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Youth Services Summer 2025 Reading Lists: 6th Grade-8th Grade

6th-8th Grade Reading Lists

Realistic Fiction
Link to Across So Many Seas by Ruth Behar in the Catalog
Link to A Day at the Beach by Gary D. Schmidt in the catalog.
Link to Bye Forever, I Guess by Jodi Meadows in the catalog.
Link to How it all ends by Emma Hunsinger in the Catalog
Link to Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi in the Catalog
Link to Lost in Taiwan by Mark Crilley in the catalog.
Link to Louder Than Hunger by John Schu in the catalog.
Link to On Again, Awkward Again by Erin Entrada Kelly and Kwame Mbala
Link to Shot Clock by Caron Butler and Justin A. Reynolds in the Catalog
Link to Take it from the top by Claire Swinarski in the Catalog
Link to The Unforgettable Leta
Link to We Are Big Time by Hena Khan in the catalog.
Speculative Fiction
Link to Alebrijes by Donna Barba Higera in the catalog.
Link to Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell in the Catalog
Link to Lovely Dark and Deep by Elisa A. Bonnin in the catalog.
Link to Maelstrom: a Prince of Evil by Lorian Merriman in the catalog.
Link to The many hauntings of the Manning family by Lorien Lawrence in the Catalog
Link to Nox Winters and the Midnight Wolf by Rochelle Hassan in the Catalog
Link to Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol in the Catalog
Link to Sabriel by Garth Nix in the Catalog
Link to Thunder City by Philip Reeve in the catalog.
Mystery & Adventure
Link to Hunger's Bite by Taylor Robin in the catalog.
Link to It's Only a Game by Kelsea Yu in the catalog.
Link to The Last Beekeeper by Pablo Cartaya in the catalog.
Link to The Legend of the Last Library by Frank L. Cole in the Catalog
Link to A Royal Conundrum (The Misfits) by Lisa Yee in the Catalog
Link to The Sherlock sSociety by James Ponti in the Catalog
Link to Song of the Lioness, Book 1: Alanna by Tamora Pierce in the Catalog
Nonfiction
Link to American Spirits by Barb Rosenstock in the catalog.
Link to Fatal Forecast by Michael J. Tougias in the Catalog
Link to Mountain of Fire by Rebecca E.F. Barone in the catalog.
Link to Puzzled by Pan Cooke in the Catalog
Link to Remember My Story by Claire Sarnowski with Sarah Durand in the Catalog
Link to Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau in the catalog.
Link to Stealing Little Moon by Dan Sasuweh Jones in the Catalog
2026 Middle School Nutmeg Nominees
Link to Alone by Megan E. Freeman in the catalog.
Link to Concealed by Christina Diaz Gonzalez in the catalog.
Link to The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander in the catalog.
Link to Hamra and the Jungle of Memories by Hanna Alkaf in the catalog.
Link to The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera in the catalog.
Link to The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
Link to Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow in the catalog.
Link to Team Chu and the Battle of Blackwood Arena by Julia C. Dao in the catalog.
Link to What Happened to Rachel Riley? by Claire Swinarski in the catalog.
Link to Don't Want to Be Your Monster by Deke Moulton in the catalog.
2026 Intermediate Nutmeg Nominees Grades 4-6

2026 Intermediate Nominees Gallery

Link to Air by Monica Roe in the catalog
Link to The Carrefour Curse by Dianne K. Salerni in the catalog
Link to The Dog Knight by Jeremy Whitley in the catalog
Link to Dogtown by Katherine Applegate in the catalog
Link to Frizzy by Claribel A. Ortega in the catalog
Link to Grounded by Aisha Saeed in the catalog.
Link to It Found Us by Lindsay Currie in the catalog.
Link to Moongarden by Michelle A. Barry in the catalog.
Link to Speak Up! by Rebecca Burgess in the catalog.
Link to Trex by Christyne Morrell in the catalog.