Brandywine’s Suggested Summer Reading List

 

Summer is a great time to read.  Whether you’re at the beach, inside staying out of the sun or traveling, a book can be a great companion.  And best of all, this summer you can read whatever you want…a book, a website, a magazine or a cereal box.  The important thing is that you are reading.  Keep your skills sharp.  Just to help you with a selection the following is a suggested list of books that other students have loved and you might, too.

If you liked Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher you may like

The death of Jayson Porter by Jaime Adoff

Scars by Cheryl Rainfield

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Chinese Handcuffs by Chris Crutcher

If you liked Monster by Walter Dean Myers you may like

Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon

Tyrell and Bronxwood by Coe Booth

A Hole in my Life by Jack Gantos

Riker’s High by Paul Volponi

White Oleander by Janet Finch

If you liked If We Survive by Andrew Klavan you may like

            In Darkness by Nick Lane

Life as we Knew It by Susan Pfeffer

Ashfall by Mike Mullin

If you liked The skin I‘m in by Sharon Flake you may like

            The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

            Black Like Me by John Griffin

            Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton

            Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

If you liked Sold by Patricia McCormick you may like

Little Peach by Peggy Kern

Charm & strange : a novel by  Stephanie Kuehn

Running with scissors : a memoir by Augusten Burroughs.         

If you liked Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins you may like

            Unwind by Neal Shusterman

            Uglies by Scott Westerfield

            Animal Farm by George Orwell

Gone by Michael Grant

Matched by Ally Condie

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

If you liked Flight by Sherman Alexie you may like

            Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown

            Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac

            Heart of a Chief by Joseph Bruchac

            The Round House by Louise Erdrich

If you liked Black and White by Paul Volponi you may like

How it went Down by Kekla Magoon

            Snitch by Allison van Diepen

            Ball Don’t Lie by Matt de la Pena

            The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

            Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

            Lady Q: The Rise and Fall of a Latin Queen by Reymundo Sanchez

If you liked Lockdown (Escape from Furnace) by Alexander Gordon Smith you may like

            Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons

            Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne

Jumped by Rita Williams-Garcia

Lockdown by Walter Dean Myers

If you liked Night by Elie Weisel  you may like

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

The Diary of Anne Frank

If you liked The Fault In Our Stars by John Green you may like

            Going Bovine by Libba Bray

            Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern

            Somebody up there hates you by Hollis Seamon.

 If you liked First Part Last by Angela Johnson you may like

            After by Amy Efaw

            Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr

            Make Lemonade (Make Lemonade, #1) by Virginia Euwer Wolff

            November Blues by Sharon Draper

If you liked I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai you may like

            Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

            Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide by

 Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

If you liked My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor you may like

Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Blind by Rachel DeWoskin

All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

If you liked Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell you may like

            Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

He said She Said by Kwame Alexander

If you liked To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee you may like

            Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

If you liked From The Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson you may like

            I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson

            Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan

If you liked Glass by Ellen Hopkins  you may like

Schist: A novel by Nic Sheff

Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going

Crackback by John Coy

Out of Reach by Carrie Arcos

Recovery Road by Blake Nelson

 

 

And if you loved a book and cannot find a suggestion here try one of the following websites

http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/

http://www.yournextread.com/us/