Students should be ready to participate in a writing assessment on Sept. 14, 2009
For students moving from the 5th Grade into 6th, these are the choices for summer reading:
Tolan, Stephanie: Surviving the Applewhites
Spinelli, Jerry: Crash
Balliett, Blue and Brett Helquist: Chasing Vermeer
Korman, Gordon: No More Dead Dogs
Curtis, Christopher Paul: Bud, Not Buddy
Cushman, Karen: The Midwife’s Apprentice
Jacques, Brian: Redwall
Funke, Cornelia and Oliver Latsch: The Thief Lord
For students moving from the 6th Grade into 7th, these are the choices for summer reading:
Henkes, Kevin: Olive’s Ocean
Voight, Cynthia: Dicey’s Song
Rawls, Wilson: Summer of the Monkeys
Paterson, Katherine: Jacob, Have I Loved
Choldenko, Gennifer: Al Capone Does My Shirts
Peck, Richard: A Long Way From Chicago
Clements, Andrew: Things Not Seen
Lowry, Lois: Gathering Blue
For students moving from the 7th Grade into 8th, these are the choices for summer reading:
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston: Farewell to Manzanar
Spinelli, Jerry: Stargirl
Parks, Linda Sue : When My Name Was Keoko
Taylor, Mildred D.: Let The Circle Be Unbroken
Farmer, Nancy: The House of the Scorpion
London, Jack: White Fang
Christie, Agatha: Murder on the Orient Express
Philbrick, Rodman: Freak the Mighty
For students moving from the 8th Grade into 9th, these are the choices for summer reading:
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All Academic and College Prep students are
required to read one (1) book from the approved Summer Reading
list cited below. Academic and College Prep students may select any book
from any of the 9th grade titles. Academic and College Prep students
will be required to complete an assessment assignment upon their return
to school.
All Honors students will be required to read two (2) books from the approved Summer Reading list. Students are to select one (1) book from the ten titles listed and one (1) book from the four (4) authors listed. During the first week of school, Honors students will be required to complete a written assessment based on their reading from the Honors list. |
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Academic and College Prep
1. Go Ask Alice--Anonymous 2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian--Sherman Alexie 3. Ender's Game--Orson Scott Card 4. The Glass Castle: a Memoir--Jeannette Walls 5. The Graveyard Book--Neil Gaiman 6. The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream--Sampson Davis 7. Silent to the Bone--E.L. Konigsburg 8. The Secret Life of Bees--Sue Monk Kidd 9. Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie: David Lubar 10. Summer of My German Soldier--Bette Greene Honors 1. The Time Machine--H.G. Wells 2. Brave New World--Aldous Huxley 3. Ordinary People--Judith Guest 4. Our Town-- Thornton Wilder 5. The Chosen--Chaim Potok 6. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court--Mark Twain 7. Things Fall Apart--Chinua Achebe 8. The Joy Luck Club--Amy Tan Honors Authors
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