SUMMER 2015 READING
LIST
HENLEY MIDDLE
SCHOOL
Dear Parents and Students,
All students are encouraged to read
at least two new (not previously read)
books during the summer. When
selecting from the list
remember that most of the authors
listed below have written other good
books in addition to the ones
mentioned.
ACTION & ADVENTURE
• Miss Perigrine’s Home for Peculiar
Children - Riggs
• Legend- Lu
• The Last Thing I Remember – Klanen
• Cherub series - Muchamore
• Maze Runner –Dashner
• Maximum Ride - Patterson
• The Testing - Charbonneau
• Divided We Fall - Reedy
• Ravesngate and others -Horowitz
• Paladin Prophecy - Frost
• Stormbreaker and others - Horowitz
• Lockdown; Escape From Furnace Smith
• Gone –Grant
• Killer Pizza - Taylor
• The Enemy - Higson
• Deathwatch - R. White
• Wreckers - Lawerence
• If We Survive - Klaven
• Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island Bunting
• Treasure Island - Stevenson
• Robinson Crusoe – DeFoe
REALISTIC FICTION
• Counting by 7’s- Sloan
Crossover - Alexander
• Wonder – Palacio
• Ten Miles Past Normal – Dowell
• Bystander - Preller
• Four Mile - Key
• See You At Harry’s - Knowles
• The Penderwicks - Birdsall
• Out of My Mind – Draper
• Can’t Look Away - Cooner
• The Outsiders - Hinton
• Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie –
Sonnenblick
• Rules - Lord
• P.S. Be Eleven – Williams-Garcia
• The Road to Paris - Grimes
• Criss Cross - Perkins
• Red Kayak - Cummings
• Indigo’s Star and others - McKay
• Okay for Now – Schmidt
• Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Zevin
• Holes - Saccher
• Money Hungry - Flake
• Tears of the Tiger - Draper
• The Raft - Bodeen
• Flipped - Van Draanen
• Misfits - Howe
• The Wanderer, Walk Two Moons and
others - Creech
• Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place and others
- Konigsburg
• Tangerine - Bloor
• My One Hundred Adventures – Horvath
• 13 Gifts - Maas
• Close to Famous - Bauer
• Kayla Chronicles – Winston
ANIMALS & NATURE
• Angus and Sadie - Voight
• The One and Only Ivan – Applegate
• Flora and Ulyssess - DiCamillo
• War Horse - Morpugo
• Highway Cats - Taylor
• My Side of the Mountain – George
• Scat – Hiaason
• Half Brother - Oppel
• The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who
Taught her to Fly - Sepulveda
• The Incredible Journey - Burnford
• White Fang and others - London
• All Creatures Great and Small - Herriot
• Buried Alive - Skurzynski
• Summer of the Monkeys - Rawls
• Angus and Sadie - Voight
• National Velvet - Bagnold
• Shiloh - Naylor
• The Captain’s Dog: My Journey with
Lewis and Clark - Roland Smith
• Wild Life - DeFelice
• Hatchet, Brian’s Winter, Brian’s Return
and others - Paulsen
• Swallowdale – Ransome
HISTORICAL & MULITCULTURAL
FICTION
-Inside Out and Back Again- Lai
• Chains and Forge - Anderson
• Hero on a Bicycle - Hugbes
• Ninth Ward – Rhodes
• Uprising – Haddix
• Berlin Boxing Club – Sharenow
• Nine Days a Queen - Rinaldi
• Home of the Brave - Applegate
• Elephant Run - Smith
• Elijah of Buxton - Curtis
• Wednesday Wars - Schmidt
• Boston Jane and sequels - Holm
• Bloody Jack and sequels - Meyer
• Boy Who Dared - Bartoletti
• Fire From the Rock - Draper
• Private Peaceful - Morpurgo
• Boy in Striped Pajamas - Boyne
• Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 Carbone
• Loud Silence of Francine Green -
Cushman
• Black Duck - Lisle
• Crooked River - Pearsall
• Search and Destroy – Hughes
• Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Schmidt
• Kira-Kira - Kadohata
• The Last Mission - Mazer
• Soldier Boys - Hughes
• Queen’s Own Fool - Yolen
• Esperanza Rising - Ryan
• Slap Your Sides - Kerr
• Beyond the Burning Time – Lasky
The Breadwinner - Ellis
• The Ransom of Mercy Carter - Cooney
• I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade Wilson
• The Single Shard - Park
• The Land - Taylor
• Edge of the Sword - Tingle
• Mary, Bloody Mary - Meyer
• Stepping on Cracks - Hahn
• Bud, Not Buddy - Curtis
Up Periscope - White
• Witch of Blackbird Pond - Speare
• Summer of My German Soldier - Green
• Catherine, Called Birdy - Cushman
• Wolf By the Ears and others - Rinaldi
• Al Capone Does My Shirts - Choldenko
• I Thought My Soul Would Rise Up Hansen
SCI-FI
• Sylo - MacHale
• TheTesting – Charbonneau
• After the Snow - Crockett
• Seven Second Delay- Easton
• Tomorrow Code – Falkner
• Taken – Bloor
• London Calling – Bloor
• Found - Haddix
• Life as We Knew It – Pfeffer
• First Light - Stead
• Virtual War - Skurzynski
• Mortal Engines - Reeve
• The Uglies-Westerfield
• Ender’s Game-Card
• Spacer and Rat - Bechard
• Sharp North - Cave
• Diary of Pelly D - Adlington
• Dr. Franklin’s Island - Halam
• Citizen of the Galaxy and others Heinlein
• The House of the Scorpion - Farmer
• The Kindling - Armstrong
• Last Book in the Universe - Philbrick
• Among the Hidden and Turnabout Haddix
• Transall Saga - Paulsen
• Intersteller Pig - Sleator
• The Martian Chronicles and others Bradbury
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and others
Verne
• Fantastic Voyage and others - Asimov
SPORTS
• Big Time and others - Green
• The Contract - Jeter
• Knights of the Hill Country - Tharp
• Last Shot - Feinstein
• Curveball: The year I lost my Grip Sonnenblick
• QB1 and others - Lupica
• The Boy Who Saved Baseball - Ritter
• Free Radical - Murphy
• Finding Buck McHenry - Slote
• Shoeless Joe & Me - Gutman
• Shakespeare Bats Cleanup - Koertge
• Hard Ball and others - Weaver
• Swagger and others - Deuker
• Team Picture - Hughes
• Hoops - Myers
• Choosing Up Sides - Ritter
• Crackback – Coy
FANTASY
- Finisher - Baldacci
• Selection - Cass
• Shadow and Bone - Bardugo
• Byonders series – Mull
• Unspoken - Brennan
• False Prince – Nielsen
• Witch and Wizard – Patterson
• Red Pyramid -Riordan
• The Darkside - Becker
• The Alchemyst - Scott
• Seraphina – Hartman
• Dragon Slippers - George
• Septimus Heap books - Sage
• Howl’s Moving Castle - Jones
• Ranger’s Apprentice series - Flanagan
• Vampire Plagues - Rooke
• Secret of Platform Thirteen - Ibbotson
• Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred
Kropp
- Yancey
• The Arrival - Tan
• Midnighters series - Westerfield
• Gregor the Overlander - Collins
• Bartimaeus Trilogy - Stroud
• Sea of Trolls - Farmer
• Airborne - Oppel
• Eragon - Paolini
• Midnight for Charlie Bone - Nimmo
• The Tale of Desperaux - Dicamillo
• Pendragon series (Merchant of Death,
etc) MacHale
• Inkheart - Funke
• Grmimm Legacy – Shulman
• Artemis Fowl - Colfer
• The Wee Free Men - Pratchett
• Hero and the Crown - McKinley
• Dragon’s Blood - Yolen
• The Folk Keeper - Billingsley
• Ella Enchanted - Levine
• Skellig - Almond
• The Hobbit - Tolkien
• The Dark is Rising - Cooper
• Dragonsong - McCaffrey
• A Wrinkle in Time - L’Engle
HUMOR
• Antsy Does Time – Shusterman
- Worst Field Trip Ever -Barry
• Fourth Stall – Rylander
Wuthering Tights - Rennison
• I, Funny - Pattterson
• Science Fair- Barry
• The True Meaning of Smekday - Rex
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Kinney
• Framed and Millions and Cosmic Cottrell
• Running With Resevoir Pups - Bateman
• Sleeping Freshman Never Lie - Lubar
• Love Among the Walnuts - Ferris
• Son of the Mob - Korman
• The Steps - Cohn
• The Pepins and their Problems -Horvatch
• No More Dead Dogs - Korman
• Kissing Vanessa - Cheshire
• Soup - Robert N. Peck
• Jack’s Black Book - Gantos
• Strange Case of Origami YodaAngleberger
• Harris and Me - Paulsen
• Never Cry “Arp” and Other Great
Adventures - McManus
• Then Again Maybe I Won’t – Blume
MYSTERY
• Deep, Dark and Dangerous – Hahn
• Listening for Lucca – La Fleur
• London Eye Mystery - Dowd
• Gilda Joyce mysteries - Allison
• From Charlie’s Point of View - Scrimger
• Mysterious Benedict Society - Stewart
• The Case of the Left-Handed Lady -
Springer
• Horizontal Man - Dahl
• Coraline - Gaiman
• The Great Trouble: a Mystery of London,
the
Blue Plagueand a Boy Called Eel Hopkinson
• Jade Green - Naylor
• Sammy Keyes mysteries - Van Draanen
• The Ruby in the Smoke - Pullman
• The Cat Who . ... .series - Braun
• Father’s Arcane Daughter - Konigsburg
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle
• I Know What You Did Last Summer Duncan
• Mysteries - Agatha Christie
• Mysteries - John Bellairs
• Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! - Schlitz
• An Inconvenient Truth (adapted) - Gore
• Chew on This - Schlosser
• Wake Up Our Souls: A Celebration of
Black American Artists - Bolden
• The Race to Save the Lord God Bird Hoose
• Remember D-day - Drez
• The Voice that Challenged A Nation:
Marion Anderson and the Struggle for
Equal Rights - Freedman
• Basher Five Two: the True Story of F-16
Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O’Grady O’Grady
• Left for Dead – Nelson
NONFICTION
Shade’s Children – Nix
Glow –Ryan
Chime-Billingsley
Harmless- Reinhardt
Speak – Anderson
What a Brother Knows- Reinhardt
Avalon- Arnett
Firestorm – Klass
Graceling – Cashmore
Don’t Turn Around- Gagnon
Throne of Glass - Maas
- I Am Malala- Yousafzai
-Fourth Down And Inches: Concussions
and Football’s Make or break Moment McClafferty
• Emma and Charles: The Darwins’ Leap
of Faith-Thompson,
• Get in the Game Ripken
• Written in Bone : Buried Lives of
Jamestown - Walker
• Tree Shaker: The True Story of Nelson
Mandela - Keller
• Marley: A Dog Like No Other - Grogan
OLDER READERS
Daughter of Smoke and Bone – Taylor
Trouble-Schmidt
I’ll Be There-Sloan