SIXTH GRADE READING LIST FOR 2011-2012
Required Summer Reading for all Sixth Graders:
Each student is expected to read The Cay by Taylor.
In addition, each student is expected to read three other books. Here are some suggestions:
- Adamson - Born Free
- Bagnold - National Velvet
- Bellairs - House with a Clock in the Walls
- Byars - Trouble River
- Byng - Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
- Cassedy - Behind the Attic Wall
- Colfer - Artemis Fowl (or any other)
- Collier - My Brother Sam Is Dead
- Cushman - Ballad of Lucy Whipple
- Forbes - Johnny Tremain
- George - My Side of the Mountain or Frightful's Mountain
- Gipson - Old Yeller
- Graham - Wind in the Willows
- L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
- Lenski - Indian Captive
- Lewis - (any of the) Chronicles of Narnia
- Levine - Ella Enchanted
- Lord - In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
- O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins
- Paolini - Eragon (or Eldest)
- Paulson - Hatchet (or any other)
- Patterson - Lyddie
- Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows
- Richter - A Light in the Forest (or any of his historical fiction)
- Rinaldi - Ride into Morning (or any other except Girl in Blue)
- Sewell - Black Beauty
- Sperry - Call It Courage
If a student wishes to substitute a different book, please email Mrs. McKay for approval. gmckay@uplandcds.org
Your summer reading journal must include at least two entries per book, for a total of at least eight entries. See the Reading Response Journal Guidelines for more detailed instructions and journal entry prompts.
The following books may be read during the school year. They should not be read during the summer.
- Bovee - Trapped
- Collier and Collier - With Every Drop of Blood
- Keith - Rifles for Watie
- Lasky - True North
- North - Rascal
- Patterson - Bridge to Terabithia
- Reeder - Across the Lines
- Rinaldi - Girl in Blue
- Wisler - Red Cap
SEVENTH GRADE READING LIST FOR 2011-2012
Required Summer Reading for all Seventh Graders:
Each student is expected to read The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
In addition, each student is expected to read two additional books. Here are some suggestions:
- Blinn - Something for Joey
- Bloor - Tangerine
- Borland - When Legends Die
- Bridgers - Home Before Dark
- Cormier - I am the Cheese
- Creech - Walk Two Moons (or any other)
- Fox - Slave Dancer
- Hersey - Hiroshima
- Horowitz - Stormbreaker: An Alex Rider Adventure (or any other in series)
- Houston - Farewell to Manzanar
- Hunt - Across Five Aprils
- Hunt - Up a Road Slowly
- Kerr - Gentlehands
- Leguin - Wizard of Earthsea (any in series)
- L'Engle - Arms of the Starfish
- London - Call of the Wild
- Lord - A Night to Remember
- Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables (or any other)
- Mowat - Never Cry Wolf
- Patterson - Of Nightingales that Weep
- Peck - A Day No Pigs Would Die
- Reeder - Shades of Grey
- Rinaldi - The Last Silk Dress (or any other except Girl in Blue)
- Steinbeck- The Moon is Down
- Taylor - The Hostage
- Voigt - Jackaroo or On Fortune's Wheel
- White - The Sword and the Stone
- Zindel - The Pigman or The Pigman's Legacy
If a student wishes to substitute a different book, please email Mrs. McKay for approval: gmckay@uplandcds.org
Your summer reading journal must include at least two entries per book, for a total of at least six entries. See the Reading Response Journal Guidelines for more detailed instructions and journal entry prompts.
The following books may be read during the school year. They should not be read during the summer.
- Bradbury- Fahrenheit 451
- Cretzmeyer - Your Name is Renee: Ruth's Story as a Hidden Child
- Gibson - The Miracle Worker
- Lowry - Number the Stars
- Lowry - The Giver
- Moiles - Summer of My First Pediddle
- Weisel - Night
EIGHTH GRADE READING LIST FOR 2011 - 2012
Required Summer Reading for all Eighth Graders:
All eighth grade students are required to read The Outsiders by Hinton.
In addition, each student is expected to read three additional books. Here are some suggestions:
- ----- - Arabian Nights
- Betancourt - More Than Meets the Eye
- Buck - The Good Earth
- Burnett - The Secret Garden
- Card - Ender's Game (or any in series)
- Cleaver - Where the Lilies Bloom
- Cooney - Burning Up
- Cushman - Catherine Called Birdie
- DuMaurier - Rebecca
- Follet - On Wings of Eagles
- Francis, Dick - any novel
- Gordon - Waiting for the Rain
- Graham- Dove
- Haddix - Among the Hidden (or any in series)
- Hemingway- Old Man and the Sea
- Hesse - Phoenix Rising
- Kipling- Jungle Book
- Lasky - Beyond the Divide
- Lipsyte- The Contender
- Matas - Lisa's War
- Shute - On the Beach
- Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Staples - Shabanu
- Terasaki - Bridge to the Sun
- Tolan - Surviving the Applewhites
- Tolkien - The Hobbit (or any of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy)
- Voigt - Dicey's Song (or any other)
- Wartski - A Boat to Nowhere
If a student wishes to substitute a different book, please email Mrs. McKay for approval. gmckay@uplandcds.org
Your summer reading journal must include at least two entries per book, for a total of at least eight entries. See the Reading Response Journal Guidelines for more detailed instructions and journal entry prompts.
The following books may be read during the school year. They should not be read during the summer:
- Cisneros - The House on Mango Street
- Gaines - A Lesson Before Dying
- Golding - Lord of the Flies
- Greene - Summer of My German Soldier
- Kingsolver - The Bean Trees
- Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
- Shakespeare- Romeo and Juliet (also West Side Story)
- Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
- Steinbeck - The Pearl
- Twain - Huckleberry Finn
NINTH GRADE READING LIST FOR 2011 - 2012
Required Summer Reading for all Ninth Graders:
All ninth grade students are required to read The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
In addition, each student is expected to read THREE additional books. Here are some suggestions:
- Alcott - Little Women
- Austen - Pride and Prejudice
- Bauer - Hope Was Here (or any other)
- Bronte - Jane Eyre
- Cather - My Antonia
- Clancy - any (except The Hunt for Red October)
- Clavell - Shogun
- Christie - any mystery
- Cormier - The Chocolate War or Beyond the Chocolate War
- Crichton - The Andromeda Strain
- Dana - Young Joan
- Graves - I, Claudius
- Green - The Luck of Troy
- Greene - Morning is a Long Time Coming
- Griffin - Black Like Me
- Gunther- Death, Be Not Proud
- Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small (or any other)
- Knowles- A Separate Peace
- Lowry - Gathering Blue
- McKinley - Spindle's End (or any other)
- Orgel - We Goddesses
- Picard - The Iliad of Homer (Oxford U. Press - a very readable translation; others are not)
- Remarque- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Renault- The King Must Die
- Saroyan- The Human Comedy
- Twain - The Prince and the Pauper
- Voigt - Dicey's Song (or any other)
- White - The Once and Future King
If a student wishes to substitute a different book, please email Mrs. McKay for approval. gmckay@uplandcds.org
Your summer reading journal must include at least two entries per book, for a total of at least eight entries. See the Reading Response Journal Guidelines for more detailed instructions and journal entry prompts.
The following books may be read during the school year. They should not be read during the summer:
- Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
- Orczy - Scarlet Pimpernel
- Shakespeare- Macbeth
- Sophocles - Antigone / Oedipus
- Orwell - Animal Farm
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