Summer is the perfect time to read! Enjoy the fresh air and let your imagination roam while reading your book/E-book or maybe sit back and listen to an audiobook! Our suggested reading list includes a variety of titles for middle school students. See below for details on how to access free E-books and challenge yourself to have fun while reading this summer!
~Mrs. Bridget Vaughan, QPS Coordinator of ELA and Literacy
Check out these suggested favorites from your QPS Library and Media Teachers ...
REALISTIC or SPORTS FICTION
- Clean Getaway by Nic Stone
- The Year We Fell From Space by A.S. King
- Heist Society series by Ally Carter
- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib
Khorram
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds
- The Seventh Most Important Thing by
Shelley Pearsall
- Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard
Jacobson
POETRY
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline
Woodson
- Poem Depot by Douglas Florian
- Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings by
Margarita Engle
FANTASY/ADVENTURE/SCIENCE FICTION
- Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani
Chokshi
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by
Suzanne Collins
- Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Gregor the Overlander (series) by Suzanne
Collins
- Lumberjanes (series) by various authors
- The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R.
Pan
- The Last Dragonslayer by Jasper Fforde
- The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud
- Greenglass House by Kate Milford
- The Last Kids on Earth (series) by Max Brallier
GRAPHIC NOVELS
- New Kid by Jerry Kraft
- This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian
Tamaki
- Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
- When Stars are Scattered by Andrea Beach
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexande
NONFICTION or HISTORICAL FICTION
- Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of
Amelia Earhart by Candace Fleming
- Refugee by Alan Gratz
- Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson
- The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly
Brubaker
- I Will Always Write Back by Martin Ganda and
Caitlin Alifirenka