Saint Monica School Summer Reading 2021 – Grades 6, 7 & 8

Welcome to summer reading! I hope you all enjoy the recommended books. You will read 2 books: the required book and one from the free choice list.

Assignments: 1. character head activity (attached) for the required book. 2. Write an additional chapter or new ending for the free choice book. Please type the new/additional chapter and print out.

These assignments will be a test grade so they should reflect a great deal of effort. Due 1st day of school! Also, most of these books can be ordered from Scholastic Books.

Required Reading Grade 6 - No Talking by Andrew Clement (Humor) Grade 7 - Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks (Fiction) Grade 8 - I Am Malala: Young Readers Edition by Malala Yousafzai (Nonfiction)

Grade 6 Free Choice: A Drop of Hope Keith Calabrese Bud, Not Buddy Christopher Paul Curtis Call it Courage Armstrong Sperry No, David! David Shannon Merci Suarez Changes Gears Meg Medina Other Words for Home Jasmine Warga Squint Chad Morris, Shelby Brown The Westing Game Ellen Raskin Wildfire Rodman Philbrick Wonder RJ Palacio

Grade 7 Free Choice: Brown Girl Dreaming Jacqueline Woodson Rules Cynthia Lord Fish in a Tree Linda Mulally Hunt Powerless Matthew Cody Ungifted Gordon Korman Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End Jeff Kinney One Crazy Summer Rita Williams-Garcia The Trials of Apollo Rick Riordan Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor The One and Only Ivan Katherine Applegate

Grade 8 Free Choice: And Then There Were None Agatha Christie Booked Kwame Alexander The Booth Brothers: Rebecca Langston-George Code Talker Joseph Bruchac Guts Raina Telgeimeier Hidden Figures: Young Readers Edition Margo Lee Shetterly I Know What You Did Last Summer Lois Duncan Refugee Alan Gratz Restart Gordon Korman The City of Ember (Science Fiction) Jeanne DePrau The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers William Kamkwamba The Unteachables Gordon Korman