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Home HRMS Choose Database: 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade Peabody Institute Library Dream Teams	Summer Reading 2008 Students are required to choose 3 books to read for summer reading. We encourage you to read as many as you like, but you will need to read at least three. We suggest that parents be involved in helping their children select books according to children’s interest and age level. Please do not hesitate to ask the librarians at the public library. Many of them will have read several titles from the list and many of the recommendations for the list come from them. Download Summer Reading List as a Word Document Download Summer Reading List in PDF Format Download Summer Reading Contract as a Word Document Download Summer Reading Contract in PDF Format Students should complete a separate Summer Reading Contract for each of the 3 books they choose to read. 1) Choose at least 1 from the following list of 12 titles related to the theme of Caring For Our World. You may choose all 3 of your titles from this short list, but you must choose at least 1. * Before you read, look over the list, read the brief summaries, and decide which one you think will interest you most. * As you read, think about caring for our world and how your chosen book relates to the theme. * After you read, complete a Summer Reading Contract. Be sure to have it signed by a parent/guardian. Make sure you complete a separate Summer Reading Contract for each of 3 books that you choose. If you choose to read more than 3 books, you do not have to complete more than 3 contracts. Bertagna, Julie. Exodus. In the year 2100, as the island of Wing is about to be covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World sky cities that are safe from the storms and rising waters, and convinces her people to travel to one of these cities in order to save themselves. Collard, Sneed B, III. Flash Point. High school sophomore Luther Wright volunteers to help raptors at a local veterinary clinic and helps Alex, a new girl who is a social outcast, discover the truth behind the forest fires that are afflicting their small Montana town. Curtis, Christopher P. Elijah of Buxton. Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom. Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming (YA version) An adaptation of the book in which former Vice President Al Gore examines the climate crisis that is threatening the future of the planet, describes what the world's governments are doing to correct the problem, and explains why the problem should be taken more seriously. Includes photographs, maps, and graphs. Hiaasen, Carl. Flush. With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home. Hobbs, Will. Jackie’s Wild Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her little brother, Cody, spend the summer with their uncle, helping at a wildlife rescue center named Jackie's Wild Seattle. Hoose, Phillip. It’s Our World, Too!: Young People Who are Making a Difference: How They Do It—How You Can, Too! A collection of essays about children who have made notable achievements, arranged in the categories "Taking a Stand," "Reaching Out to Others," "Healing the Earth," and "Creating a Safer Future," accompanied by a handbook for young activists. Lord, Cynthia. Rules. Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic. Preller, James. Six Innings. Earl Grubb's Pool Supplies plays Northeast Gas & Electric in the Little League championship game, while Sam, who has cancer and is in a wheelchair, has to call the play-by-play instead of participating in the game. Rorby, Ginny. Hurt Go Happy. Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis has been deaf since age six, but her mother has refused to let her learn sign language, leaving Joey struggling to connect with those around her until she meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, who secretly teach Joey how to sign. Schmidt, Gary. The Wednesday Wars. During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in. Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand. Some annotations taken from Follett’s Titlewave. Final 5/19/08 2. You may read 2 books from the rest of the following categories if you haven’t chosen all 3 of your books from the theme-related list above. Explore More Caring for Our World DuPrau, Any in the Books of Ember series Fogelin, Anna Casey’s Place in the World* Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods Hale, Goose Girl; Princess Academy; Enna Burning Hussey, The Valley of Secrets Nye, Going, Going Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It Van Draanen, Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things* Whelan, Parade of Shadows Wolfson, Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies Laugh Out Loud – Funny Books Avi, Never Mind; Romeo & Juliet Together (And Alive!) At Last* Choldenko, Notes From a Liar and Her Dog Cooney, The Beloved Dearly Hale, Farewell, My Lunchbag* Jacobsen, In Ned’s Head* Kimmel, Lily B. on the Brink of Cool Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal Paulsen, The Amazing Life of Birds (The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech) Rallison, It’s a Mall World After All Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians Adventure Books Balliett, Chasing Vermeer; The Wright 3 Barry, Any in the Starcatchers series Cabot, Avalon High Carter, I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You Hobbs, Bearstone; Ghost Canoe Kehret, Abduction! Korman, Island Trilogy* Naylor, The Fear Place* Horowitz, Any in the Alex Rider series; Any in the Raven’s Gate series Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures Smith, Peak Somper, Any in the Vampirates series Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson Meet New Friends – Realistic Fiction Bauer, Rules of the Road Brouwer, Wired* Choldenko, If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period Codell, Sahara Special* Cummings, Red Kayak* Harper, The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney Hockensmith, Holmes on the Range Horvath, Everything on a Waffle Johnson, Devilish Lipsyte, The Brave; The Chief; The Contender Lupica, Heat; Travel Team; Miracle on 49th Street; Summer Ball; The Big Field; Hot Hand; Two-Minute Drill Martin, A Corner of the Universe Myers, A Handbook for Boys Park, Project Mulberry* Paterson, The Same Stuff as Stars Perkins, All Alone in the Universe* Perkins, Criss Cross Philbrick, Freak the Mighty; Max the Mighty Ritter, Choosing Up Sides* Spinelli, Stargirl; Love, Stargirl Tashjian, The Gospel According to Larry; Vote for Larry Voigt, Homecoming Winerip, Adam Canfield of the Slash Withers, Camp Wild* Read About Real People & Events – Nonfiction Armstrong, You’re Smarter Than You Think: A Kid’s Guide to Multiple Intelligences Blais, In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle Crowe, Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case Freedman, The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights Giblin, Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth Murphy, Across America on an Emigrant Train Murphy, Blizzard! Murphy, The Boy’s War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War Murphy, The Great Fire Murphy, The Long Road to Gettysburg Visit The Past – Historical Fiction Blackwood, Second Sight; The Year of the Hangman Bruchac, The Arrow Over the Door; Hidden Roots* Crowe, Mississippi Trial, 1955 Ghent, No Small Thing Holm, Penny From Heaven* Larson, Hattie Big Sky Martin, Here Today Meyer, Any in the Bloody Jack series Park, The Kite Fighters; A Single Shard Schlitz, A Drowned Maiden’s Hair Springer, Any of the Enola Holmes Mystery series Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken (sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry); The Land (prequel to Roll of Thunder) Whelan, Listening for Lions Visit The Future – Science Fiction Cle, The Marvelous Effect (first in the Marvelous World series) Clements, Things Not Seen Farmer, The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm; The House of the Scorpion Lowry, The Giver; Gathering Blue; Messenger Lubar, Flip Marsden, Tomorrow,When the World Began and any others in the series Nix, Sabriel; Lirael; Abhorsen Reeve, Larklight, or, The Revenge of the White Spiders!, or, To Saturn's Rings and Back! : a Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space; *Starcross*, or, The Coming of the Moobs, or, Our Adventures in the Fourth Dimension! : A Stirring Adventure of Spies, Time Travel and Curious Hats (just 2 titles by Reeve) Westerfeld, Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras Visit the World of Make Believe - Fantasy D’Lacey, Any in the Dragon Trilogy* Farmer, The Sea of Trolls; The Land of the Silver Apples Hunter, Any of the Warriors, New Prophecy, or Power of Three series Lewis, Any of the Chronicles of Narnia Meyer Twilight; New Moon; Eclipse; Breaking Dawn (due out in August) Nimmo, Any in the Children of the Red King series (Charlie Bone) Owen, Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon Paolini, Eragon; Eldest Rowling, Any in the Harry Potter series Recommended Especially for 8th Grade Bloor, London Calling Bray, Any in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy Deuker, Runner Easton, White Magic Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Johnson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes Shinn, General Winston’s Daughter Sonnenblick, Notes from the Midnight Driver Indicates an easier read You should make two copies of the Reading Contract so that you complete a total of three - one for each of three books that you have read. Find brief summaries of the 12 primary Caring for Our World themed titles on the reverse of the Reading Contract. (Final Version 051508)*
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Summer Reading 2008

Students are required to choose 3 books to read for summer reading. We encourage you to read as many as you like, but you will need to read at least three. We suggest that parents be involved in helping their children select books according to children’s interest and age level. Please do not hesitate to ask the librarians at the public library. Many of them will have read several titles from the list and many of the recommendations for the list come from them.

Download Summer Reading List as a Word Document

Download Summer Reading List in PDF Format

Download Summer Reading Contract as a Word Document

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Students should complete a separate Summer Reading Contract for each of the 3 books they choose to read.

1) Choose at least 1 from the following list of 12 titles related to the theme of Caring For Our World. You may choose all 3 of your titles from this short list, but you must choose at least 1.

* Before you read, look over the list, read the brief summaries, and decide which one you think will interest you most.
* As you read, think about caring for our world and how your chosen book relates to the theme.
* After you read, complete a Summer Reading Contract. Be sure to have it signed by a parent/guardian. Make sure you complete a separate Summer Reading Contract for each of 3 books that you choose. If you choose to read more than 3 books, you do not have to complete more than 3 contracts.

Bertagna, Julie. Exodus. In the year 2100, as the island of Wing is about to be covered by water, fifteen-year-old Mara discovers the existence of New World sky cities that are safe from the storms and rising waters, and convinces her people to travel to one of these cities in order to save themselves.

Collard, Sneed B, III. Flash Point. High school sophomore Luther Wright volunteers to help raptors at a local veterinary clinic and helps Alex, a new girl who is a social outcast, discover the truth behind the forest fires that are afflicting their small Montana town.

Curtis, Christopher P. Elijah of Buxton. Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.

Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming (YA version) An adaptation of the book in which former Vice President Al Gore examines the climate crisis that is threatening the future of the planet, describes what the world's governments are doing to correct the problem, and explains why the problem should be taken more seriously. Includes photographs, maps, and graphs.

Hiaasen, Carl. Flush. With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.

Hobbs, Will. Jackie’s Wild Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Shannon and her little brother, Cody, spend the summer with their uncle, helping at a wildlife rescue center named Jackie's Wild Seattle.

Hoose, Phillip. It’s Our World, Too!: Young People Who are Making a Difference: How They Do It—How You Can, Too! A collection of essays about children who have made notable achievements, arranged in the categories "Taking a Stand," "Reaching Out to Others," "Healing the Earth," and "Creating a Safer Future," accompanied by a handbook for young activists.

Lord, Cynthia. Rules. Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.

Preller, James. Six Innings. Earl Grubb's Pool Supplies plays Northeast Gas & Electric in the Little League championship game, while Sam, who has cancer and is in a wheelchair, has to call the play-by-play instead of participating in the game.

Rorby, Ginny. Hurt Go Happy. Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis has been deaf since age six, but her mother has refused to let her learn sign language, leaving Joey struggling to connect with those around her until she meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, who secretly teach Joey how to sign.

Schmidt, Gary. The Wednesday Wars. During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Taylor, Mildred. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

*Some annotations taken from Follett’s Titlewave. Final 5/19/08

2. You may read 2 books from the rest of the following categories if you haven’t chosen all 3 of your books from the theme-related list above.

Explore More Caring for Our World

DuPrau, Any in the Books of Ember series

Fogelin, Anna Casey’s Place in the World

Giff, Pictures of Hollis Woods

Hale, Goose Girl; Princess Academy; Enna Burning

Hussey, The Valley of Secrets

Nye, Going, Going

Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It

Van Draanen, Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things*

Whelan, Parade of Shadows

Wolfson, Home, and Other Big, Fat Lies

Laugh Out Loud – Funny Books

Avi, Never Mind; Romeo & Juliet Together (And Alive!) At Last*

Choldenko, Notes From a Liar and Her Dog

Cooney, The Beloved Dearly

Hale, Farewell, My Lunchbag*

Jacobsen, In Ned’s Head*

Kimmel, Lily B. on the Brink of Cool

Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley’s Journal

Paulsen, The Amazing Life of Birds (The Twenty-Day Puberty Journal of Duane Homer Leech)

Rallison, It’s a Mall World After All

Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Adventure Books

Balliett, Chasing Vermeer; The Wright 3

Barry, Any in the Starcatchers series

Cabot, Avalon High

Carter, I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You

Hobbs, Bearstone; Ghost Canoe

Kehret, Abduction!

Korman, Island Trilogy*

Naylor, The Fear Place*

Horowitz, Any in the Alex Rider series; Any in the Raven’s Gate series

Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures

Smith, Peak

Somper, Any in the Vampirates series

Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson

Meet New Friends – Realistic Fiction

Bauer, Rules of the Road

Brouwer, Wired*

Choldenko, If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period

Codell, Sahara Special*

Cummings, Red Kayak*

Harper, The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney

Hockensmith, Holmes on the Range

Horvath, Everything on a Waffle

Johnson, Devilish

Lipsyte, The Brave; The Chief; The Contender

Lupica, Heat; Travel Team; Miracle on 49th Street; Summer Ball; The Big Field; Hot Hand*; Two-Minute Drill*

Martin, A Corner of the Universe

Myers, A Handbook for Boys

Park, Project Mulberry*

Paterson, The Same Stuff as Stars

Perkins, All Alone in the Universe*

Perkins, Criss Cross

Philbrick, Freak the Mighty; Max the Mighty

Ritter, Choosing Up Sides*

Spinelli, Stargirl; Love, Stargirl

Tashjian, The Gospel According to Larry; Vote for Larry

Voigt, Homecoming

Winerip, Adam Canfield of the Slash

Withers, Camp Wild*

Read About Real People & Events – Nonfiction

Armstrong, You’re Smarter Than You Think: A Kid’s Guide to Multiple Intelligences

Blais, In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle

Crowe, Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

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

Giblin, Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Booth and John Wilkes Booth

Murphy, Across America on an Emigrant Train

Murphy, Blizzard!

Murphy, The Boy’s War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War

Murphy, The Great Fire

Murphy, The Long Road to Gettysburg

Visit The Past – Historical Fiction

Blackwood, Second Sight; The Year of the Hangman

Bruchac, The Arrow Over the Door; Hidden Roots*

Crowe, Mississippi Trial, 1955

Ghent, No Small Thing

Holm, Penny From Heaven*

Larson, Hattie Big Sky

Martin, Here Today

Meyer, Any in the Bloody Jack series

Park, The Kite Fighters; A Single Shard

Schlitz, A Drowned Maiden’s Hair

Springer, Any of the Enola Holmes Mystery series

Taylor, Let the Circle Be Unbroken (sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry); The Land (prequel to Roll of Thunder)

Whelan, Listening for Lions

Visit The Future – Science Fiction

Cle, The Marvelous Effect (first in the Marvelous World series)

Clements, Things Not Seen

Farmer, The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm; The House of the Scorpion

Lowry, The Giver; Gathering Blue; Messenger

Lubar, Flip

Marsden, Tomorrow,When the World Began and any others in the series

Nix, Sabriel; Lirael; Abhorsen

Reeve, Larklight, or, The Revenge of the White Spiders!, or, To Saturn's Rings and Back! : a Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space; Starcross, or, The Coming of the Moobs, or, Our Adventures in the Fourth Dimension! : A Stirring Adventure of Spies, Time Travel and Curious Hats (just 2 titles by Reeve)

Westerfeld, Uglies; Pretties; Specials; Extras

Visit the World of Make Believe - Fantasy

D’Lacey, Any in the Dragon Trilogy*

Farmer, The Sea of Trolls; The Land of the Silver Apples

Hunter, Any of the Warriors, New Prophecy, or Power of Three series

Lewis, Any of the Chronicles of Narnia

Meyer Twilight; New Moon; Eclipse; Breaking Dawn (due out in August)

Nimmo, Any in the Children of the Red King series (Charlie Bone)

Owen, Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon

Paolini, Eragon; Eldest

Rowling, Any in the Harry Potter series

Recommended Especially for 8th Grade

Bloor, London Calling

Bray, Any in the Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Deuker, Runner

Easton, White Magic

Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Johnson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Shinn, General Winston’s Daughter

Sonnenblick, Notes from the Midnight Driver

*Indicates an easier read

You should make two copies of the Reading Contract so that you complete a total of three - one for each of three books that you have read. Find brief summaries of the 12 primary Caring for Our World themed titles on the reverse of the Reading Contract.

(Final Version 051508)