CASEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
SUGGESTED
SUMMER READING LIST
2019
5TH GRADE: Authors of wonderful fiction books for summer reading:
Tom Angleberger Liz Kessler
Katherine Applegate Jeff Kinney
Pseudonymous Bosch Gordon Korman
Michael Buckley A.A. Milne
Matt Christopher Sarah Mlynowski
Andrew Clements R. J. Palacio
Roald Dahl James Patterson
Cynthia DeFelice Ridley Pearson
Kate DiCamillo Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Mary Downing Hahn Rick Riordan
Kathleen Duey Louis Sachar
Jack Gantos Brandon Sanderson
Chris Grabenstein Brian Selznick
Dan Gutman Lauren Tarshis
Carl Hiaasen Sheila Turnage
Erin Hunter Sarah Weeks
6TH GRADE: Authors of wonderful fiction books for summer reading:
Dave Barry Derek Jeter
Joan Bauer Kathryn Lasky
Meg Cabot Trenton Lee Stewart
Gail Carson Levine Lois Lowry
Kiera Cass Mike Lupica
Eoin Colfer Wendy Mass
Suzanne Collins Lisa McMann
Jean Craighead George Kirsten Miller
Sharon Creech Kate O‛Hearn
Karen Cushman Christopher Paolini
Chris D‛Lacey Linda Sue Park
Jeanne DuPrau Gary Paulsen
John Flanagan Ridley Pearson
Stuart Gibbs Margaret Peterson Haddix
Tim Green J K Rowling
Jennifer Holm Holly Goldberg Sloan
James Howe Roland Smith
Erin Hunter Rebecca Stead
Mark Walden
Suggested Non-Fiction Titles for Middle School Students (5th – 8th Grade):
The following list contains suggested non-fiction titles for middle school students.
Please keep in mind that parents are best to judge a book‛s suitability for their child.
Who Was Series – Biographies - various authors
What Was Series – Exploring places around the world – various authors
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent – Thomas Allen
The Skull in the Rock – Marc Aronson
If Stones Could Speak: Unlocking the Secrets of Stonehenge – Marc Aronson
Terrible Typhoid Mary – Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Spies of the Mississippi – Rick Bowers
The Boys in the Boat – Adapted for Young Readers – Daniel James Brown
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam and the Science of Ocean Motion – Loree Griffin Burns
Gettysburg: The Graphic Novel – C. M. Butzer
In the Shadow of Liberty – Kenneth C. Davis
Pure Grit – Mary Cronk Farrell
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science – John Fleischman
Titanic: Voices from the Disaster – Deborah Hopkinson
To Hope and Back – Kathy Kacer
The Making of America: Andrew Jackson – Teri Kanefield
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter – Adeline Yen Mah
The Soul of an Octopus – Sy Montgomery
Ten Days a Mad Woman – Deborah Noyes
Lincoln‛s Last Days – Bill O‛Reilly
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem – Rosalyn Schanzer
The Notorious Benedict Arnold – Steve Sheinkin
Almost Astronauts – Tanya Lee Stone
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine – Sally Walker
Big Top Burning – Laura A. Woollett
I Am Malala – Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
Casey Middle School - 2018
7th, 8th and 9R Summer Reading Assignments
See your grade level below:
English 7 Author/Genre Study: Incoming seventh graders must choose one of the genres
and authors below. If you see an author on the list whose work you enjoy, do not choose a
novel you‛ve already read. We expect you to select another one. The first week of school
will center on classroom activities based on students‛ summer reading. All students must
also complete the story guide that was given to them in June. This letter and the story
guide may also be viewed on the Williamsville Central Schools website. The link is:
www.williamsvillek12.org and then click on Casey Middle School.
English 8 Author/Genre Study: Incoming eighth graders must choose one of the genres
and authors below. If you see an author on the list whose work you enjoy, do not choose a
novel you‛ve already read. We expect you to select another one. The first week of school
will center on classroom activities based on students‛ summer reading. All students must
also complete the story guide that was given to them in June. This letter and the story
guide may also be viewed on the Williamsville Central Schools website. The link is:
www.williamsvillek12.org and then click on Casey Middle School.
Incoming 7th and 8th graders:
Adventure
Joelle Charbonneau
Suzanne Collins
Sharon Creech
James Dashner
Anthony Horowitz
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Jennifer Neilsen
Veronica Roth
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Ally Condie
James Dashner
Catherine Fisher
Michael Grant
Pittacus Lore
James Patterson
Scott Westerfeld
Gabrielle Zevin
Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Walter Dean Meyers
Sarah Dessen
Carl Deuker
Natasha Friend
Laurie Halse Anderson
Mike Lupica
Todd Strasser
Terry Trueman
Historical Fiction
M.T. Anderson
Laurie Halse Anderson
Linda Sue Park
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Ruta Sepetys
Markus Zusak
English 9R: Incoming eighth graders taking the advanced English course must
read one of the books listed below. If you see a book on the list that you‛ve already
read, we expect you to select another one. The first week of school will center on
classroom activities based on students‛ summer reading. All students must also
complete the story guide that was given to them in June. This letter and the
story guide may also be viewed on the Williamsville Central Schools website. The
link is: www.williamsvillek12.org and then click on Casey Middle School.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Watsons Go To Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
