Grades 6-8 Reading Lists

This multi-part book list is organized by genre. The yellow box on the right lists the categories of books we've compiled. You'll find many books to please your young readers. Just print out the list and run to your library, then kick back and enjoy summer--one page at a time!

Granny the Pag, by Nina Bawden

Island like You: Stories of the Barrio, by Judith Ortiz Cofer

Crazy Lady!, by Jane Leslie Conly

Absolutely Normal Chaos, by Sharon Creech

Out of the Blue, by Sarah Ellis

Girl Named Disaster, by Nancy Farmer

Music of Dolphins, by Karen Hesse

Mick Harte Was Here, by Barbara Park

Harris and Me: A Summer Remembered, by Gary Paulsen

Crash, by Jerry Spinelli

This multi-part book list is organized by genre. The yellow box on the right lists the categories of books we've compiled. You'll find many books to please your young readers. Just print out the list and run to your library, then kick back and enjoy summer--one page at a time!

Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution, by Natalie S. Bober

Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Homefront in World War II, by Penny Colman

American Hero: The True Story of Charles A. Lindbergh, by Barry Denenberg

Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life, by Sid Fleischman

The Life & Death of Crazy Horse, by Russell Freedman and Amos Bad Bull (Photographer)

Keeping Secrets, by Mary E. Lyons

Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary, by Walter Dean Myers

Big Annie of Calumet: A True Story of the Industrial Revolution, by Jerry Stanley and S. Boughton (Editor)

Ingenious Mr.Peale: Painter, Patriot,and Man of Science, by Janet R. Wilson and Charles Willson Peale

This multi-part book list is organized by genre. The yellow box on the right lists the categories of books we've compiled. You'll find many books to please your young readers. Just print out the list and run to your library, then kick back and enjoy summer--one page at a time!

Iron Ring, by Lloyd Alexander

Well Wished, by Franny Billingsley

Daughter of the Sea, by Berlie Doherty and Sian Bailey (Illustrator)

The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm, by Nancy Farmer

Answer My Prayer, by Sid Hite

Outcast of Redwall, by Brian Jacques and Allan Curless (Illustrator)

Ella Enchanted, by Gail Carson Levine

Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman and Terry Brooks (Introduction)

Some of the Kinder Planets, by Tim Wynne-Jones

Loch, by Paul Zindel

This multi-part book list is organized by genre. The yellow box on the right lists the categories of books we've compiled. You'll find many books to please your young readers. Just print out the list and run to your library, then kick back and enjoy summer--one page at a time!

Full Steam Ahead: The Race to Build a Transcontinental Railroad, by Rhoda Blumberg

Monteverde: Science and Scientists In A Costa Rican Cloud Forest , by Sneed B. Collard

North Star to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad, by Gena K. Gorrell

Bone Detectives: How Forensic Anthropologists Solve Crimes & Uncover Mysteries of the Dead, by Donna M. Jackson and Charlie Fellenbaum

Empires Lost & Won, by Albert Marrin

The Great Fire, by Jim Murphy

Dolphin Man: Exploring the World of Dolphins, by Laurence P. Pringle, Marcia Marshall (Editor), and Randall S. Wells (Illustrator)

I Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment, by Jerry Stanley

Cold War: The American Crusade against the Soviet Union & World Communism, 1945-1990, by James A. Warren

The Salem Witch Trials, by Lori Lee Wilson

This multi-part book list is organized by genre. The yellow box on the right lists the categories of books we've compiled. You'll find many books to please your young readers. Just print out the list and run to your library, then kick back and enjoy summer--one page at a time!

Man Who Was Poe, by Avi

Stonewords: A Ghost Story, by Pamela Conrad

The Terrorist, by Caroline B. Cooney

The Watchers: A Mystery at Alton Towers, by Helen Cresswell

Murdered, My Sweet, by Joan Lowery Nixon

Voices after Midnight, by Richard E. Peck

The Ghosts of Mercy Manor, by Betty Ren Wright

This multi-part book list is organized by genre. The yellow box on the right lists the categories of books we've compiled. You'll find many books to please your young readers. Just print out the list and run to your library, then kick back and enjoy summer--one page at a time!

Dark Thirty, by Pat C. McKissack and Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)

Black Ships before Troy: The Story of the Iliad, by Rosemary Sutcliff and Alan Lee (Illustrator)

Magic Orange Tree and Other Haitian Folktales, by Elsa Henriquez (Illustrator), Diane Wolkstein (Compiler), and Foreword by Edwidge Danticat

This multi-part book list is organized by genre. The yellow box on the right lists the categories of books we've compiled. You'll find many books to please your young readers. Just print out the list and run to your library, then kick back and enjoy summer--one page at a time!

Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker, by Cynthia Defelice

he Robber and Me, by Josef Holub and Elizabeth D. Crawford (Translator)

Silver Days, by Sonia Levitin

Glory Field, by Walter Dean Myers

Jip: His Story, by Katherine Paterson

The Second Bend In The River, by Ann Rinaldi and Kate Egan (Editor)