Robinson Middle School
328 N. Oliver Wichita, KS 67208
316-973-8600
7th and 8th Grade Pre-IB Summer Reading
Future seventh and eighth graders must read a total of two books:
 one book from the attached list (also found on our team website (http://www.usd259.org/robinson/pib)
AND
 one from any one of the following literary award lists: American Library Association (ALA or YALA),
Edgar, Newberry, Nobel (Fiction or Non-Fiction), Printz, Pulitzer (Fiction or Non-Fiction), National Book
Award.
For additional options for further summer reading, please see the following novel list:
http://www.watermarkbooks.com/molly-lavacek-teen-novel-group. Many of these would also qualify for the
second reading choice. You may not select a book you have previously read for a class assignment. If there is
a book of literary merit you would like to read that is not on any of the above lists, please email Mrs. Sims
([email protected]) or Mrs. Lavacek ([email protected]) early in the summer to clear the title.
Author
Adams, Richard
Alcott, Louisa May
Armstrong, William Howard
Austen, Jane
Avi
Baum, Frank
Buck, Pearl S.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Christie, Agatha
Crane, Stephen
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Forbes, Esther
Frank, Anne
Gibson, William
Gipson, Fred
Golding, William Gerald
Greene, Bette
Gunther, John
Hemingway, Ernest
Hemingway, Ernest
Hinton, S.E.
Huxley, Aldous
Irving, Washington
Kipling, Rudyard
Kjelgaard , Jim
Knowles, John
Lindgren, Astrid
MacLachlan, Patricia
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Arthur
Mitchell, Margaret
Book/Series
Watership Down
Little Women
Sounder
Pride and Prejudice
Beyond the Western Sea (any one
of the series)
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The
Good Earth, The
Secret Garden, The
Murder on the Orient Express
(or any book by the author)
Red Badge of Courage, The
Robinson Crusoe
Tale of Two Cities, A
Hound of the Baskervilles
Johnny Tremain
Diary of Anne Frank, The
Miracle Worker, The
Old Yeller
Lord of the Flies
Summer of My German Soldier
Death Be Not Proud
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Old Man and the Sea, The
Outsiders, The
Brave New World
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The
Jungle Book, The
Big Red
Separate Peace, A
Adventures of Pippi Longstocking
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Crucible, The
Death of a Salesman
Gone With the Wind
Author
Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Orwell, George
Orwell, George
Paton, Alan
Peck, Robert Newton
Rawls, Wilson
Rawls, Wilson
Remarque, Erich
Schaefer, Jack
Sewell, Anna
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Mary
Smith, Betty
Speare, Elizabeth George
Sperry, Armstrong
Steinbeck, John
Steinbeck, John
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Swift, Jonathan
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Twain, Mark
Verne, Jules
Voigt, Cynthia
Voigt, Cynthia
Walker, Alice
Wells, H. G.
Wells, H. G.
Wharton, Edith
Wilder, Thornton
Zindel, Paul
Book/Series
Anne of Green Gables (any one
of the series)
1984
Animal Farm
Cry the Beloved Country
Day No Pigs Would Die, A
Summer of the Monkeys
Where the Red Fern Grows
All Quiet On The Western Front
Shane
Black Beauty
Romeo and Juliet
Frankenstein
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A
Witch of Blackbird Pond
Call It Courage
Grapes of Wrath, The
Red Pony, The
Kidnapped
Treasure Island
Gulliver’s Travels
Hobbit, The
Lord of the Rings, The
(any one of the series)
any book by the author except
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Dicey's Song
Izzy, Willy Nilly
Color Purple, The
Invisible Man, The
Time Machine, The
Ethan Frome
Our Town
Pigman, The