Summer Reading List 2017 - Grades 6-8

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As brave as you - Reynolds, Jason,

Summary: When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave.

Booked - Alexander, Kwame,

Summary: Twelve-year-old Nick loves soccer and hates books, but soon learns the power of words as he wrestles with problems at home, stands up to a bully, and tries to impress the girl of his dreams.

The boys who challenged Hitler : Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club - Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-

Summary: "The true story of a group of boy resistance fighters in Denmark after the Nazi invasion"--

Dream on, Amber - Shevah, Emma,

Summary: Abandoned by her father at a young age, half-Japanese, half-Italian middle schooler Amber Miyamoto must dream up a way for her and her sister to make it on their own while making friends at her new...

Fatal fever : tracking down Typhoid Mary - Jarrow, Gail,

Summary: Chronicles the story of the early 1900s typhoid fever epidemic in New York, providing details as to how its infamous carrier was ultimately tracked down and stopped.--

Contents: Hidden -- Germ detective -- Death in Ithaca -- "An enemy that moves in the dark" -- Mysterious outbreak -- A threat to the city -- Pursuit -- Inside the white walls -- "The most dangerous woman in...

Fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods : 20 chilling tales from the wilderness - Johnson, Hal, 1972-

Summary: Meet the fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods! The Hodag, like a spinybacked bull-horned rhinoceros packing 3,000 pounds of carnivorous fury. The Snoligoster, the reptilian beast that feeds on the...

Contents: Hodag -- Hugag -- Gumberoo - Roperite -- Snoligoster -- Leprocaun -- Funeral Mountain Terrashot -- Slide-Rock Bolter -- Toteroad Shagamaw -- Wapaloosie -- Cactus Cat -- Squonk -- Whirling Whimpus...

Fish in a tree - Hunt, Lynda Mullaly,

Summary: "Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--

The girl who drank the moon - Barnhill, Kelly Regan,

Summary: "An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the...

Grounded : the adventures of Rapunzel - Morrison, Megan, 1976-

Summary: Rapunzel believes she is the luckiest person in Tyme, because Witch tells her so, but when Jack climbs into her tower to steal an enchanted rose, he hints that Witch is not telling the whole truth...

Hour of the bees - Eagar, Lindsay,

Summary: At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to...

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