** Good Author for Boys
Summer Reading List 2012
Author Title
**Avi The Mayor of
Don’t You Know There’s a War On?
Perloo
Baker Frog Princess (5 in series)
Balliett Chasing Vermeer
Wright 3
Calder Game
Bauer Hope Was Here
Blume Double Fudge
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret
Blume, L Tennyson
Birdsall The Pendericks (3 in series)
Brink Caddie Woodlawn
**Bruchac Hidden Roots
Skeleton Man
Buckley Nerds (3 in series)
Sister’s Grimm Series
Byng Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism
Molly Moon Stops the World
Molly Moon’s Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure
Byars Keeper of the Doves
Herculeah Jones Series
The Pinballs
McMummy
**Clements Frindle
Things Not Seen
Things Hoped For
A Week in the Woods
School Story
Janitor’s Boy
The Report Card
The
Landry News
Room One
Lunch Money
No Talking
Extra Credit
Lost and Found
**Colfer The Legend of Spud Murphy
Artemis Fowl Series
Connor Crunch
Cooney The Beloved Dearly
I Know Who Likes You
**Cooper, Susan The Dark is Rising
Green Boy
Cowell How to Train Your Dragon
How to Twist a Dragons Tail
How to Speak Dragonese
Creech Bloomability
Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
Ruby Holler
Heartbeat
The Wanderer
Walk Two Moons
Re-Play
The Castle
Curtis, Christopher Paul Elijah of Buxton
Bud Not Buddy
Watson’s go to Birmingham
Dahl Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
The BFG
Daneshvari
Danziger P.S. Longer Letter Later
Snail Mail No More
United Tates of
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DiCamillo The Tale of Despereux
Because of Winn-Dixie
The Miraculous Journey of Edward
Tulane
Dowell Chicken Boy
Shooting the Moon
**Farmer,
Land of the Silver Apples
Ferris Once Upon a Marigold (2 in series)
**Flanagan, John Ranger’s Apprentice (Series)
**Funke Inkheart
Inkspell
The Thief Lord
Dragon Rider
Gannett Mr. Popper’s Penguins
**Gantos Jack on the Tracks
Jack Adrift
Joey Pigza stories
Deadend in Norvelt (2012 Newbery winner)
Giff All the Way Home
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Maggie’s Door
Going The Liberation of Gabriel King
Gordon Gorillas of
**Gordon, Roderick Tunnels (4 in series)
**Gorman Dork in Disguise
Dork on the Run
Stumptown Kid
**Gutman Babe & Me
Shoeless Joe & Me
Honus & Me
Jackie & Me
Million Dollar Kick
The Homework Machine
Getting Air
**Haddix Among the Hidden (series)
Running out of Time
Because of Anya
House on the Gulf
Found (4 in series)
Double Identity
Hahn The
Time for Andrew
The Gentleman Outlaw and Me-Eli
Hale The
Hannigan Ida B
True (sort of)
Hiassen Hoot
Flush
Scat
Hoffman Aquamarine
Holm Penny from Heaven
One and only May Amelia
Turtle in paradise
Holt Dancing in Cadillac Light
Horvath Everything on a Waffle
**Horowitz Alex Rider Series
Raven’s Gate Series
Jacques Redwall (series)
Kandel, Charlotte The Scarlet Stockings
Kessler The Tail of Emily Windsnap
Emily Windsnap and the Monster of the Deep
Phillipa Fischer and the dream-maker’s daughter
Kinney, Jeff Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules
Klise Trial by Journal
**Korman Maxx Comedy
Kidnapped Series
No more Dead Dogs
One False Note (39 Clues)
Swindle (4 in series)
Konigsburg The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
LaFaye Worth
Lerangis The sword thief (39 Clues)
Levine Ella Enchanted
Two Princesses of Bamarre
Fairest
Tale of two castles
Lewis Chronicles of Narnia
Lin Where the mountain meets the moon
Lowry Number the Stars
Gooney Bird Greene (series)
The Willoughbys
**Lupica, Mike The Big Field
Travel Team
Miracle on
Summer Ball
Batboy
Marino,
Other lies Muscle Man McGinty told me
Marsh The night tourist
The twilight prisoner
Martin Here Today
The Doll People
The Meanest Doll in the World
A Dog’s Life
Mazer Amazing Days of Abby Hayes (series)
**Morris Real Kids Real Adventure Series
**Naylor The Boys Start the War
The Girls Get Even (series)
**Nix, Garth The Keys to the Kingdom (Series)
O’Connor Fame and Glory in Freedom,
How to Steal a Dog
Paratore The Wedding Planner’s Daughter
The Cupid Chronicles
Willa at Heart
The Funeral Director’s Son
Park A Single Shard
Project Mullberry
Jacob Have I Loved
Lyddie
Patron Higher Power of Lucky (2007 Newbery)
**Paulsen Hatchet
Brian’s Winter (series)
**Pearsall Trouble Don’t Last
Crooked River
Peck The Teacher’s Funeral
A Long Way From
Fair Weather
Philbrick The mostly true adventures of Homer P.
Figg
Porter, Tracey Billy Creekmore
**Pullman Amber Spyglass (series)
Spring-Heeled Jack
The Scarecrow and his Servant
Rinaldi Color of Fire
Riodan, Rick The Lightning Thief
e Titan’s Curse
The Red Pyramid (Kane chronicles 2 in series)
Maze of Bones (39 Clues)
The Lost Hero
Son of Neptune
Robinet
40 acres and a mule maybe
Rylant
**Sachar Holes
Schmidt Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
First Boy
The Wednesday Wars
Okay for now
**Schirripa Nicky Deuce Welcome to the Family
**Shearer, Alex Sea Legs
Shulman The Grimm Legacy
**Smith, Roland Peak
Tentacles
Elephant Run
**Spinelli Crash
Maniac Magee
Stead When You Reach Me
Stone, Phoebe Romeo and Juliet Code
**Stroud The Bartimaeus Trilogy (Fantasy)
The Land (2 more in series)
Tolen Surviving the Applewhites
VanDraanen Shredderman (Series)
Flipped
Sammy Keys (series)
Voigt Young Fredle
Warner Sort of Forever
**Waterson Calvin and Hobbes
White Tadpole
Belle Prater’s Boy
Buttermilk Hill
Williams-Garcia One Crazy Summer
Wood The mysterious howling
Woodson Feathers
Yee Millicent Min
Stanford Wong Flunks Out
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