WMS Summer Reading Suggestions  

These titles are recommendations only. Look for other titles by the same authors.  Other titles within the series may have different lexile levels. We realize that not all books are appropriate for all children. Please help your child to make appropriate choices.

  Lexile         Author                                    Title                           

550                  Asher, Jay                               Th1rteen R3asons Why

570                  Bodeen, S.A.                          The Compound

1080                Boyne, John                            The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

varies               Chima, Cinda                          Warrior Heir series

varies               Collins, Suzanne                     Hunger Games, Catching Fire

670                  Cooney, Caroline                    If the Witness Lied

600                  Fisher, Catherine                     Incarceron

580                  Flinn, Alex                              Beastly

590                  Friend, Natasha                       Perfect

varies               Grant, Michael                        Gone, Hunger  (Gone series)

varies               Haddix, Margaret Peterson     Found (Missing series)

680                  Han, Jenny                              Shug

varies               Horowitz, Anthony                Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider Series)

770                  Johnson, Maureen                   13 Little Blue Envelopes

varies               Korman, Gordon                    Schooled, Peak, Swindle, I, Q

760                  Landy, Derek                          Skulduggery Pleasant

varies               Lupica, Mike                          Heat, Summer Ball, Travel Team

740                  Mass Wendy                           Every Soul a Star

770                  Pfeffer, Susan Beth                Life as We Knew It, the dead and the gone

varies               Riordan, Rick                         Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson & the Olympians Series)

820                  Trueman, Terry                        Stuck in Neutral

varies               Ursu, Ann                               Shadow Thieves (Cronus Chronicles series)

Don't forget the classics! Books by authors like either of the Brontë Sisters, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and H.G. Wells are always fun summer reads.