Suggested Summer Reading for Students Ages 10 to 12

 

Award Winning Books

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Chains and Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson

Drawing from Memory by Allen Say

The Dreameer by Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Holes by Louis Sachar

A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

Splendors and Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz

Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage

The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

 

Book Series

13 Gifts by Wendy Mass

The Amulet Series by Kazu Kibuishi

The Bone Series by Jeff Smith

The Brotherband Chronicles by John Flanagan

The Clone Codes Series by Patricia C. Frederick and John McKissack

Confectionately Yours Series by  Lisa Papademetriou

Dark Life and Riptide by Kat Falls

 

The Deltora Quest Series by Emily Rodda

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

The Hatchet Series by Gary Paulsen

The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

The Heroes of Olympus Series by Rick Riordan

The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan

The Suzanna Snow Mystery Series by Angie Frazier

 

 

The Middle School Series by James Patterson

The Origami Yoda Series by Tom Angleberger

The Percy Jackson and the Olympian Series by Rick Riordan

The Ranger's Apprentice Series by John Flanagan

The Titanic Trilogy by Gordon Korman

 

 

Nonfiction

Drawing from Memory by Allen Say

Freedom Riders:  John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil Rights Movement 

     By Ann Bausum

Mammoth Bones and Broken Stones:  The Mystery of America's First People by David L. Harrison

The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay and Neil Ardley

Shark Life:  True Stories about Sharks and the Sea by Peter Benchley and Karen Wojtyla

Shipwrecks:  Exploring Sunken Cities Beneath the Sea by Mary M. Cerullo

Space, Stars, and the Beginning of Time:  What the Hubble Telescope Saw by Elaine Scott

Top Secret:  A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing by Paul B. Janeczko and

     Jenna LaReau

We've Got a Job:  The 1963 Birmingham Children's March by Cynthia Levinson

Wheels of Change:  How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom by Sue Macy

 

Books for Struggling Readers

The Animorphs Series by K.A.  Applegate 

Cardboard by Doug Ten Napel

Dark Life and Riptide by Kat Falls

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Explorer:  The Mystery Boxes by Kazu Kibuishi

Finding Zasha by Randi Barrow

The Hatchet Series by Gary Paulsen

Holes by Louis Sachar

Hoot by Carl Hiassen

The Middle School Series by James Patterson

The Percy Jackson and the Olympian Series by Rick Riordan

Saving Zasha and Finding Zasha by Randi Barrow

Stranded by Jeff Probst and Chris Tebbetts

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin