Summer Reading List - 2009

6th Grade

 Read 1 book - You must take an AR test on the book by August 28th.    

The Glory Girl – Betsy Byars (5.4)

Cousins - Virginia Hamilton (6.0)

Jar of Dreams – Yoshiko Uchida (6.1)

The Acorn People - Ron Jones (7.0)

The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (8.3)

 

Dog Dishes and Dog Bones

7th Grade

            Advanced Classes - Read 2 books

                                                 Regular Classes - Read 1 book     

Slam - Walter Myers  

Tangerine - Edward Bloor

The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman

Queen Bee - Chynna Clugston-Major

The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart

The Kite Rider - Geraldine McCaughrean

Elijah of Buxton - Christopher Paul Curtis

Sunrise Over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers

           

Dog Dishes and Dog Bones

8th Grade 

                                          Advanced Classes - Read 2 books

                                           Regular Classes - Read 1 book

Shark Girl - Kelly Bingham

Angel of Death - Alane Ferguson 

Gone - Michael Grant

Notes From the Midnight Driver - Jordan Sonnenblick

Eight Grade Benchwarmer - Toby Wheeler

Son of the Mob - Gordon Korman

The Killing Sea - Richard Lewis

Death by Bikini - Linda Gerber

So Yesterday - Scott Westerfeld

The Moves Make the Man - Bruce Brooks

 

Dog Dishes and Dog Bones

Gifted Education 

Select your two books from the list below.  In addition, you are required to complete a graphic organizer from each book you read.  When you return to school in the fall, the graphic organizers will be due, and you will be required to develop a book project about the book you've read.  Book project ideas will be given to you by your teacher the first week of school.  The graphic organizer and book project will be averaged as a part of your 1st nine weeks grade.  Happy readings! 

Rising Eighth Graders:

Airborn - Kenneth Oppel

Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan

The Adoration of Jenna Fox - Mary E. Pearson

Rising Seventh Graders:

Nation - Terry Prachett

Savvy - Ingrid law

Airman - Eoin Colfer

 


 

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