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Reading List for a Somerset SUMMER!

Grades 6-8

Somerset Middle/High schoolers are required to read three books this summer. Choose

two from the list below, and one from the Classics list on the back of this sheet. You will be

assessed on your three books with an assignment on the first week of school in the fall. A

special incentive will be given to those who successfully complete the summer reading

assignment. (The book list has been compiled from the 2014-2015 Battle of the Books titles

& classics).

Author Title

Alcott Eight Cousins

Anderson, Laurie Chains

Avi, Greg City of Orphans

Bauer Stand Tall

Bond A String in the Harp

Buckingham, Royce The Dead Boys

Freedman, Russell Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Makers son

Helped Light the Flame of Liberty

Giff Pictures of Hollis Woods

Hahn December Stillness

Hansen I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly

Henkes Olivers Ocean

Hesse, Karen Out of the Dust

Hobbs, Will Jasons Gold

Holm, Anne I Am David

Holm, Jennifer Our Only May Amelia

Holm, Jennifer Turtle in Paradise

Horowitz, Anthony Stormbreaker

Hunt The Lottery Rose

Lasky, Kathryn Guardians of Gahoole 02: The Journey

Lu, Marie Legend

OReilly, Bill Kennedys Last Days: The Assassination That

Defined a Nation

Paterson Jip, His Story

Riordan, Rick The Son of Neptune

Shahan, S. Death Mountain

Sloan, Holly Counting by 7s

Soto Baseball in April

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Snyder The Egypt Game

Taylor, Mildred D. The Land

Tolen Surviving the Applewhites

Woodson Feathers

Wright The Dollhouse Murders

Zindel The Pigman

CLASSICS (CHOOSE 1 FROM THIS LIST)

Alcott, Louisa May 19, 2014 Little Women

Burnett The Secret Garden

Conan-Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Crane The Red Badge of Courage

Defoe Robinson Crusoe

Estes The Hundred Dresses

Eyre Jane Eyre

George On the Far Side of the Mountain

Gibson The Miracle Worker

Hemingway The Old man and the Sea

Hillenbrand Seabisquit: An American Legend

Houston/Houston Farewell to Manzanar

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)

LAmour The Shadow Riders or Hondo

London The Call of the Wild

Montgomery Anne of Green Gables

Paterson Bridge to Terabithia

Schaefer Shane

Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream or The Tempest

Shelley Frankenstein

Stevenson Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde

Tolkien The HobbitVerne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Wells The Time Machine

My top 5 choices are (just in case you cant find your top three):

1. ___________________________________________2. ___________________________________________3. ___________________________________________4. ___________________________________________5. ___________________________________________

To find out about books, check the Amazon website, or ask your parents, friends, and other

adults which books from this list they have read. You may also want to check with a review

website such as Common Sense Media in case there is subject material to which you may be

sensitive.