100+Sizzling Summer Reads
Pollard Middle School Summer 2009 Reading List

No requirement for rising 6th graders (current 5th gd.) or rising 8th graders (current 7th gd.)
Required for rising 7th graders (current 6th gd.) [one title]: Rim Shots, Hoop Kings, or Hoop Queens (Charles R. Smith, Jr.)
Required for rising 9th graders (current 8th gd.): The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time  (Mark Haddon)

Adventure
1. Breakpoint or any in Alex Rider series (Anthony Horowitz)
2. Bull Rider  (Marilyn Halvorson)
3. Running Out of Time  (Margaret Peterson Haddix)
4. Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island  (Eve Bunting)
5. The Thief Lord  (Cornelia Funke)
6. The Twenty-One Balloons  (William Pene DuBois)
7. A Week in the Woods  (Andrew Clements)
8. Where the Red Fern Grows  (Wilson Rawls)

Biography
9. All But My Life  (Gerda Weissman Klein)
10. The Diary of Anne Frank  (Anne Frank, Otto Frank)
11. Guts: the true stories behind Hatchet and the Brian Books  (Gary Paulsen)
12. Leonardo Da Vinci  (Kathleen Krull)
13. The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler  (James Giblin)
14. My Life in Dog Years  (Gary Paulsen)
15. Persepolis  ( Marjane Satrapi)
16. The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom  (Margarita Engle)
17. Woodsong  (Gary Paulsen)
18. Ryan White: My Own Story  (Ryan White)

Fantasy
19. The Amber Spyglass or The Subtle Knife  (Philip Pullman)
20. Artemis Fowl  and series (Eoin Colfer)
21. Clay  (David Almond)
22. Dealing With Dragons  and series (Patricia C. Wrede)
23. Dracula  (Bram Stoker)
24. Ella Enchanted  (Gail Carson Levine)
25. First Test  (Tamora Pierce)
26. The Golden Compass  (Philip Pullman)
27. The Graveyard Book  (Neil Gaiman)
28. Half Magic  (Edward Eager)
29. The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, or The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien)
30. Inkheart  (Cornelia Funke)
31. The Lightning Thief  or others in Percy Jackson and the Olympians series (Rick Riordan)
32. The Lost Years of Merlin  and series (T.A. Barron)
33. Redwall  and series (Brian Jacques)
34. Savvy  (Ingrid Law)
35. The Secret of Platform 13  (Eva Ibbotson)
36. Something Wicked This Way Comes  or The Illustrated Man  (Ray Bradbury)
37. The Underneath  (Kathi Appelt)
38. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More  (Roald Dahl)
39. Zel  (Donna Jo Napoli)

Historical Fiction
40. A Long Way from Chicago  or A Year Down Yonder  (Richard Peck)
41. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn  (Betty Smith)
42. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman  (Ernest J. Gaines)
43. Behind the Bedroom Wall  (Laura E. Williams)
44. Bud, Not Buddy  (Christopher Paul Curtis)
45. Catherine Called Birdy  (Karen Cushman)
46. Chains  (Laurie Halse Anderson)
47. Elijah of Buxton  (Christopher Paul Curtis)
48. Island On Bird Street  (Uri Orlev)
49. Milkweed  (Jerry Spinelli)
50. Ties That Bind, Ties That Break  (Lensey Namioka)
51. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle  (Avi)
52. Under the Blood Red Sun or House of the Red Fish  (Graham Salisbury)
53. Witness  (Karen Hesse)

Memoir
54. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier  (Ishmael Beah)
55. Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter  (Adeline Yen Mah)
56. Free the Children  (Craig Kielburger)
57. It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life  (Lance Armstrong)
58. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (Melba Pattillo Beals)

Mystery
59. And Then There Were None, Death on the Nile or Murder on the Orient Express  (Agatha Christie)
60. Cover Up  (John Feinstein)
61. Found  (Margaret Peterson Haddix)
62. The Invention of Hugo Cabret  (Brian Selznick)
63. Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief  and series (Wendelin van Draanen)
64. What Could Go Wrong?  (Willo Davis Roberts)

Realistic Fiction
65. The Afterlife  (Gary Soto)
66. Alt Ed  (Catherine Atkins)
67. Amazing Grace  (Megan Shull)
68. Baseball in April and Other Stories  (Gary Soto)
69. Because of Winn-Dixie  (Kate DiCamillo)
70. Behind You  (Jacqueline Woodson)
71. The Breadwinner  and series (Deborah Ellis)
72. Cousins  (Virginia Hamilton)
73. Cuba 15  (Nancy Osa)
74. Fallen Angels  (Walter Dean Myers)
75. Fault Line  (Janet Tasjian)
76. The First Part Last  (Angela Johnson)
77. Homeless Bird  (Gloria Whelan)
78. Hoot  (Carl Hiaasen)
79. I Hadn’t Meant to Tell You This or Lena  (Jacqueline Woodson)
80. Jazmin's Notebook  (Nikki Grimes)
81. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key and series (Jack Gantos)
82. The Joy Luck Club  (Amy Tan)
83. Like Sisters on the Homefront  (Rita Williams-Garcia)
84. Locomotion  (Jacqueline Woodson)
85. The Man in the Ceiling  (Jules Feiffer)
86. Millicent Min: Girl Genius  (Lisa Yee)
87. Money Hungry  or sequel Begging for Change  (Sharon G. Flake)
88. Monster  (Walter Dean Myers)
89. On the Devil's Court  (Carl Deuker)
90. The Outsiders  (S.E. Hinton)
91. PS Longer Letter Later or Snail Mail No More  (Paula Danziger, Ann M. Martin)
92. Replay  (Sharon Creech)
93. The Schwa Was Here  (Neal Schusterman)
94. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants  series (Ann Brashares)
95. Slam!  (Walter Dean Myers)
96. Speak  (Laurie Halse Anderson)
97. Tangerine  (Edward Bloor)
98. There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom  (Louis Sachar)
99. The View From Saturday  (E.L. Konigsburg)
100. Waiting for Normal  (Leslie Connor)
101. When Zachary Beaver Came to Town  (Kimberly Willis Holt)
102. Winning Words  (Charles R. Smith, Jr.)
103. The Year They Burned the Books  (Nancy Garden)

Science Fiction
104. The Duplicate  (William Sleator)
105. The City of Ember  or sequels: The People of Sparks; Prophet of Yonwood (Jeanne DuPrau)
106. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy or The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
107. The House of the Scorpion  (Nancy Farmer)

True Stories
108. Between A Rock and a Hard Place  (Aaron Ralston)
109. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850.  (Susan Campbell Bartoletti)
110. Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and Recovery of the Past  (James M. Deem)
111. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition  (Caroline Alexander)
112. Hoop Dreams  (Ben Joravsky)
113. In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle  (Madeleine Blais)
114. Into Thin Air  (Jon Krakauer)
115. We are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball  (Kadir Nelson)
116. With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote  (Ann Bausum)

Young Adult
117. After Tupac and D. Foster  (Jacqueline Woodson)
118. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation vol. 1 or vol. 2 (M.T. Anderson)
119. Chameleon  (Charles R. Smith, Jr.)
120. Feed  (M.T. Anderson)
121. The Hunger Games  (Suzanne Collins)
122. Kissing the Rain  (Kevin Brooks)
123. Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac  (Gabrielle Zevin)
124. Nation  (Terry Pratchett)
125. Strays  (Ron Koertge)
126. Three Clams and an Oyster  (Randy Powell)
127. Uglies  and other books in the series (Scott Westerfeld)
128. The White Darkness  (Geraldine McCaughrean)