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MVMMS ENGLISH SUMMER READING LIST 2012

Students Entering Grade 6

REQUIRED: Iqbal, by Francesco D’Adamo

A Corner of the Universe, by Ann M. Martin

On My Honor, by Marion Dane Bauer

Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen

The Road to Paris, by Nikki Grimes

How Angel Peterson Got His Name, by Gary Paulsen

Through My Eyes, by Ruby Bridges


Students Entering Grade 7

REQUIRED:Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, by Jordan Sonnenblick

Revolution is Not a Dinner Party, by Ying Chang Compestine

Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen  

The Skin I'm In, by Sharon Flake

Red Kayak, by Priscilla Cummings

Knucklehead: Tall Tales and Mostly True Stories of Growing Up Scieszka, by Jon Scieszka

 

Students Entering Grade 8

Fiction

Peak, by Roland Smith

Airborn, by Kenneth Oppel

A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park

Freak, by Marcella Pixley

Monster, by Walter Dean Myers

Nonfiction

Warriors Don't Cry, by Melba Beals

Shipwrecked: The True Adventuers of a Japanese Boy, by Rhoda Blumberg

Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution, by Ji-li Jiang

Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting, by Jim Murphy

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, by Francisco Jimenez