Grades 9-12 Reading Lists
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Summer Reading Challenge Summer Reading Survey This summer, read any 10 books from the FBS Library’s Top 20 recommendations for 9th-11th grade to earn a trip to Sky High in Which book was your favorite? the fall. The 9th grade list and covers for the 10th-11th grade lists are inside. All lists are online. All logs must be submitted by the end of Back to School Night to qualify for Sky High. What did you like about it? As you finish each book, record the title, author, and date finished on one of the lines below. (Only 1 book per series or author counts for the challenge.) When all 10 lines are complete, turn it in to the school library or office. Complete the survey on If you had the opportunity to be in a movie version of one of the the back for an extra treat. books, which book would you choose, and which character would CHALLENGE All single titles and a selection of each series listed may be SUMMERSUMMER borrowed from the school library. Some titles are also available you play? digitally, as marked inside. Summer library hours will be posted at the school office. READINGREADING Reading Log How many of the books have you read before? Student Name Grade in Fall How did you choose which books to read? Parent Signature - indicates student has read all 10 books listed 1. Did you read any other books this summer? 2. If so, about how many? FAITH BAPTIST SUMMER 2017 Optional: On a separate sheet of paper, draw a picture of a 3. READING CHALLENGE scene from any of the books. Which book did you draw a scene Grade 9 4. from? 5. 6. 7. 8. LAUNCHLAUNCH OUTOUT ON A 9. GALACTIC EXPLORATION 10. Over Sea, Under Stone The Hawk that Dare Not Hunt by Day FBS Library’s Top Twenty Susan Cooper Scott O’Dell Three modern children find themselves on a Set during the reformation, this historical fiction Recommendations for Summer Reading quest for the grail from the legend of King novel tells the story of William Tyndale through Going into Grade 9 Arthur. (196 p., F COO s.Dar v.1) the eyes of a young smuggler. (222 p., JF ODE) Marked titles are available digitally through MackinVia.com Lost in Lexicon: An Adventure Blind Spot On Hope’s Wings Chris Fabry Melody Carlson in Words and Numbers Pendred Noyce The first in a 4-book series switches between 2 Set just after WWII, Allison runs away after different, suspenseful Nascar stories involving a finding a clue about the father she has never Two cousins puzzle their way through a boy who has grown up riding the circuit with known. (188 p., F CAR s.All v.01) strange world to rescue the lost children of his father and a girl who intends to be the first Lexicon. (304 p., F NOY s.Lex v.1) female cup winner. (230 p., F FAB s.RPM v.01) Where the Sidewalk Ends The Sign of the Beaver No Promises in the Wind Shel Silverstein Elizabeth George Speare Irene Hunt A collection of humorous poems and drawings A young boy is on his own for a summer after 15-year-old Josh, his best friend Howie and his including Sick (reasons to miss school), For Sale his father has to return East for his mother and younger brother Joey set off on their own in (one sister) and It’s Dark in Here (written inside sister. (135 p., JF SPE) the midst of the Great Depression. a lion). (166 p., 808.81 SIL) (184 p., F HUN) When the Legends Die The Hound of the Baskervilles The Devil’s Arithmetic Hal Borland Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Jane Yolen A Native American couple raise their young boy in When a militated body is found, fear frozen in 12-year-old Hannah is tired of the Holocaust the old traditions in the 1910’s, but when he is its eyes, rumor claims the man was yet another stories told at every family gathering, but discovered in the woods after both have died, he is victim of a supernatural hound. Join Sherlock when she opens the door at Passover she forced to return to society. (304 p., F BOR) Holmes as he takes the case. finds herself transported back in time to see it (124 p., C DOY Hou) for herself. (170 p., F YOL) Game Changer When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit The Underdogs Margaret Peterson Haddix Judith Kerr Mike Lupica When a softball star blacks out, she wakes up in An autobiographical novel of a 9-year-old Jewish Will Tyler loves football, but his small town is a world where everyone learns sports and the girl whose normal life is shattered when her almost a ghost town and there is no money left after-school extracurricular activities are aca- father disappears shortly before her mother for things like sports teams. Can Will and his demic. (250 p., F HAD) hurries the rest of the family out of Germany. teammates –or what is left of them– find a way (191 p., F KER) to play? (294 p., F LUP) Death Trap All the Broken Pieces Life Behind the Wall Sigmund Brouwer Ann Burg Robert Elmer 14-year-old virtual reality specialist Tyce was Matt is adopted by an American family after Three books in one, each about teens living born in an experimental colony on Mars. Now being air-lifted from the warzone in Vietnam. near the Berlin Wall. the air supply is running dangerously low. Told in poetry, this story shares his struggles (528 p., F ELM) (288 p. F BRO s.Rob v.01) between his current life, his past, and the views Note: Any 1 of the 3 stories counts for the of those around him. (218 p., F BUR) challenge. The Unwanteds Rifles for Watie Viking Quest Lisa McMann Harold Keith Lois Walfrid Johnson Creativity is so unwanted in Quill that children A Civil War novel focused on the lesser- Two Irish teens are captured by Vikings. who show any sign of it are sent to be elimi- known Western campaign will be especially (208-304 p., F JOH s.Vik) nated… as far as everyone knows. enjoyed by fans of Johnny Tremain or Across (400 p., F MCM s.Unw v.01) Five Aprils. (332 p., JF KEI) Summer Reading Challenge Summer Reading Survey This summer, read any 10 books from the FBS Library’s Top 20 recommendations for 10th-12th grade to earn a trip to Sky High Which book was your favorite? in the fall. The 10th grade list and covers for the 11th-12th grade lists are inside. All lists are online. All logs must be submitted by the end of Back to School Night to qualify for Sky High. What did you like about it? As you finish each book, record the title, author, and date finished on one of the lines below. (Only 1 book per series or author counts for the challenge.) When all 10 lines are complete, turn it in to the school library or office. Complete the survey on If you had the opportunity to be in a movie version of one of the the back for an extra treat. books, which book would you choose, and which character would CHALLENGE All single titles and a selection of each series listed may be SUMMERSUMMER borrowed from the school library. Some titles are also available you play? digitally, as marked inside. Summer library hours will be posted at the school office. READINGREADING Reading Log How many of the books have you read before? Student Name Grade in Fall How did you choose which books to read? Parent Signature - indicates student has read all 10 books listed 1. Did you read any other books this summer? 2. If so, about how many? FAITH BAPTIST SUMMER 2017 Optional: On a separate sheet of paper, draw a picture of a 3. READING CHALLENGE scene from any of the books. Which book did you draw a scene Grade 10 4. from? 5. 6. 7. 8. LAUNCHLAUNCH OUTOUT ON A 9. GALACTIC EXPLORATION 10. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Katy’s New World FBS Library’s Top Twenty Mildred D. Taylor Kim Vogel Sawyer A family struggles against racism in depression- Katy longs to learn more and finally gets the Recommendations for Summer Reading era Mississippi in this sad portrait of life at the elders approval to attend the local high school time. (210 p., JF TAY) and learn beyond the ninth-grade level that is Going into Grade 10 normal in her Mennonite community. Marked titles are available digitally through MackinVia.com (203 p., F SAW s.Kat v.01) All Fall Down The Diary of a Young Girl Book of a Thousand Days Ally Carter Anne Frank Shannon Hale After moving to the US Embassy to live with her A translation of the actual diary kept by 13- Rewritten as a fantasy book for teens, this ambassador grandfather, a teen overhears two year-old Anne Frank over the two years her story is based on Maid Maleen, a little-known men plotting. When one moves into view, she family spent hidden in a secret portion of an tale from the Brothers Grimm. (305 p., F HAL) realizes he is the man she saw kill her mother. office building before being discovered by the (304 p., F CAR s.Amb v.01) Gestapo. (304 p., B 940 FRA) Hero Jane Eyre Mark of the Thief Mike Lupica Charlotte Bronte Jennifer Nielsen 14-year-old Billy is determined to learn the Having survived cruel relatives and an oppres- A slave boy escapes the Roman mines only to truth behind his father’s death, and in the pro- sive boarding school, Jane Eyre lands a gover- find himself in the middle of a conspiracy be- cess discovers he has inherited superpowers he ness position only to encounter a dark secret tween the emperor and the leaders of Rome.