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Association for Library Service to Children Summer Reading List, 2025
Medway Middle School 2025 (direct links to our catalog)
Entering 5th Grade:
Strongly Recommended:
- A Mango-shaped Space by Wendy Maas
- Space Case by Stuart Gibbs
- Booked by Kwame Alexander
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’ s Library by Chris Grabenstein
- Twins by Varian Johnson
- The Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine
Teacher Favorites:
- Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
- Restart by Gordon Korman
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
- Rump by Liesl Shurtliff
- There’s a Boy in the Girls Bathroom by Louis Sachar
- Blended by Sharon M. Draper
Challenge Choices:
- Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath
- Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald
- Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
Entering 6th Grade:
Strongly Recommended:
- History Smashers: Plagues and Pandemics by Kate Messner
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
- Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
- When Stars are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
- Framed!: a T.O.A.S.T. mystery by James Ponti
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- I Survived: The Sinking of the Titanic by Lauren Tarshis
Teacher Favorites:
- Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
- Every Soul a Star by Wendy Maas
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
- Tangerine by Edward Bloor
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Heartbeat by Sharon Creech
Challenge Choices:
Entering 7th Grade:
Strongly Recommended:
- The pick-up game: a full day of full court
- City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
- The First Rule of Punk by Celia C. Pérez
- The Art of Being a Brilliant Teenager by Andy Cope
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
- Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
- The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
Teacher Favorites:
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Uglies by Scott Wester
- The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds
- Brave by Svetlana Chmakova
- Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Challenge Choices:
Entering 8th Grade:
Strongly Recommended:
- City Spies by James Ponti
- Marley Dias Gets it Done and So Can You by Marley Dias
- A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata
- Heat by Mike Lupica
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club by Phillip Hoose
- I Am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Teacher Favorites:
- The Girl Who Threw Butterflies by Mick Cochrane
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- That Summer by Sarah Dessen
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Within Reach: My Everest Story by Mark Pfetzer
- Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes
Challenge Choice:
Students entering grades 5-8, teachers would like you to read two to four books this summer.
Medway Mustangs High School Summer Reading (direct links to our catalog)
Grade 9
- College Prep: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon
- Honors: Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Grade 10
- College Prep: Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Honors: Silas Marner by George Eliot
Grade 11
- College Prep: The Pearl by John Steinbeck
- Honors: There There by Tommy Orange
Grade 12
- College Prep: Educated by Tara Westover
- Honors: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
AP Language and Composition
AP Literature and Composition
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