Summer Reading

J.C. Booth Summer Reading List

Fantasy

• The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
• The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan
• The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer
• Princess Academy by Shannon Hale

Sci-Fi / Dystopia

• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner
• Fuzzy Mud by Louis Sachar

Realistic Fiction

• Holes by Louis Sachar
• The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
• Restart by Gordon Korman

Mystery

• City Spies by James Ponti
• The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
• Greenglass House by Kate Milford
• Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein

Historical Fiction

• The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Ground Zero by Alan Gratz
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Adventure

• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Kingdom Keepers: Disney After Dark by Ridley Pearson
• The Colossus Rises by Peter Lerangis
• The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel
• Blackout by Peter Jay Black

Sports

• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• No Summit Out of Sight by Jordan Romero with Linda LeBlanc
• Football Genius by Tim Green
• QB 1 by Mike Lupica