NAMS SUMMER READING
2023
Welcome to the summer reading portal for the North Andover Middle School!
Here, you will find a whole host of lists, links, and tools to help you decide what to read this summer. Please keep in mind that the books listed on this site are ONLY suggestions. Please feel free to read any book that interests you.
Click on the following grade-level links for specific instructions from your teachers.
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Sona and the Golden Beasts
The Color of Sound
Creatures of the In Between
The Last Mapmaker
Sparrows in the Wind
The Lost Library
Witchlings
The Year I Flew Away
Blackbird, Blue Road
The Labors of Hercules Beal
Maizy Chen's Last Chance
Home Away From Home
Tumble
The Probability of Everything
Simon Sort of Says
Half Moon Summer
The Firefly Summer
Grounded
by Aisha Saeed, Huda Al-Marashi, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, S.K. Ali
Available at:
Queen of Tiles
Wrecker
Three Times Lucky
Framed
All Fall Down
The Plot to Kill a Queen
The Pear Affair
Ali Cross
The Night Raven
Don't Want to be Your Monster
What We Saw
The Cursed Moon
Sisters of the Lost Marsh
Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting
Tales to Keep You Up at Night
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Bea and the New Deal Horse
Across So Many Seas
The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry
I Must Betray You
Freewater
The Night Diary
Brother's Keeper
Max in the House of Spies
The City of Ember
Divergent
The First State of Being
A Rover's Story
Project F
Cinder
Bloom
The Wild Robot
The Lion of Mars
The Warrior on the Mound
Keeping Pace
Tangerine
Dairy Queen
Nikki on the Line
Heart of a Champion
Up for Air
Taking Up Space
Falling Short
Keeper of the Lost Cities
Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows
The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
Scarlett and Browne series
by Jonathan Stroud
Available at:
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Front Desk
The Serpent's Secret
Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond series
by Sayantani DasGupta
Available at:
Ghost
Amari and the Night Brothers
Supernatural Investigations series
by B.B. Alston
Available at:
Hatchet
The Boys in the Boat
Piece by Piece: How I Built My Life (no instructions required)
All Thirteen
The Enigma Girls
The Girl Who Fought Back
Caught!
Catch a Crayfish, Count the Stars
The Mona Lisa Vanishes
Indigenous Ingenuity
Look Both Ways
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
Once Upon an Eid
You Are Here: Connecting Flights
The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities
The Hero Next Door
Edited by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Available at:
When Clouds Touch Us
BenBee and the Teacher Griefer
Land of the Cranes
Crossover
Alone
The Promise of Change
Alias Anna
Before the Ever After
The One Thing You'd Save
Mexikid
Above the Trenches
A First Time for Everything
Hidden Systems
Bomb : The Race to Build--and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
Invisible
Duel
Unhappy Camper
Swim Team
Waverider
Break
Sunny Makes Her Case
ALA Youth Media Awards
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The Newbery Medal
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The Sibert Medal
Click here for a complete list of Sibert Award winners.
ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table & ALSC List
This reading list highlights the best graphic novels for kids published in late 2022 through 2023.
This Graphic Novels Reading List was created by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) for grades 6-8.
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