Summer Book List - Mr. Yost Recommendations

( suggested reading levels in parentheses)

Realistic Fiction

q Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech (6)

q The Wanderer - Sharon Creech (6)

q Al Capone Does My Shirts - Gennifer Choldenko (6)

q Because of Winn Dixie - Kate De Camillo (4)

q The Tiger Rising - Kate De Camillo (4)

q Maniac Magee - Jerry Spinelli (5)

q Each Little Bird That Sings - Deborah Wiles (5)

q Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson (5)

q Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Paterson (6)

q Danny the Champion of the World - Roald Dahl (4)

War or History Themes

q Lord of the Nutrcracker Men- Iain Lawrence (7)

q B is for Buster - Iain Lawrence (7)

q Milkweed - Jerry Spinelli (6)

q Fever - Laurie Halse Anderson (6)

q Stones in Water - Donna Jo Napoli (7)

q The King of Mulberry Street - Donna Jo Napoli (6)

q Roll of Thunder, H ear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor (6)

Fantasy/Magical Realism

q Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster (6)

q The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (7)

q Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbit (5)

q The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate De Camillo (4)

q The Tale of Despereaux - Kate De Camillo (4)

q The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis (5)

q James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl (4)

q Skellig - David Almond (6)

q Kit’s Wilderness - David Almond (7)

Science Fiction

q The White Mountains - John Christopher (6)

q The Giver - Lois Lowry (7)