Haymon-Morris Middle School 2010 Summer Reading List

Instructions Instructions: Choose two of the books on your grade level list and/or from the Georgia Children’s Book Awards to read. After reading each book, choose one of the following projects to do:

 Write an alternate ending for the book.  Create a story quilt.  Make a plot line of the story.  Make am illustrated timeline of major events.  Write a review of the book appropriate for a magazine or newspaper.  Make a diorama of an important scene in the book. Write a paragraph to explain the scene’s importance.  Make an artifact that reflects something of importance in the book. Write a paragraph to explain the artifact’s importance.

6th Grade Projects are due on August 16, 2010. 7th Grade and 8th Grade Project are due on August 2nd, 2010.

Projects will be graded. Books read will count toward the 25 books students are expected to read (see Georgia Performance Standards).

6th Grade Book List:

 Small Steps by Louis Sachar  Flush by Carl Hiaasen  Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipovic  Rules by Cynthia Lord  Peak by Roland Smith  Crispin: at the Edge of the World by Avi  Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddox  My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George  Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan  The Red Rose Box by Brenda Woods

7th Grade Book List:

 A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park  Angel Experiment by James Patterson  Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan  A Mango Shaped Space, Wendy Mass  Heat by Mike Lupica  Ruby Holler by Creech  The Xanadu Adventure by Alexander  Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix  Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiangs  The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis

8th Grade Book List:

 Swallowing Stones by Joyce McDonald  Chains by Laurie H. Anderson  Do Not Pass Go by Kirkpatrick Hill  Day of Tears by Julius Lester  Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan  Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff  Gossamer by Lois Lowry  Fever 1793 by Laurie H. Anderson  Slam by Walter Dean Myers  The Misfits by James Howe  Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by G. Schmidt

2009-2010 Georgia Children’s Book Award Nominees:

 Hummingbird by Kimberly G. Angle  The Golly-Whopper Games by Jody Feldman  The Year the Swallows Came Early by Katherine Fitzmaurice  Diamond Willow by Helen Frost  A Tugging String by David Greenberg  Chase by Jessie Haas  All the Lovely Bad Ones by Mary Downing Hahn  Bird Lake Moon by Kevin Henkes  Go Big or Go Home by Will Hobbs  Seekers the Quest Begins by Erin Hunter  We Can’t All Be Rattlesnakes by Patrick Jennings  House of Dance by Beth Kephart  The Last Girls of Pompeii by Kathryn Lasky  Savvy by Ingrid Law  Storyteller by Edward Myers  Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji  Bringing the Boy Home by N.A. Nelson  Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel  The Magiv Thief by Sarah Prineas  Dragon’s Egg by Sarah L. Thomson