Mon. Nov 4th, 2024

Hello Everyone!

Summer is almost coming to an end. I am excited to start my in-person seventh grade. As a sixth-grader, I read lots of interesting and diverse books. So I would like to share my book lists with kids going into middle school! I hope you will find my reading list helpful. It includes books written by 58 famous authors.

I am currently reading the book Black Boy Joy which is a collection of stories written by 17 Black authors and I am looking forward to getting my copy of two new books that are coming in September. The books are Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman and How to Find What You’re Looking For by Veera Hiranandani.

Here is the list of books for students going back to school.

Hena Khan

Amina’s Voice
Aminas Song

Kelly Yang

The Front Desk

Three Keys

Veera Hiranandani

The Night Diary

Aisha Saeed
Amal Unbound

Reem Farqui
Unsettled

Saadia Farqui
A Place at the Table
A Thousand Questions

Jasmine Warga
Other Words For Home
The Shape of Thunder

JK Rowling
Harry Potter Book Series
Fantastic Beasts

Supriya Kelkar
American As a Paneer Pie
That Thing About Bollywood
Ahimsa
Strong as Fire Fierce as Flame

Onjali Q Rauf
The Kid at the Back of the Class

Rajani Larocca
Red, White, and Whole

Barbara O’Connor
Wish
Halfway to Harmony

Erin Entrada Kelly
Hello Universe
Blackbird Fly

Lisa Moore Ramee
A Good Kind of trouble

Sharon M Draper
Blended

Padma Venkatraman
The Bridge Home

Mitali Perkins
You Bring the Distant Near
Rickshaw Girl
Forward Me Back to You

Lynda Mulally Hunt
Fish in a Tree
Shouting At the Rain

Aida Salazaar
Land of the Cranes

Pablo Cartaya
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
Marcus Vega Can”t Speak Spanish

Erin Soderberg
When Life Gives You Lemons Make Peach Pie

RJ Palacio
Wonder
Auggie and Me

Ann M Martin
A Corner of the Universe
Rain Reign

Linda Sue Park
A Long Walk to Water

Karen Hesse
Letters From Rifka

Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird

Pam Munoz Ryan
Becoming Naomi Leon
Esperanza Rising

Rita Williams Garcia
One Crazy Summer
PS Be Eleven
Gone Crazy in Alabama

Cynthia Kadohata
Kira Kira

Meg Medina
Merci Suarez Changes Gears

Ann Braden
The Flight of the Puffin
Benefits of Being an Octopus

Leslie Connor
The truth as told by Mason Buttle

Cassie Beasley
Circus Mirandus

Gennifer Chodlenko
Al Capone Does My Shirts

Ellen Oh
Finding Junie Kim

Erika L Sanchez
I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed
When the Stars Are Scattered

Nidhi Chanani
Pashmina

Jen Wang
Stargazing

John David Anderson
Posted

Gita Varadarajan and Sarah Weeks
Save Me A Seat

Judy Blume
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Jasbinder Bilan
Asha and the Spirit Bird
Tamarind and the Star of Ishta

Laurie Halse Anderson
Fever 1793

Varian Johnson
The Parker Inheritance

Jason Reynolds
Look Both Ways

Jacqueline Woodson
Brown Girl Dreaming

Thanhha Lai
Inside Out and Back Again

Christina Soontornvat
All Eleven
A Wish in the Dark

Sayantani Dasgupta
The Force of Fire

Lisa Fipps
Starfish

Tae Keller
When You Trap a Tiger

Five feet apart
Rachel Lippincott

Jerry Craft
New Kid

Ruth Behr
Letters From Cuba

Megan E. Freeman
Alone

Holly Goldberg Sloan
Counting By 7s

Alan Gratz
Ground Zero: A Story of 9/11
Refugee
Grenade

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