Patterson, James Spinelli, Jerry The Angel Experiment Stargirl WARREN TOWNSHIP Maximum Ride Series #1 Stargirl, a teen who animates quiet Mica High SCHOOLS After the mutant Erasers kidnap Angel, the with her colorful personality, suddenly finds WARREN MIDDLE SCHOOL youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," herself shunned for her refusal to conform. 8TH GRADE who were genetically engineered, take off to SUMMER READING LIST find her and find out about their own origins Spinelli, Jerry 2010 and purpose. Love, Stargirl Still moping months after being dumped by Leo, Perkins, Lynne Rae fifteen-year-old Stargirl, writes "the world's Criss Cross longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life. Summer should be the time for Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experi- enjoyable and entertaining ence new thoughts and feelings, question their Van Draanen, Wendelin reading. The Warren School identities, connect, and disconnect as they Flipped Librarians and the Warren search for the meaning of life and love. Bryce and Juli describe growing up as neighbors Township Librarians have from their own very different perspectives. compiled material to be used as a guide for our students. Many Pullman, Philip Their stories are told in alternating chapters. of the titles are just a sampling The Golden Compass of the work of each author. The Amber Spyglass Van Draanen, Wendelin The Subtle Knife Runaway In an alternate world Lyra begins to investigate Holly, a twelve-year-old runaway orphan, relates the mysterious kidnapping of children including her experiences through journal entries. her best friend. The three books make up this sci-fi/fantasy trilogy. Williams, Laura E. Richardson, E. E. Behind the Bedroom Wall The Intruders Korinna faces a dilemma when she discovers When Joel and his stepbrother Tim begin hav- that her parents are hiding Jews in a secret ing identical nightmares which for Joel run over room behind her bedroom wall. into the daylight, they decide they must figure out who or what is haunting the house. Summer Reading Lists Prepared by: Warren School District Media Specialists Woodson, Jacqueline Diane Burak—Middle Mary DeNunzio—Central School Shusterman, Neil Hush Nancy Darby—Woodland School The Schwa was Here Twelve-year-old Toswiah’s life changes Janice O’Connor—Mt. Horeb Susan Jackson—ALT A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy drastically when her family enters the federal Librarian from the Warren Public Library Laura Frantz befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who witness protection program. is tired of going unnoticed by nearly everyone. GRADE 8 SUMMER READING Clements, Andrew Fleischman, Sid 2010 Things Not Seen Escape: The Story of the Great Houdini When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, himself invisible, he tries to find out what happened aviator, and king of escape artists whose Anderson, Laurie Halse with the help of his parents and his new friend, a amazing feats are remembered long after his Chains blind girl, named Alicia. Companion Books: death in 1926. Although they were promised freedom upon the Things Hoped For, Things That Are death of their owner, Isabel and her sister, Ruth, become the property of a New York City couple, Freedman, Russell who have no sympathy for the American Revolu- Colfer, Eoin In Defense of Liberty: The story of tion and even less for Ruth and Isabel. The Airman America’s Bill of Rights In the 1890s on an island off the Irish coast, Conor Describes the origins, applications of, and Bennett, Cherie and Gottesfeld, Jeff Broekhart is falsely imprisoned and passes the challenges to the ten amendments to the Anne Frank and Me months by scratching designs of flying machines United States Constitution that comprise the After suffering a concussion while on a class trip into the walls, including a glider with which he Bill of Rights. to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living dreams of escape. the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Haydon, Elizabeth Nazi occupation. The Floating Island : The Lost Journals of Cooney, Caroline B. Ven Polypheme Bryant, Jennifer (Jen Bryant) Hit The Road Ven comes under attack by pirates, is The Trial Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her rescued by mermaid-like creatures, and Twelve-year-old Katie describes, in a series of grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old travels to Floating Island. Ven continues his poems, the trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the women going to what is supposedly a college adventures in The Thief Queen’s Daughter. kidnapping Charles Lindbergh's baby son. reunion, on a trip that involves lies, theft and kidnapping. Bryant, Jennifer (Jen Bryant) Hesse, Karen Ringside, 1925: Views From the Scopes Trial Out of the Dust A novel in free verse poems, in which visitors, Creech, Sharon Through a collection of poems, Billie Jo tells spectators, and residents of Dayton, Tennessee, Heartbeat the story of her personal turmoil and the in 1925 describe the Scopes "monkey trial" and Twelve-year-old Annie ponders life the year that her hardships of living on a farm in Oklahoma its effects on that small town and its citizens. mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins during the dust bowl years of the

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Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy Lisle, Janet Taylor Sequel to: I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then Dunlap, Susanne Emily Black Duck I’d Have To Kill You Genius Cammie Morgan The Musician’s Daughter Ruben Hart relates how, in 1929 Rhode has many questions about her ex-boyfriend, her In eighteenth-century Vienna, Austria, fifteen-year- Island, his family and his friend's family were mother and the last term and intends to use her old Theresa seeks a way to help her family caught up in the competition among groups spying abilities to answer them. Book 3: Don’t financially while investigating the murder of her Judge A Girl By Her Cover father, a renowned violinist in Haydn's orchestra. trying to control the rum-smuggling trade.