~Just Read, Florida~
recommended middle school
summer reading list

. The City of Ember, Jeanne DuPrau

. The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White

. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

. Old Yeller, Fred Gipson

. Hoot, Carl Hiaasen

. Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson

. Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan

. Hattie, Big Sky, Kirby Larson

. The Young Man and the Sea, Rodman Philbrick

. Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

. Artemis Fowl: the Arctic Incident, Eoin Colfer

. Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls

. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi

. Ben Franklin’s Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman’s Life,

Candace Fleming

. Runaway Girl: The Artist Louise Bourgeois, Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

. Bulls-eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley, Sue Macy

. The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and Her Famous Brothers, Richard Maurer

. Carver, a Life in Poems, Marilyn Nelson

. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever, Epidemic of

1793, Jim Murphy

. Magnificent Voyage: An American Adventurer on Captain James Cook’s Final

Expedition, Laurie Lawlor

. The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut

Michael Collins, Bea Uusma Schyffert

. Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammed Ali, Charles R. Smith

. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village, Laura Amy Schlitz

. Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul Curtis

. The Wednesday Wars, Gary D. Schmidt

. Feathers, Jacqueline Woodson

. The Anybodies, N.E. Bode

. The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan

. Fire From the Rock, Sharon Draper

. Diamonds in the Shadow, Carolyn Cooney

. Separate Fountains, Patti Wilson Byars