7th & 8th Grade Summer Reading List Dear Parent: In an effort to maintain and enhance reading comprehension, the English Department of John Curtis Christian School has implemented a summer reading program. While this is a voluntary reading program, the English Department strongly recommends that your child participate. To receive bonus book report credit, students must turn in bonus reports on the first day of school to their English/Literature teacher. A maximum of 3 bonus book reports will be allowed. Students will receive 1 bonus book report credit for each grading period through the third grading period. This will not take the place of the required reading monthly requirements. Format for Book Report Novel Biography 1. 3 written pages (front only) 1. 3 written pages (front only) 2. Description of characters 2. Brief summary 3. Setting 3. 3 accomplishments/ 4. Plot structure achievements in life 5. Opinion 4. 3 conflicts/hardships in life 6. Biographical sketch of author 5. Opinion 6. Biographical sketch or author In addition to the following reading list, any book by one of these authors is acceptable so long as the book is at or above grade level: Rick Riordan, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Mildred Taylor, Ray Bradbury, Gary Soto, Jerry Spinelli, Katherine Paterson, Mike Lupica, Gary Paulsen, Jack London, Jean Craighead George, Virginia Hamilton, C.S. Lewis, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Grade level biographies of important American leaders may also be read. All grade levels may read Hurricane Season by Neal Thompson. 7th Grade Crash by Jerry Spinelli Small Steps by Louis Sachar The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues series) by Rick Riordan Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos Wonder by R.J. Palacio Middle School by James Patterson Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia by C.S. Lewis I Heard the Owl Call my Name by Margaret Craven The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John Ritter 8th Grade The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau(book #2 in The City of Ember series) Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry (book #2 in The Giver series) Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus series) by Rick Riordan Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings Dragon Wings by Laurence Yep 9th -12th Grade Summer Reading List Dear Parent: In an effort to maintain and enhance reading comprehension, the English Department of John Curtis Christian School has implemented a summer reading program. While this is a voluntary reading program, the English Department strongly recommends that your child participate. To receive bonus book report credit, students must turn in bonus reports on the first day of school to their English teacher. A maximum of 3 bonus book reports will be allowed. Students will receive 1 bonus book report credit for each grading period through the third grading period. This will not take the place of the required reading monthly requirements. Format for Book Report Novel Biography 1. 3 written pages (front only) 1. 3 written pages (front only) 2. Description of characters 2. Brief summary 3. Setting 3. 3 accomplishments/ 4. Plot structure achievements in life 5. Opinion 4. 3 conflicts/hardships in life 6. Biographical sketch of author 5. Opinion 6. Biographical sketch or author In addition to the following reading list, any book by one of these authors is acceptable so long as the book is at or above grade level: Walter Dean Myers, James Patterson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Maya Angelou, Agatha Christie, Max Lucado, Nicholas Sparks, Ernest Gaines, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Ray Bradbury, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allen Poe and John Steinbeck. Grade level biographies of important American leaders may also be read. All grade levels may read Hurricane Season by Neal Thompson . Suggested Summer Reading Lists 9th Grade Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko(book #2 in the series) The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak The Living by Matthew de la Pena And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Whirligig by Paul Fleishman The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Miracle Worker by Gibson Tex by S.E. Hinton Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton 10th Grade The Angel Experiment by James Patterson Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 1984 by George Orwell Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissenger Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 11th Grade Legend by Marie Lu The Maze Runner by James Dashner Coming Back Stronger by Drew Brees Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Life of Pi by Yann Martel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen A Separate Peace by John Knowles A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines The Color Purple by Alice Walker 12th Grade The Angel Experiment ( Maximum Ride series) by James Patterson The Infinite Sea (The Fifth Wave Book #2) by Rick Yancey The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Catch-22 by Joseph Heller A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway Brave New World by Aldous Huxley .