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List created on 04/25/2019 | Last modified on 05/07/2019.


M-DCPS Summer Reading List - Grades 6-8

Here are online materials about the books and authors for our summer reading program.

Resources for this booklist include:

  • 92 Videos
  • 74 Book Readings
  • 162 Lesson Plans
  • Total of 869 resources

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All the Lovely Bad Ones: A Ghost Story
  • by Mary Downing Hahn
    • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
  • by Tanya Lee Stone
    • Multimedia Resources: 23
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    The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest ...
  • by Steve Jenkins
    • Multimedia Resources: 18
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    Anything But Typical
  • by Nora Raleigh Baskin
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems
  • by John Grandits
    • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--The World's Most Dangerous Weapon
  • by Steve Sheinkin
    • Multimedia Resources: 21
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    Breaking Through
  • by Francisco Jiménez
    • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat
  • by Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop
    • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food
  • by Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson
    • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Children of the River
  • by Linda Crew
    • Multimedia Resources: 3
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    Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from Your Own Backyard
  • by Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz
    • Multimedia Resources: 14
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    Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
  • by Phillip Hoose
    • Multimedia Resources: 28
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    Code Orange
  • by Caroline B. Cooney
    • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Code Talker: A Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
  • by Joseph Bruchac
    • Multimedia Resources: 28
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    Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America's First Black Paratroopers
  • by Tanya Lee Stone
    • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl
  • by John Feinstein
    • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    The Crossover
  • by Kwame Alexander
    • Multimedia Resources: 43
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    Double Dutch
  • by Sharon M. Draper
    • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
  • by Jordan Sonnenblick
    • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
  • by Rick Yancey
    • Multimedia Resources: 5
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    Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World
  • by Steve Jenkins
    • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Flipped
  • by Wendelin Van Draanen
    • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Flush
  • by Carl Hiaasen
    • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    For the Birds: The Life of Roger Tory Peterson
  • by Peggy Thomas and Laura Jacques
    • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    Found
  • by Margaret Peterson Haddix

  • Book 1 of the Missing Series

    • Multimedia Resources: 13
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    Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom
  • by Booki Vivat
    • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Gossamer
  • by Lois Lowry
    • Multimedia Resources: 26
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    Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
  • by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
    • Multimedia Resources: 17
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    Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans
  • by Kadir Nelson
    • Multimedia Resources: 26
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    Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race
  • by Margot Lee Shetterly and Laura Freeman
    • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Homeless Bird
  • by Gloria Whelan
    • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Honeybee: Poems & Short Prose
  • by Naomi Shihab Nye
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Hurt Go Happy
  • by Ginny Rorby
    • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Hush
  • by Jacqueline Woodson
    • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow
  • by James Rollins
    • Multimedia Resources: 4
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    King of Octaves, The / El rey de las octavas
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    Emma Romeu
    King of Octaves, The / El rey de las octavas
  • by Emma Romeu and Enrique S. Moreiro
    • Multimedia Resources: 2
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    The Kingdom Keepers
  • by Ridley Pearson

  • Book 1 of the Kingdom Keepers Series

    • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    The Last Newspaper Boy in America
  • by Sue Corbett
    • Multimedia Resources: 2
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    Life as We Knew It
  • by Susan Beth Pfeffer

  • Book 1 of the Last Survivors Series

    • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    The Lightning Thief
  • by Rick Riordan
    • Multimedia Resources: 29
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    March Book One
  • by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

  • Book 1 of the March Trilogy

    • Multimedia Resources: 46
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    Money Hungry
  • by Sharon G. Flake
    • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
  • by Phillip Hoose
    • Multimedia Resources: 22
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    The Mouse Rap
  • by Walter Dean Myers
    • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands
  • by Katherine Roy
    • Multimedia Resources: 20
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    Never Mind! A Twin Novel
  • by Avi and Rachel Vail
    • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Paperboy
  • by Vince Vawter
    • Multimedia Resources: 16
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    Peter and the Starcatchers
  • by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
    • Multimedia Resources: 15
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    Phineas Gage: A Gruesome But True Story about Brain Science
  • by John Fleischman
    • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes
  • by Juan Felipe Herrera and Raúl Colón
    • Multimedia Resources: 22
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    Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party
  • by Ying Chang Compestine
    • Multimedia Resources: 11
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    Romiette and Julio
  • by Sharon M. Draper
    • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Savvy
  • by Ingrid Law
    • Multimedia Resources: 20
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    Schooled
  • by Gordon Korman
    • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Silent to the Bone
  • by E.L. Konigsburg
    • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
  • by Ann Brashares
    • Multimedia Resources: 12
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    Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
  • by Karen Blumenthal
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Summer Ball
  • by Mike Lupica
    • Multimedia Resources: 8
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    Tangerine
  • by Edward Bloor
    • Multimedia Resources: 10
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    Thunder Birds: Nature's Flying Predators
  • by Jim Arnosky
    • Multimedia Resources: 9
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    Tunnels
  • by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams

  • Book 1 of the Tunnels Series

    • Multimedia Resources: 7
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    Under the Same Sky
  • by Cynthia DeFelice
    • Multimedia Resources: 6
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    What Are You Afraid Of?: Stories about Phobias
  • by Donald R. Gallo
    • Multimedia Resources: 1
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    The Wright 3
  • by Blue Balliett and Brett Helquist
    • Multimedia Resources: 12
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