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Summer Vacation

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Middle Grade Fiction set during summer vacation

 

After Eli by Rebecca Rupp

  • Pub Date: 2012
  • Grades 6-8 interest
  • See also in Children's: Military
  • See also in Teen: Grief/Loss 

 

Summer Before Boys by Nora Raleigh Baskin

  • Pub Date: 2011
  • Grades 5-8 interest
  • See also: BFF Trouble 

 

Summer of the Gypsy Moths by Sara Pennypacker

 

The Battle of Darcy Lane by Tara Altebrando

 

 

Sparrow Road by Sheila O'Connor

  • Pub Date: 2011
  • Middle school interest 
  • See also in Teen: Long Lost Parents, Secrets 
  • Raine and her mother spend a summer at an artist's colony, where Raine meets the father she has never known.

 

 

The Time Museum by Matthew Loux

  • Pub Date: 2017
  • Grades 3-6 interest 
  • Graphic novel 
  • See also: Competition 

 

Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand

 

Bird Lake Moon by Kevin Henkes

  • Pub Date: 2008
  • Grades 4-7 Interest 
  • See also: Divorce 
  • Max's parents separate, and he moves with his mother to Bird Lake where he meets a new friend. 

 

Three Bird Summer by Sara St. Antoine

  • Pub Date: 2014
  • Grades 5-8 interest
  • See also: Intergenerational 
  • Adam spends in the summer with his grandma at the lake cabin. 

 

The Book of One Hundred Truths by Julie Schumacher

  • Middle school interest
  • See also in Teen: Secrets
  • Thea spends the summer with family on the Jersey shore.

 

Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke

  • Pub Date: 2016
  • Grades 4-7 interest
  • Jack is stuck looking after his sister for the summer while his mom works two jobs to make ends meet. 

 

Forest World by Margarita Engle

  • Pub Date: 2017
  • Grades 4-7 interest 
  • See also: In Verse 
  • Edver is sent to Cuba to stay with his father for the summer. 

 

Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan

  • Pub Date: 2017
  • Grades 4-6 interest
  • See also: Words 
  • Julia spends her summer being a part of a production of The Wizard of Oz.

 

Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth by Sheila O'Connor

  • Pub Date: 2018
  • Grades 4-6 interest
  • See also: Intergenerational, Siblings 
  • Reenie Kelly spends her summer writing to the elderly Mr. Marsworth about the war in Vietnam and her family issues. 

 

Vacation by Blexbloex

  • Pub Date: 2018
  • Grades 3-5 interest
  • See also: Intergenerational
  • A little girl spending the summer with her grandfather is jealous of the elephant her grandfather keeps as a pet. 

 

The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson

  • Pub Date: 2018
  • Grades 5-8 interest
  • See also: Searching, Only Children
  • Candice spends her summer searching for a mysterious fortune that may or may not exist. 

 

Be Prepared by Vera Brogsol

  • Pub Date: 2018
  • Grades 4-6 interest
  • Graphic Novel
  • See also: Nature 
  • Vera begs to go to Russian summer camp, but then doesn't really like how rustic it all is. 

 

Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring by Angela Cervantes

  • Pub Date: 2018
  • Grades 4-6 interest
  • See also: Only Children, Searching 
  • Paloma and her mom spend a month in Mexico, and Paloma solves a mystery. 

 

Everything Else in the Universe by Tracy Holczer

 

The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon

  • Pub Date: 2018
  • Grades 4-6 interest
  • Brothers Caleb and Bobby Gene meet Styx and have an adventure over the summer. 

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