2016 SUMMER READING FOR STUDENTS ENTERING GRADES SEVEN & EIGHT ATTLEBORO PUBLIC SCHOOLS This suggested Summer Reading list includes highly recommended titles from the American Library Association and the Attleboro Public Library’s Children’s Librarians. All of the titles on the list are available at the Attleboro Public Library. We hope that students and parents will discover these books and more throughout the summer! Please remember that these titles are suggested and are NOT required reading. Parents are responsible for making final judgements on whether a title is appropriate for their child, to assist we have listed the Common Sense Media suggested age level or the suggested age level range from the publisher if available. Visit commonsensemedia.org for more information. Visit the Attleboro Public Library! Phone: (508) Meghan Witherell, the Tween/Teen Coordinator, can assist in choosing just right books. READ WHAT YOU LIKE, LIKE WHAT YOU READ! STEAM FICTION Kingdom Keepers: Disney after Dark Ridley Pearson Ages 8-12 Masterminds Series Gordon Korman Age 9+ Tesla’s Attic Neal Shusterman Ages 9-12 GRAPHIC NOVELS Jane, the Fox & Me Fanny Britt Age 11+ Gaijin: American Prisoner of War Matt Faulkner Ages MYSTERY Moxie and the Art of Rule Breaking Erin Dionne Age 10+ The Rivalry John Feinstein Age 10+ Closed for the Season Mary Downing Hahn Ages One Came Home Amy Timberlake Age 10+ The Screaming Staircase Jonathan Stroud Age 11+ HISTORICAL Fever 1793 Laurie Halse Anderson Ages Code Talker Joseph Bruchac Age 10+ The War that Saved My Life Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Age 9+ Lions of Little Rock Kristin Levine Age 10+ A Break with Charity Ann Rinaldi Ages 8-12 STEAM NONFICTION Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science John Fleishman Ages 8-12 Women of Steel and Stone: 22 Inspirational Architects, Engineers, and Landscape Designers Anna M. Lewis Ages Thomas Edison and the Lightbulb Scott Welvaert Ages 8-14

FANTASY The Rithmatist Brandon Sanderson Age 12+ Inkheart Trilogy Cornelia Funke Age 9+ The Goose Girl Shannon Hale Age 12+ Beka Cooper Series Tamora Pierce Age 12+ The Last Dragonslayer Series Jasper Fforde Age 12+ ADVENTURE The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer Age 11+ Running Out of Time Margaret Peterson Haddix Ages 8-12 The Giver Lois Lowry Age 11+ The False Prince Jennifer Nielsen Age 10+ The Copernicus Legacy Series Tony Abbott Ages 8-12 SPORTS Tangerine Age 11+ Edward Bloor The Wanderer Sharon Creech Age 9+ Gym Candy Carl Deuker Age 13+ Last Shot John Feinstein Age 10 + POETRY All the Broken Pieces Ann Burg Age 12+ Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems John Grandits Ages May B.: A Novel Age 8+ Caroline Starr Rose A Fire In My Hands Gary Soto Age 12 + The Red Pencil Age 11+ Andrea Davis Pinkney Yellow Star Jennifer Roy Ages 8-12 AWARD WINNERS Echo Pam Munoz Ryan Age 11+ Crossover Kwame Alexander Age 9+ The Rock and The River Kekla Magoon Ages 9-14 Fish in a Tree Lynda Mullaly Hunt Age 10+ Navigating Early Clare Vanderpool Age 12+ Adam & Thomas Aharon Appelfeld Ages 8-12 NONFICTION How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous Georgia Bragg Ages Titanic: Voices from the Disaster Deborah Hopkinson Ages Bad Boy: A Memoir Walter Dean Myers Ages Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival Marcel Prins Ages12-17 The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure Martin Sandler Ages Bomb: The Race to Build (and Steal) the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon Steve Sheinkin Ages Double Victory: How African American Women Broke Race and Gender Barriers to Help End World War II Cheryl Mullenbach Age 12+ Fun, FREE apps for your mobile device! Color Uncovered DuoLingo GarageBand HopscotchHD Mango Languages Solve the Outbreak