Seventh Grade Summer

Recommended Reading

ADVENTURE/SURVIVAL

Black Duck, Janet Taylor Lisle

Runaway, Wendelin Van Draanen

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, LIFE EXISTED BEFORE YOU WERE BORN

            (HISTORICAL FICTION)

Dark Water Rising.  Marian Hale

GET REAL (BIOGRAPHIES/NON-FICTION)

One More River to Cross:  The Stories of Twelve Black Americans, James Haskins

GRAPHICALLY SPEAKING (GRAPHIC NOVELS)

The Runaway Princess, Kate Coombs

FOR JOCKS OR WOULD BE JOCKS (SPORTS)

Heat, Mike Lupica

Night Hoops, Carl Deuker

FOR KIDS WHO LIKE READING AS MUCH AS THEY LIKE TAKING TESTS

Monster or Scorpions, Walter Dean Myers

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS (LOUISIANA/SOUTHERN)

Trouble’s Child, Mildred Pitts Walter

IT’S A MYSTERY TO ME

Grooves: A Kind of Mystery, Kevin Brockmeier

From the above list of suggested book titles, read at least five (5).  Select one (1) or two (2) books that you enjoyed reading the most and prepare a book summary, or summaries, to submit upon your return to school in the fall.

Ms. J. Patterson, Teacher

English Language Arts