俗话说的好：书中自有黄金屋，书中自有颜如玉。在阅读的过程中，孩子可以接受到文化的熏陶，获得更多精神的愉悦，这是他们在成长过程中拥有正确的价值观念，形成独特的文化人格的重要基础。
Renaissance报告研究了孩子们各个年龄阶段的阅读书单。在进入中学阶段，孩子们逐渐接触新的学科并迈入更广阔的世界，他们的兴趣范围也随之扩展。
在这一时期，孩子们的阅读量可能有所减少，但对书籍的质量要求却更为“精挑细选"，目的是为他们的整体发展打基础，帮助他们解决各学科的难题。
6-8年级都爱读什么书？
6年级：
“自我探索”变得日益重要，还有探险与生存、友情与同理心、克服挑战，历史背景、以及幻想与想象力等主题。
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7年级：
阅读主题主要是关于如何“克服逆境”，此外还包括年龄增长，生存与韧性，友情与同理心，冒险与幻想等。
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8年级：
孩子开始逐渐体会到“成长”的滋味，其他阅读主题包括生存与韧性友情与同理心，恐怖悬疑，以及理解各种不同的视角等。
图源：Renaissance
阅读不是一件一蹴而就的事情，而是量变到质变的积累过程。家长们帮助孩子尽早建立起阅读框架，培养好阅读习惯，并让孩子长期坚持下来，相信这将会让他们终身收益。为此，合领教育整理了一份寄宿美初的阅读书单，希望每个孩子都能从书本中发现美妙，爱上阅读。
01菲尔中学
Fay School
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《NewKid》
七年级的乔丹·班克斯最喜欢画画关于他生活的漫画。但他没有被送去他梦想中的艺术学校，他的父母给他报了一所以学术闻名的著名私立学校，在那里乔丹是全年级少数几个有色人种的孩子之一。因为他每天都从他在华盛顿高地的公寓到高档的Riverdale Academy Day School，乔丹很快就发现，自己在两个世界之间左右为难——但他并没有真正融入其中一个。
《Hope Against Hope》
1921年，贝尔法斯特的一群勇敢的女性梦想着锻造一个打破爱尔兰冲突的社区。海伦的希望青年旅舍为那些寻求更好生活的年轻女孩提供庇护，同时努力促进其成员之间的宽容和团结。逃跑的波莉来到对生活充满幻想的青年旅社。她在生活中发现的真实世界和海伦的希望的世界，原来是完全不同的东西，但挑战和障碍使得波莉既引导她为即将发生的事情做好准备，又帮助她对事情产生同理心她留下的家人。
《The Light of Luna Park》
1926年，一名产科病房的护士无能为力地看着一个早产儿死去，但人们普遍的看法是，这些孩子不值得拯救。当她读到一篇关于畸形孵化器病房的文章时，在科尼岛上她做了一个改变她人生轨迹的决定。25年后，一位年轻女子最近在清理她的房子和已故母亲的遗物时偶然发现了一条线索，指向了一个惊天动地的秘密事件，它的影响将在未来数年里产生回响。
G7-9选读书单
CONTEMPORARY 当代作品
Merci Suárez Changes Gears/by Meg Medina
The Red Pencil/by Andrea Davis Pinkney
A Walk in the Woods/by Bill Bryson
All That I Can Fix/by Crystal Chan
Beast Rider/by Tony Johnston
Black Panther: The Young Prince/by Ronald Smith
Brown Girl Dreaming/by Jacqueline Woodson
Darius the Great Is Not Okay/by Adib Khorram
Dead End in Norvelt/by Jack Gantos
Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie/by Jordan Sonnenblick
Dry/by Neal Shusterman
Endurance/by Alfred Lansing
Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions/by Edwin Abbott
Friday Night Lights/by Buzz Bissinger
Ghost/by Jason Reynolds
Girls Like Us/by Gail Giles
Hello, Universe/by Erin Entrada Kelly
How to Be a Good Creature/by Sy Montgomery
Inside Out and Back Again/by Thanhha Lai
Internment/by Samira Ahmed
Lovely, Dark and Deep/by Justina Chen
Lucky Broken Girl/by Ruth Behar
One Crazy Summer/by Rita Williams-Garcia
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie/by David Lubar
Sparrow/by Sarah Moon
The Boys in the Boat/by Daniel Brown
The Perfect Horse/by Elizabeth Letts
The Poet X/by Elizabeth Acevedo
Truly Devious/by Maureen Johnson
Warcross/by Marie Lu
We Were Liars/by E. Lockhart
Wires and Nerve/by Marissa Meyer
CLASSICS 经典作品
A Separate Peace/by John Knowles
Anne of Green Gables/by L. M. Montgomery
Brave New World/by Aldous Huxley
Jane Eyre/by Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the Center of the Earth/by Jules Verne
Little Women/by Louisa May Alcott
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass/by Frederick Douglass
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/by Mark Twain
The Alchemist/by Paulo Coelho
The Bean Trees/by Barbara Kingsolver
The Catcher in the Rye/by J.D. Salinger
The Fire Next Time/by James Baldwin
The Fishermen/by Chigozie Obioma
The Giver/by Lois Lowry
The Hobbit/by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Namesake/by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Outsiders/by S. E. Hinton
The Princess Bride/by William Goldman
The War of the Worlds/by H. G. Wells
The Witch of Blackbird Pond/by Elizabeth George Speare
Things Fall Apart/by Chinua Achebe
To Kill a Mockingbird/by Harper Lee
The Metamorphosis/by Franz Kafka
Cyrano de Bergerac/by Edmond Rostand
02印第安山学校
Indian Mountain School
G6书单
Holes
Hatchet
God-King
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
I am Malala
Julius Caesar
Spelling Connections
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
G7书单
The Last Cuentista
Ghost Boys
Little Worlds
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
Citizen
Poeat X
G8书单
Brown Girl Dreaming
Things Fall Apart
House on Mango Street
Antigone
When The Emperor Was Divine
Maus I & II
Macbeth
The Great Gatsby
03
卡迪根山学校
Cardigan Mountain School
G6书单
Minrs
The Shadow Hero
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Save Me a Seat
Bone
Goosebumps
G7书单
Redwall
Airborn
Call it Courage
The Maze Runner
My Brother Sam is Dead
The Last of the Mohicans
G8书单
The Dark is Rising
My Side of the Mountain
A Wrinkle in Time
The White Dragon
Dicey's Song
How I Became A Ghost
G9书单
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Mosquitoland
The Coming Plague
Unbroken
Eragon
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore
04
鹰溪中学
Eaglebrook School
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鹰溪中学的每个学生都必须在暑假阅读三本书，包括一本必读书籍，以及从书目列表中选择另外两本自己喜欢的书籍。
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G6书单
必读书目一：The Wild Robot/by Peter Brown
必读书目二&三：从下面的列表中选择并阅读至少2本书。
An Elephant in the Garden: Inspired by a True Story/by Michael Morpurgo
A River’s Gifts: The Mighty Elwha River Reborn/by Patricia Newman
Amal Bound/by Aisha Saeed
Bomb/by Steve Sheinkin
Calling All Minds: How to Think and Create Like an Inventor/by Temple Grandin
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library/by Chris Grabenstein
Fish in a Tree/by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
Frizzy/by Claribel A. Ortega
Front Desk/by Kelly Yang
Hello Universe/by Erin Entrada Kelly
Haroun and the Sea of Stories/by Salman Rushdie
Melissa/by Alex Gino
Schooled/by Gordon Korman
The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation)/by Daniel James Brown
Tournament Trouble/by Sylv Chiang
Unsettled/by Reem Faruqi
When Stars are Scattered/by Victoria Jamieson
G7书单
必读书目一：Touching Spirit Bear/by Ben Mikaelsen
必读书目二&三：从下面的列表中选择并阅读至少 2 本书。
A Long Walk to Water/by Linda Sue Park
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys Soccer Team/by Christina Soontornvat
Indian No More/by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell
Other Words for Home/by Jasmine Warga
Merci Suarez Changes Gears/by Meg Medina
Crash/by Jerry Spinelli
Dragon's Gate
Ghost/by Jason Reynolds
Ghosts/by Raina Telgemeier
Gracefully Grayson/by Ami Polonsky
Inside Out and Back Again/by Thanhha Lai
The Best At It/by Maulik Pancholy
Navigating Early/by Clare Vanderpool
The Sea of Monsters/by Rick Riordan
The Thief Lord/by Cornelia Funke
The Thing About Jellyfish/by Ali Benjamin
Clean Getaway/by Nic Stone
Peacemaker/by Joseph Bruchac
Hero Next Door: An Anthology
Fast Break/by Mike Lupica
Warcross/by Marie Lu
Free Lunch/by Rex Ogle
G8书单
必读书目一：A Monster Calls/by Patrick Ness
必读书目二&三：从下面的列表中选择并阅读至少 2 本书。
Backfield Boys/by John Feinstein
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two/by Joseph Bruchac
An Invisible Thread/by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
I Am the Messenger/by Markus Zusak
Into Thin Air/by Jon Krakauer
Show Me a Sign/by Ann Clare LeZotte
Jackpot/by Nic Stone
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks/by Jason Reynolds
March/by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Miles Morales: Spider-Man/by Jason Reynolds
Murder on the Orient Express/by Agatha Christie
Shoeless Joe/by W. P. Kinsella
Apple in the Middle/by Dawn Quigley
A Place to Belong/by Cynthia Kadohata
We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler/by Russell Freedman
True Legend/by Mike Lupica
Children of Blood and Bone
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Ender’s Game/by Orson Scott Card
New Kid
Booked
Flying Lessons & Other Stories
G9书单
必读书目一：The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-Time/by Mark Haddon
必读书目二&三：从下面的列表中选择并阅读至少 2 本书。
The Black Kids/by Christina Hammonds Reed
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl/by Anne Frank
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe/by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Between Shades of Gray/by Ruta Sepetys
Elatsoe/by Darcie Little Badger
Brainrush/by Richard Bard
Dumplin’/by Julie Murphy
Friday Night Lights/by H.G. Bissinger
Darius the Great is not Okay/by Adib Khorram
Frankly in Love/by David Yoon
Mexican Whiteboy/by Matt De La Pena
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics/by Daniel James Brown
The Five People You Meet in Heaven/by Mitch Albom
Turtles All the Way Down/by John Green
Fresh Ink: An Anthology/byLamar Giles
The Girl Who Smiled Beads/by Clemantine Wamariya
The Girl From Everywhere/by Heidi Heilig
Punching The Air/by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam
Mosquitoland/by David Arnold
The Sun is Also a Star/by Nicola Yoon
Born A Crime/by Trevor Noah
Almost American Girl/by Robin Ha
05、瑞克特瑞学校
Rectory School
《The Red Pencil》
十二岁的阿米拉原本生活在平静的苏丹乡村，在这里女孩读书被视为“与追风无异”，但学会阅读与书写一直是阿米拉深藏心底的梦想。
这一年，突如其来的战争袭击了她的村庄，害她失去了父亲和家园。野蛮的武装力量到处制造恐慌的气氛，恐惧与绝望夺走了阿米拉的声音，她无法表达自己，直到她意外地获得了一件礼物——一支红铅笔。这支铅笔打开了她的思想，也打开了很多的可能性。
《American Born Chinese》
王谨开始了一段新的学校生活，在那里他是唯一的亚裔美国人学生。不久班上来了一名台湾新生，王谨却不愿和像他一样”新来的乡巴佬“有什么瓜葛。王谨想要成为一个原汁原味的美国男孩，因为他爱上了一个土生土长的美国女孩。丹尼则是一个地道的美国男孩：擅打篮球，桃花朵朵。但是他可憎的华人表哥钦西每年一度的到访对他简直是场噩梦，毁掉了他在学校所积攒的声誉。已经寿逾千年的美猴王，自负武功天下无敌而不知规矩为何物。他已经准备上天位列仙班，但是天上哪里又容得下一只猴子登堂入室啊。
《A Long Way From Chicago》
在20世纪30年代美国经济大萧条时代，跟随父母生活在芝加哥的乔伊和妹妹玛丽每年夏天都要被送到乡村小镇奶奶的家里生活一段时期。这个远离芝加哥的地方，给张乔伊留下的印象是偏僻、蛮荒、原始。尤其是奶奶多德尔冷漠、孤僻的性格，让年幼的乔伊感到很无奈。
《The Hunger Games》
《饥饿游戏》第七十四届饥饿游戏即将开始。抽签日那天，凯特尼斯的人生彻底改变，她代替被抽中签的妹妹参加比赛，成为竞技场上的一名“贡品”。竞技场是经过人工布置的森林、荒原。竞赛中，猎杀、追踪、饥饿、伪装、智斗等生死存亡的时刻，都被电视现场直播到全国，每个人都必须观看，而且要当成节日一样庆祝。对于凯匹特，这是年度盛会，是一场游戏；对于其他十二区，则是羞辱和折磨。24个“贡品”参加竞赛，只有一人能够存活。
06希尔塞得学校
Hillside School
G6书单
21 Balloons/by William Pène du Bois
Holes/by Louis Sachar
Bud, Not Buddy/by Christopher Paul Curtis (2000 Newbery Medal) *
The Mysterious Benedict Society/by Trenton Lee Stewart *
ASingle Shard/by Linda Sue Park (2002 Newbery Medal)
There’s A Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom/by Louis Sachar *
G7书单
Where the Red Fern Grows/by Wilson Rawls
Chains/by Laurie Halse Anderson (Scott O’Dell Award)*
Hockey Player for Life/by Howard Shapiro
G8书单
The Outsiders/byS.E. Hinton *
Across Five Aprils/byIrene Hunt
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel/by Michael Scott
The Art of Keeping Cool/by Janet Taylor Lisle (Scott O’Dell Award)
Chasing Lincoln’s Killer/by James L. Swanson*
G9书单
10 Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now/by JaronLanier
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time/by Mark Haddon
Ready Player One/by Ernest Cline
Casualties of Privilege: Essays on Prep Schools’ Hidden Culture/by Louis M. Crosier
阅读力是学生个人能力非常重要的一部分，如何从书中汲取力量，从而支撑起个人的谈吐与品德，这都是值得我们持续思考和培养的。希望这份阅读书单能为大家提供一些有益的参考。
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