BTMS Recommended Summer Reading Lists 

Grades: 6-7-8   (Be sure to scroll down for your grade level)                          
 

STUDENTS PROMOTED TO 6TH GRADE
Never Mind by Avi
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Halfway to the Sky by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
Cracker Jackson by Betsy Byars
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
The Boggart by Susan Cooper
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Running Out of Time by Margaret Haddix
Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman
Redwall by Brian Jacques
The Beastly Arms by Patrick Jennings
No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
The Dark-thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia McKissack
How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found by Sara Nickerson
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Canyons by Gary Paulsen
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
Sammy Keys & the Hotel Thief by Wendolin VanDraanen
Dragon’s Blood by Jane Yolen

STUDENTS PROMOTED TO 7TH GRADE
• Abelove, Joan
Go And Come Back
• Bennett, Cherie
Life In The Fat Lane
• Blackwood, Gary
Shakespeare Stealer
• Coman, Carolyn
What Jamie Saw
• Cushman, Karen
The Midwife's Apprentice
• Duncan, Lois
The Third Eye
• Farmer, Nancy
A Girl Named Disaster
• Hesse, Karen
Phoenix Rising
• Holman, Felice
Slake's Limbo
• Hoover, H. M.
Away Is A Strange Place To Be
• Johnson, Angela
Heaven
• Kindl, Patrice
Owl In Love
• Marsden, John
Tomorrow When The War
Began
• Mazer, Norma Fox
Out Of Control
• McCaffrey, Anne
Black Horses For The
King
• Moore, Martha
Under The Mermaid
Angel
• Nixon, Joan Lowery
Spirit Seeker
• Peck, Richard
A Long Way From
Chicago
• Quarles, Heather
A Door Near Here
• Rinaldi, Ann
A Break With Charity
• Taylor, Mildred
The Road To Memphis
• Van Draanen, Wendelin
Flipped
• Voigt, Cynthia
Jackaroo
• Weaver, Will
Hard Ball
• Yolen, Jane & Bruce Coville
Armageddon Summer