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    6th Grade Recommended Summer Reading

    Informational Expository Text Oh Rats! The Story of Rats and People Poetry Literary Non Fiction Lincolns Grave Robbers Wonder by R.J. Palacio Fiction

    Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems

    by Albert Marrin, C.B. by Kristine O'Connell George , Debbie Tilley Mordan

    by Steve Sheinkin
    Born with a severe facial deformity, Augies life has consisted of an endless series of surgeries, while being home schooled by his mother. For the first time in his life, he is going to attend the local school as a fifth grader.

    Rump by Liesl Shurtliff

    Able to claw straight up a brick wall, squeeze through a pipe the width of a quarter, and gnaw through iron and concrete, rats are also revealed in this fascinating book to be incredibly intelligent and capable of great compassion.

    The first year brings an array of challenges: making new friends, moving from class to class, tests and homework, changing for PE, gossip, school dances, and, of course, budding romance. These tiny poems--rhymed, free verse, haiku, even an acrostic--cover the first year of junior high.

    In 1876, a group of counterfeiters attempt to get their prized engraver out of jail by hatching an outrageous plan to steal President Abraham Lincolns body from his tomb and holding the body for ransom.

    In a magical kingdom where your name is your destiny, twelveyear-old Rump is the butt of everyones joke. But when he finds an old spinning wheel, his luck seems to change.

    Star Wars: Jedi Academy by Jeffrey Brown

    This incredible, original story captures all of the humor, awkwardness, fun, and frustrations of middle school--all told through one boy's comics, journal entries, letters, doodles, and newspaper clippings. The setting? A galaxy far, far away...

    7th Grade Recommended Summer Reading


    Informational Expository Text Poetry Literary Non Fiction Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, by Karen Blumenthal
    Lupitas heart belongs both in her native Mexico and in her American home in Eagle Pass. The oldest of eight siblings, she is resilient as she struggles to help raise her siblings in the face of a family illness.

    Fiction Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

    How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg

    Carver: A Life In Poems

    by Marilyn Nelson

    The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

    Some of the most famous people came to the most gruesome of deaths. Read all about it, if you have "the guts for gore!"

    This collection of poems provides a lyrical account of the life of George Washington Carver, a man born into slavery who went on to head the agricultural department at the Tuskegee Institute.

    Love him or hate him, one cannot deny the impact Steve Jobs had on the twentyfirst century. This is the honest story of the complicated man who truly thought different.

    Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual placehe's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings.

    Ripper by Stefan Petrucha

    Orphan Carver Young is taken in and trained by a retired detective. Carvers first assignment is to find his long lost father, and all he has to go on is a letter, a letter with handwriting that matches that of the infamous murderer, Jack the Ripper.

    8th Grade Recommended Summer Reading


    Informational Expository Text Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World's Most Dangerous Weapon Poetry Literary Non Fiction The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb Fiction Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
    A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.

    The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle

    by Steve Sheinkin

    Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina


    One morning before school, some girl tells Piddy Sanchez that Yaqui Delgado hates her and wants to kick her ass. In an all-too-realistic novel, Meg Medina portrays a sympathetic heroine who is forced to decide who she really is.

    In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon.

    It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Engle's poems construct a narrative woven around the nation's Wars for Independence.

    This true story of a group of Jewish men brought together to capture and bring to justice a notorious Nazi war criminal takes place 15 years after the end of WWII. This is a

    The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau


    Cia Vale is one of four teens chosen to represent her small colony at the annual Testing, an intensive mental and physical examination aimed at identifying the best and brightest, who will go on to the University and help rebuild their shattered world. Last-minute revelations and a cliff hanger ending will draw the reader into this dystopian trilogy.

    splendid example of fascinating storytelling blended with significant historical events.

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