Summer Reading for Middle School Students

Send questions regarding this list to Connie Allerton, Language Arts teacher, callerton@holycrosstigers.com.

Students entering 5^th grade must read these three (3) books (no substitutions):

1. 1607: A New Look at Jamestown by Karen E. Lange

2. Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book One: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

3. Something Upstairs by Avi

Students entering 6^th grade must read these three (3) books (no substitutions):

1. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren

2. The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick

3. No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman

Students entering 7^th grade (including 7^th Accelerated) must read these three (3) books (no substitutions):

1. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

2. The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter

3. The Samurai’s Tale by Erik Christian Haugaard