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Summer Reading List:

1.       Series of Unfortunate Events-Lemony Snicket

2.     21 Balloons-Wiiliam Pene DuBois

3.     Sammy Keyes Mysteries-

4.     Out of the Dust-Karen Hesse

5.     Ben and Me-Robert Lawson

6.     The Golden Compass (Series)- Philip Pullman

7.     Holes-Louis Sachar

8.     There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom- Louis Sachar

9.     Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World

10.  True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle- Avi

11.   Ragweed-Avi

12.  The Egypt Game- Zipha Keatly Snyder

13.  My Lousiana Sky

14.  The Runaways-

15.  Slake’s Limbo-William Sleator

16.  Harris and Me- Gary Paulsen

17.  Mr. Tucket Series- Gary Paulsen

18.  Hatchet Series- Gary Paulsen

19.  Trouble With Tuck-Theodore Taylor

20. Frindle-Clemmens

21.  The Landry News-Robert Clemmens

22. A Long Way from Chicago- Richard Peck

23. A Year Down Under- Richard Peck

24.A View From Saturday- E.L. Konigsberg

25.The Ballad of Lucy Whipple-Karen Cushman

26. Angela and Diabola-Lynne Reid Banks

27.Parzival-Katherine Patterson

28. Midnight Magic-Avi

29.Crash- Jerry Spinelli

30.Junebug-Alice Mead

31.  Running Out of Time- Margaret Haddix

32.Bud Not Buddy-Christopher Paul Curtis

33.Watsons Go To Birmingham-Christopher Paul Curtis

34.Joey Pigza Swallowed a Key- Jack Gantos

35.Because of Winn-Dixie- DiCamello

36.The Firework Makers Daughter- Philip Pullman

37.The Fire Pony- Rodman Philbrick

38. Stay!-Lois Lowrey

39.Afternoon of the Elves- Janet Lisle

40. Ender’s Game- Orson Scott Card

41.  Dragonwings- Lawrence Yep

42. Catherine Called Birdy- Karen Cushman

43. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase- Joan Aiken

44. Redwall Series- Brian Jaques

45. Johnny Tremain-Esther Forbes

46. A Royal Pain- Ellen Conford

47. Number the Stars-Lois Lowry

48. The Giver- Lois Lowry

49. Clockwork-Philip Pullman

50. Tangerine- Edward Bloor

51.  Our Only May Amelia- Jennifer Holm

52. The Thief-Megan Whalen Turner

53. Bandit’s Moon-Sid Fleischman

54. 13^th Platform- Eva Ibbotson

55.The Nose From Jupiter—Richard Scrimger

56. Just Juice- Karen Hesse

57. Skellig-David Almond

58. Riding Freedom- Pam Munoz

59. Matilda- Roald Dahl

60. Prisoners at the Kitchen Table-

61.   Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret- Judy Blume

62. M.C. Higgins the Great- Virginia Hamiliton

63. The Kid Who Ran for President- Dan Gutman

64.There’s an Owl in the Shower- Jean Craighead George

65.The Word Eater- Mary Amato

66.Autumn Street- Lois Lowry

67. Phoenix Rising- Karen Hesse

68. Ghost of the Tokaido Inn- Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler

69. Esperanza Rising-Pam Munoz Ryan

70.The Shakesperar Stealer- Gary Blackwood

71.  Fever 1793 - Lauri Halse Anderson

72.Dragonwings- Lawrence Yep

73.The Bell,The Book and the Spellbinder- Brad Strickland

74. Belle Prater’s Boy- Ruth White

75. Dave at Night- Gail Carson Levine

76. House of Dies Drear- Virginia Hamilton

77.When Zachary Beaver Came to Town- Kimberly Willis Holt

78.The Last Book in the Universe- Rodman Philbrick

79. Shiva’s Fire- Suzanne Fisher Staples

80.The Storm Warriors- Elisa Carbonne

81.  Jack Black and the Ship of Thieves- Carol Hughs

82. The Secret School- Avi

83. Don’t You Know There is a War On? –Avi

84. Stargirl- Jerry Spinelli

85. Loser-Spinelli

86. Everything on a Waffle- Polly Horvath

87. Love That Dog- Sharon Creech

88. Beloved Dearly- Cooney

89. The Thief Lord- Cornelia Funke

90. Mick Harte Was Here

91.   Flying Solo- Ralph Fletcher

92. Crispin-Avi

93. No More Dead Dogs

94. Al Capone Does My Laundry

95. Chasing Vermeer

96. The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

97.  Peter and the Star Catchers

98. The Westing Game

99.  Hank Zipzer books