ISN Middle School English A Below are the lists of first-language English books that will be needed for 2020-2021. All books must be ordered prior to the start of school. Most of the books are available for purchase via the book depository, fnac, amazon.fr; they are also easily obtained from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Semester 2 Text may be added to this list and the Subject teacher will notify students in November if there are additional texts to purchase For faster readers, email [email protected] for book suggestions and see the end of this document for suggested reading. Grade 6 SUMMER READING- *Roald Dahl (pick one): “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” OR “George’s Marvelous Medicine,” OR “The Magic Finger” OR the novel of your choice Required Texts: 1. Roald Dahl, Boy (Puffin Books ISBN 978-0142413814) 2. Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella (Puffin Books ISBN 978-0141359410) 3. Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Disney-Hyperion ISBN 978-0786838653) Grade 7 – Summer Reading - the novel of your choice Required texts: 1. Louis Sachar, Holes (ISBN 9780440414803) 2. Frank Cotrell Boyce, The Unforgotten Coat (Walker Books ISBN 978-1406341546) 3. Geraldine McCaughrean, One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (ISBN 978-0192750136) 4. Frances Goodrich, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Play (ISBN 978-0822203070) Grade 8 - SUMMER READING – The novel of your choice Required Texts: 1. Loris Lowry, The Giver (Harper Collins ISBN 978-0007263516) 3. John Steinbeck, The Pearl (Penguin ISBN 978-0140177374) William Shakespeare, 3. Romeo and Juliet (Longman School Shakespeare (978-1408236895) (note- this is in addition to the graphic novel). 4. Arthur Conan Doyle, Six Great Sherlock Holmes Stories (Dover Thrift Editions 978-0486270555) The above selections will be supplemented with a variety of other texts and genres that will be supplied by ISN during the academic year. Suggested Summer reading and extension reading: International School of Nice | Globeducate 15, avenue Claude Debussy - 06200 NICE - FRANCE | Tél. : 04 93 21 04 00 www.isn-nice.com Grade 6 The Silly Book of Side-Splitting Stuff by Andy Seed. ... A Boy Called Hope by Lara Williamson. ... Illegal by Eoin Colfer. ... The Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie. ... Time Travelling With a Hamster by Ross Welford. ... Cogheart by Peter Bunzl. ... The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner Grade 7 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. ... Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. ... Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. ... The Outsiders by SE Hinton The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings White Fang by Jack London Grade 8 To Be a Slave by Julius Lester Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Iqbal by Francheska D’adamo Lord of the Flies by William Golding International School of Nice | Globeducate 15, avenue Claude Debussy - 06200 NICE - FRANCE | Tél. : 04 93 21 04 00 www.isn-nice.com Grade 9 SUMMER READING 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime' by Mark Haddon Required Texts Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Stories in English (Cambridge University Press). There may be additional texts to purchase of which you will be notified during the first week of school. Grade 10/ English A SUMMER READING Ahdaf Soueif, ‘Sandpiper’ Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, ‘Journey’ Jhumpa Lahiri, ‘The Third and Final Continent’ Penelope Fitzgerald, ‘At Hiruharama’ Required Texts Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology o Stories in English (Cambridge University Press). There may be additional texts and you will be notified of them upon your return to school. International School of Nice | Globeducate 15, avenue Claude Debussy - 06200 NICE - FRANCE | Tél. : 04 93 21 04 00 www.isn-nice.com .