So many books, so little time....
Try some of these titles:
Non-Fiction:
Benchley, Shark LIfe
Grogan: Marley and Me (adapted for 8-12)
Mah: Chinese Cinderella
Gore: Inconvenient Truth (adapted for ages 11 and above)
Jiang: Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Bradley: Flags of Our Fathers (adapted for young people)
Fiction:
Choldenko: Al Capone Does My Shirts
Haddix: Among the Hidden or any book in the Shadow Children
Series
Lowry: Number the Stars
Park: A Single Shard
Hesse: Witness or Letters from Rifka
Peck, Richard: A Long Way from Chicago
Bloor: Tangerine or Crusader
Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Card: Ender's Game
Truman: Stuck in Neutral
Truman: Cruise Control
Koja: Buddha Boy
Jones: Acorn People
Series:
Cooper:
The Dark is Rising
Kerr:
Children of the Lamp
Riordian:
The Olympians
Le
Guin: The Earthsea Cycle
Authors: Kate DiCamillo, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L’Engle,
Louis Sachar, Scott O’Dell, Zilpha Keatley Snyder
This summer, you can earn extra credit just by reading!
Keep a list on theme paper of the books you read, have your parent
sign that he/she knows you have read the books, and hand in the paper
during the first week of school. If you have other books not on
the above list that you read, yu may list them, too.
Sorry, comic books and graphic novels don’t count!