McGee Summer Reading 2008 List of Authors

McGee Middle School Summer Reading List of Authors

Summer 2008

To the Student: Please select three books written by the authors on this list and read them this summer. You may also chose any of the Newbery Award or Honors Books or Nutmeg Nominees.

 

Realistic Fiction

Avi (*except Nothing But the Truth)

Judy Blume

Betsy Byars (*except Pinballs)

Caroline Cooney

Sharon Creech (*except Walk Two Moons, Love That Dog)

Cynthia DeFelice (*except Devil Bridge)

Carl Deucker

Thomas Dygard

S.E. Hinton (*except The Outsiders)

Gordon Korman (*except Schooled)

Mike Lupica

Walter Dean Myers

John Ritter

Louis Sachar (*except Holes)

Jerry Spinelli (*except Crash, Stargirl, Loser)

Cynthia Voight

Paul Zindel

 

Fantasy

Lloyd Alexander

T.A. Barron

Eoin Coifer

Suzanne Collins

Jeanne DuPrau

Dan Gutman

Madeline L’Engle (*except A Wrinkle In Time)

Corneila Funke

Gail Carson Levine

C.S. Lewis (*except The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)

Stephenie Meyer

Walter Moeres

Tamora Pierce

Terry Pratchett

Rick Riordan

J.K. Rowling

J.R.R. Tolkien

Historical Fiction

Avi (*except Nothing but the Truth)

Katherine Ayers

Gary Blackwood

Joseph Bruchac

Christopher Collins and James Collins

Karen Cushman

Patricia Reilly Giff

Virginia Hamilton

Dean Hughes

Eva Ibbotson

Jackie French Koller

Kathryn Lasky

Scott O’Dell (*except Sing Down the Mood and Island of the Blue Dolphins)

Richard Peck

Ann Rinaldi

Elizabeth George Speare

Gloria Whelan

 

Science Fiction

Douglas Adams

Asimov

Edward Bloor (*except Tangerine)

Ray Bradbury

Orson Scott Card

John Christopher

Arthur C. Clarke

Nancy Farmer

Margaret Petersen Haddix

Annette Curtis Klause

Lois Lowry (*except The Giver)

Kenneth Opel

George Orwell

James Patterson (Maximum Ride Series)

Philip Pulman

Neal Schusterman

William Sleator

Sylvia Waugh

Scott Westerfield

Chris Wooding

 

Adventure

Dave Barry

Michael Cadnum

Jean Craighead George

Will Hobbs

Michael Hoeye (also Fantasy)

Anthony Horowitz

Brian Jacques (also Fantasy)

Iain Lawrence

Gary Paulsen (*except Hatchet, NightJohn and Harris and Me)

 

Classics

Louise May Alcott

Samuel Clemens

Harper Lee

Jack London

George Orwell

Conrad Ritcher

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jules Verne

 

Non-Fiction and Biography

David A. Adler (non-fiction only)

Ruth Ashby

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Joan Blos

Rhoda Blumberg

Candice Fleming

Russell Friedman

Joy Hakim

Kathleel Krull

Julius Lester

Milton Meltzer

Laura Amy Schlitz

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