2008 Summer Reading List for Middle School Homeschoolers
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008By Mimi Rothschild
I love to read! My idea of a phenomenal vacation would be to be left alone in a room somewhere with a pile of books and food delivered regularly to my bed. Here is a list of great literature that hopefully will help create a love of reading to your children.
Approved Summer Reading List – Montrose Christian Middle School
6th Grade
1. Christopher Paul Curtis – Bud, Not Buddy, The Watsons Go to Birmingham
2. Madeleine L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time, Swiftly Tilting Plane
3. E.L. Konigsburg – From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwiler, Outcast of 19 Schuyler Place, Amy Elizabeth explores Bloomingdale’s, Silent to the Bone
4. Margaret Peterson Haddix – Running Out of Time, Among the Hidden, Take Offs and Landings, Escape from Memory
5. Paul Zindel – The Pigman, My Darling, My Hamburger
6. Karen Cushman – Matilda Bone, The Midwife’s Apprentice
7. Jules Verne – Around the World in 80 Days, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon, The Lighthouse at the End of the World
8. L.M. Montgomery – Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Green Gables
7th Grade
1. Katherine Paterson – Bridge to Terabithia, Jacob Have I Loved, Invisible Child, The Same Stuff as Stars
2. Elizabeth George Spear – The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Sign of the Beaver
3. Charles Dickens – Great Expectations, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
4. Frances Hodgson Burnett – Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy
5. S.E. Hinton – The Outsiders, That was then, this is now, Tex
6. Avi – Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Fighting Ground, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
7. Margaret Peterson Haddix – Running Out of Time, Among the Hidden, Take Offs and Landings, Escape from Memory
8. Gary Paulsen – Hatchet, The River, Sarny
8th Grade
1. Lois Lowry – The Giver, Gathering Blue, Silent Boy, Number the Stars, Summer to Die
2. Jane Austen – Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
3. Louisa May Alcott – Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, The Inheritance, Eight Cousins or the Aunt Hill, Rose in Bloom
4. Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband
5. Karen Hesse – Music of the Dolphins, Out of the Dust, Witness
6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Lost World