Here’s the reading list I created for my 12-year-old daughter for the summer. It’s about equal parts based on her interests and my favorites. (See my Sept. 1 post for the full story about how this list came to be.)
1) Savvy – by Ingrid Law
2) Silver Phoenix – by Cindy Pon
3) The Westing Game – by Ellen Raskin
4) The Pigman – by Paul Zindel
5) The Magic Thief – by Sarah Prineas
6) Lost Time – by Susan Maupin Schmid
7) Middle School is Worse Than Meatloaf – by Jennifer Holm
8) The Wednesday Wars – by Gary Schmidt
9) The Mysterious Benedict Society – by Trenton Lee
10) The Giver – by Lois Lowry
11) Paris Pan Takes the Dare – by Cynthea Liu
12) The Graveyard Book – by Neil Gaiman
13) The London Eye Mystery – by Siobhan Dowd
14) Jimmy’s Stars – by Mary Ann Rodman
15) Every Soul a Star – by Wendy Mass
16) A Crooked Kind of Perfect – by Linda Urban
17) Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl – by Anne Frank
18) The Little Prince – by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
19) Anne of Green Gables – by L.M. Montgomery
20) The Incredible Journey – by Sheila Burnford
21) Island of the Blue Dolphins – by Scott O’Dell
22) The Other Side of the Mountain – by Evan G. Valens
23) My Side of the Mountain – by Jean Craighead George
24) Each Little Bird That Sings – by Deborah Wiles
25) Maniac McGee – by Jerry Spinelli
26) Stephenie Meyer: Author of the Twilight Saga – by Lisa Rondinelli Albert
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