw
My Brother Sam is Dead
The Deerslayer
The Last of the Mohicans
Walk Two Moons
Books by this author
Robinson Crusoe
Books by this author
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Black Stallion Series
Johnny Tremain
Julie of the Wolves
Grade Level
6-8
7-8
7-8
6-8
7-9
5-6
7-8
8+
8+
8+
7-8
5-6
5-6
5-6
5-6
7-8
6-8
7-9
7-9
7-9
7-9
5-6
5-6
5-6
5-6
7-8
5-6
7-8
7-8
7-8
6-7
6-8
7-8
7-8
7-8
5-6
5-6
5-6
My Side of the Mountain series
Summer of My German Soldier
King of the Wind
Books by this author
Across Five Aprils
The Story of My Life
Profiles of Courage
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A Wrinkle in Time
And Both were Young
The Chronicles of Narnia Series
Books by this author
The Giver
A Summer to Die
Christy
Anne of Green Gables series
Black Star, Bridge Down
The Black Pearl
Books by this author
Jacob Have I Loved
Books by this author
Cooper Kids Adventure series
Summer of the Monkeys
The Story of Baseball
These Were the Sioux
A Cricket in Times Square
Black Beauty
The Red Pony
Treasure Island
Gulliver’s Travels
Joni
The Hiding Place
Books by this author
The Hobbit
The Prince & the Pauper
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in Eighty Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Dear America series
My Name is America series
Jean Craighead George
Bette Greene
Marguerite Henry
Marguerite Henry
Irene Hunt
Helen Keller
John F. Kennedy
Madeleine L’Engle
Madeleine L’Engle
Madeleine L’Engle
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry
Catherine Marshall
Lucy Montgomery
Scott O’Dell
Scott O’Dell
Scott O’Dell
Katherine Paterson
Gary Paulsen
Frank Peretti
Wilson Rawls
Lawrence S. Ritter
Mari Sandoz
George Selden
Anna Sewell
John Steinbeck
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jonathan Swift
Joni Erickson Tada
Corrie Ten Boom
J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Verne
5-6
7-8
5-6
5-6
6-8
7-8
8+
6-8
6-8
6-8
6+
6+
7-8
7-8
7-8
6-8
6-8
6-8
6-8
7-8
6-8
6-8
7-8
6-7
8+
5-6
6-8
6-8
6-8
6-8
6-8
8+
6-8
6-8
6-8
6-8
7-8
7-8
7-8
6-8
6-8
Rev. 5.29.15