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Summer Reading

Required Summer Reading for 2012-2013

Rising 6th Grade Summer Reading List
Required:       Schooled         
By Gordon Korman
 
Required:       Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton: Daughter of America
By Jeanne Marie Grunwell
 
Required:       Book of Choice           
Guidelines: no genres related to graphic novels, horror, vampires or evil.  The students need to focus their search on realistic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, adventure, or fantasy. 
 
 
 
Rising 7th Grade Summer Reading List
Required:       The Giver
By Lois Lowry
 
Required:       Teresa of Calcutta, Missionary of Charity
By Mary Kathleen Giavich
 
Required:       Choose One of the Following
 
1.       Uglies, Scott Westerfield
2.       Mockingbird, Kathryn Erskine
3.       Life As We Knew It, Susan Beth Pfeffer
4.       Dicey’s Song, Cynthia Voigt
5.       I am the Cheese, Robert Cormier
6.       Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
7.       Hurt Go Happy, Ginny Rorby
8.       Dead End in Norvelt, Jack Gantos
9.       Scorpions, Walter Dean Myers
10.   Nothing But the Truth, Avi
11.   Peak, Roland Smith
12.   Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula LeGuin
13.   The Kite Rider, Geraldine McCaughrean
14.   Hatchet, Gary Paulsen
15.   Zulu Dog, Anton Ferreira
16.   A Million Shades of Gray, Cynthia Kadohata
 
Rising 8th Graders Summer Reading List
Required:       Chains
By Laurie Halse Anderson
 
Required:       Freak the Mighty
By W.R. Philbrick.
 
Required:       Saint Maximilian Kolbe: Mary’s Knight
By Patricia Edward

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