Relaxation and …
READING!
English Language Arts Department
SUMMER MAY NOT BE HERE YET, BUT IT’S NEVER TOO EARLY TO READ! Each student entering Grade 7 or Grade 8 must read at least two books over the summer. The attached list provides many popular suggestions. However, students (and parents) are welcome to make other choices that suit their interests and reading ability. Parents, please take an active role in your child’s reading choices; in fact, you might want to read along with your son or daughter. Our goal is to encourage reading throughout the lazy days of July and August.
Many of the suggested authors have written other wonderful books. Don’t be limited by the titles here. Explore other authors as well.
Albom, Mitch – For One More Day
Anderson, Laurie Halse – Speak, Prom
Anderson, M.T. - Feed
Avi - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Never Mind (with Rachel Vail)
Bartoletti, Susan – The Boy Who Dared
Bauer, Joan - Rules of the Road
Bishop, Claire Hutchet – Twenty and Ten
Bissinger, J.G. - Friday Night Lights
Bloor, Edward -Tangerine
Bowen, Fred - Full Court Fever, Golden Glove
Boyne, John – The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Brashares, Ann - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series (4 books)
Brooks, Bruce - Moves Make the Man
Brouwer, Susannah - Lightning on Ice
Card, Orson Scott - Ender’s Game
Cheripko, Jan - Imitate the Tiger
Chotjewitz, David – Half Human
Christopher, Matt - The Kid Who Only Hit Homers
Clements, Andrew - A Week in the Woods
Cody, Elizabeth - Libby B. on the Brink of Cool
Coffer, Eoin – the “Artemis Fowl” books
Collier, James Lincoln Collier – The Empty Mirror
Cooney, Caroline - The Face on the Milk Carton series, Driver’s Ed, Flash Fire, Code Orange
Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese
Creech, Sharon - Replay
Crutcher, Chris – Ironman, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrns, Running Loose
Curtis, Christopher Paul - Bud, Not Buddy
DeFelice, Cynthia - Nowhere to Call Home
Dessen, Sarah - This Lullaby, Just Listen and others
Deuker, Carl - On the Devil’s Court, Painting the Black
DiCamillo, Kate - Because of Winn-Dixie, Tale of Desperaux, The Tiger Rising
Dickinson, Peter - Eva
Donnelly, Jennifer - A Northern Light
Dowell, Frances O’Roark – The Language of Girls
Duncan, Lois – Ransom, The Third Eye
DuPrau, Jeanne - City of Ember, The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood, The Diamond of Darkhold
Farmer, Nancy - The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, House of the Scorpion
Funke, Cornelia – Inkheart, Inkspell
Gaiman, Neil and Dave McKean – The Graveyard Book
Gerber, Linda – Death by Latte
Giff, Patricia Reilly - Pictures of Hollis Woods, A House of Tailors
Haddix, Margaret Peterson - Among the Hidden series
Harrison, Lisl – the “Clique” novels
Hesse, Karen - Witness
Hiaasen, Carl - Hoot
Hinton, S.E. – Rumblefish; That Was Then, This Is Now
Hopkins, Cathy - Mates, Dates and Cosmic Kisses
Horowitz, Anthony – the “Alex Rider” series
Konigsburg, E.L. - A View from Saturday, The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place
Koss, Amy Goldman - The Cheat
Korman, Gordon - No More Dead Dogs, Son of the Mob, Schooled
L’Engle, Madeline - A Wrinkle in Time and sequels
Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia
Lowenstein, Sallie – Sender Unknown
Lynch, Chris – Ice Man
Martin, Ann M. - Here Today, A Corner of the Universe
Matas, Carol - After the War
McDonald, Joyce - Swallowing Stones
Mikaelsen, Ben - Red Midnight, Touching Spirit Bear
Myers, Walter Dean - Fallen Angel, Monster, Slam!
Myron, Vicki – Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Nimmo, Jenny – the “Charlie Bone” books
Nolan, Han - Dancing on the Edge, Face in Every Window
O’Brien, Robert - Z for Zachariah
Paulsen, Gary - any of the “Brian” books – except Hatchet (read in class)
Peck, Richard - A Long Way from Chicago, A Year Down Yonder
Philbrick, Rodman - Freak the Mighty
Pierce, Tamora – The Will of the Empress
Rennison, Louise - Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging and sequels
Riordan, Rick – The Lightning Thief
Rowling, J.K. - “Harry Potter” series
Sachar, Louis – Small Steps
Schmidt, Gary D. – The Wednesday Wars
Schumacher, Julie – The Chain Letter
Schusterman, Neal – Downsiders, The Shadow Club, The Schwa Was Here
Selznick, Brian – The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Shan, Darren - Cirque du Freak series
Shreve, Susan – Under the Watson’s Porch
Spielgelman, Art - Maus and Maus II
Spinelli, Jerry - Maniac Magee, Stargirl, Milkweed
Swallow, Pamela Curtis – It Only Looks Easy
Taylor, Mildred -The Land
Tolan, Stephanie S. -Surviving the Applewaites
Tolkien, J.R.R. - “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and The Hobbit
Van Draanen, Wendelin - Flipped
Waite, Judy – Shopaholic
Weeks, Sarah – So B. It
Weyn, Suzanne - The Bar Code Tattoo and The Bar Code Rebellion
Williams, Brian and Roderick Gordon – Tunnels and Deeper
Winerip, Michael – Adam Canfield of the Slash
Wolff, Virginia Euwer - Make Lemonade, Bat 6
Woodson, Jacqueline - Feathers
Yolen, Jane - Boots and the Seven Leaguers
Zindel, Paul -The Gadget, A Begonia for Miss Applebaum