Historical Fiction
The Slave Dancer (Fox) Johnny Tremain (Forbes) Lyddie (Patterson) April Morning (Fast) Across Five Aprils (Hunt) The Devil’s Arithmetic (Yolen) The Upstairs Room (Reiss) Snow Treasure (McSeigan) The Clay Marble (Ho) Copper Sun (Draper) So Far from the Bamboo Grove (Watkins) Elephant Run (Smith) Upon the Head of the Goat (Siegal) Under the Blood Red Sun (Salisbury) Year of Impossible Goodbyes (Choi)
Realistic Fiction
Esperanza Rising (Ryan) Henry and Beezus (Cleary) Homecoming (Voigt) The Moffats (Estes) Letters from Rapunzel (Holmes) Here Today (Martin) Surviving the Applewhites (Tolan) Sand Dollar Summer (Jones) So B It (Weeks) Dovey Coe (Dowell) The Revealers (Wilhelm) Chasing Vermeer (Balliett) Macaroni Boy (Ayres)
Suggested Reading List
Summer, 2009
Freedom Middle School
Mature Readers
Books by Walter Dean Myers Books by Robert Cormier Books by Scott Westerfeld Boot Camp (Strasser) Books by Tom Clancy Books by John Grisham Peaches (Anderson) Clique series (Harrison) Traveling Pants series (Brashares) Acceleration (McNamee) Deathwatch (White) The Book Thief (Zusak) Books by Laurie Halse Anderson
Animal Fiction
Black Beauty (Sewell) National Velvet (Bagnold) The Black Stallion (Farley) Old Yeller (Gipson) Shiloh (Naylor) Ralph S. Mouse (Cleary) Babe, a Gallant Pig (King-Smith) Big Red (Kjelgaard) Charlotte’s Web (White) Rascal (North) White Fang (London) The Tale of Despereaux (DiCamillo) Julie of the Wolves (George) Runt (Bauer) Because of Winn Dixie (DiCamillo)
2009-2010 Georgia Peach Award Nominees (Mature)
City of Bones (Clare) Graceling (Cashore) Hunger Games (Collins) My Most Excellent Year (Kluger) Oh. My. Gods. (Childs) Ophelia (Klein) Three Little Words (Rhodes-Courter) Unwind (Shusterman) Wake (McMann)
Humor
The Great Brain (Fitzgerald) Anastasia series (Lowry) Alice series (Naylor) Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Kinney) Stinky Cheese Man (Scieszka) Maniac Magee (Spinelli) Veronica series (Sachs) Books by Carl Hiaasen Books by Jack Gantos Tyler on Prime Time (Atinsky) Al Capone Does My Shirts (Choldenko) Books by Gordon Korman
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Suggested Summer Reading List 2009
Mystery/Suspense
Books by Caroline Cooney Books by Joan Lowery Nixon Books by Lois Duncan Scavenger Hunt (Pike) Last Act (Pike) Goosebumps series (Stine) Alex Rider series (Horowitz) Cirque du Freak series (Shan) Nancy Drew series (Keene) Hardy Boys series (Dixon) Books by Agatha Christie The 39 Clues Series (various authors) Sammy Keyes series (Van Draanen) Diamond Brothers Mysteries (Horowitz)
Classics
Little Women (Alcott) The Red Pony (Steinbeck) Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving) The Jungle Book (Kipling) The Call of the Wild (London) Treasure Island (Stevenson) Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)
Harry Potter series (Rowling) So You Want to Be a Wizard (Duane) Artemis Fowl series (Colfer) The Hobbit (Tolkein) Lord of the Rings trilogy (Tolkien) Redwall series (Jacques) Merlin series (Barron) Xanth series (Anthony) Shannara series (Brooks) Wheel of Time series (Jordan) Earthsea series (LeGuin) Chronicles of Narnia (Lewis) Dragons series (Wrede) The Black Cauldron series (Alexander) The Dark is Rising series (Cooper) Inheritance Series (Paolini) Books by Cornelia Funke Pendragon series (MacHale) The Borrowers (Norton) Percy Jackson and the Olympians series (Riordan) Books by Terry Brooks Warriors series by Erin Hunter Everlost (Schusterman) The City of Ember (DuPrau)
2009-2010 GA Children’s Book Award Nominees
Uprising (Haddix) The Wednesday Wars (Schmidt) The Puzzling World of Winston Breen (Berlin) The Rising Star of Rusty Nail (Blume, L.) Bearwalker (Bruchac) The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous (Crowley) Elijah of Buxton (Curtis) Hiroshima Dreams (Easton) The Entertainer and the Dybbuk (Fleishman) The Sorta Sisters (Fogelin) Football Genius (Green) Deep and Dark and Dangerous (Hahn) Do the Math: Secrets, Lies and Algebra (Lichtman) Greetings from Nowhere (O’Connor) Billy Creekmore (Porter) Leepike Ridge (Wilson) Someone Named Eva (Wolf) Feathers (Woodson) Trading Places (Mills) Saving the Griffin (Nitz)
Sports Fiction
Books by Matt Christopher Books by Mike Lupica Books by Thomas Dygard The Contender (Lipsyte) Brian’s Song (Blinn) The Boy Who Saved Baseball (Ritter) Skinnybones (Park)
Science Fiction
Robot series (Asimov) Have Spacesuit Will Travel (Heinlein) The Giver (Lowry) Time trilogy (L’Engle) Ender’s Game (Card) Jurassic Park/The Lost World (Crichton) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne) Journey to the Center of the Earth (Verne) Invitation to the Game (Hughes) Tripod series (Christopher) 2001: A Space Odyssey (Clarke) Books by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Outdoor Adventure
My Side of the Mountain (George) Hatchet and other titles by Gary Paulsen Call It Courage (Sperry) Island of the Blue Dolphins (O’Dell) Touching Spirit Bear (Mikaelsen) The Iceberg Hermit (Roth) Books by Will Hobbs
Romance
The Princess Diaries series (Cabot) Flipped (Van Draanen) Elsewhere (Zevin) Books by Sarah Dessen