Summer Reading 2007
Required Reading
All required summer reading books will be available from www.varsitybooks.com after June 1, 2007. If you have any difficulty obtaining these titles, call Sue Clayton in the Business Office at (410) 263-9231, ext. 1262.
5th Grade Students
Read THREE books:
| Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH |
Robert C. O'Brien |
| The Sign of the Beaver |
Elizabeth George Speare |
Plus one Realistic Fiction book of your choice
Examples of Realistic Fiction include titles listed below in
the "Growing Up," "Survival," "Historical," and "Multicultural" sections
of "Recommendations for Supplemental Reading." Students may choose
other titles.The book you choose must be one you have never read
before. Be prepared to discuss your book and
to provide a short review of it when you return
to school in the fall.
6th Grade Students
Read THREE books:
| Fever 1793 |
Laurie Halse Anderson |
Plus one Biography of your choice
The book you choose will be used as an introduction to the 6th grade's biography genre study. For ideas about appropriate titles, look at the biographies listed below in the "Recommendations for Supplemental Reading." Students may choose other titles.
And one Fantasy book of your choice
The fantasy book you choose must be one you have never read before. Be prepared to discuss your book and to provide a review of
Recommendations for Supplemental Reading
In addition to reading the required titles listed above, all students are encouraged to read several previously unread titles from the following list.
Biography
| Abigail
Adams |
Angela
Osborne |
At
Her Majesty's Request: An African
Princess in Victorian England |
Walter
Dean Myers |
| B.
Franklin, Printer |
David
A. Adler |
|
Boy: Tales of Childhood |
Roald
Dahl |
| Bull's-Eye:
A Photobiography of Annie Oakley |
Sue
Macy |
| Carver:
A Life in Poems |
Marilyn
Nelson |
| Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein |
Marfe Ferguson Delano |
| The
Great Little Madison |
Jean
Fritz |
| Hans Christian
Andersen: His Fairy Tale Life |
Hjordis
Varmer |
| Helen
Keller |
Dennis
Wepman |
| Isaac Newton: Giants of Science |
Kathleen Krull |
| Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy |
Dennis Brindell Fradin |
|
John Muir |
Sally
Tolan |
| M. L. K.: Journey of a King |
Tonya Bolden |
| Margaret Bourke-White |
Susan Goldman Rubin |
| Martha
Graham: A Dancer's Life |
Russell
Freedman |
| Sequoyah's
Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee Leader |
Janet
Klausner |
|
Stonewall |
Jean
Fritz |
| Toulouse Lautres: The Moulin Rouge
and the City of Light |
Robert
Burleigh |
| Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist |
Jan Greenberg |
| The Voice that Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights |
Russell Freedman |
| Winston Churchhill: Soldier and Politician |
Tristan Boyer Binns |
Growing Up
| All Alone in the Universe |
Lynne Rae Perkins |
| Anne of Green Gables (and sequels) |
Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| Bud,
Not Buddy |
Christopher
Paul Curtis |
| Cheaper
by the Dozen |
F.B. Gilbreth,
Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey |
| The
Great Brain |
John
D. Fitzgerald |
| The Higher Power of Lucky |
Susan Patron |
| Homecoming
|
Cynthia
Voigt |
| Jacob
Have I Loved |
Katherine
Paterson |
| Lily's
Crossing |
Patricia
Reilly Giff |
| Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott |
| A Long Way from Chicago |
Richard Peck |
| The
Misfits |
James
Howe |
| Our
Only May Amelia |
Jennifer
L. Holm |
| The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters,
Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy |
Jeanne
Birdsall |
| Small
Steps |
Louis
Sachar |
| Ruby Holler |
Sharon Creech |
| Rules |
Cynthia Lord |
| The
View from Saturday |
E.
L. Konigsburg |
Survival
| Brian's
Winter |
Gary
Paulsen |
| Call
It Courage |
Armstrong
Sperry |
| Crispin
|
Avi |
|
Guts: True Stories behind the Brian Books |
Gary
Paulsen |
| Island
of the Blue Dolphins |
Scott
O'Dell |
|
My Side of the Mountain |
Jean
Craighead George |
|
To Be a Slave |
Julius
Lester |
|
Treasure Island |
Robert
Louis Stevenson |
| Words
By Heart |
Ouida
Sebestyen |
|
The Wreckers |
Iain
Lawrence |
Historical
| Across
Five Aprils |
Irene
Hunt |
| Beyond
the Western Sea: The Escape from Home |
Avi |
| Calico
Bush |
Rachel
Field |
|
Catherine: Called Birdy |
Karen
Cushman |
| Dragonwings
|
Laurence
Yep |
|
Early Thunder |
Jean
Fritz |
|
Fair Weather |
Richard
Peck |
| Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
Russell Freedman |
|
The Game of Silence |
Louise
Erdrich |
| A
Gathering of Days |
Joan
Blos |
|
The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won |
Stephen
E. Ambrose |
| Incredible
Journey of Lewis & Clark |
Rhoda
Blumberg |
|
The King of Mulberry Street |
Donna Jo.
Napoli |
|
Letters from Rifka |
Karen
Hesse |
|
Matilda Bone |
Karen
Cushman |
| Penny from Heaven |
Jennifer L. Holm |
|
Streams to the River, River to the Sea |
Scott
O'Dell |
|
The Three Musketeers |
Alexander
Dumas |
|
The Year of the Hangman |
Gary Blackwood |
Animals and Nature
| All
Creatures Great and Small (and sequels) |
James
Herriot |
|
Black Beauty |
Anna
Sewell |
Bugs: Insects, Spiders, Centipedes, Millipedes, And
Other Closely Related Arthropods |
Frank
Lowenstein |
| The
Chimpanzees I Love |
Jane
Goodall |
|
The Jungle Book |
Rudyard
Kipling |
| Oh, Rats! The Story of Rats and People |
Albert Marrin |
|
Old Yeller |
Fred
Gipson |
| Shiloh
(and sequels) |
Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor |
|
Where the Wild Horses Roam |
Dorothy
H. Patent |
|
Whittington |
Alan
Armstrong |
| Wildflowers
Around the Year |
Hope
Ryden |
|
Woodsong |
Gary
Paulsen |
|
The Yearling |
Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings |
Multicultural
| Cow-Tail Switch and Other
West African Stories |
Harold
Courlander |
|
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia |
Esther
Hautzig |
|
Esperanza Rising |
Pam Munoz Ryan |
|
Facing the Lion |
Joseph Lemosalai Lekuton |
| Homeless
Bird |
Gloria
Whelan |
| Kira-Kira |
Cynthia Kadohota |
|
M. C. Higgins, the Great |
Virginia
Hamilton |
| Nightjohn
|
Gary
Paulsen |
|
The Road to Memphis |
Mildred
Taylor |
| Sees
Behind Trees |
Michael
Dorris |
|
Shen of the Sea: Chinese Stories for Children |
Arthur
B. Chrisman |
| A
Single Shard |
Linda
Sue Park |
|
Sounder |
William
Armstrong |
Fantasy
| Airborn |
Kenneth Oppel |
| Alice
in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
| Artemis Fowl (and sequels) |
Eoin Colfer |
| Beauty |
Robin McKinley |
| Bone: Out from Boneville (and sequels) |
Jeff Smith |
| The City of Ember (and sequels) |
Jeanne DuPrau |
| The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm |
Nancy Farmer |
| Ella Enchanted |
Gail Carson Levine |
| The Game of Sunken Places |
M. T. Anderson |
| The Golden Compass (and sequels) |
Philip Pullman |
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (and sequels) |
J. K. Rowling |
| The Hobbit |
J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Inkheart |
Cornelia Funke |
| The Lightening Thief (and sequels) |
Rick Riordan |
| Redwall (and sequels) |
Brian Jacques |
| The Tale of Despereaux |
Kate DiCamillo |
| The Thief |
Megan Whalen Turner |
| The White Mountains (Series) |
John Christopher |
| Wild Magic: The Immortals (Series) |
Tamora Pierce |
| Wolves of Willoughby Chase |
Joan Aiken |
| A Wrinkle in Time (and sequels) |
Madeleine L’Engle |
Mystery
| And
Then There Were None |
Agatha
Christie |
|
The Boy Who Reversed Himself |
William
Sleator |
|
The Callender Papers |
Cynthia
Voigt |
|
The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare |
Lilian Jackson Braun |
|
Chasing Vermeer |
Blue Balliett |
|
The Curse of the Blue Figurine |
John
Bellairs |
|
The Egypt Game |
Zilpha
Keatley Snyder |
|
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn |
Dorothy
Hoobler |
|
Letters from Camp: A Mystery |
Kate Klise |
| Sammy
Keyes and the Hotel Thief (Series) |
Wendelin
Van Draanen |
|
Something Upstairs |
Avi |
|
Time Stops for No Mouse |
Michael Hoeye |
|
The Westing Game |
Ellen Raskin |
|
Yaxley's Cat |
Robert Westall
|
