Reading Lists

RSMS Summer Reading

Rising 6th Graders

Suggested Summer Reading

• Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan (750 Lexile)
• Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (820 Lexile)
• Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Curtis (950 Lexile)
• Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul by Canfield, Hansen, and Kirberger (930 Lexile)

Rising 7th Graders

Suggested Summer Reading

• Linked by Gordon Korman (750 Lexile)
• The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien (1000 Lexile)
• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (590 Lexile)
• Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix (700 Lexile)

Rising 8th Graders

Suggested Summer Reading

• Hate that Cat by Sharon Creech (550 Lexile)
• Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech (770 Lexile)
• City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (680 Lexile)
• March: Book One by John Lewis (760 Lexile)