Summer Reading List

Most of these books are at an average Grade 6-8 reading level: If parents would like to look up reviews of these books, they can go here if they have a U of T Library card: Children's Literature Comprehensive Database Please note: This is a limited list that encompasses a wide variety of tastes and reading levels. Please go to your local public library with your child and carefully select the novels that your child may enjoy reading. Fiction True Confessions of a Heartless Girl Crazy Horse Electric Game Once Upon a Marigold Jake, Reinvented Slam! Hatchet Stargirl Crash Chandra's Secret From Charlie's Point of View Refugee Boy Historical Fiction The First Vial The Walking Boy Charlie Wilcox The Greenies A Single Shard Alexander the Great trilogy Eagle of the Ninth Throwaway Daughter Fantasy/SF Feed Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters Coraline Uglies Martha Brooks Chris Crutcher Jean Ferris Gordon Korman Walter Dean Myers Gary Paulsen Jerry Spinelli Jerry Spinelli Allan Stratton Richard Scringer Benjamin Zephanial Linnea Heinricks Lydia Kwa Sharon McKay Myra Paperney Linda Sue Park Mary Renault Rosemary Sutcliffe Ting-Xing Ye M.T. Anderson Mark Dunn Neil Gaiman Scott Westerfeld M.T. Anderson Jane Austen Charles Dickens Jostein Gaarder

Challenging Fiction The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation Emma Great Expectations/David Copperfield Sophie's World Series (Various Genres) Molly Moon series Georgia Byng

Dark is Rising series Susan Cooper Stormbreaker series Anthony Horowitz Redwall series Brian Jacques Pendragon series Daniel MacHale The Children of the Red King Series (Charlie Bone) Jenny Nimmo Protector of the Small quartet Tamara Pierce Seven Fabulous Wonders series Katherine Roberts Septimus Heap series Angie Sage Dear Canada series Various authors Non-Fiction Imponderables series (i.e. Why Don't Cats Like to Swim?) David Feldman French Fiction As all of these novels are written for francophone readers, some of these novels may be too difficult for students who have learned French as a Second Language for a limited number of years. P.P. Cul-Vert Dtective Priv Le Journal d'Adle Un Jeu Dangereux Jomusch et le Troll des Cuisines Gustave series L'Hiver de Lo Polatouche Nos Amis Robots Amos Daragon series Jrme et le Silence des Mots Celtina series Jean-Phillipe Arrou-Vignod Paule de Bouchet Chrystine Brouillet Christiane Duchesne Philippe Girard Nicole Leroux Suzanne Martel Bryan Perro Alexandre Stank Corinne de Vaillu