WOMS 6 White Oak Summer Reading 2010 Students are expected to read TWO books of their choice, unless the Study Island option is selected. ONE should be from the following lists of titles. Complete the attached activity sheets in this brochure and bring these to English classes the first week of school. Remember that summer reading is for enjoyment, so select books that interest you. Reading does make us smarter, but only if we read something that makes us think or see our world differently. Be particular it s your choice. All of these books should be available at any Montgomery County Public Library. If one is not available at your nearest library, check with the front desk to order it from another branch. We recommend that parents review all titles for appropriateness and be part of the reading process as much as possible. * more challenging books Students Entering 6 th Grade: Title Stand Tall Colibri The Jacket Code Orange Into the Land of Unicorns Red Kayak Revenge of the Witch Because of Winn Dixie Notes From a Liar and Her Dog Kidnapped Prince Life of Olaudah Equiano Satch and Me Flush Crossing the Wire Rules Author Bauer Cameron Clements Cooney Coville Cummings Delaney DiCamillo Choldenko Equiano & Cameron Gutman Hiaasen Hobbs Lord
Becoming Naomi Leon (also in Spanish) The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl Mercy on These Teenage Chimps Dealing with Dragons Munoz Ryan McKissack Soto Wrede * The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Baum *Tales of Despereaux DiCamillo *Redwall Jacques *Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place Konigsburg *Rosa Parks, My Story Parks *Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Rowling * Treasure Island Stevenson Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator Allison Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarian Sanderson Peak Smith Rules Lord A Friendship for Today McKissack Alex Rider Series (The books in this series are: Ark Angel, Eagle Strike, Stormbreaker, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, and Snakehead) Horowitz
WOMS 7 White Oak Summer Reading 2010 Students are expected to read TWO books of their choice, unless the Study Island option is selected. ONE should be from the following lists of titles. Complete the attached activity sheets in this brochure and bring these to English classes the first week of school. Remember that summer reading is for enjoyment, so select books that interest you. Reading does make us smarter, but only if we read something that makes us think or see our world differently. Be particular it s your choice. All of these books should be available at any Montgomery County Public Library. If one is not available at your nearest library, check with the front desk to order it from another branch. We recommend that parents review all titles for appropriateness and be part of the reading process as much as possible. * more challenging books Students Entering 7 th Grade: Title Anna of Byzantium Code Talker This is What I Did Quaking Shadow Spinner Cousins La Linea Nzingha, Warrior Queen of Matamba Define Normal Author Barrett Bruchac Ellis Erskine Fletcher Hamilton Jaramillo McKissack Peters DEAR AMERICA - A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor Mazer - Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan Osbourne - Journal of Jasper Jonathan Pierce Rinaldi
- Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows Denenberg Gone Grant Schooled Korman Waiting For Normal Connor Stargirl Spinelli The Graveyard Book Gaiman *Crispin Avi *The Lost Years of Merlin Barron *A Girl Named Disaster Farmer *Arthur: The Seeing One (book one) Holland * The Golden Compass Pullman * The Tempest Shakespeare * The Time Machine Wells
WOMS 8 White Oak Summer Reading 2010 Students are expected to read TWO books of their choice, unless the Study Island option is selected. ONE should be from the following lists of titles. Complete the attached activity sheets in this brochure and bring these to English classes the first week of school. Remember that summer reading is for enjoyment, so select books that interest you. Reading does make us smarter, but only if we read something that makes us think or see our world differently. Be particular it s your choice. All of these books should be available at any Montgomery County Public Library. If one is not available at your nearest library, check with the front desk to order it from another branch. We recommend that parents review all titles for appropriateness and be part of the reading process as much as possible. * more challenging books Students Entering 8 th Grade Title Never Mind: A Twin Novel The Face on the Milk Carton King of Shadows Johnny Tremain Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607 Leonardo s Shadow: Or, My Astonishing Life as Leonardo de Vinci s Servant The Maze New Boy Touching Spirit Bear Cuba Fifteen Guts! Secret Life of Adrian Mole, Age 13 ¾ Uglies Author Avi Cooney Cooper Forbes Carbone Grey Hobbs Houston Michaelson Osa Paulsen Townsend Westerfield
Chains Maximum Ride Series (Books in this series are: Maximum Ride - The Angel Experiment, School s Out Forever, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, The Final Warning) Hunger Games Everlost Twilight Series (Books in this series are: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn) Anderson Patterson Collins Shusterman Meyer * Ask Me No Questions Budhos * Red Badge of Courage Crane * Roots Haley * The Wreckers Lawrence * Z for Zachariah O Brien * Comedy of Errors Shakespeare * Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Twain