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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. 
There are addition recommendations at the bottom of the page.

Entering 6th grade

Click the arrows to scroll through the book choices
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 

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 

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 

Additional Recommendations

These books are not required, but they are great books!
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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
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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

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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)
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