Summer reading lists

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• Bridge to Terabithia · Katherine Paterson
• Holes · Louis Sachar
• Number the Stars · Lois Lowry
• Out of My Mind · Sharon M. Draper
• Smile · Raina Telgemeier
• Tuck Everlasting · Natalie Babbitt
• Where the Red Fern Grows · Wilson Rawls
• A Wrinkle in Time · Madeleine L'Engle
• Hatchet · Gary Paulsen
• One Crazy Summer · Rita Williams-Garcia
• Rebound · Kwame Alexander
• The Crossover · Kwame Alexander
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry · Mildred D. Taylor
• The Giver · Lois Lowry
• The Hunger Games · Suzanne Collins
• The Parker Inheritance · Varian Johnson
• The Pearl · John Steinbeck
• Animal Farm · George Orwell
• Long Way Down · Jason Reynolds
• The Outsiders · S.E. Hinton
• To Kill a Mockingbird · Harper Lee
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave · Frederick Douglass
• Of Mice and Men · John Steinbeck
• The Book Thief · Markus Zusak
• The Poet X · Elizabeth Acevedo
• 1984 · George Orwell
• A Separate Peace · John Knowles
• Everything Sad Is Untrue · Daniel Nayeri
• Everything, Everything · Nicola Yoon
• Firekeeper's Daughter · Angeline Boulley
• Frankenstein · Mary Shelley
• I Must Betray You · Ruta Sepetys
• Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) · Bryan Stevenson
• Lord of the Flies · William Golding
• Night · Elie Wiesel
• Oedipus Rex · Sophocles
• The Fault in Our Stars · John Green
• The Glass Castle · Jeannette Walls
• The Hate U Give · Angie Thomas
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower · Stephen Chbosky
• The Secret Life of Bees · Sue Monk Kidd
• The Sun is Also a Star · Nicola Yoon
• Things Fall Apart · Chinua Achebe
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings · Maya Angelou
• Purple Hibiscus · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Great Gatsby · F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Kite Runner · Khaled Hosseini
• Their Eyes Were Watching God · Zora Neale Hurston
• The Handmaid's Tale · Margaret Atwood
• The Things They Carried · Tim O'Brien