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Youth Services Summer 2021 Reading Lists: 6th Grade-8th Grade

Realistic Fiction

Link to Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids in the Catalog

Link to Batting Order--a Home Team Novel by Mike Lupica in the catalog.

Link to Bear by Ben Queen in the catalog.

Link to Becoming Muhammad Ali by James Patterson and Kwame Alexander in the catalog

Link to Before the Ever After by Jacqueline Woodson in the Catalog

Link to Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet in the Catalog

Link to the Enigma Game by Elizabeth Wein in the catalog.

Link to Far Away by Lisa Graff in the catalog

Link ot Flooded: Requiem for Johnstown by Ann E, Burg in the catalog

Link to Ground Zero by Alan Gratz in the Catalog

Link to Just Like That by Gary D. Schmidt in the catalog

Link to The List of Things that Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead in the catalog

Link to Out of Left Field by Ellen Klages in the catalog

Link to Sara and the Search for Normal by Wesley King in the catalog.

Link to the Secret Sheriff of Sixth Grade by Jordan Sonneblick in the catalog.

Link to Seven Clues for Home by Gae Polisner and Nora Raleigh Baskin in the catalog

Link to The Skylark's Way by Hilary McKay in the catalog

Link to So Done by Paula Chase in the catalog

Link to Things You Can't Say by Jenn Bishop in the catalog

Link to The Usual Suspects by Maurice Broaddus in the catalog

Link to We are Not Free by Traci Chee in the catalog.

Link to We Dream of Space by Erin Entrada Kelly in the catalog

Link to When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller in the catalog.

Link to the Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare in the catalog.

Link to Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk in the catalog.

Speculative Fiction

Link to the 1000 Year Old Boy by Ross Welford in the catalog

Link to the Cassidy Blake series by Victoria Schwab in the catalog

Link to Displacement by Kiku Hughes in the catalog.

Link to Elatsol by Darcie Little Badger in the catalog.

Link to Greenglass House series by Kate Milford in the catalog

Link to The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune in the catalog

Link to the In Between by Marina Cohen in the catalog.

Link to The York series by Laura Ruby in the catalog

Link to The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. by David Levithan in the catalog

Link to The New Policeman by Kate Thompson in the catalog

Link to Scritch Scratch by Lindsay Currie in the catalog

Mystery & Adventure

Link to Charlie Thorne series by Stuart Gibb in the catalog

Link to City Spies series by James Ponti in the catalog

Link to The Da Vinci Code: adapted for young adults by Dan Brown in the catalog

Nonfiction

Link to All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat in the catalog

Link to Baseball's Leading Lady by Andrea Williams in the Catalog

Link to The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 by Tim Madigan in the catalog

Link to The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot ot Kill George Washington by Brad Meltzer in the catalog

Link to Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary by Rachel Swaby in the catalog

Link to Murder on the Baltimore Express: The Plot to Keep Abraham Lincoln from Becoming President by Suzanne Jurmain in the catalog

Link to Radium GirlRadium Girls: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark by Kate Moore in the catalog

Link to The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh in the catalog

Link to A Shot in the Arm! by Don Brown in the catalog

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