

NAMS SUMMER READING
2025
WELCOME!
Welcome to the summer reading portal for the North Andover Middle School!
Here, you will find a whole host of lists, links, and tools to help you decide what to read this summer. Please keep in mind that the books listed on this site are ONLY suggestions. Please feel free to read any book that interests you.
Click on the following grade-level links for specific instructions from your teachers.
READER ADVISORY TOOLS
Tools to help you figure out what to read next!
Please note that the reading levels of the suggested books vary. To determine if a book is for you:
- Read book summaries
- Read the first few pages
- Read book reviews
- Utilize the following tools:
(offered by Nebraska Library Commission)
Love a certain author? Use Literature Map to discover new authors similar to those you like!
SUGGESTED TITLES
Fantasy 🏰
Kwame Crashes the Underworld
Impossible Creatures
Myth of Monsters: Medusa
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The Witching Wind
Sona and the Golden Beasts
Realistic Fiction 👪
Not Nothing
Old School
The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman
The Wrong Way Home
The Labors of Hercules Beal
Gigi Shin is not a Nerd
A Hero's Guide to Summer Vacation
The Probability of Everything
Grounded
by Aisha Saeed, Huda Al-Marashi, Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow, S.K. Ali
Available at:
Mystery / Thriller 🔎
The Bletchley Riddle
A Strange Thing Happened In Cherry Hall
The Liars Society
Queen of Tiles
Wrecker
The Plot to Kill a Queen
Horror 👻
Small Spaces
It's Watching
Dread Detention
Once They See You
What We Saw
The Cursed Moon
Historical Fiction 🕰️
Rebellion 1776
When We Flew Away
The Cricket War
Heroes: A Novel of Pearl Harbor
Bea and the New Deal Horse
Across So Many Seas
Will's Race for Home
Brother's Keeper
Max in the House of Spies
Science Fiction / Dystopian 👽
Sunrise on the Reaping
The First State of Being
Stowaway
The City of Ember
Divergent
Among the Hidden
Sports Fiction ⚽
The Warrior on the Mound
Kareem Between
by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
(novel in verse)
Available at:
May the Best Player Win
Out of Our League
edited by Dahlia Adler & Jennifer Iacopelli
(short stories)
Available at:
Nikki on the Line
Black Star
by Kwame Alexander
(#2 in Door of No Return series)
Available at:
Travel Team
Checked
Falling Short
Popular Series 📚
Keeper of the Lost Cities
Keeper of the Lost Cities series
by Shannon Messenger
Available at:
Charlie Hernandez and the League of Shadows
The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
Scarlett and Browne series
by Jonathan Stroud
Available at:
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky
Front Desk
The Serpent's Secret
Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond series
by Sayantani DasGupta
Available at:
Ghost
The Inheritance Games
The Inheritance Games series
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Available at:
Hatchet
Nonfiction
The Enigma Girls
Fatal Forecast
History Smashers: Salem Witch Trials
The Boys in the Boat
The Mona Lisa Vanishes
Plague-Busters!
Accountable
How They Croaked
Short Stories
A Little Bit Super
edited by Leah Henderson and Gary D. Schmidt
Available at:
Out of Our League
Once Upon an Eid
You Are Here: Connecting Flights
The Cursed Carnival and Other Calamities
The Hero Next Door
Edited by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Available at:
Written in Verse
Lion of the Sky
It's All or Nothing Vale
Away
Lifeboat 5
BenBee and the Teacher Griefer
One Big Open Sky
Graphic Novels
Mexikid
Hoops
Shakti
Solar System: Our Place in Space
The Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival
Alexander Hamilton
Waverider
Stuck
Spy Ski School
New in Spy School Series!
by Stuart Gibbs
Available at:
SUGGESTED AUTHORS
FICTION AUTHORS
Christopher Paul Curtis
April Henry (YA)
Karen M. McManus (YA)
Marissa Meyer (YA)
Lauren Roberts (YA)
Ruta Sepetys (YA)
Neal Shusterman (YA)
NONFICTION AUTHORS
James Swanson
AWARD WINNERS
ALA Youth Media Awards
Click here for a complete list of this year's award winners.
The Newbery Medal
Click here for a complete list of Newbery Award winners.
The Sibert Medal
Click here for a complete list of Sibert Award winners.
ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table & ALSC List
This reading list highlights the best graphic novels for kids published in late 2024 through 2025.
This Graphic Novels Reading List was created by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) for grades 6-8.
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