SIXTH GRADE READING LIST FOR 2008 - 2009

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)

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 2008 - 2009

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
Borland                       When Legends Die
Bloor                            Tangerine
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)

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 Renée:  Ruth’s Story as a Hidden Child
Gibson                        The Miracle Worker
Lowry                          Number the Stars
Moiles                         Summer of My First Pediddle
Weisel                         Night

EIGHTH GRADE READING LIST FOR 2008 - 2009

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)

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 2008 - 2009 

Required Summer Reading for all Ninth Graders:

All ninth grade students are required to read The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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
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)

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            Titus Andronicus        
Shakespeare            Macbeth
Sophocles                 Antigone / Oedipus
Orwell                         Animal Farm