Suggestions for Summer Reading: 2014
Summer Reading is about learning to love reading, and it should promote reading widely
and voluminously. Students should be allowed to explore their interests and passions in the
books they choose to read. Student choice is important!
Darlington County School District will use Accelerated Reader to expand the summer
reading choices available to students in grades 6-8 This program provides students access
to over 150,000 quizzes. We have compiled a list of suggested titles to spur your thinking
and get your summer book list growing.
HMS students are required to read ONE book from their grade level list, and
students should read an ADDITIONAL book that has an Accelerated Reader quiz. To
check if a book has an Accelerated Reader quiz, please check the link provided on the
DCSD website (www.darlington.k12.sc.us).
Middle School Students should accumulate a minimum of 9 AR points.
Rising 6th Grade
Soul Surfer
Scorpions
The Revealers
Rising 7th Grade
The Bystander
The Last Shot: A final four mystery
Out of My Mind
Rising 8th Grade
Skeleton Creek #1
Darnell Rock Reporting
If the Witness Lied
English I Honors
If the Witness Lied
Romiette and Julio
Son of the Mob
Author
Bethany Hamilton
Walter Dean Myers
Doug Wilhelm
Author
James Preller
John Feinstein
Sharon Draper
Author
Patrick Carman
Walter Dean Myers
Carolina B. Cooney
Author
Caroline B. Cooney
Sharon Draper
Gordan Korman
Suggestions for Summer Reading: 2014
Title
Author
*Al Capone Does My Shirts
Along Way from Chicago
Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia
Earhart
Among the Hidden (Series)
*Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Apothecary, The
Artemis Fowl
As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth
Attack of the Vampire Weenies
*Bang
Baseball Card Adv Babe & Me
Baseball Card Adv Honus & Me
Baseball Card Adv Jackie & Me
Baseball Card Adv Mickey & Me
Baseball Card Adv Shoeless Joe & Me
Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies
Beasties
Bird in a Box
Boy at War, A
Boy Who Saved Baseball
Catherine, Called Birdy
Charlie Jo Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading
Children of the Lamp
Chomp
City of Orphans
*Clique, The
Club CSI #1 Case of the Mystery Meat Loaf
Club CSI #2 Case of the Missing Moola
*Code Orange
Crash
Crispin: The Cross of Lead
Crossing the Wire
Cryptid Hunter
Cupcake Diaries Emma on Thin Icing
Cupcake Diaries Katie & Cupcake Cure
Cupcake Diaries Mia in the Mix
Curse of the Campfire Weenies
Daniel X #1 Dangerous Days of Daniel X
Daniel X #2 Watch the Skies
Choldenko, Gennifer
Peck, Richard
Fleming, Candace
Daniel X #3 Demons & Druids
Darnell Rock Reporting
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Double Dutch
Double Identity
*Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
Patterson, James
Myers, Walter Dean
Kinney, Jeff
Draper, Sharon
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Sonnenblick, Jordan
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Frank, Anne
Meloy, Maile
Colfer, Eoin
Perkins, Lynne Rae
Lubar, David
Flake, Sharon
Gutman, Dan
Gutman, Dan
Gutman, Dan
Gutman, Dan
Gutman, Dan
Lubar, David
Sleator, William
Pinkney, Andrea
Mazer, Harry
Ritter, John
Cushman, Karen
Greenwald, Tom
Kerr, P. B.
Hiassen, Carl
Avi
Harrison, Lisi
Lewman, David
Lewman, David
Cooney, Caroline B`
Spinelli, Jerry
Avi
Hobbs, Will
Smith, Roland
Simon, Coco
Simon, Coco
Simon, Coco
Lubar, David
Patterson, James
Patterson, James
Suggestions for Summer Reading: 2014
Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
*Face on the Milk Carton
Falling In
Famous for Thirty Seconds
Fever 1793
Flat Broke The Theory Practice & Destructive
Properties of Greed
Fourth Stall, The
Frindle
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Ghetto Cowboy
Go For Gold Gymnasts Balancing Act
Go For Gold Gymnasts Winning Team
*Guts
Guys Read Funny Business
Guys Read Thriller
*Hidden
*Hiroshima
Hope Was Here
House of the Scorpion
*How They Croaked: The Awful Ends to the Awfully
Famous
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
I Am a Seal Team Six Warrior
Icefall
If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
In the Land of the Lawn Weenies
Inkheart
Invasion of the Dognappers
Invasion of the Road Weenies
Jack’s New Power
Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Just Another Day in My Insanely Real Life
Last Dog on Earth
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery
Liar Liar The Theory Practice & Destructive Properties
of Deception
Lightning Thief
Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
Lions of Little Rock
Little Sister is Not My name
Locked in Time
Loser
Love, Ruby Lavender
Lucky Cap
Maniac McGee
Yancey, Rick
Cooney, Caroline
Dowell, Frances
Kain, P. G.
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Paulsen, Gary
Rylander, Chris
Clements, Andrew
Konigsburg, E. L.
Neri, Greg
Moceanu, Dominique
Moceanu, Dominique
Paulsen, Gary
Barnett, Mac
Scieszka, Jon
Frost, Helen
Yep, Laurence
Bauer, Joan
Farmer, Nancy
Bragg, Georgia
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Wasdin, Howard
Kirby, Matthew
Choldenko, Gennifer
Lubar, David
Funke, Cornelia
Jennings, Patrick
Lubar, David
Gantos, Jack
Mass, Wendy
Gantos, Jack
Dee, Barbara
Ehrenhaft, Daniel
Feinstein, John
Paulsen, Gary
Riordan, Rick
Lewis, C. S
Levine, Kristin Sims
Draper, Sharon
Duncan, Lois
Spinelli, Jerry
Wiles, Deborah
Jennings, Patrick
Spinelli, Jerry
Suggestions for Summer Reading: 2014
Maximum Ride #1 Angel Experiment
Maximum Ride #2 School’s Out Forever
Maximum Ride #3 Saving the World & Other Extreme
Sports
Maximum Ride #4 Final Warning
Maximum Ride #5 Max
Maximum Ride #6 Fang
Midnighters
*Money Hungry
Name of This Book is Secret
*New Boy
Ninth Ward
Notes from an Accidental Band Geek
*Nothing But the Truth
*Okay for Now
On the Run: Chasing the Falconers
Out of My Mind
Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
Peak
Pictures of Hollis Wood
Princess Academy
Princess of the Midnight Ball
Private Peaceful
Ravenmaster’s Secret
*Red Kayak
Riding Freedom
River
*Runner
Running Dream, The
Saint Louis Armstrong Beach
School Story
Schooled
*Scorpion
Secret of Immortal Nicholas Flame Alchemyst
Secret of Immortal Nicholas Flame Magician
Secret of Immortal Nicholas Flame Sorceress
Seeing Cinderella
Shark Wars #1
Shark Wars #2 Battle of Riptide
Shark Wars #3 Into the Abyss
Shots on Goal
Silent to the Bone
Sixth Grade Nickname Game
Skeleton Creek #1 Skeleton Creek
Skeleton Creek #2 Ghost in the Machine
Skeleton Creek #3 Crossbones
Skeleton Creek #4 Raven
Patterson, James
Patterson, James
Patterson, James
Patterson, James
Patterson, James
Patterson, James
Westerfeld, Scott
Flake, Sharon
Bosch, Pseudonymous
Houston, Julian
Rhodes, Jewell Parker
Dionne, Erin
Avi
Schimdt, Gary D.
Korman, Gordon
Draper, Sharon
Konigsburg, E. L.
Smith, Roland
Giff, Patricia Riley
Hale, Shannon
George, Jessica Day
Morpurgo, Michael
Woodruff, Elmira
Cummings, Priscilla
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Paulsen, Gary
Dueker, Carl
Draanen, Van Wendelin
Woods, Brenda A.
Clements, Andrew
Korman, Gordan
Meyer, Walter Dean
Scott, Michael
Scott, Michael
Scott, Michael
Lundquist, Jenny
Altbacker, Ernie
Altbacker, Ernie
Altbacker, Ernie
Wallace, Rich
Konigsburg, E. L.
Korman, Gordon
Carman, Patrick
Carman, Patrick
Carman, Patrick
Carman, Patrick
Suggestions for Summer Reading: 2014
Small as an Elephant
Smiles to Go
Soldier’s Heart
*Son of the Mob
Soul Surfer
Star in the Forest
*Stargirl
Stormbreaker
Summer of May
Surviving the Applewhites
*Tangerine
The Bystander
The Merchant of Death
The Revealers
Theodore Boone Abduction
Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer
Thief Lord
Things Not Seen
Time Travelers
Toby Wheeler, Eighth Grade Benchwarmer
Trauma Queen
Travel Team
Treasure of Amelia Island
Tripping Over the Lunch Lady
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
*Uglies
Under the Blood-Red Sun
Underdogs, The
Underneath, The
View from Saturday
*Waiting to Forget
Walk Two Moons
Warrior Sheep Down Under
Warrior Sheep Go West
Warrior Sheep Quest of the Warrior Sheep
Westing Game, The
What Momma Left Me
Where The Red Fern Grows
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Wild Life
Word Eater, The
World without Heroes, A
Wringer
Year Down Yonder, A
Zora and Me
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Jerry Spinelli
Paulsen, Gary
Korman, Gordon
Bethany Hamilton
Resau, Laura
Spinelli, Jerry
Horowitz, Anthony
Galante, Cecilia
Tolan, Stephanie
Bloor, Edward
James Preller
MacHale, D.J.
Wilhelm, Doug
Grisham, John
Grisham, John
Funke, Cornelia
Clements, Andrew
Buckley-Archer, Linda
Thatcher Heldring
Dee, Barbara
Lupica, Mike
Finott, M. C.
Mercado, Nancy
Avi
Westerfeld, Scott
Salisbury, Graham
Lupica, Mike
Appelt, Kathi
Konigsburg, E. L.
Welch, Sheila Kelly
Creech, Sharon
Russell, Christopher
Russell, Christine
Russell, Christopher
Raskin, Ellen
Watson, Renee
Rawls, Wilson
Holt, Kimberly Willis
DeFelice, Cynthia
Amato, Mary
Mull, Brandon
Spinelli, Jerry
Peck, Richard
Bond, Victoria