Skeleton Creek (BOOK ONE ONLY) by Patrick Carman

2015-2016 Summer Reading

BOOKS ARE LISTED BY GRADE. EACH GRADE WILL CHOOSE TWO (2) BOOKS FROM THE LISTS PROVIDED (EXCEPT AP LITERATURE WHO WILL READ ALL 3 BOOKS). Students will be expected to have both selected books read upon returning to school for the 2015-2016 school year in August. Students will be tested on the books they have selected to read.

Upcoming 7 th Graders/Current 6 th graders CHOOSE TWO:  Skeleton Creek (BOOK ONE ONLY) by Patrick Carman  A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd  The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick

 Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (BOOK ONE ONLY) by James Patterson

Upcoming 8 th graders/Current 7 th graders CHOOSE TWO:  The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor  The Uglies by Scott Westerfiled  The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau  Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Upcoming 9 th graders/Current 8 th graders CHOOSE TWO:  Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs  The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks by E. Lockhart  The Scorched Trials by James Dashner  The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

Upcoming 10 th graders/Current 9 th graders CHOOSE TWO:  The Compound by S.A. Bodeen  One Whole and Perfect Day by Judith Clarke  Dark Eden by Patrick Carman  The Other Side of Dark by Sara Smith

STUDENTS NOT TAKING COMP. I/II or AP Language; Upcoming 11 th graders/Current 10 th graders CHOOSE TWO:  The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls  I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher  We Were Liars by Elizabeth Lockhart  Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys  Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

STUDENTS TAKING COMP. I/II; Upcoming 11 th graders/Current 10 th graders CHOOSE TWO:  The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls  Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys  Bleachers by John Grisham  The Diviners by Libba Bray  Hollow City by Ransom Riggs

STUDENTS TAKING AP Language; Upcoming 11 th graders/Current 10 th graders CHOOSE TWO:  Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury  The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls  The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch  A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah

STUDENTS TAKING DC Literature or English IV; Upcoming 12 th graders/Current 11 th graders CHOOSE TWO:  Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson  A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway  Endgame: The Calling by James Frey

STUDENTS TAKING AP Literature; Upcoming 12 th graders/Current 11 th graders STUDENTS MUST READ ALL 3:  Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe  Brave New World by Aldous Huxley  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway