Recommended Reading for Middle Schoolers

The Radnor Township School District has recommended books on the 2013-2014 Reading Olympics List for its students to read during the summer.

The Reading Olympics engages readers from Delaware County schools in an annual reading competition.

Last year, the school district did not give specific recommendations, but it’s something that parents wanted, said Terry Canny, Crossroads Program Teacher at Radnor Middle School.

The 2013-14 Reading Olympic titles for grades 6 to 8 are:

The 100 year-old Secret

Tracy Barrett

Ajeemah and his Son

James Berry

Among the Hidden

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Black Star, Bright Dawn

Scott O’Dell

The Boy Who Saved Baseball

John H. Ritter

Buried Alive

Elaine Scott

Burning Up

Caroline Cooney

The Candy Makers

Wendy Mass

Countdown

Ben Mikaelson

Dateline: Troy

Paul Fleischman

December Stillness

Mary Downing Hahn

Double Dutch

Sharon M. Draper

Dragon’s Keep

Janet Leet Card

Eagle Strike

Anthony Horowitz

Ender’s Shadow

Orson Scott Card

Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini

Sid Fleischman

The Giant and How He Humbugged America

Jim Murphy

Gregor the Overlander

Suzanne Collins

Inside Out and Back Again

Lai Thanhha

Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True

Stories...

Jon Scieszka

Leaving Protection

Will Hobbs

Locomotion

Jacqueline Woodson

Long Way From Chicago

Richard Peck

Lost Hero

Rick Riordan

Midnight for Charlie Bone

Jerry Nimmo

Notes From A Midnight Driver

Jordan Sonnenblick

Notorious Benedict Arnold

Steve Sheinkin

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place

E.L. Konigsburg

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science

John Fleischman

The Ruins of Gorlan

John Flanagan

Say Goodnight Gracie

Julie Deaver

Schooled

Gordon Korman

So B. It

Sarah Weeks

Splendors and Glooms

Laura Amy Schulz

Stalker

Joan Lowery Nixon

The Supernaturalist

Eoin Colfer

Surviving the Applewhites

Stephanie S. Tolan

Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer

John Grisham

Titanic: Voices from the Disaster

Deborah Hopkinson

Virals

Kathy Reichs

Wonder

R.J. Palacio

Yellow Star

Jennifer Roy