2024 SUMMER READING LIST

PMS Summer Reading '24.pdf


Summer Reading Assignment 2024

Due Date: Friday, October 11, 2024

Overview: Students will read one book from their grade-level list below in order to prepare for the first unit of study in their language arts course.

Within the first month of school, students should expect to 

1.) share their ideas about the book in a meaningful discussion and 

2.) answer an open-ended written response.

  


Grade Level Book Choices

Books in boldface can be checked out from the main office (first come, first served).

GN* = graphic novel

Rising 6th

Testing Our Limits  

What do we do when life gets hard?

Rising 7th

Conflicts and Clashes

When do differences become conflicts?

Rising 8th

Everyone Loves a Mystery 

What attracts us to the mysterious?

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Ghost by Jason Reynolds

Front Desk by Kelly Yang

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

Peak by Roland Smith

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan

The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore

GN* Drama by Raina Telgemeier

GN* Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds

GN* Chunky by Yehudi Mercado

GN* New Kid by Jerry Craft

GN* Parachute Kids by Betty Tang

Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy

Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

Alone by Megan E. Freeman

Starfish by Lisa Fipps

Hands by Torrey Maldonado

Louder than Hunger by John Schu

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Refugee by Alan Gratz

The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Outcasts United by Warren St. John

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick

GN* They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

GN* Hoops by Matt Tavares

GN* Mabuhay by Zachary Sterling

GN* The Crossover or Booked by Kwame Alexander (or read the novel-in-verse with the same title and author)

GN* Displacement by Kiku Hughes

What about Will by Ellen Hopkins

The Midnight Children by Dan Gemeinhart

The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu

Amina’s Voice by Hena Khan

Lupe Wong Won’t Dance by Donna Barba Higuera

A Perfect Mistake by Melanie Conklin

Hidden by Helen Frost

Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

Miles Morales Spider-man by Jason Reynolds

The Wave by Todd Strasser

or  PMS mystery short story packet

  • Pick this up in the front office

Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson 

How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle

Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

       - any in this series

Anything by:

  • Margaret Peterson Haddix

  • Caroline B. Cooney

  • Alan Gratz

  • James Patterson (Ali Cross series)

  • Carl Hiassen (Hoot, Scat, Flush, Chomp)