Manhattan Beach Middle School Summer Reading 2016

Entering 6th Grade

Read three books, must include one non-fiction book
Alexander
Crossover
Compestine Revolution is Not a Dinner Party
*Swanson
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
Curtis
The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963
Farmer
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
Kadohata
Cracker!: The Best Dog in Vietnam
Key
Alabama Moon
Mass
Every Soul a Star
Mikaelsen
Touching Spirit Bear
*Schlosser / Chew on This
Wilson
*Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming

Entering 8th Grade

Read three books total, including The Outsiders
**Hinton
The Outsiders
Christie
And Then There Were None
Crichton
Jurassic Park
Fleming
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion
and the Fall of Imperial Russia
Hesse
Out of the Dust
+Horowitz
The Alex Rider Series
Houston
Farewell to Manzanar
London
Call of the Wild
McCammon Boy's Life
Shabazz
X
Sheinkin
Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the
World's Most Dangerous Weapon
+Shusterman The Skinjacker Trilogy
Spiegelman Maus
Watson
True Spirit: The True Story of a 16-year
old Australian Who Sailed Solo Nonstop
and Unassisted Around the World
Zindel
The Pigman
* non-fiction

+ select any ONE book from the series

Entering 7th Grade

Read three books, must include one non-fiction book
Braker
The Thief of Always
Notorious Nazi
*Beah
A Long Way Gone
*Beals
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of
the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Bauer
Hope Was Here
Crichton
Timeline
Curtis
Bud, Not Buddy
DiCamillo
Because of Winn Dixie
Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
Hiaasen
Flush
Kadohata
Weedflower
+Lore
The Lorien Legacies Series
*Newquist
The Book of Blood: From Legend and Leeches
to Vampires and Veins
+Rowling
The Harry Potter Series
Spinelli
Maniac Magee
Yolen
The Devil's Arithmetic

Albertalli
Gilbert
McLemore
Oakes
Prez
Ruby
Sedgwick
Thomas

Entering 9th Grade

Read one book from list
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Conviction
The Weight of Feathers
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
Out of Darkness
Bone Gap
The Ghosts of Heaven
Because Youll Never Meet Me

** 8th grade required reading