|
6th Grade: Link
to Summer Reading |
| |
|
7th Grade: |
|
Read two
books. (1)Required book: |
|
Richter, Hans Peter.
Friedrich.
A young German boy
|
|
recounts the fate of his best
friend, a Jew, during the Nazi |
|
regime. |
|
(2)Choose
one off this list: |
|
Adams, Richard.
Watership Down. Seeing a vision of the |
|
destruction of their homes, a
band of wild rabbits sets out |
|
on a quest
for a new home
and a new society. |
|
Bloor, Edward.
Tangerine. Twelve-year-old Paul, who |
|
lives in the
shadow of his football-hero brother, fights for the |
|
right to play soccer despite his near
blindness, and is able to |
|
discover a haunting truth when his family moves
to |
|
Tangerine, Florida. |
|
Card, Orson Scott, Ender's Game.
A ten-year old |
|
becomes the chief weapon in a battle with
hostile aliens |
|
from a faraway planet. |
|
Farmer, Nancy. The House of the
Scorpion. A futuristic |
|
story about clones and computer chip-controlled slaves in a |
|
place that used to be Mexico. |
|
Flake, Sharon. The Skin I'm In. Maleeka, an
African- |
|
American student who is choosing the wrong friends, learns |
|
about life from a special teacher. |
|
Furlong, Monica. Wise Child. In a remote Scottish
village, |
|
a girl called Wise Child is abandoned by her parents and |
|
taken in by Juniper, a sorceress. |
|
George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain.
A boy |
|
runs way and learns to live off the land. |
|
Jordan, Sheryl. The Raging Quiet. Set in medieval
times, |
|
this is the story of Marnie, a fifteen-year-old girl forced to |
|
face human cruelty and discrimination. |
|
Lee, Marie. Necessary Roughness. A Korean boy
moves |
|
to a small American town and joins the football team. |
|
Mikaelson, Ben. Touching Spirit Bear. An angry
teenage |
|
boy chooses a Native American tradition over prison barely |
|
survives the ordeal. |
|
Patterson, James. The Angel Experiment. The first
of |
|
the Maximum Ride fantasy series about teens who can fly. |
|
|
|
Come to school prepared to write about both books during |
|
the first weeks of school. |
|
|
|
8th Grade: |
|
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. |
|
|
|
Two novels of choice, appropriate for the student's reading |
|
level. |
|
|
|
American History 8th Grade Summer Assignment
|
|
Shaara, Michael. Killer Angels. |
|
Fast, Howard. The Crossing. |
|
|
Home of the Terriers
