Welcome to the 2017 middle grade summer reading list! As my regular readers know, I put this list together every year to help you find the best book suggestions across every genre to encourage your kids to really dive into reading this summer.
Middle graders are one of my favorite age groups when it comes to finding books. They’re still at that age where they’re discovering their favorite genre, whether it’s humor, mystery, magical and adventure, or just stories about regular kids coming of age. In honor of that journey of discovery, I’ve broken this list down into a few different genres. With middle grade fiction, sometimes the lines blur from one genre into the next, so it’s not a flawless list. I went with the predominant genre for each book.
After a reader wrote in asking for a printable list of Around the World in 80 Books, I decided to start putting all of my book lists into a printable format. I’m still working on back lists, but going forward, you’ll be able to print out a super simple version of every list. I was going to try to make them all fancy for you, but then I thought about how much ink that would take to print out. Instead, I’m opting for plain old text lists that won’t cost you an entire ink cartridge to print. That way, you have more money for books, right?
Click here to print this list in PDF
2017 Middle Grade Summer Reading Book List
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FUNNY BOOKS
- Pottymouth and Stoopid
by James Patterson- We loved this one! Check out our review along with tips to avoid raising a bully!
- The Misadventures of Max Crumbly 2: Middle School Mayhem
by Rachel Renée Russell
- Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
by Stephan Pastis
- Frazzled: Everyday Disasters and Impending Doom
by Booki Vivat
- Gertie’s Leap to Greatness
by Kate Beasley
- Dork Diaries Books 1-11
Collection by Rachel Renée Russell
- The Mighty Odds (The Odds Series #1)
by Amy Ignatow
- How to Be a Supervillain
by Michael Fry
MAGIC, ADVENTURE AND FANTASY
- The Secret Keepers
by Trenton Lee Stewart, Diana Sudyka
- The Many Worlds of Albie Bright
by Christopher Edge
- The Island of Dr. Libris
Chris Grabenstein
- The Lost Kingdom of Bamarre
by Gail Carson Levine
- The Wearle (The Erth Dragons #1)
by Chris d’Lacey
- Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 2: The Hammer of Thor
by Rick Riordan
- Furthermore
by Tahereh Mafi
- Rise of the Isle of the Lost: A Descendants Novel
by Melissa de la Cruz
MYSTERY & SUSPENSE
- Beyond the Bright Sea
by Lauren Wolk
- In Darkling Wood
by Emma Carroll
- The Murderer’s Ape
by Jakob Wegelius
- Scar Island
by Dan Gemeinhart
- The Gallery
by Laura Marx Fitzgerald
- The Underdogs
by Sara Hammel
- York: The Shadow Cipher
by Laura Ruby
- Framed
by James Ponti
COMING OF AGE
- Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
- See You in the Cosmos
by Jack Cheng
- Flying Lessons & Other Stories
by Ellen Oh
- Midnight Without a Moon
by Linda Williams Jackson
- The Dog, Ray
by Linda Coggin
- Moo: A Novel
by Sharon Creech
- Rain Reign
Ann M. Martin
- Sputnik’s Guide to Life on Earth
by Frank Cottrell Boyce
- Posted
by John David Anderson
NONFICTION
- Guinness World Records 2017: Blockbusters!
- National Geographic Kids Almanac 2018
- Minecraft: Guide to Creative
- Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 5 & 6
by Workman Publishing and Bridget Heos
- Journal Sparks: Fire Up Your Creativity with Spontaneous Art, Wild Writing, and Inventive Thinking
by Emily K. Neuburger
- Weird But True Human Body: 300 Outrageous Facts about Your Awesome Anatomy
by National Geographic Kids
- How to be a Scientist
by Steve Mould
- Junk Drawer Engineering: 25 Construction Challenges That Don’t Cost a Thing
by Bobby Mercer
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These sound like great summer reading books.
Holly Cow! What a list! Defensively going to bookmark this. But my daughter is still 3 years old i a m wondering what kind of books will attract her.
I am book Junkie and i would love to see the same passion in my daughter 🙂
What a great list! My grandsons are still a little too young for these reads, but I will definitely keep them in mind as they get older!
THis is a great list of books, some of these books I want to read myself!
I’m going to check some of these out! They sounds great!