Summer Reading

INCOMING FIFTH, SIXTH, and SEVENTH GRADERS: Read TWO books from the appropriate list below. Write summary notes including the title, author, genre, main character(s) including name, physical description, and personality, conflict, and theme for EACH BOOK. Find 20 unfamiliar words in each book. Type a list for each with the definitions. This means you should have 20 words for each book. Bring your summary notes and typed definitions for each book the first day of school. You will use your notes to write a summary about both of your books in class.

FIFTH GRADE:
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
After Fifth Grade, the World! by Claudia Mills
Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Corville
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Summer Reading is Killing Me! by Jon Scienszka
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

SIXTH GRADE:
The Wanderer by Sharon Creech
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Bud, Not Buddy by Chris Curtis
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

SEVENTH GRADE:
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Crash by Jerry Spinelli
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

You will need TWO forms. One for each book!
Click below to print the outline form:
Summer-Reading-Summary-Outline.pdf
 
Last Modified: Friday, Jun. 17, 2011
 
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