MIS Summer Reading - Middle School Edition

Middle Schoolers- it’s your turn! The only requirement is that you read something that challenges you (your reading level or your ideas and perspectives).  We have compiled some ideas here, but feel free to take a look at other lists and explore other interests, as well.  You do not have to select from this list, but it’s important you read something new you have not read before!  Families - keeping in mind that at MIS we do not ban books or hide from hard conversations, please make sure that you are supporting your students to select books that are best for your family.

Happy Reading!

Rising Sixth Grade

• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

• Root Magic by Eden Royce

• The Year I Flew Away by Marie Arnold

• Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

• Freddy and Simon the Dictator by Walter R. Brooks

• All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat

• Allies by Alan Gratz

• Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan

• To Catch a Cheat by Varian Johnson

• Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk

• Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Rising Seventh Grade

• This Woven Kindgom by Tahereh Mafi

• The Next New Syrian Girl by Ream Shukairy

• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

• Monster: A Graphic Novel by Walter Dean Myers

• The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

• American Street by Ibi Zoboi

• Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee

• Legend by Marie Lu

• The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

• The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

• I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi

Rising Eighth Grade

• The Dragon’s Promise by Elizabeth Lim

• The Iliminae Files by Amie Kaufman

• We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

• Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

• Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi

• Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

• The Wrath & the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

• Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

• Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

• Dear Martin by Nic Stone