Read Today: Middle School Students - WCMH: News, Weather, and Sports for Columbus, Ohio

Join NBC4 Today and Read Today! with your family.

NBC4 Today shares the latest picks for middle school students

Take a look at the recommended books, and join in the fun! 

READING SUGGESTIONS

May 2013: Hero on a Bicycle by Shirley Hughes

April 2013: A Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice

March 2013: Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) by Sue Macy

February 2013: One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

January 2013: May B. by Caroline Starr Rose

November 2012: 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving by National Geographic

October 2012: More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Back to School 2012: Big Cats by Steve Bloom

July 2012 (Part 3): James & The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

July 2012 (Part 2): The Big Book of Gross Stuff by Bart King

July 2012: Recycle This Book by (Compilation)

June 2012: Schooled by Gordan Korman

May 2012: Amazon: You Decide How to Survive by David Borgenicht, Hena Kahn & Ed Stafford

April 2012: Edgar Allan Poe's Pie by J. Patrick Lewis

March 2012: Go Figure by Johnny Ball

February 2012: The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

January 2012: Amazing Green Myths of Wonders and Blunders by Mike Townsend

December 2011: You WIsh by Mandy Hubbard

November 2011: The Emerald Atlas by John Stephens

October 2011:  Why I Quit Zombie School by R.L. Stine

September 2011:  Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine

Summer Reading 9:  Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide To Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald

Summer Reading 8:  Lawn Boy by Gary Paulsen

Summer Reading 7:  The Cruisers - by Walter Dean Myers

Summer Reading 6:  Bulu African Wonder Dog by Dick Houston

Summer Reading 5:  The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

Summer Reading 4:  Ultimate Building Book by Steven Caney

Summer Reading 3:  Close to Famous by Joan Bauer

Summer Reading 2:  Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

Summer Reading 2011: Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner

May:  The Top 10 of Everything 2011 (031.02 T6731)

April:  The Potato Chip Puzzles by Eric Berlin

March:  A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz

February:  Meanwhile by Jason Shiga

January:  Epitaph Road by David Patneaude

December 2010:  Legendary Journeys: Trains by Phillip Steele

November 2010:  Smile by Raina Telgemeier

October 2010: Dragon Breath: Attack of the Ninja Frogs by Ursula Vernon

September 2010: The Book of Rock Stars by Kathleen Krull, Stephen Alcorn, Alessandra Balzer

Summer Reading 4:  The Strange Case of Origami Yoda by Tom Angleberger

Summer Reading 3:  The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall

Summer Reading 2:  Dragon Slippers by Jessic Day George

Summer Reading 2010:  William S. and The Great Escape by Zilpha Keattey Snyder

June 2010:  Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins

May 2010:  The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet by Erin Dionne

April 2010:  Save the Earth Science Experiments by Elizabeth Snoke Harris

March 2010:  Kenny & The Dragon by Tony DiTerlizzi

February 2010:  Emma Jean Lazarus Fell in Love by Lauren Tarshis

January 2010:  Abarat by Clive Barker

December 2009: Dairy Queen by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

November 2009:  Looking For Alaska by John Green

October 2009:  The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

September 2009:  Fire from The Rock by Sharon M. Draper

Summer Reading5:  The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor

Summer Reading4:  Alcatraz Smedry Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

Summer Reading3:  Scat by Carl Hiaasen

Summer Reading2:  Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Summer Reading 2009:  The Trouble Begins at Eight: A Life of Mark Twain In the Wild, Wild West by Sid Fleischman