Summer Reading  2010

for Students Entering Grades 6-8

MIDDLE SCHOOL SUMMER READING LIST 

Every middle school student is required to complete summer reading. In September you will be tested on one of  the required books on the list.

 For the  other two books you have chosen, fill out a Reflection Sheet or write a simple One Page Report. Click here, Reading Assignment for Students Entering Grades 6, 7, and 8, to see required work.

Reflection sheets are also available at the Lynn Public Library and your school office.

Students must read (at least) one book from the required lists and at least two books from the list of authors below:

 ONE REQUIRED BOOK FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOK LIST :

Entering Grade 6                                   

  Love that Dog, Sharon Creech

  Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo

  Indigo, Alice Hoffman

 Entering Grade 7                                          

  The Magician’s Nephew, C.S. Lewis 

  Baseball in April, Gary Soto

   Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli  

 Entering Grade 8  

   Slam, Walter Dean Myers

   Lyddie, Katherine Patterson

   Max the Mighty, Rodman Philbrick

TWO REQUIRED BOOKS FROM THE FOLLOWING AUTHORS LIST :

Entering Grade 6                                   

Avi              Paul Fleischman               Cornelia Funke      Nikki Grimes

E.L. Konigsburg          Kathryn Lasky          Phyllis R. Naylor           Christopher Paolini 

E.B. White          Laura Ingalls Wilder         Laurence Yep          Jane Yolen

 Entering Grade 7    

K.A. Applegate Sharon G. FlakeJean FritzKaren  Hesse 

 D.J. McHale         Milton Meltzer          Walter Dean Myers Garth Nix

Scott O’Dell        Gary Paulsen      Elizabeth Speare        Theodore Taylor

 Entering Grade 8  

   Lloyd Alexander          Susan Cooper        Robert Cormier         Diane Duane

S.E. Hinton        Anthony Horowitz        Jack London        Lois Lowry

  Phillip Pullman       J.K. Rowling          Mark Twain          Jules Verne          Paul Zindel