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Summer Reading List 2008 - 2009

 

Entering Grade 6

Entering Grade 7

Entering Grade 8

 Required

Required

Required

 Loser
by Jerry Spinelli

Among the Hidden
by Margaret P. Haddix

The Pigman
by Paul Zindel

Choose One: 

Choose One:

Choose One:

On My Honor
by Marion Dane Bauer

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II

A Wind in the Door
by Madeline L'Engle

A Family Apart
by Joan Lowery Nixon

The Witch of Blackbird Pond
by Elizabeth George Speare

The Prince and the Pauper
by Mark Twain

Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Z for Zachariah
by Robert C. O'Brien

Interstellar Pig
by William Sleator

Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant

White Fang
by Jack London

Boy: Tales of Childhood
by Roald Dahl

Lily’s Crossing
by Patricia Reilly Giff

The Foxman
by Gary Paulsen

Nothing but the Truth
by Avi

Lyddie
by Katerine Paterson

Something Upstairs
by Avi

Soldier's Heart
by Gary Paulsen

City of Embers
by Jeanne Duprau

Year of Impossible Goodbyes
by Sook Nyul Choi

A Summer to Die
by Lois Lowery

Heroes Gods and Monsters of Greek Myth
by B. Evslin

The Face on the Milk Cartoon
by Caroline B. Cooney

Snowbound 
by Harry Mazer

Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
by Thomas B. Allen

Begging for Change
by Sharon G. Flake

The Wanderer
by Sharon Creech

The Island
Shipwreck
by Gordon Korman

 Hush
by Jacqueline Woodson

The Silent Boy
Lois Lowery

There’s a Boy in the Girls Bathroom
by Louis Sachar

Coraline
by Neil Gaiman

Gathering Blue
by Lois Lowery

The Million Dollar Kick
by Dan Gutman

Inkheart
by Cornelia Funk

Hope Was Here
by Joan Bauer

P.S. Longer Letter Later
by Paula Danziger and Anna Martin

Crispin: The Cross of Lead
by Avi

This Must be Love
by Tui T. Sutherland

The Million Dollar Strike
by Dan Gutman

Stranger with My Face
by Lois Duncan

Teen Ink Written in the Dirt: Fiction for Teens

 

Small Steps
by Louis Sachar

A Stir of Bones
by Nina K. Hoffman

 

The Stunning Science of Everything: Science With the Squishy Bits Left In
by Nick Arnold

Green Angel
by Alice Hoffman

 

Invention of Hugo Cabret
by Brian Zelznick

Chinese Cinderella
by Adeline Yen Mah

 

Ella Enchanted
by Gail Carson Levine

Uglies
by Scott Westerfield

 

Island
by Gary Paulsen

Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer

 

Letters to a Bullied Girl
by Olivia Gardner

The Misfits
by James Howe

   

Elsewhere
by Gabrielle Zevin

   

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
by Jack Gantos

   

Invasion of the Road Weenies
by David Lubar

   

Just as Long as We’re Together
by Judy Blume


 

Gifted and Talented Program

Entering Grade 6

Entering Grade 7

Entering Grade 8

Required

Required

Required

Loser
Jerry Spinelli

Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gennifer Choldenko

Nothing but the Truth
Avi

Choose One

Choose One

Choose One

On My Honor
by Marion Dane Bauer

Inkheart
Cornelia Funke

Interstellar Pig
William Sleator

A Family Apart
by Joan Lowery Nixon

Olive’s Ocean
Kevin Henkes

October Sky
Homer Hickman

Shiloh
by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Running Out of Time
Margaret Peterson Haddix

Green Angel
Alice Hoffman

Missing May
by Cynthia Rylant

Skellig
David Almond

Dawn
Elie Wiesel

Lily’s Crossing
by Patricia Reilly Giff

Tangerine
Edward Bloor

A Stir of Bones
Nina Hoffman

Lyddie
by Katerine Paterson

A Mango Shaped Space
Wendy Mass

The Messenger
Lois Lowry

City of Embers
by Jeanne Duprau

A Step From Heaven
An Na

Deception Point
Dan Brown

Heroes Gods and Monsters of Greek Myth
by B. Evslin

The House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer

The Devil Wears Prada
Lauren Weisberger

Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
by Thomas B. Allen

Once Upon a Marigold
Jean Ferris

Ironman
Chris Crutcher

The Island Shipwreck
by Gordon Korman

Begging For Change
Sharon Flake

Fever 1793
Laurie Halse Anderson

There’s a Boy in the Girls Bathroom
by Louis Sachar

Hush
Jacqueline Woodson

A Northern Light
Jennifer Donnelly

The Million Dollar Kick
by Dan Gutman

Kira-Kira
Cynthia Kadohata

The River Between Us
Richard Peck

P.S. Longer Letter Later
by Paula Danziger and Anna Martin

Non Fiction
Selections:

Pirates!
Celia Rees

The Million Dollar Strike
by Dan Gutman

Field of Fury: the American Civil War
James M. McPherson

The Truth About Forever
Sarah Dessen

 

In Defense of Liberty: the Story of America’s Bill of Rights
Russell Freedom

Non Fiction
Selections:

 

Freedom Roads: Searching for the Underground Railroad
Joyce Hansen

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston

 

Inside the Alamo
Jim Murphy

Getting Away with Murder: the True Story of the Emmett Till Case
Chris Crowe

 

What a Great Idea! Inventions that Changed the World
Stephen Tomecek

Gladiator
Richard Watkins

   

An American Plague: the True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever
Jim Murphy

   

Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa
Susan Goldman Rubin

   

Navajo Code Talkers
Nathan Aaseng

   

The Voice that Challenged the Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights
Russell Freedman

   

Privacy and Plunder: a Murderous Business
Milton Meltzer

 

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