Dundalk Middle School

Summer 2008 Reading List

Language Arts/Reading Students

Adventure

20,000 Leagues under the Sea – Vogel

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Twain

Around the World in Eighty Days – Verne

Fantasy

Artemis Fowl – Colfer

Coraline - Gaiman

The Dark is Rising – Cooper

Friendship

Alice Alone – Naylor

Blue Heron – Avi

Freak the Mighty – Philbrick

Holes – Sachar

Walk Two Moons – Creech

Historical Fiction

Al Capone Does My Shirts – Choldenko

Aleutian Sparrow – Hesse

Bull Run – Fleischman, Paul

Code Talker – Bruchac

A Dangerous Promise – Nixon

Daniel’s Story – Matas

Girl in a Cage – Yolen

Humorous

The Austere Academy – Snicket

Once Upon a Marigold – Ferris

Mysteries

Cryptid Hunters – Smith, R.

The Ghost in the Takaido Inn – Hoobler

Native Americans

Beardance – Hobbs

Kokopelli’s Flute – Hobbs

On Location

Becoming Naomi Leon – Ryan (Mexico)

The Boggart – Cooper (Scotland and Canada)

The Cay – Taylor, Theodore (Caribbean)

A Christmas Carol – Dickens (England)

Devil’s Bridge – DeFelice (Massachusetts)

Downsiders: A Novel – Shusterman (New York)

Inkheart – Funke (Italy)

Pictures of Hollis Woods – Giff (New York)

School Fiction

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Rowling

Never Mind!: A Twin Novel – Avi

Princess Academy – Hale

Stargirl – Spinelli

Science Fiction

The Duplicate – Sleator

Gathering Blue – Lowry

The House of the Scorpion – Farmer

Shakespeare

King of Shadows – Cooper

Shakespeare’s Secret – Broach