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Summer Reading Lists 2007

Lakeview Junior High School Summer Reading

Incoming Grade 7

  • A Boy at War: a novel of Pearl Harbor by Harry Mazer (reading level: 8)
  • Crash by Jerry Spinelli (reading level: 4)
  • The Doom Stone by Paul Zindel (reading level: 8)
  • Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (reading level: 6)
  • Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (reading level: 5)
  • Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer (reading level: young adult)
  • Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata (reading level: 4)
  • Not as Crazy as I Seem by George Harrar (reading level: 6)
  • Olive's Ocean by Kevin Henkes (reading level: 6)
  • Snow Bound by Harry Mazer (reading level: 5)
  • The Summer of Riley by Eve Bunting (reading level: 4)
  • Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan (reading level: 5)
  • The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg (reading level: 4)
  • The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (reading level: 8)

Incoming Grade 8

  • Bird by Angela Johnson (reading level: 6)
  • Chinese Cinderella: the true story of an unwanted daughter by Adeline Yen Mah (reading level: young adult)
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker (reading level: adult)
  • Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye by Lois Lowry (reading level: young adult)
  • Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Hesser (reading level: young adult)
  • Pictures in the Dark by Patricia mcCord (reading level: young adult)
  • The Rag and Bone Shop: a novel by Robert Cormier (reading level: young adult)
  • Soldier's heart: being the story of the enlistment and due service of the boy Charley Goddard in the First Minesota volunteers: a novel of the Civil War by Gary Paulsen (reading level: yound adult)
  • Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (reading level: 6)
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell by David Michael (reading level: adult)
  • Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher (reading level: young adult)

Dracut Senior High School Required Summer Reading 2007

Listed below are the required summer reading assignments for ALL students enrolled in English 9-12 during the 2007-2008 academic year. An essay or exam on these books will be administered during the first week of school and these scores will be averaged with you first quarter grades. The Dracut Public Library School District believes that summer reading is a very worthwhile experience and an important extension of our curriculum. Summer reading is also intended to be an enjoyable experience. With this in mind, students and their families are encouraqaged to visit their local library and read, read, read.

Incoming Grade 9

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Drive by Larry Bird and Bob Ryan
  • Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
  • The Alchemist by Paula Coelho
  • Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
  • Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy
  • Invasion: Story of D-Day by Bruce Bliven
  • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King

Incoming Grade 10

  • The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  • Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
  • A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein
  • The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
  • It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
  • Summer of '98 by Mike Lupica
  • One More Day by Mitch Albom
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Incoming Grade 11

  • My Jim by Nancy Rawles
  • Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
  • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  • Last Shot by John Feinstein
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Incoming Grade 12

  • Alive by Piers Paul Read
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Night Hoops by Carl Deuke
  • The Brethren by John Grisham
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  • The Locket by Richard Paul Evans
  • The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan