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Summer Reading MVMS 2008

 

 

 

Access our summer reading website where you will find lots of links providing background knowledge, something about the authors, podcasts, and more. Access summer reading anytime and anywhere!

www.mvmsreader.pbwiki.comWebsite designed and created by Mrs. Johnson’s LA Literacy Fourth Quarter 2008
Everyone Should Read One of These

Be prepared to be a part of our Fall book group discussions

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jake Kinney*

Dairy Queen by Catherine Murdock*

Evil Genius by Catherine Jinks*

Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer*

Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan*

Rules of Survival by Nancy Werlin

Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen

Twilight  by Stephenie Meyer*

*Denotes a sequel to this title; read one or read them all!

 

Why Is There Conflict?

Incoming Grade 8 should read one of the following titles to prepare for Social Studies book discussions.

 

Nation by Terry Pratchett 

 

Copper Sun by Sharon Draper 

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston**

Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian   Armenian genocide

In My Hands by Irene Gut Opdyke 

Samurai Shortstop by Alan Gretz

Sunrise over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers  

Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples 

Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
A Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth LairdDenotes multiple copies available from school
 
 
 
 
More Fabulous Summer Reading
Not of This World:  Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Supernatural 
Bartimaeus Trilogy (series) by Jonathon Stroud
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause 
Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale 
City of Ember (series) by Jeanne DePrau 
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card 
Lost Years of Merlin by T. A. Barron
Maximum Ride (series) Patterson 
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve 
Pendragon (series) by D. J. McHale 
Rash by Pete Hautman
Summerland by Michael Chabon 
Trickster’s Choice by (series) Tamora Pierce  
Watership Down by Richard Adams 
Wee Free Men (series) by Terry Pratchett
 
In this World: Realistic Fiction 
Battle of Jericho by Sharon Flake 
Buddha Boy by Kathe Koja 
I Am the Wallpaper Mark Peter Hughes
Invisible by Pete Hautman
Jack Henry series by Jack Gantos 
Keesha’s House by Helen Frost
Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson 
Middle School Is Worse than Meatloaf: A Year Told through

 

             Stuff by Jennifer L. Holm 
Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes 
Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings 
Runner by Carl Deuker
Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman 
The Pigman by Paul Zindel 
 
Mystery, Espionage, Sports, and Adventure
Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz 
Cherub series by Robert Muchamore 
Christopher Killer by Alane Ferguson 
Cover-Up by John Feinstein 
Double Identity by Margaret Haddix  
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abramson 
Operation Red Jericho by Joshua Mowll 
Summer Ball by Mike Lupica   

Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson 

 
Non-Fiction and Poetry 
Escape: the Story of the Great Houdini by Sid Fleischman 
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story
        about Brain Science by John Fleischman
In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais 
Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems by John Grandits   
Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree

     Griffin Burns 

 

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