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MMS Announcements
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ROBERT E. MELICAN MIDDLE SCHOOL
2026 SUMMER READING
Reading done during the summer, like all reading experiences, enhances your development as a student and as a lifelong learner. Over the summer, you are encouraged to select books of your own choosing, or you may use the suggested author list from the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for English Language Arts and Literacy included below. To access books, consider using the Northborough Public Library or the Sora app. You are required to read at least one book over the summer.
Use the Google Form link to record all of your summer reading and complete a reflection on your favorite book. Your new ELA teacher is excited to learn about what you have read over the summer and is looking forward to working with you in the new school year!
Fiction and Poetry
- David Almond (fantasy, fiction: realistic)
- Laurie Halse Anderson (fiction: historical)
- M. T. Anderson (fiction: historical, humor)
- Avi (fiction: historical)
- Joan Bauer (fiction: realistic)
- Jean P. Birdsall (fiction: realistic)
- Nancy Bond (fantasy)
- Bruce Brooks (fiction: realistic)
- Gennifer Choldenko (mysteries)
- John Christopher (science fiction)
- Eoin Colfer (fantasy, science fiction)
- James and Christopher Collier (fiction: historical)
- Suzanne Collins (fantasy, science fiction)
- Leslie Connor (fiction: realistic)
- Susan Cooper (fantasy)
- Frank Boyce Cottrell (fiction: humor)
- Bruce Coville (fantasy)
- Sharon Creech (fiction: realistic)
- Christopher Paul Curtis (fiction: historical)
- Karen Cushman (fiction: historical)
- Paul Janeczko (poetry)
- Angela Johnson (fiction: realistic)
- Diana Wynne Jones (fantasy)
- Norton Juster (fantasy)
- Ellen Klages (fiction: historical)
- Ron Koertge (fiction: humor, poetry)
- E. L. Konigsburg (fiction: realistic)
- Iain Lawrence (fiction: historical)
- Madeleine L’Engle (fantasy, fiction: realistic)
- Ursula LeGuin (fantasy)
- Gail Carson Levine (fiction: realistic, fantasy)
- Robert Lipsyte (fiction: realistic)
- Lois Lowry (fiction: realistic, science fiction)
- Mike Lupica (mysteries, fiction: sports)
- Hilary McKay (fiction: humor)
- Robin McKinley (fantasy)
- Margaret Mahy (fantasy, fiction: realistic)
- Walter Dean Myers (fiction: historical, realistic)
- Donna Jo Napoli (fiction: historical, fantasy)
- Marilyn Nelson (poetry)
- Naomi Shihab Nye (poetry)
- Kenneth Oppel (fantasy, adventure)
- Linda Sue Park (fiction: historical, realistic)
- Katherine Paterson (fiction: historical, realistic)
- Sue Patron (fiction: realistic)
- Gary Paulsen (fiction: humor, historical, realistic)
- Richard Peck (fiction: historical, realistic)
- Mitali Perkins (fiction: realistic)
- Daniel Pinkwater (fiction: humor)
- Terry Pratchett (fantasy)
- Philip Pullman (fantasy)
- Philip Reeve (fantasy)
- Rick Riordan (fantasy)
- Cynthia DeFelice (fiction: historical, mysteries)
- Frances O’Roark Dowell (fiction: realistic)
- Jeanne DuPrau (science fiction)
- Marguerite Engle (fiction: historical, poetry)
- Louise Erdrich (fiction: historical)
- Nancy Farmer (fantasy)
- Louise Fitzhugh (fiction: realistic)
- Paul Fleischman (poetry, fiction: realistic)
- Neil Gaiman (fantasy)
- Jack Gantos (fiction: humor)
- Bette Greene (fiction: historical)
- Rosa Guy (fiction: realistic)
- Mary Downing Hahn (ghost stories, fiction: historical)
- Shannon Hale (fantasy, fiction: historical)
- Karen Hesse (fiction: historical)
- Carl Hiaasen (fiction: humor, mysteries)
- S. E. Hinton (fiction: realistic)
- Will Hobbs (fiction: realistic)
- Irene Hunt (fiction: historical)
- Eva Ibbotson (fantasy)
- J. K. Rowling (fantasy)
- Pam Muñoz Ryan (fiction: historical, realistic)
- Cynthia Rylant (poetry, fiction: realistic)
- Louis Sachar (fiction: realistic)
- William Sleator (ghost stories, science fiction)
- Gary Soto (fiction: realistic, poetry)
- Suzanne Fisher Staples (fiction: historical, realistic)
- Rebecca Stead (science fiction)
- Jonathan Stroud (fantasy)
- Theodore Taylor (fiction: historical)
- Kate Thompson (fantasy)
- Megan Whalen Turner (fantasy)
- Cynthia Voigt (fiction: realistic, fantasy)
- Rita Williams-Garcia (fiction: historical, realistic)
- Jacqueline Wilson (fiction: realistic)
- Jacqueline Woodson (fiction: realistic)
- Tim Wynne-Jones (fiction: realistic)
- Laurence Yep (fiction: historical, fantasy)
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Informational Texts
- Susan Campbell Bartoletti (history)
- Russell Freedman (biography, history)
- James Cross Giblin (biography, history)
- Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (art history)
- Deborah Heiligman (history)
- Kathryn Lasky (multi-genre)
- Phillip Hoose (biography, history)
- Albert Marrin (biography, history)
- Milton Meltzer (history, biography)
- Jim Murphy (history)
- Elizabeth Partridge (biography, history)
- Steve Sheinkin (biography, history)
- Tanya Lee Stone (biography, history)
Our Mission
The mission of the Robert E. Melican Middle School is to pursue the highest level of educational excellence for all students by embracing our district's core values and Strategic Plan.
