Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Kids Booklist

PPS Books for Relaxing Reading, Grade 6-8, Authors A-D

This is the summer reading list for grades 6-8 from the Pittsburgh Public Schools.

Avi – The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

Balliett, Blue – Chasing Vermeer (and other titles in this series)

Bausum, Ann – Denied, Detained, Deported: Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration

Brashares, Ann – The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Bruchac, Joseph – Skeleton Man

Choldenko, Gennifer – Al Capone Does My Shirts

Clements, Andrew – Frindle

Clements, Andrew – Lunch Money

Codell, Esme Raji – Sahara Special

Collins, Suzanne – Gregor the Overlander

Creech, Sharon – Hate that Cat

Curtis, Christopher Paul – Elijah of Buxton

Curtis, Christopher Paul – The Watsons go to Birmingham -- 1963

DiCamillo, Kate – Because of Winn-Dixie

DiTerlizzi, Tony – The Spiderwick Chronicles (series)

DuPrau, Jeanne – The City of Ember