Middle School Summer Reading List 2023
Theme: Friendship
Fiction
Realistic Fiction
1. Eleven by: Patricia Reilly Giff
2. Strange Birds by: Celia C. Perez
3. Nowhere Boy by: Katherine March
4. Click’d by: Tamara Ireland Stone
5. You Go First by: Erin Entrada Kelly
6. My Jasper June by: Laurel Snyder
7. Notorious by: Gordon Korman
8. Pax by Sara Pennypacker or Pax, Journey Home (Book 2)
Sports/Adventure
9. Distress Signals by: Mary Lambert
10. Wildfire by: Rodman Philbrick
11. The Hero Two Doors Down by: Sharon Robinson
12. I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916 by: Lauren Tarshis
Graphic Novels:
13. All’s Faire in Middle School by: Victoria Jamieson (Graphic Novel)
14. New Kid Series by: Jerry Craft (Graphic novel)
15. This Was Our Pact by: Ryan Andrews (Graphic Novel)
16. A Cat Story by: Ursula Murray Husted (Graphic Novel)
SciFi/Fantasy:
17. City of Ember by: Jeanne Dupreau
18. Gregor the Overlander by: Suzanne Collins
19. Keeper of the Lost Cities by: Shannon Messenger
20. The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by: Anne Ursu
21. The Magic Misfits by: Neil Patrick Harris
22. No Better Friend - Young Readers’ Edition by: Robert Weintraub
23. An Invisible Thread - Young Readers’ Edition by: Laura Schroff
24. The Boys in the Boat by: Daniel James Brown
25. The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of a Heroic Sea Rescue by: Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman