Summer Reading List 2010: Collins Middle School
PLEASE NOTE: This list was prepared for the web by the Salem Public Library, and each title links to the web catalog to show BOOKS ONLY in SALEM PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Students entering Grades 6-8
Several titles also include mature content.
- Alcott, Louisa May — Little Women
- Alexie, Sherman — The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Álvarez, Julia — Return to Sender
- Anderson, Laurie H. — Chains
- Avi — Best Shorts : Favorite Short Stories for Sharing
- Birdsall, Jeanne — The Penderwicks
- Blume, Judy — Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
- Brashares, Ann — Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
- Bustos Nava, Mónica — Enriqueta Mares and Her Stories
- Choldenko, Gennifer — If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
- Christie, Agatha — Curtain
- Clements, Andrew — Things Not Seen
- Colfer, Eoin — Artemis Fowl
- Collins, Suzanne — The Hunger Games
- Cormier, Robert — The Chocolate War
- Creech, Sharon — The Castle Corona
- Cushman, Karen — The Loud Silence of Francine Green
- Defoe, Daniel — Robinson Crusoe
- Dessen, Sarah — Keeping the Moon
- Diaz, Inmaculada — Miguel is Written with "M" of Merengue
- DiCamillo, Kate — Because of Winn-Dixie
- Donnelly, Jennifer — A Northern Light
- Dorris, Michael — Morning Girl
- Dowd, Siobhan — The London Eye Mystery
- Doyle, Arthur Conan — Hound of the Baskervilles
- Doyle, Debra — School of Wizardry
- Draper, Sharon — Out of My Mind
- Erdrich, Louise — The Birchbark House
- Fan, Nancy Yi — Swordbird
- Farmer, Nancy — House of the Scorpion
- Feinstein, John — Cover-Up: Mystery at the Super Bowl
- Fleischman, John — Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science
- Frank, Anne — Diary of a Young Girl
- Funke, Cornelia — Thief Lord
- Gaiman, Neil — The Graveyard Book
- Gantos, Jack — Jack's Black Book
- Garcia, Laura G. — The Valley of the Wolves
- George, Jean C. — Julie of the Wolves
- Giff, Patricia Reilly — Eleven
- Gutman, Dan — The Homework Machine
- Haddix, Margaret P. — Dexter the tough
- Haddon, Mark — Boom!
- Hesse, Karen — Brooklyn Bridge
- Hiaasen, Carl — Scat
- Hobbs, Will — Jackie's Wild Seattle
- Holm, Jennifer — Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf : a Year Told Through Stuff
- Hoose, Philip — Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
- Howe, James — The Misfits
- Joseph, Lynn — The Color of My Words
- Juster, Norton — The Phantom Tollbooth
- Kadohata, Cynthia — Weedflower
- Kinney, Jeff — Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Klages, Ellen — The Green Glass Sea
- Koertge, Ronald — Shakespeare Bats Cleanup
- Korman, Gordon — The Abduction
- Lekuton, Joseph — Facing the Lion: Growing Up Masai on the African Savanna
- Levine, Gail Carson — Fairest
- Lin, Grace — Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Lipsyte, Robert — The Contender
- Lockhart, E. — The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
- London, Jack — The Call of the Wild
- Lowry, Lois — The Birthday Ball
- Lupica, Mike — The Million-Dollar Throw
- Martin, Ann M. — Here Today
- McKellar, Danica — Kiss My Math
- Meyer, Stephenie — Twilight
- Montgomery, L.M. — Anne of Green Gables
- Mortenson, Greg — Three Cups of Tea (Young Readers Edition)
- Murphy, Jim — A Savage Thunder: Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom
- Myers, Walter Dean — Sunrise Over Fallujah
- Napoli, Donna Jo — Breath
- Oppel, Kenneth — Airborn
- Ortiz Cofer, Judith — Silent Dancing
- Osa, Nancy — Cuba 15
- Paolini, Christopher — Eragon
- Park, Linda Sue — Project Mulberry
- Patterson, James — Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment
- Paterson, Katherine — Bread and Roses, Too
- Paulsen, Gary — Lawn Boy
- Peck, Richard — A Year Down Yonder
- Peet, Mal — Keeper
- Pfeffer, Susan — Life As We Knew It
- Philbrick, Nathaniel — The Mayflower and the Pilgrim's New World (Adapted for Young Readers)
- Pollan, Michael — The Omnivore's Dilemma: the Secrets Behind What You Eat (Young Readers Edition)
- Rinaldi, Ann — Redheaded Princess
- Riordan, Rick — The Red Pyramid (Kane Chronicles, #1)
- de Rojas, Fernando — The Celestina
- Rowling, J. K. — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Sandoval, Jaime A. — Confessions of a Superhero
- Selznick, Brian — The Invention of Hugo Cabret: a Novel in Words and Pictures
- Shakespeare, William — Romeo and Juliet (Graphic Novel)
- Shan, Darren — Cirque du Freak: the Saga of Darren Shan
- Sonnenblick, Jordan — Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie
- Soto, Gary — Baseball in April and Other Stories
- Spinelli, Jerry — Eggs
- Stevenson, Robert L. — Kidnapped
- Stewart, Trent Lee — The Mysterious Benedict Society
- Telgemeier, Raina — Smile
- Tolkien, J.R.R. — The Hobbit (Graphic Novel)
- Westerfeld, Scott — Uglies
- Wilder, Laura Ingalls — The Little House on the Prairie
- Woodson, Jacqueline — After Tupac and D. Foster
- Young, E. L. — Storm: The Infinity Code
- Zusak, Markus — The Book Thief
