Name: _________________________ 7th and 8th Grade Summer Reading Students will be required to read one fiction and one nonfiction book this summer. When they return to school, they will be required to complete a book report regarding each of the books they read. All books are available for purchase through amazon.com. Most books are available through the Kindle app. Also, many of these books are available to borrow from New Haven Public Libraries. Take selfies with your summer reading book and email them to me over the summer. I should be able to see the book in the picture. Every student who sends me a reading selfie will be entered into a raffle to win a $20 gift card to Amazon! My email address is
[email protected]. Please include the name of the book in your email. List the books you read on the attached form. Have your parent sign it to participate in a Jepson school- wide summer reading celebration at the beginning of the school year. Fiction Book Suggestions to Read this Summer (You can read any fiction book you’d like, these are just some ideas) ***Future 8th Graders – May of you enjoyed reading the The Lightning Thief. The author, Rick Riodan, wrote may other books about Percy Jackson (including Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, and The Battle of the Labyrinth) as well as other books like The Lightning Thief which include themes of Greek Mythology including the Heroes of Olympus series or House of Hades. Read them if you enjoyed The Lightning Thief! Title, Author, Lexile Description Absolutely Normal “A summer journal? I don’t know what a journal is! This is going to be boring.” That’s Chaos what Mary Lou Finney thinks, anyway.