"A new age demands a new paradigm!" -Walter McKenzie 2005 Student Summer Reading Volume 7, Issue 10 - April 2005

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Elementary School

Arthur for the Very First Time - Patricia MacLachlan Shelter Dogs - Peg Kehret Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job - Willo Roberts Sign of the Beaver - Elizabeth George Speare Battle for the Castle - Elizabeth Winthrop Skateboard Tough - Matt Christopher Because of Winn Dixie - Kate Dicamillo Stone Fox - John Reynolds Gardiner ¡Beisbol! Latino Baseball Pioneers - Jonah Winter Summer Reading is Killing Me - John Scieszka Black Bull of Norroway - Charlotte S. Huck Time Stops for No Mouse - Michael Hoeye Blackwater - Eve Bunting Through My Eyes - Ruby Bridges Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander Too Close for Comfort - Anne Mazer Brush with Magic - William J. Brooke Trouble with Tuck - Theodore Taylor Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Curtis Viking It and Liking It - Jon Scieszka Chameleon Wore Chartreuse - Bruce Hale Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech Chasing Vermeer - Blue Balliett Yang the Youngest and his Terrible Ear - Lensey Dancing in Cadillac Light - Kimberly Willis Holt Namioka Daphne's Book - Mary Hahn Day It Rained Forever - Virginia Gross

Day of the Iguana - Henry Winkler Because of Winn Dixie - Kate Dicamillo Dot - Peter Reynolds Recommended by Sharon Moder Double Fudge - Judy Blume "The story deals with the real issue of fitting Fight for Life - Laurie Halse Anderson in and accepting others for who they are." Flip-Flop Girl - Katherine Paterson The book on which the recent movie was Fossil Fish Found Alive - Sally M. Walker based - definitely a worthwhile Gold Cadillac - Mildred Taylor recommendation for students! Gold Dust Letters - Janet Taylor Lisle Half Magic - Edward Eager Hatchet - Gary Paulsen The Dot - Peter Reynolds Henry and Mudge (series) - Cynthia Rylant Recommended by Maggie Austin Honus and Me - Dan Gutman "This book is a joy for adults as well as for Horrible Harry Moves Up to Third Grade - Suzy Kline children. It's that rare combination of great In the Face of Danger - Joan Nixon message, great illustrations, and solid story. Incident at Hawk's Hill - Alan Eckert It provides perfect fodder for rich discussion Into the Wild - Erin Hunter at all levels about how to empower others." Landry News - Andrew Clements Left Behind (series) - Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins Leonardo's Horse - Jean Fritz Lettuce Leaf Birthday Letter - Linda Taylor Hatchet - Gary Paulsen Max and Me and the Time Machine - Gary Greer Recommended by Christine Zatell Message in the Sky- Sharon Wyeth "This is really a great book for strong fourth Miserable Mill - Lemony Snicket grade readers on up through sixth Picture of Hollis Woods - Patricia Reilly Giff grade. One of my students, who has read Plant That Ate Dirty Socks - Nancy McArthur over 700 books, said it is the best book she Players in Pigtails - Shana Corey has ever read because of the detail in the Poppy and Rye - Avi adventure. She stated that she felt like she Prince of the Pond - Donna Jo Napoli was in the story." Ramona's World - Beverly Cleary Reaching Tidewater - Noreen Moore Redwall - Brian Jacques Richard Wright and the Library Card - William Miller Ruby Holler - Sharon Creech Ruby Holler - Sharon Creech Recommended by Shae Johnson Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief - Wendelin "My students have all enjoyed reading this VanDraanen book (and so have I!) It is a fun book about Search for Delicious - Natalie Babbitt two children who find their place in the world 7 x 9 = Trouble! - Claudia Mills in an interesting way. It includes a mystery. I Seven Treasure Hunts - Betsy Byars highly recommend it."

Middle School

Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life - Sid Fleischman True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle - Avi All Alone in the Universe - Lynne Rae Perkins Violet’s Amazing Summer - Martha Finley Armageddon Summer - Bruce Coville We All Fall Down - Robert Cormier Bat 6 - Virginia Euwer Wolff Weasel - Cynthia DeFelice Because of Anya - Margaret Peterson Haddix Whirligig - Paul Fleischman Big Wander - Will Hobbs Wizards of the Game - David Lubar Crazy Lady! - Jane Leslie Conly Wreckers - Iain Lawrence Dancing in the Streets of Brooklyn - April Lurie Yankee Girl - Mary Ann Rodman Day They Came to Arrest the Book - Nat Hentoff Year of Secret Assignments - Jaclyn Moriarty Dead Man in Indian Creek - Mary Downing Hahn Deadly Game of Magic - Joan Lowery Nixon Doing Time Online - Jan Siebold Dreadful Acts - Philip Ardagh Heartbeat - Sharon Creech Ender's Game - Scott Orson Card Recommended by Maureen Beyrer Flight to Freedom - Ana Veciana-Suarez "It is written in free verse. The themes of Flour Babies - Anne Fine being yourself, family and looking at things Freak the Mighty - W. Rodman Philbrick from many perspectives is developed Freshman Flash - Mike Boushell beautifully." Ghost in the House - Betty Ren Wright Guts - Gary Paulsen Heartbeat - Sharon Creech Hoot - Carl Hiaasen Inkheart - Cornelia Funke Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue - Jack Inkheart - Cornelia Funke Gantos Recommended by Celeste Robichaux Kids at Work - Russell Freedman "I am currently reading this book aloud to a King of Shadows - Susan Cooper mixed grade class of grades 3-12. They love Land of Hope - Joan Lowery Nixon it! The imagery is very detailed, and the story Lost Years of Merlin - T.A. Barron keeps you interested from the very first Mable Riley - Marthe Jocelyn chapter. At the beginning of each chapter, Mango-Shaped Space - Wendy Mass the author quotes another children's book, Mick Harte Was Here - Barbara Park foreshadowing what will happen in the Mister Monday - Garth Nix chapter. The children are now interested in My Louisiana Sky - Kimberly Holt reading some of the books quoted in this North - Donna Jo Napoli way!" Numbering all the Bones - Ann Rinaldi Point Blank - Anthony Horowitz Rocket Boys (October Sky) - Homer Hickam Rookie Arrives - Thomas Dygard Ruby Electric - Theresa Nelson Running Out of Time - Margaret Haddix Silent to the Bone - E.L. Konigsburg Mango-Shaped Space - Wendy Mass Singularity - William Sleator Recommended by Patricia Burns Something for Joey - Richard Peck "It deals with a little-known problem Squashed - Joan Bauer (synesthesia) as well as grief (death of a Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli grandparent). It is very well-written and Stepping on the Cracks - Mary Downing Hahn moving without being "sappy". it has been Tangerine - Edward Bloor very popular with both students and teachers Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke at my middle school." Things Not Seen - Andrew Clements 13 - James Howe Timothy of the Cay - Theodore Taylor

High School

American Plague - Jim Murphy True Confessions of a Heartless Girl - Martha Brooks Animal Farm - George Orwell Ttyl - Lauren Myracle Be More Chill - Ned Vizzini V Club - Kate Brian Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver Watchers - Dean Koontz Blood and Chocolate - Annette Curtis Klause When the Emperor Was Divine - Julie Otsuka Born Blue - Han Nolan Where the Heart Is - Billie Letts Born Confused - Tanuja Desai Hidier Bucking the Sarge - Christopher Paul Curtis Canning Season - Polly Horvath Can’t Get There from Here - Todd Strasser Childhood's End - Arthur Clarke E=mc² - David Bodinas Confessions of a Not It Girl - Melissa Kantor Recommended by Jake Slodki Contents Under Pressure - Lara M. Zeises "This book is a chronical of Enstein's theory Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark of special realtivity. the book is centered on a Haddon very clear explanation of the theory along Dealing with Dragons - Patricia Wrede with a wonderfully woven story of the nuclear Deliver Us from Evie - M.E. Kerr arms race between Germany and the US for Demon in the Freezer - Richard Preston nuclear weapons. In addition it shares a bit Double Helix - Nancy Werlin about the role the Enstein plays himself in E=mc² - David Bodinas warning the American how close Germany First Part Last - Angela Johnson was to developing the atom bomb first." Friedrich - Hans Richter Getting Away with Murder - Chris Crowe Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales - Deborah Noyes Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Hangman's Beautiful Daughter - Sharyn McCrumb Hope was Here - Joan Bauer Heart Divided - Cherie Bennett Recommended by Christina Polychronis Hope was Here - Joan Bauer "This novel is a quick, light novel. It touches House of Stairs - William Sleator on family relations, politics, and the I'll Be Seeing You - Mary Higgins Clark importance of keeping memories. My school In the Time of the Butterflies - Julia Alvarez district assigned this to all incoming 9th Leap Day - Wendy Mass graders. They were assigned written & Life in the Fat Lane - Cherie Bennett artistic activities. It was successful." Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Luna - Julie Anne Peters Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary - Walter Dean

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Matter of Profit - Hilari Bell Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson

Me and Orson Welles - Robert Kaplow Recommended by Janet Fitzgerald

Milkweed - Jerry Spinelli "Speak has been the favorite on our

1984 - George Orwell freshman summer reading list for the last

Nothing to Lose - Alex Flinn three years. Young women, especially,

Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway respond to the protagonist's struggle of being

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier abandoned by her friends because she

River Between Us - Richard Peck ruined a party by calling the cops after being

Road to Memphis - Mildred Taylor raped by a popular upperclassman. She is

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen utterly alone and alienated as she begins her

Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson freshman year of high school. The witty, first-

Sweetgrass - Jan Hudson person narration powers the novel, as we

Thought of High Windows - Lynne Kositsky root for our young heroine's triumph over her

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale - Holly Black fear to speak out about what happened to

Touching Spirit Bear - Ben Mikaelsen her and re-gain her dignity."

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