James S. Hogg Middle School Seventh Grade Summer Reading List

Come to our Summer Reading Pool Party in September by completing these steps!

1. Read 5 books from the list below that you have not read before. 2. Complete the summer reading log on the back. 3. Choose 1 of these books and complete a project of your choosing. A link to project ideas can be

found on the Hogg website front page or by going to http://www.houstonisd.org/Page/132760 4. Turn in reading log and project to your 7th grade Language & Literature teacher by September 7.

Books That Keep Me Up Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Graphic) Ripley’s Believe it Or Not! Unlock the Weird! The Nest by Kenneth Oppel Far Far Away by Tom McNeal

Side Splitters Middle School series by James Patterson A Series of Unfortunate Events series by L. Snicket Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney Dork Diaries series by Rene Russell Dear Dumb Diaries series by Jim Benton Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan (Fantasy) Beanstalker and Other Hilarious Scary Tales by Kiersten White (NTB)

OTP Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn Geography of You & Me by Jennifer Smith Frogkisser by Garth Nix (NTB)

Books Nimona by Noelle Stevenson (Graphic) Pax by Sara Pennypacker

Wish by Barbara O’Connor Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo

Books That Make You Think Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales series (Graphic) Thomas Jefferson: Pres & Phil by Jon Meacham Guinness World Records 2017 Gym Candy by Carl Deuker (Sports)

Hang-ups Being a Girl by Haley Long (Graphic) Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill Meaning of Maggie by Megan Sovern Short by Holly Goldberg Sloan (NTB)

Movie Buffs Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (Fantasy) Illuminae by Amie Kaufman (Sci Fi) Maze Runner by James Dashner Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard (Fantasy) Hidden Figures (Young Readers Edition)

Books From Around the World The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Bradley The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis Half a World Away by Cynthia Kadohata The Red Pencil by Andrea Pinkney Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai (Poetry)

Books @ Survival The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen (NTB) Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan Gone series by Michael Grant Four-Four-Two by Dean Hughes (NTB)

Spanish Cajas de Carton by Francisco Jimenez (Spanish) The Day it Snowed Tortillas by Joe Hayes (Bilingual)

Gamers Insignia series by S. J. Kincaid Epic by Conor Kostick Randoms by David Liss

Summer Reading Log

Name (first & last): ______________________________________ Grade: ______

Title of Book Parent

Signature Title of Book Parent

Signature 1. 9.

2. 10.

3. 11.

4. 12.

5. 13.

6. 14.

7. 15.

8. 16.

• NTB stands for Name That Book books, to be considered if you want to be on a NTB team. Name That Book

is a district wide reading competition, open to all interested students. • Each book in a series represents 1 book on the reading log. • Do not record books on the reading log that you have read before May 2018. • Books #6-16 recorded on the reading log can be of your own choosing. They do not have to come from the

list. • Reading more than 5 books will result in an increase of pool time!