Summer Reading Project for Grades 6-8 Due: Sept. 4, 2020 to your ELA teacher Reading during the summer enhances achievement and leads to a lifelong interest in reading for pleasure. Our 2020 summer reading project serves as an introduction to the four themes that will be covered for each grade level next year with the Expeditionary Learning Curriculum. Directions: Select at least 2 books on this list, and write 3 PARAGRAPHS outlining the following information from each book: A brief summary of the text, what you liked best about the book, and would you recommend this novel to a friend? Why/why not? Be CREATIVE with your responses! Greek Mythology Critical Problems & Solutions American Indian Schools Space Science Accomplishments -The Monsters and Creatures of -The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the -Shin-chi's Canoe -Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Greek Mythology Airplane -My Name Is Seepeetza Scout to Rocket Scientist Rising -The Heroes and Mortals of Greek -Girls Think of Everything: Stories of -Bowman's Store: A Journey to Myself -Astronaut Ellen Ochoa Mythology Ingenious Inventions by Women -Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native -Countdown: 2979 Days to the Moon th 6 -Percy Jackson's Greek Gods -Super Soaker Inventor Lonnie Johnson American Childhood -Disaster Strikes!: The Most Dangerous -Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes -The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle, and -Everything You Wanted to Know about Space Missions of All Time -Zeus, King of the Gods Other Surprising Stories about Inventions Indians but Were Afraid to Ask -Endurance: My Year in Space and How I -Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the -Mistakes That Worked: The World's Familiar -If I Ever Get Out of Here Got There (Young Readers Edition) Greek Myths Inventions and How They Came to Be -I am Not a Number -The Race to Space -Who Let the Gods Out? -Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different The Lost Children of Sudan Epidemics The Harlem Renaissance Plastic Pollution -The Good Braider -Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio -Augusta Savage: Sculptor of the Harlem -The New Ocean: The Fate of Life in a -Lost Girl Found Renaissance Changing Sea -Deadly -How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of -The Great Migration: An American Story -World without Fish Rising -When Plague Strikes: The Black Death, a War Child Smallpox, AIDS -Finding Langston -The Great Pacific Garbage Patch th -One Well: The Story of Water on -Zora!: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston -Junk Raft: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising 7 -Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary Earth -I See the Rhythm Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution -Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded -Now Is the Time for Running -Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History Of The -Eyes Wide Open: Going Behind the America -Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil -Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 Harlem Renaissance Environmental Headlines War in Sudan -The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader -The Plastic Problem -A Death-Struck Year -Home of the Brave Folklore of Latin America Food Choices Voices of the Holocaust Japanese American -Tales Our Abuelitas Told -Relish: My Life in the Kitchen -The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the -Weedflower -Momentos Mágicos/Magic -Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Impossible Became Possible on Schindler's -Four-Four-Two Rising Moments Know about Fast Food List -Within These Lines -The Emerald Lizard -Food: The New Gold -Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of -Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese th 8 -Mexican-American Folklore -What the World Eats Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust Americans during World War II -Whiskers, Tails, and Wings -The Story of Food: An Illustrated History of -The War within These Walls -Gaijin: American Prisoner of War -Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Everything We Eat -Eva's Story -Fred Korematsu Speaks Up Sky -Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, -Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the -Journey to Topaz -Love Sugar Magic: A Dash of Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science Holocaust -Fish for Jimmy: Inspired by One Family's Trouble -Your Food Is Fooling You: How Your Brain Is -Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art Experience in a Japanese American Hijacked by Sugar, Fat, and Salt Internment Camp