Hermosa Valley Summer Reading List

Middle school students at must read three books over summer break as part of the school's summer reading requirements, according to a notice posted on the school's website.

While sixth-grade students must only read three books from the grade level's suggested reading list, seventh-grade students must read one book from the list of classic books for the seventh grade, as well as two others chosen from the classics list and a suggested reading list.

Eighth-grade students must read two books from their grade level's list of classics, in addition to one book from either the list of classics or the eighth-grade suggested reading list. In addition, they must complete a book report for one of the options, as well as do at least three small projects or reports on each of the other two books. (See attached .pdf for the book report form and list of additional projects.)

SIXTH GRADE SUGGESTED READING LIST

• The Wish Giver: Three Tales of the Coven Tree by Bill Brittain and Andrew Glass
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo and Bagram Itatoulline
• The Ghost at Fossil Glen (Ghost Mysteries) by Cynthia C. DeFelice
• Running out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
• Rules by Cynthia Lord
• Heat by Mike Lupica
• The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter
• Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
• Canned by Alex Shearer
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• The Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene
• The Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon

SEVENTH-GRADE CLASSICS LIST

• The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
• The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

SEVENTH-GRADE SUGGESTED READING LIST

• Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix
• Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes
• Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick
• Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts by Richard Peck
• Percy Jackson and the Olympian series by Rick Riordan
• Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
• So B. It by Sarah Weeks
• The Alchemaster's Apprentice by Walter Moers

EIGHTH-GRADE CLASSICS LIST

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
• Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
• The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• A Separate Peace by John Knowles

EIGHTH-GRADE SUGGESTED READING LIST

• The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
• Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Rosemary Sutcliff
• Shackleton's Stowaway by Victoria McNernan
• Code Talker by Joseph Brucha
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Life of Pi by Yann Martel
• Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
• Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

For more summer reading suggestions, visit our summer reading guide.