Suggested media specialist, teacher and student fantasy, non-fiction, realistic fiction, biography, graphic novel and historical fiction favorites for your summer reading enjoyment (no written assignments due and feel free to read from a different grade's list):

Incoming Sixth Graders:

• Posted (Anderson) 
• The Wild Robot (Brown)
• The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge (Anderson)
• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Bowling)
• Hit and Miss (Jeter)
• The School for Good and Evil Series (Chainani) 
• The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible ... on Schindler's List: a memoir (Leyson) 
• Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron (Lasure) 
• Zombie Baseball Beatdown (Bacigalupi)
• Joshua Dread Series (Bacon)
• Nick of Time Series (Bell)
• The Weight of Water (Crossan)
• Timmy Failure Series (Pastis)
• Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library (Grabenstein)
• Astronaut Academy: Zero Gravity (Roman) 
• Secrets at Sea (Peck)
• The One and Only Ivan (Applegate)
• A Tale Dark and Grimm Series (Gidwitz)
• The Savage Fortress Series (Chadda)
• Nuts to You (Perkins)

Incoming Seventh Graders:

• Refugee (Gratz)
• Wolf Hollow (Wolk)
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Barnhill) 
• Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster (Auxier)
• The Giver Series (Lowry)
• The Maze Runner Series (Dashner)
• The Fairy Ring or Elsie and Frances Fool the World (Lasure) 
• Ghostopolis (TenNapel) 
• Miles from Ordinary (Williams)
• Legend Series (Lu)
• Page by Paige (Gulledge) 
• Tom Thumb: The Remarkable True Story of a Man in Miniature (Sullivan) 
• Maximum Ride Series (Patterson)
• Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived (Helfer) 
• Lockdown: Escape from Furnace Series (Smith)
• Hurt Go Happy (Rorby)
• lraqiGirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq (Erigely-Field) 

Incoming Eighth Graders:

• You Bring the Distant Near (Perkins)
• The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler (Hendrix)
• They Both Die at the End (Silvera)
• The House in Poplar Wood (Ormsbee)
• In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle (Blais)
• Egg and Spoon (Maguire-best selling author of Wicked)
• Eleanor and Park (Rowell)
• The Fifth Wave (Yancey) 
• Axe Cop--Volume One (Nicolle) 
• Accomplice (Corrigan)
• Throne of Glass Series (Martin)
• The Mortal Instruments Series (Clare)
• Dairy Queen Series (Murdock)
• Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine & the Lawless Years of Prohibition (Blumenthal) 
• Jeter Unfilitered (Jeter) 
• The Orange Houses (Griffin)
• Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan (Dau) 
• Rules of Survival (Werlin)
• Teenboat! The Angst of Being a Teen, The Thrill of Being a Boat (Roman) 
• Bloody Times: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis (Swanson)