Summer Reading Lists

The View from Saturday	E.L. Konigsburg
Bud, Not Buddy	Christopher Paul Curtis
Baseball in April and Other Stories	Gary Soto
Esperanza Rising	Pam Munoz Ryan
Maniac Magee	Jerry Spinelli
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH	Robert C. O’Brien
Julie of the Wolves	Jean Craighead George
Recommended:
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell
Lily’s Crossing	Patricia Reilly Giff
Any book by C.S. Lewis
Shiloh	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame
Absolutely Normal	Chaos Sharon Creech
A Week in the Woods	Andrew Clements
The Borrowers	Mary Norlan
In addition to reading at least two of the novels on the list you received, you will also be required to complete a project for each novel. 1. Assemble an imagery collage on card stock. As part of the collage you may use: Pictures from newspapers, magazines, etc. (not the Internet!) Your own illustrations Found objects (ticket stubs, cards, feathers, etc.) Anything else you think will enhance the effect of your collage in relation to the images in the novel. Make sure it is neat and something which you would be proud to display. 2. Write a one page book review. You must begin by stating a clear opinion, and then use the remainder of the review to offer details from the text that make you think in such a way. Please complete this work on your own as I will use this work to get a better understanding of who you are as a writer. Type and double-space. Include your name, the title and the author on both assignments. DO NOT put pictures on the book review (I want to see your writing).

SUMMER READING- incoming SEVENTH GRADE click here for printable version
Required: Read two of the following novels:
The Call of the Wild	Jack London
The Chosen	Chaim Potok
The Devil's Arithmetic	Jane Yolen
A Long Way From Chicago	Richard Peck
One Fat Summer	Robert Lipayte
Recommended:
The Cay	Theodore Taylor
Dicey's Song	Cynthia Voigt
Hoops	Walter Dean Meyers
In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh	Linda Atkinson
Johnny Tremaine	Esther Forbes
Journey to America	Sonia Levitin
Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie
The Red Pony	John Steinbeck
The River	Gary Paulsen
The Wind in the Door	Madeline L'Engle
Assignment: 1. Have one of the characters in one required novel write a letter to an English teacher explaining why he or she should teach the novel to a middle school English class. Include several reasons to support the character's opinion and lots of specific details from the novel in the letter. Tyoe the letter double spaced (250 word limit) 2. Create a collage (9 x 12 inch construction paper is more than big enough!) for the second required novel you read. Include your name, the title and the author on both assignments. do not use computer graphics for either assignment. Enjoy!
SUMMER READING-incoming EIGHTH GRADE click here for printable version
Required: Read two of the following novels:
Alan and Naomi	Myron Levoy
Exodus	Leon Uris
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway
That Was Then, This is Now	S. E. Hinton
The War Between the Classes	Gloria Miklowitz
Recommended:
All Creatures Great and Small	James Herriott
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank
April Morning	Howard Fast
The Contender	Robert Lipsyte
The Hobbit	J. R. R. Tolkien
Nothing But the Truth	Avi
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	Mildred Taylor
Summer of My German Soldier	Bette Greene
Treasure Island	Robert Louis Stevenson
Assignment: 1. Create a bookmark that represents one of the required novels you read. You may use words and/or pictures. Be prepared to explain how your bookmark represents your novel in class. 2. Create an advertisement (9 x 12 inch construction paper is more than big enough!) for the second required novel you read. The advertisement should include an eye-catching phrase, a BRIEF sumary of the plot (Typed - double spaced!0 and a picture. Your goal is th get people to buy the book.

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