Joyce Middle School Summer Reading 2014

Grade 6 My brother Sam is dead (J. & C. Collier) Slob (Ellen Potter) Miss Peregrine’s home for peculiar children (Ransom Riggs) After Tupac and D Foster (Jacqueline Woodson)

Grade 7 Fever, 1793 (Laurie Halse Anderson) Avi (author, students can read any of his books) Things not seen (Andrew Clements) Hoot (Carl Hiaasen) Mike Lupica (author, students can read any of his books) Hoops (Walter Dean Myers) Slam (Walter Dean Myers)

Grade 8 Students must read Wonder (R.J. Palacio)

General Fiction 13 Reasons Why (Jay Asher) Looking for Alaska (John Green) Breathing Underwater (Alex Flinn) The Summer I Turned Pretty (Jenny Han) That Time I Joined the Circus (Howard) Sports Hoops of Steel (Foley) Going for the Record (Julie Swanson) Painting the Black (Deuker) Center field (Lipsyte) Heart of a Champion (Deuker) Mystery/Suspense Silent to the Bone (E.L. Konigsburg) The Name of the Star (Maureen Johnson) Where Things Come Back (John Corey Whaley) Stolen (Christopher) The Boy Who Couldn’t Die (Sleator)

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Joyce Middle School Summer Reading 2014

Fantasy/Apocalyptic (End of the World) Maze Runner (Dashner) Scorpio Races (Stiefvater) Gone (Michael Grant) Shiver (Stiefvater) Divergent (Roth) Eleventh Plague (Hirsch) Historical Fiction Purple Heart (McCormick) Code Name Verity (Elizabeth Wein) Between Shades of Gray (Ruta Sepetys) Fever, 1793 (Anderson) Private Peaceful (Morpurgo)

Grades 6 – 8 Language Based Special Education Program The One and Only Ivan (Katherine Applegate) Number the Stars ( Lois Lowry)

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