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LINWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL |
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7th Grade Summer Reading List – 2007
Academic Language Arts Book Choices Students in Academic Language Arts are to choose one book from the following list. Ambitious readers may choose a book from the Advanced Language Arts List.
Avi. The Man Who Was Poe. Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of 11-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist. (Mystery Fiction)
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-1850. Through the voices of Irish people, Bartoletti tells the history of the Great Irish Famine of the late 1840s, when one million people died of starvation and disease. (Non-Fiction)
Capuzzo, Mike. Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916. The summer of 1916 was brutally hot and thousands flocked to the Jersey shore to participate in the sport of ocean swimming. They had no way of knowing that a rogue great white shark was also headed for the coast. (Non-Fiction)
Cooney, Caroline B. The Face on the Milk Carton. Imagine looking at a milk carton and seeing your picture as a missing person! Janie learns the truth about her past while searching for her other parents. (Realistic Fiction)
Creech, Sharon. Granny Torrelli Makes Soup. With the help of her wise old grandmother, 12-year-old Rosie manages to work out some problems in her relationship with her best friend. (Realistic Fiction)
Duncan, Lois. Down a Dark Hall. Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, 14-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected. (Mystery Fiction)
Duncan, Lois. Wonder Kid Meets the Evil Lunch Snatcher. Terrorized by an evil lunch snatcher at his new school, Brian and a friend devise a plan involving a new superhero called Wonder Kid. (Realistic Fiction)
Dygard, Thomas J. The Second Stringer. When Kevin replaces the quarterback and football hero who suffers a knee injury, the second stringer needs to prove that he can do the job and is not just a substitute. (Sports Fiction)
Fleischman, Sid. The Whipping Boy. Prince Brat runs away from home, taking his much abused whipping boy, Jemmy, with him. When the boys are captured by villains, their roles are suddenly reversed. (Historical Fiction)
George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain. A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spent living alone in the Catskill Mountains. (Adventure Fiction)
Gutman, Dan. Jackie and Me. With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a African-American boy in the process. (Sports Fiction)
Hobbs, Will. Beardance. Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned Grizzlies survive the winter’s end while at the same time trying to complete his spirit mission. (Adventure Fiction)
Hobbs, Will. The Maze. Just 14-years-old, Rick Walker is alone on the run and desperate. He is lost in the middle of the maze with Lon, a biologist, and endangered condors. Can he save himself from the strange men who have wandered into the maze? (Adventure Fiction)
Lee, Maria G. Necessary Roughness. Sixteen-year-old Korean-American Chan moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Minnesota, where he must cope not only with racism on the football team, but also with the tensions in his relationship with his strict father. (Sports Fiction)
Lupica, Mike. Heat. Thirteen-year-old Michael dreams of pitching in the Little League World Series, but a jealous rival spreads rumors that Michael is too old to play in the Little League. When Michael cannot produce a birth certificate, Michael’s dreams are jeopardized. (Sports Fiction)
Morpurgo, Michael. Kensuke’s Kingdom. Washed up on an island with his dog, Michael struggles to survive. He can find neither food nor water. Just when things seem to be at their worst, he realizes that he is not alone on the island. (Adventure Fiction)
Myers, Walter Dean. Won’t Know Till I Get There. When 14-year-old Stephen, his new foster brother Earl, and his friends are caught spray-painting graffiti on a train, they are sentenced to community service at a retirement home. (Realistic Fiction)
Nixon, Joan Lowery. The Other Side of Dark. After spending four years in a coma, 17-year-old Stacy awakens ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her. (Mystery Fiction)
Paulsen, Gary. My Life in Dog Years. In roughly chronological chapters, the author describes how eight dogs have impacted his life from childhood through present day. (Non-Fiction)
Paulsen, Gary. How Angel Peterson Got His Name. Tales of growing up in Minnesota. Gary and his pals attempt to do some amazing sport stunts as they show-off for girls. (Realistic Fiction)
Salisbury, Graham. Under the Blood Red Sun. On December 7, 1941 in Hawaii, Tomi Kazu’s world vanishes in one hour. Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese and Tomi’s father and grandfather are arrested. (Historical Fiction)
Sikes, Gini. Eight Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs. The book follows girl gangs in South Central Los Angeles and other cities tracing the lives of several gang members and look at the issues that drove them into a life of violence. (Non-Fiction)
Vaught, Susan. Stormwitch. After her beloved grandmother is killed, 16-year-old Ruba, trained by her Haitian grandmother in voodoo, uses her skills to fight against racism and the African witch Zashar. (Historical Fiction)
Wood, Frances. Daughter of Madrugada. Thirteen-year-old Cesa lives in Mexico in 1846 where her world is changing after the war with the United States. She soon realizes that there are sacrifices she will have to make, even though she may not like them. (Historical Fiction)
Woodson, Jacqueline. Miracle’s Boys. Twelve-year-old Lafayette’s close relationship with his older brother, Charlie, changes after Charlie is released from a detention home and blames Lafayette for the death of his mother. (Realistic Fiction)
Zindel, Paul. Reef of Death. P.C. McPhee is in Australia to help his uncle solve a mystery involving buried treasure, a beautiful girl, and a horrifying sea creature. (Mystery Fiction)
Required Reading for Students in Advanced Language Arts
Required: Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The tale of a mischievous boy growing up in a 19th century Mississippi River town. Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River.
Advanced Language Arts Book Choices Choose One: Clements, Andrew. Things Not Seen. When 15-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. Twelve-year-old millionaire, genius, and criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl finds himself in over his head after he kidnaps a dangerous fairy.
Hansen, Joyce. The Captive. After the Ashaniti chief is killed, his son, is sold as a slave and ends up in Massachusetts. His fate is in the hands of an African-American shipbuilding who works to return slaves to their homeland.
Hesse, Karen. Witness. A history-inspired novel, told in the voices of 11 characters, about two young girls, one Jewish and the other African-American, who come to the attention of the newly-formed Ku Klux Klan in a small Vermont town in 1924.
Kipling, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. After being washed overboard from an ocean liner, a spoiled millionaire’s son is rescued by a New England fisherman who puts him to work on their boat.
Martinez, Victor. Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida: A Novel. Manny relates his coming-of-age experiences as a member of a poor Mexican-American family in which the alcoholic father only adds to everyone’s struggles.
Napoli, Donna Jo. Stones in Water. After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, but escapes into the Ukranian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
Park, Linda Sue. A Single Shard. Tree-ear, a 13-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters’ village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
Park, Linda Sue. When My Name Was Keoko. With national pride and occasional fear, a brother and sister face the increasingly oppressive occupation of Korea by Japan during World War II, which threatens to suppress Korean culture entirely.
Spinelli, Jerry. Milkweed: A Novel. A street child, known as “Stopthief”, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in the Warsaw ghetto, which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime.
Staples, Suzanne Fisher. Shiva’s Fire. In India, Parvati, a talented dancer who refuses to squander her magical gifts, sacrifices friends and family for her art.
Wolff, Virginia Euwe. Bat 6: A Novel. In small town, post-World War Oregon, 21 sixth grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl’s bigotry comes to the surface.
Yep, Lawrence. Dragon’s Gate. The story of a young Chinese boy who finally gets the opportunity to have his biggest wish come true; he is going to America to live out the American dream. The boy quickly finds out that nothing is what it seems, but now he can’t turn back. |
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