HIT: Middle School Summer Reading Lists

[Mary Ann Shaffer <ShafferMAS@AOL.COM>]

A few people requested a 'hit' if I received any information on summer
reading lists, so here they are.  Hope they still help someone, sorry they're
so late.

        Sixth Grade
Baby    Patricia MacLachlan
Bearstone   Will Hobbs
Dragonwings   Lawrence Yep
Is Anybody There?   Eve Bunting
Maniac Magee   Jerry Spinelli
S.O.R. Losers   Avi
Shiloh   Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The River   Gary Paulsen
Words of Stone   Kevin Henkes
The Witch of Blackbird Pond   Elizabeth George Speare
Shadowmaker   Joan Lowry Nixon
Max and Me and theTime Machine   Gery Greer & Bob Ruddick
The Westing Game   Ellen Raskin
The Jungle Book   Rudyard Kipling
Little Women   Louisa May Alcott

        Seventh Grade
Someone was Watching   David Patneaude
Zlata's Diary   Zlata Filipovic
Tears of a Tiger   Sharon Draper
Alas, Babylon   Pat Frank
Tonight by Sea   Frances Temple
Oliver Twist   Charles Dickens
Count of Monte Cristo   Alexandre Dumas
Basher Five-Two   Scott O'Grady
Z for Zachariah   Robert O'Brian
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm   Nancy Farmer
Letters from Rifka   Karen Hesse
The Hobbit  JRR Tolkien
Walk Two Moons   Sharon Creech
Twinkie Squad   Gordon Korman
Freak the Mighty   Rodman Philbrick

        Eighth Grade
My Brother Sam is Dead   James Lincoln & Christopher Collier
Tex   S.E. Hinton
Across Five Aprils   Irene Hunt
A Day No Pigs Would Die   Robert Newton Peck
The Old Man and the Sea   Ernest Hemmingway
Both Sides of Time   Caroline B. Cooney
Ice   Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Summer of the Monkeys   Wilson Rawls
Nothing but the Truth   Avi
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle   Avi
A Midsummer Night's Dream   Shakespeare
Ender's Game   Orson Scott Card
Ballad of Lucy Whipple  Karen Cushman
A Long Way from Chicago   Richard Peck
The Watson's Go to Birmingham - 1963   Christopher Paul Curtis
Park's Quest   Katherine Paterson
Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of Harriet Jacobs   Mary Lyons

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Here's our list:
entering 6th: Bridge to Teribithia and Where the Red Fern Grows
entering 7th: The Outsiders and The Acorn People
entering 8th: The Chosen; Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind; Hiroshima
(Hersey); and Waiting for the Rain.

Each student is required to read the above and then we send out a list
of an additional 20 books from which the student must read three of
their choice.

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The following web site was suggested also:
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/news/summer.htm

  6th grade--Maniac Magee, Where the Red Fern Grows, The Westing
Game, Sign of the Beaver, True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Weasel, Roll
of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Number the Stars, Whipping Boy, and Hatchet.
        7th grade--Slave Dancer, Zlata's Diary, The Boggart, Midwife's
Apprentice, The Ear, the Eye and the Arm, SOS Titanic, Sadako and the
Thousand Paper Cranes, Letters from Rifka, So Far from the Bamboo Grove,
and The Shadow of a Bull.

These are are summer lists from last year:
     7th grade
TITLES                                  AUTHOR
Mysteries:
Death on the Nile                       A.Christie
The Kidnapping of Christine Lattimore   J.L.Nixon
Shadows on the Wall             P.Naylor
Ghost Stories:
The Man who was Poe             Avi
Human Relationships:
The Great Gilly Hopkins         K.Paterson
Missing May                     C.Rylant
Christy                         C.Marshall
Hatchet                         G.Paulsen
Animals:
Where the Red Fern Grows        W.Rawls
Fantasy:
The Phantom Tollbooth           N.Juster
The Hobbitt                     J.R.R.Tolkein

8th grade
TITLES                          AUTHOR
Where the Lilies Bloom          V.Cleaver
Return of the King              J.R.R.Tolkein
Across Five Aprils              I.Hunt
Bridges at Toko-Ri              J.Michener
Gentlehands                     M.E.Kerr
The Outsiders                   S.E.Hinton
Night                           E.Wiesel
The Homecoming                  C.Voight
Fahrenheit 451                  R.Bradbury
To Kill a Mockingbird           H.Lee
Shane                           J.Schaefer
The Giver                       L.Lowrey
Walk Two Moons                  S.Creech
Hope this helps

2. Rising 7th grade
Maniac Magee
Where the Red Fern Grows                        W. Rawls
The Westing Game
Sing of the Beaver
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Weasel
Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry
Number the Stars
Whipping Boy
Hatchet                                 G. Paulsen
Death on the Nile                               A. Christie
The Kidnapping of Christine Lattimore           J.L. Nixon
Shadows on the Wall                     P. Naylor
The Man Who Was Poe                     Avi
The Great Gilly Hopkins                 K. Paterson
Missing May                             C. Rylant
Christy                                 C. Marshall
The Phantom Tollbooth                   N. Juster
The Hobbitt                             J.R.R. Tolkein


3. Rising 8th grade
Slave Dancer
Zlata's Diary
The Boggart
Midwife's Apprentice
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
SOS Titanic
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Letters from Rifka
So Far from the Bamboo Grove
The Shadow of the Bull
Where the Lilies Bloom                  V. Cleaver
Return of the King                      J.R.R. Tolkein
Across Five Aprils                      I. Hunt
Bridges at Toko-Ri                      J. Michener
Gentlehands                             M.E. Kerr
The Outsiders                           S.E. Hinton
Night                                   E. Wiesel
The Homecoming                          C. Voight
Fahrenheit 451                          R. Bradbury
To Kill a Mockingbird                   H. Lee
Shane                                   J. Schaefer
The Giver                               L. Lowrey
Walk Two Moons                          S. Creech
Adrian Mole, age 13 3/4
Patrick McManus' books

Grade 5:
Avi.  THE BARN
Babbit.  TUCK EVERLASTING
Burnett.  THE SECRET GARDEN
Cooper.  THE BOGGART
Dorris.  MORNING GIRL and SEE BEHIND TREES
Giff.  LILY'S CROSSING
Levine.  ELLA ENCHANTED
Lowry.  THE GIVER.
Konigsberg.  FROM THE MIXED-UP FILES OF MRS. BASIL E. FRANKWEILER
Naylor.  SAVING SHILOH
Steinbeck.  THE PEARL

Grade 6:
Brooks.  MIDNIGHT HOUR ENCORES
Collier.  WEITH EVERY DROP OF BLOOD
Creech.  WALK TWO MOONS
Curtis.  THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM - 1963
Dickinson.  A BONE FROM A DRY SEA
Filipovic.,  ZLATA'S DIARY
Freedman.  THE LIFE AND DEATH OF CRAZY HORSE
George.  JULIE'S WOLF PACK
Hesse.  LETTERS FROM RIFKA
Hesse.  THE MUSIC OF DOLPHINS
Hobbs.  FAR NORTH
Jacques.  REDWALL ABBEY (series)
Konigsberg.  THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY
Paulsen.  HATCHET, BRIAN'S WINTER, THE RIVER
Tolkien.  THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (series)
Wrede.  DEALING WITH DRAGONS

Grade 7:
Avi.  BEYOND THE WESTERN SEA
Cooney.  TWINS and THE VAMPIRE'S PROMISE
Farmer.  THE EAR, THE EYE, AND THE ARM
Hesse.  OUT OF THE DUST
Klass.  DANGER ZONE
McKinley.  B EAUTY: A RETELLING OF THE STORY OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Calabro.  ZAP! A BRIEF HISTORY OF TELEVISION
Cushman.  CATHERINE, CALLED BIRDY and THE LMIDWIFE'S APPRENTICE
Denenberg.  AN AMERICAN HERO: THE TRUE STORY OF CHARLES LINDBERGH
Freedman.  LINCOLN: A PHOTOBIOGRAPHY
Hinton.  THE OUTSIDERS
Hobbs.  DOWNRIVER
Klause.  THE SILVER KISS
Levitin.  ESCAPE FROM EGYPT: A NOVEL
Paulsen.  THE CAR
Pullman.  THE GOLDEN COMPASS
Nye.  HABIBI
Rinaldi.  THE QUILT TRILOGY

Mary Ann Shaffer
Media Specialist
Carver Middle School
Orlando, FL
shaffem@ocps.k12.fl.us
shaffermas@aol.com

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