Brunswick Middle School
Student Book Suggestions 2020
The following list are book recommendations by your classmates for you! Happy Reading!
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The book is about a boy who is framed for doing an illegal act, and is sentenced to community service type work. His job along with many others is to dig holes and find buried treasure essentially. Ultimately, he finds the treasure and it turns out it belongs to him and his family. | 5-8th graders If interested in…
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This novel describes Trevor Noah's childhood in South Africa as a "colored" boy in South Africa during and after the apartheid. It gives a good look into life in South Africa under this segregation, but comedy is also used very well by Noah in the novel to brighten his text. The delivery of the story and the story itself is very good. | 7-8th graders If interested in…
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August is a different kid who has a different face than others. He has many challenges at school trying to make friends. He even finds out that one of the kids who was nice to him was forced to hang out with him. The book goes through his life as a middle schooler. | 5-6th graders If interested in…
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African families and town face starvation from drought. Crops won't grow but the boy, Will, after leaving his school due to its expenses sets out to learn on his own time and eventually save his family and town by building a windmill. True story. | 5-8th graders If interested in…
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This book was very fast paced and interesting. It is about a genius 12 yr. old girl who is requested help from the CIA. They need her smarts in order to find an equation left behind by Albert Einstein before his death. The catch is that Charlie and the CIA need to reach this equation before the bad guys get there. | 5-8th graders If interested in…
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Starr Carter's idea of her world is shattered when one of her childhood friends is shot by a police officer. Facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and decide to stand up for what's right. | 7-8th graders If interested in…
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5 kids escape a community where everyone was made in a lab. They have to act normal because they don’t know what’s right and wrong because of their isolation. | 5-6th graders If interested in…
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It is about how Navajo people helped America win its battles during WWII by sending in code to Navajo interprets to translate to English. From there they would translate the code to English so that the military air strike team knows where to drop a bomb or if they are just saying what they need to survive or what the current circumstance is. | 8th graders and up If interested in…
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It is a true story about an Olympic runner who became a WWII pilot who was captured by the Japanese. After his plane crashed in the Pacific, he survived 47 days on a raft until he was captured. | 6th, 7th, 8th graders If interested in…
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The skull of a tyrannosaurus goes missing from the dinosaur dig, and illegal animal trade is booming. Teddy is a high school boy who has solved varying cases at the Funjungle amusement park (all of which he didn't want to get himself into). What dangers will Teddy run into this time to find out, read Stuart Gibbs' Tyrannosaurus Wrecks. | 5-6th graders If interested in…
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A man attempts to retain his individuality in a world where thought is a crime and existence is bleak. Orwell's work is a story that ominously rings true today. | 8th graders and up If interested in…
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SERIES
ERAGON SERIES by Christopher Paoloni
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A young farm boy finds a dragon egg and weird stuff starts happening in his life, HE eventually goes on a quest with an old storyteller from his town named Brom and he learns many new things along the way. | 5-8th graders If interested in…
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Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
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It's about a wizard who has some special wizardry talents and he is sent to Hogwarts Wizard School and gets himself into many exciting adventures. His special talents help him and his friends with some of the many problems they face. | 5-8th graders If interested in…
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Cherub by Robert Muchamore
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It's about a wizard who has some special wizardry talents and he is sent to Hogwarts Wizard School and gets himself into many exciting adventures. His special talents help him and his friends with some of the many problems they face. | 7-8th graders If interested in…
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Explorer Academy by Anthony Horowitz
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It is about A boy named Cruz from Hawaii that is accepted into an academy called Explorer Academy where he goes on life threatening missions. | 5-6th graders If interested in…
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Alex rider by Robert Muchamore
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It is about a boy named Cruz from Hawaii that is accepted into an academy called Explorer Academy where he goes on life threatening missions. | 5-6th graders If interested in…
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Spy School Series by Stuart Gibbs
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These books are about a kid who was pulled out of his school to go to a fancy science academy, so his parents think. He was actually pulled out to go to a "Spy School" for the CIA. During his time there he embarks on many great adventures including defusing bombs, missiles, capturing enemy arms dealers, and many things like that. | 5-6th graders If interested in…
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Arc of Scythe series by Neal Shusterman
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Death by natural causes has been virtually eliminated thanks to advances in technology, and an advanced, benevolent computer system known as the "Thunderhead" controls society, and death is administered by people called sycthes, but when scythes start to mass murder, it is up to the honorable scythes and the Thunderhead to stop them. | 7-8th graders If interested in…
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Unwanteds series by Lisa McMann
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On the island of Quill, curiosity, creativity, imagination, are all not permitted. On the day you turn 12, they decide if you can stay as a wanted, or if you are to be put to death as an unwanted. But when all the unwanteds meet their end, they discover that they will not perish. Secretly there is a magical land filled with all the things Quill has never had. But soon it is all threatened. | 5-8th graders If interested in…
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The Hunger Games by Susan Colins
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The book is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who lives in a country called Panem. She is chosen for a battle royale with another 23 kids. Fourth in the series came out on May 19th | 7-8th graders and up If interested in…
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Anything by…
by Rick Rioridan ( Percy Jackson Series, Apollo Series,
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5th-8th graders If interested in…
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by Alan Gratz ( Refugee, Grenada etc.)
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5th-7th graders If interested in…
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by Tim Green ( Refugee, Grenada etc.)
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5th, 6th 7th graders If interested in…
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by Mike Lupica ( Refugee, Grenada etc.)
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5-8th graders If interested in…
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by Lois Lowry ( Gathering Blue)
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by Derek Jeter ( The Contract, )
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Some Other Suggestions…
5th-6th Grade
- Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
- The Trail by Meika Hashimoto
- The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
- The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt
- The Seventh most important thing by Shelley Pearsall
- Bad Day by David Walliams
- Framed by James Ponti (series)
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- Endurance by Scott Kelly
- Wings of Fire by Tui Sutherland
- King Arthur and his Knights of the round table by Roger Lancelyn Green
- by Tui Sutherland
- Bridge to TERABITHIA by Katherine Patterson
- Where the mountain meets the moon by Grace lin
- The Prince Warrior Series by Pricilla Shirer
Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea
Horizon (series) by Scott Westerfeld
- Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
- Mr. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
- Perfect Score by Rob Buyea
- Hardy Boys by Franklin Dixon
- Max by Jennifer Li Shotz
- Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
- Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale
- Flush by Carl Hiaasen
- Dragon Ball Super by Akira Toriyama
- Middle School Misadventures by Jason Platt
- The Flashback Four Series by Dan Gutman
- Theodore Boone Series by John Grisham
- The Memory Thief by Bryce Moore
- Ice Dog by Terry Lynn Johnson
- The Odd1sOut by James Rallison
- Level 13 by Gordon Korman
7th-8th Grade
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolken
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Silver Eyes ( Five Night of Freddy Series) by Scott Cawthon
- Rising Above by Gregory Zuckerman
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
- The Seventh most important thing by Shelley Pearsall
The hard hat : 21 ways to be a great teammate : a true story : the heart of a leader and the spirit of a team by Jon Gordon
- Patriot Games by Tom Clancy
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The 57 bus by Daska Slater
- King Arthur and his Knights of the round table by Roger Lancelyn Green
- Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
- A Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Michael Vey Series by Richard Paul Evans
- The Prince Warrior Series by Pricilla Shirer
- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
- Just Mercy (YA version) by Brian Stevenson
- Leviathan Book Series by Scott Westerfeld
- The Guided Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
- Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
8th Grade (And Up)
- The long Walk by Stephen King ( scary)
Jurgen Klopp The Biography
I’ll Show you: Derek Rose Memoir by Derek Rose & Sam Smith
HitchHiker's guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Catcher and the Rye by J.D Salinger
- The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris