All students entering Grades 7 & 8 are required to read at least two books from the accompanying list one fiction and one nonfiction.

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1 Reading is the basis of all learning. In Grades 7 & 8 students need to be able to read and understand many different kinds of text. Informational text becomes even more important as students start to explore historical and scientific topics. All students entering Grades 7 & 8 are required to read at least two books from the accompanying list one fiction and one nonfiction. All students entering Grades 7 & 8 are also required to complete the two activities that can be found at the end of this document. These assignments should be turned into their teacher by September 10 and will be included as part of the first trimester grade.

2 2015 SUMMER READING For Students Entering Grade 7 Fiction Books Little Women Alcott Sounder Armstrong The Prince of Fenway Park Baggott Things Not Seen Clements The Breadwinner Ellis The Walk On Feinstein My Side of the Mountain George The Music of Dolphins Hesse Inside Out and Back Again Lai Heat Lupica Sunrise over Fallujah Myers Mark of the Thief Nielsen Wonder Palacio My Life in Dog Years Paulsen The Running Dream VanDraanen 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Verne Informational Books A Black Hole is Not a Black Hole Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship The Chimpanzees I Love: Saving their World and Ours Claudette Colvin: Twice toward Justice Case Closed? Nine Mysteries Unlocked by Modern Science ER Vets: Life in an Animal Emergency Room Lives of Athletes The Elephant Scientist Courage Has No Color: The True Story of the Triple Nickles, America s First Black Paratroopers Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift s Chocolate Pilot Ten True Tales: Heroes of 9/11 DeChristofano Freedman Goodall Hoose Hughes Jackson Krull O Connell Stone Tunnell Zullo Religious Book Make Every Day Count Loyola Kids Book of Heroes: Stories of Catholic Heroes and Saints throughout History Lucado Welborn

3 2015 SUMMER READING for Students Entering Grade 8 Fiction Books And Then There Were None A Week in the Woods Mockingbird Seraphina Touching Spirit Bear This Dark Endeavor A Long Walk to Water Shooting Kabul Lincoln s Grave Robbers The Headless Cupid The Lord of the Rings Navigating Early Uglies Revolution The Book Thief Christie Clements Erskine Hartman Michaelson Oppel Park Senzai Sheinkin Snyder Tolkien Vanderpool Westerfield Wiles Zusac Informational Books Taking Flight DeChristofano The War to End All Wars: World War I Freedman Warrior s Heart: Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage Greitens The Secret of the Yellow Death: A True Story of Medical Sleuthing Jumain Lives of Extraordinary Women Krull The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible on Schindler s List Leyson The Mysteries of Beethoven s Hair Martin Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting Murphy The Might Mars Rovers: The Incredible Adventures of Spirit and Opportunity Rusch The President Has Been Shot! The Assassination of John F. Kennedy Swanson Night Wiesel Religious Books Miracles for Teens Make Every Day Count Kingsbury Lucado

4 Required Follow-Up Activities All students are required to read two books this summer and complete the following activities. Please return your work to during the first week of school. 1. Read any fiction book from the Suggested Book List for your grade. 2. Complete the Character Diary for one of the characters in your book. 3. Read any Informational Book from the Suggested Book List for your grade. 4. Complete the Literature Analysis for a Nonfiction Book. 5. Complete the cover page. Color in the number of stars to rate each book. 6. Staple your work together. Be thoughtful and neat. This is your first assignment for the year!

5 2015 Summer Reading Student s name Fiction Book Title: 6 Author: 7 Rating: Informational Book Title: 6 Author: 7 Rating:

6 Character Diary: Fiction Book Write a character diary, writing at least six journal entries as if you are the main character in the story. Write down specific events that happen during the story and reflect on how they affected you as the character and why.

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8 Literature Analysis for a Nonfiction Book Main Topic of the entire book Main Idea #1: Main Idea #2: Key Details to support this idea: Key Details to support this idea: Author s Purpose: What does the author want you to understand, think about, believe or do? Author s Tone: Describe the author s tone or attitude toward the topic.