10 Books Every Middle School Student Should Read
I’ve read all of these book and I guarantee you will truly enjoy. I’ve included a diverse selection of topics. These books will be a great addition to your reading list. Get reading and have fun!
1. Finding Perfect
Molly Nathans loves to be perfect. Perfect to her is the number 4, the tip of a newly sharpened №2 pencil, a crisp white pad of paper, and her neatly aligned glass animal figurines. Molly’s mother is leaving the family to take a faraway job with the promise to return in one year. The plan to bring her mother back home: Win the Lakeville Middle School Poetry Slam Contest. The winner is honored at a fancy banquet and Molly is sure her mother would never miss that. Right…? But as time passes, writing and reciting slam poetry become harder. Actually, everything becomes harder as new habits appear, and counting, cleaning, and organizing are not enough to keep Molly’s world from spinning out of control. Molly learns there is no such thing as perfect.
2. Making bombs for Hitler
Lida and her sister, Larissa, kidnapped from their village by the Nazis in 1943, are separated in the first chapter of this story. The book is in perspective of the older sister, Lida as she worries about Larissa and tries to survive the horrors of a slave labor camp. One of Lida’s main tasks is assembling of bombs for the use of the German war effort and she makes it a goal to sabotage as many bombs as she can. Lida knows that the discovery of this will lead to immediate death. Lida’s situation was not like other jews but it was still cruel and horryfying.
3. Little Women
Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March are four sisters living with their mother in New England. Their father is away serving in the Civil War, and the sisters struggle to support themselves and keep their household running despite the fact that the family recently lost its fortune. As the girls grow older, each faces her own personal demons and moral challenges. This is a long coming-of-age novel that will keep you at the edge of your seats.
4. GEORGE
GEORGE is about a transgender fourth-grader. George may have been born in a boy’s body, but she knows she’s really a girl. When her class stages Charlotte’s Web, she wants to audition for Charlotte, but that is a girl part. She gets teased by boys in class, but finds amazing support in her best friend, Kelly, and in her older brother. Gorge just needs to get the courage to tell her mother that she’s a girl named Melissa.
5. The Sun is Also a Star
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae and Jamaica-born Natasha Kingsley meet, and fall for each other, over one magical day in New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met if it wasn’t for fate. With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation just as fiercely as she’s fighting her growing feelings for Daniel.
“Lyrical and sweeping, full of HOPE, heartbreak, fate…. and the universal beating of the human heart.” — Booklist, Starred review
6. Five Feet Apart
Stella Grant likes to be in control — even though her out-of-control lungs have sent her in and out of the hospital most of her life. She needs to control her distance from anyone or anthing that might pass on an infection and jeopardize her life. Six feet apart at all times. Will Newman doesn’t care anymore. He just wants to be out of the hospital and see the world. Will is exactly what Stella needs to stay away from. Suddenly six feet apart starts to feel more like a punishment and less like safety.
P.S I wrote a companion book of this book. It is on my blog. Go check it out!
7. the 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens
This book is perfect for teens/tweens. It is a step-by-step guide to help you get from where you are now to where you want to be in the future. It is a handbook to self-esteem and success. This book provides a simple approach to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve goals, and get along with parents. The book is packed with cartoons, ideas, inspiring quotes, and inspiring stories about real teens from around the world.
8. Pax
Pax and Peter have been inseperable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But ine day the inimaginable happens: Peter’s dad enlists in the miltary and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather’s house three hundred miles away from home, Peter knows he isn’t where he should be — with Pax. He strikes out on his own despite the encroaching war, spurred by love, loyalty, and grief, to be reunited with his fox. Meanwhile Pax, who is waiting for his boy, embarks on adventures and discoveries of his own.
9. I Am Malala
This is the tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who, himself a school owner, championed and encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that favors sons. As a young girl, Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 but her story didn’t her there.
10. the thing about jellyfish
After her best friend dies in a drowning accident, Suzy is convinced that the true cause of the tragedy must have been a rare jellyfish sting. Things don’t just happen for no reason. She crafts a plan to prove her theory–even if it means travelling to the other side of the world, alone. This is a riveting story with an amazing lesson.
