GREAT SUMMER READING FOR
SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE
REALISTIC FICTION

· The Pigman, Paul Zindel
· The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
· Parrot in the Oven, Victor Martinez
· Freak the Mighty, Rodman Philbrick
· Kissing Doorknobs, Terry Hesser
· The Agony of Alice, Phyllis Naylor
· For Your Eyes Only, Joan Rocklin
· Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY

· Animal Farm, George Orwell
· Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
· Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
· The Lost Years of Merlin, T.A. Barron
· Turnabout, Margaret Haddix
· The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
· Dragonsong, Anne Mccafrey
· The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
· Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

MYSTERY/ADVENTURE
· Into Thin Air, John Kraukner
· The Other Side of Dark, Joan Lowry Nixon
· I Know What You Did Last Summer, Lois Duncan
· Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
· A Girl Named Disaster, Nancy Farmer
· Never Trust a Dead Man, Vivian Vandevelde
HISTORICAL FICTION/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
· The Bridges at Toko-Ri, James Michner
· Anna of Byzantium, Tracy Barrett
· In My Enemy's House, Carol Matas
· The Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
· Quest for a Maid, Frances Hendry
· Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Houston
· Red Scarf Girl, Ji-Li Jiang
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