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Your 2022 Summer Reading assignment is to read TWO books.
One book is your choice from the list of “required choices” for your grade level.
The other book can be anything you want! The slideshows below feature the required book choices for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.
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Entering 6th grade
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Amira and Hamza
by Samira Ahmed Blended by Sharon Draper The Canyon’s Edge by Dusti Bowling Just Roll With It by Veronica Agarwal & Lee Durgey-LaVoie New From Here by Kelly Yang The Next Great Paulie Fink by Ali Benjamin Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca Take Back the Block by Chrystal D. Giles Thanks A Lot Universe by Chad Lucas Trace by Pat Cummings |
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Entering 7th Grade
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Dress Coded
by Carrie Firestone Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger Finding Junie Kim by Ellen Oh The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera Linked by Gordon Korman My Life As an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed Other Boys by Damian Alexander Starfish by Lisa Fipps The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus |
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Entering 8th grade
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All American Muslim Girl
by Nadine Jolie Courtney Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchison Borders by Thomas King Dark Matters of Mona Star by Laura Lee Gulledge The Electric Kingdom by David Arnold Love is a Revolution by Renee Watson Pet by Awaeke Emezi Spin by Giles Lamar Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman XL by Scott Brown |
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Additional Recommendations
These books are not required, but they are great books!
Realistic Fiction
Across the Desert by Dusti Bowling Ahmed Aziz’s Epic Year by Nina Hamza The Best At It by Maulik Pancholy A Bird Will Soar by Allison Green Myers Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson The Boys in the Back Row by Mike Jung The Brave by James Bird Breathing Underwater by Sarah Allen Confessions of a Class Clown by Arianne Costner Falling Short by Ernesto Cisernos Fighting Words by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley High Five For Glenn Burke by Phil Bildner The Many Meanings of Meilan by Andrea Wang Martin McCleam, Middle School Queen by Alyssa Zaczek Redwood and Ponytail by K A Holt Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson A Story About Cancer with a Happy Ending by India Desjardins Tune It Out by Jamie Sumber Worst Case Collin by Rebecca Caprara Fantasy & Science Fiction The Apothecary by Maile Meloy Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Choksi Sal and Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Hernandez The In-Between by Rebecca K S Ansari Only if You Dare by Josh Allen Mystery Drew LeClair Gets a Clue by Katryn Bury Van Gogh Deception by Deron Hicks Historical Fiction The Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna by Alda P Dobbs Frankie and Bug by Gayle Forman How to Find What You're Not Looking For by Veera Hiranandani Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behars Mighty Inside by Sundee T Frazier Graphic Novels Chunky by Yehudi Mercado Isla to Island by Alexis Castellanos Living With Viola by Rosena Fung Nonfiction The Genius Under the Table by Eugene Yelchin One Real American: the life of Ely S. Parker, Seneca Sachem and Civil War General by Joseph Bruchac This is Your Time by Ruby Bridges |
Realistic Fiction
The Land of Permanent Goodbyes by Atia Abawi Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart Perfectly Parvin by Olivia Abtahi The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga Listen, Layla by Yassin Abdel-Magied Fantasy & Science Fiction Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier Slay by Brittney Morris The Thirteenth Fairy by Melissa de la Cruz Graphic The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden Superman Smashed the Klan by Gene Luen Yang This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews Nonfiction Allies: Real talk about showing up, screwing up, and trying again by Shakirah Bourne The Black Friend by Frederick Joseph The Racers by Neal Bascomb |
Fiction
Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Jason Reynolds (Fantasy) Most Likely by Sarah Watson (Realistic) With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (Realistic) The Words in My Hands by Asphyxia (SciFi) Nonfiction Call Me American by Abdi Nor Iftin Caught by Georgia Braggs Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder (graphic) |
