This document provides a list of book recommendations for summer reading for 7th and 8th graders. It is divided into several categories including exciting adventure and fantasy books, fascinating nonfiction and memoirs, funny stories, stories that touch your heart, graphic novels, social justice reads, and modern teen romance novels. Each category lists multiple book titles along with their authors. The list provides over 50 book recommendations overall covering a wide variety of genres.

1. Summer Reading
for 7th
& 8th
graders
Exciting Adventure and Fantasy
Ambassador, by William Alexander
Aru Shah and the End of Time, by Roshani
Chokshi
Children of Blood & Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi
Ember in the Ashes, by Sabaa Tahir
The False Prince, by Jennifer Nielsen
The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill
The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkein
The Jumbies, by Tracey Baptiste
The Living, by Matt de la Peña
Miles Morales: Spider-Man, by Jason Reynolds
The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier
Peak, by Roland Smith
Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy
The Thief, by Megan Whalen Turner
Warcross, by Marie Lu
Fascinating Nonfiction & Memoirs
The 57 Bus, by Dashka Slater
Because I Was a Girl, edited by Melissa de la Cruz
Becoming Kareem, by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam, by
Elizabeth Partridge
Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral & Getting It Done, by
Andrea Gonzales & Sophie Houser
How Dare the Sun Rise? by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai
Marley Dias Gets It Done, by Marley Dias
Turning 15 On the Road to Freedom, by Lynda Blackmon
Lowery
Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall, by Anita Silvey
Mary Ann Scheuer
Great Kid Books
May 2018

2. Funny Stories
Jake the Fake Keeps It Real, by Craig Robinson
Fuzzy, by Tom Angleberger
The Last Kids on Earth, by Max Brallier
The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex
Stories that Touch Your Heart
Fish in a Tree, by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Like Vanessa, by Tami Charles
Patina, by Jason Reynolds
Piecing Me Together, by Renee Watson
Refugee, by Alan Gratz
Rebound, by Kwame Alexander
Rogue, by Lyn Miller-Lachman
The Stars Beneath Our Feet, by David Barclay Moore
Graphic Novels We Love!
Amulet series, by Kazu Kibuishi
Barefoot Gen: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima, by
Keiji Nakazawa
Dogs of War, by Sheila Keenan
Drama, by Raina Telgemeier
March, by John Lewis
The Nameless City, by Faith Erin Hicks
Nimona, by Noelle Stevenson
The Olympians series, by George O’Connor
Pashmina, by Nidhi Chanani
The Prince and the Dressmaker, by Jen Wang
Sunny Side Up, by Jennifer L. Holm
Social Justice reads
Ball Don’t Lie, by Matt de la Peña
Dear Martin, by Nic Stone
Ghost Boys, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
All the Feels: Modern Teen Romance
Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell
The Great American Whatever, by Tim Federle
I’ll Give You the Sun, by Jandy Nelson
Just One Day, by Gayle Forman
Solo, by Kwame Alexander
The Sun Is Also a Star, by Nicola Yoon
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, by Jenny Han
When Dimple Met Rishi, by Sandhya Menon