Fourth Grade Summer Reading Program



Grades 6 – 8 PWCS Summer Reading Program

Gainesville Middle School

The purpose of the PWCS Summer Reading Program is to encourage students to enjoy quality literature and to continue developing their independent reading skills. Student participation in the program is voluntary. Students who choose to participate in the program are required to complete a minimum of two books.

*All 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students: Students who complete the summer reading need to complete The Gainesville Middle School documentation form. Students will receive an extra credit A for each completed form (maximum of two).

*Extended 8th grade students: Eighth grade extended English students complete two fiction and one non-fiction reading assignments, for a total of three assignments. Please see the Extended 8th Grade documentation forms and book list for complete directions.

The following titles are suggestions for summer reading. Other books selected by the student with guidance from a parent/guardian and/or librarian may be used. Participation in the PWC Public Library Summer Reading Program and its documentation is also acceptable.

PWCS Sixth Grade Summer Reading Program

Suggested Reading

The following titles are suggestions for summer reading. Other books selected by the student with guidance from a parent/guardian and/or librarian are also acceptable. Participation in the PWC Public Library Summer Reading Program and its documentation is also acceptable.

|Author |Title |Pub. Date |Annotation |

|Alexander, Kwame |The Crossover |2014 |The court is SIZZLING. My sweat is DRIZZLING. Stop all that quivering. Cuz tonight I'm delivering," announces dread-locked, |

| | | |12-year old Josh Bell. He and his twin brother Jordan are awesome on the court. But Josh has more than basketball in his |

| | | |blood, he's got mad beats, too, that tell his family's story in verse, in this fast and furious middle grade novel of family |

| | | |and brotherhood. |

|Dashner, James |The Maze Runner Trilogy |2010 |Thomas awakens alone and confused in an elevator. He can't remember how he got there. He doesn't know anything about |

| | | |himself...except his name. When he gets out of the elevator, he finds other boys, 60 of them. But why are they here? And will |

| | | |they ever figure out how to navigate the maze that keeps them locked inside the Glade? The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure |

| | | |make up the trilogy. |

|DeFelice, Cynthia |Fort |2015 |Wyatt and his friend Augie are enjoying the fort they built, but when two older boys mess with it and with another kid who |

| | | |can't fight back, they launch Operation Doom to get back at the bullies. |

|Kamkwamba, William |The Boy Who Harnessed the |2015 |African teenager William Kamkwamba explored science books in his village library when he was forced to drop out of school, and|

| |Wind | |was able to change his family's life by creating a windmill to pump water for his family's farm. |

|Law, Ingrid |Savvy |2008 |Each member of the Beaumont family, except for Papa (he married into the family), acquires a supernatural talent (“savvy”) on |

| | | |his or her 13th birthday. With her 13th birthday quickly approaching, Mibs is excited to find out what her savvy will be. |

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|Nielsen, Jennifer |A Night Divided |2015 |When the Berlin Wall went up, Gerta, her mother, and her brother Fritz were trapped on the eastern side where they were |

| | | |living, while her father, and her other brother Dominic were in the West--four years later, now twelve, Gerta sees her father |

| | | |on a viewing platform on the western side and realizes he wants her to risk her life trying to tunnel to freedom. |

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|PWCS Sixth Grade Summer Reading Program |

|Suggested Reading |

|Author |Title |Pub. Date |Annotation |

|Palacio, R.J. |Wonder |2012 |This brilliant, sensitive story — narrated not only by August, but also by his older sister, his classmates, and other kids in|

| | | |his life — takes an insightful look at how one person's differences can affect the lives of so many others. |

|Roth, Veronica |Divergent |2012 |Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world is divided into five factions, each dedicated to a particular virtue.  All |

| | | |sixteen-year-olds must select a faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives.  Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four |

| | | |comprise the entire series.   |

|Stroud, Jonathan |The Screaming Staircase |2013 |In The Screaming Staircase, Lucy Carlyle teams up with Anthony Lockwood, the charismatic leader of Lockwood & Co, a small |

| | | |agency that runs independent of any adult supervision. After an assignment leads to both a grisly discovery and a disastrous |

| | | |end, Lucy, Anthony, and their sarcastic colleague, George, are forced to take part in the perilous investigation of Combe |

| | | |Carey Hall, one of the most haunted houses in England. Will Lockwood & Co. survive the Hall's legendary Screaming Staircase |

| | | |and Red Room to see another day? |

|Tarshis, Lauren |I Survived Series |Various Years |Each book in the series tells a terrifying and thrilling story from history, through the eyes of a boy who lived to tell the |

| | | |tale.  Some examples include: I Survived The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863, I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944, and I Survived |

| | | |Hurricane Katrina, 2005. |

PWCS Seventh Grade Summer Reading Program

Suggested Reading

The following titles are suggestions for summer reading. Other books selected by the student with guidance from a parent/guardian and/or librarian are also acceptable. Participation in the PWC Public Library Summer Reading Program and its documentation is also acceptable.

|Author |Title |Pub. Date |Annotation |

|Brown, Daniel James |The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an |2013 |Tells how in 1936 the University of Washington's eight-oar crew, composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard |

| |American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the | |workers, and farmers who had mastered collegiate rowing, went on to the Berlin Olympics where they defeated |

| |1936 Olympics | |Adolf Hitler's German team to achieve the Olympic gold medal. |

| |(Young Readers Version) | | |

|Copeland, Misty |Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina |2014 |With an insider's passion, Misty opens a window into the life of an artist who lives life center stage, from |

| | | |behind the scenes at her first classes to her triumphant roles in some of the world's most iconic ballets. A |

| | | |sensational memoir as "sensitive" and "clear-eyed" (The Washington Post) as her dancing, Life in Motion is a |

| | | |story of passion, identity and grace for anyone who has dared to dream of a different life. |

|Gratz, Alan |Prisoner B-3087 |2013 |“While the story of Jack Gruener is true--and remarkable--this book is a work of fiction. As an author I've |

| | | |taken some liberties with time and events to paint a fuller and more representative picture of the Holocaust as |

| | | |a whole."--Afterword. Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi |

| | | |occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation |

| | | |of Dachau. |

|Levine, Kristen |The Paper Cowboy |2014 |In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his |

| | | |Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized |

| | | |sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help. |

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|PWCS Seventh Grade Summer Reading Program |

|Suggested Reading |

|Author |Title |Pub. Date |Annotation |

|Messner, Kate |All the Answers |2015 |Twelve-year-old Ava finds an old pencil in her family's junk drawer and discovers, during a math test, that it |

| | | |will answer factual questions, so she and her best friend Sophie have a great time--and Ava grows in |

| | | |self-confidence--until the pencil reveals a truth about her family that Ava would rather not know. |

|Priest, Cherie |I Am Princess X |2015 |Years after writing stories about a superheroine character she created with a best friend who died in a tragic |

| | | |car accident, 16-year-old May is shocked to see stickers, patches and graffiti images of the superheroine |

| | | |appearing all over town. |

|Schossler, Eric |Chew on This: Everything You Don’t Want to Know |2006 |Unwrap the fast-food industry for a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the |

| |about Fast Food | |young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants--and what lurks between those sesame seed buns.|

|Westrick, A.B. |Brotherhood |2013 |The year is 1867, the South has been defeated, and the American Civil War is over. But the conflict goes on. |

| | | |Yankees now patrol the streets of Richmond, Virginia, and its citizens, both black and white, are struggling to |

| | | |redefine their roles and relationships. By day, fourteen-year-old Shadrach apprentices with a tailor and sneaks |

| | | |off for reading lessons with Rachel, a freed slave, at her school for African-American children. By night he |

| | | |follows his older brother Jeremiah to the meetings of a group whose stated mission is to protect Confederate |

| | | |widows like their mother. |

|White, J.A. |The Thickety: A Path Begins |2014 |When twelve-year-old Kara discovers her mother's grimoire in the dangerous forest, she must decide if she'll use|

| | | |it, even though such magic is forbidden. |

|Woodson, Jacqueline |Brown Girl Dreaming |2014 |The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in |

| | | |free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South. |

PWCS Eighth Grade Summer Reading Program

Suggested Reading

The following titles are suggestions for summer reading. Other books selected by the student with guidance from a parent/guardian and/or librarian are also acceptable

|Author |Title |Pub. Date |Annotation |

|Ganda, Martin |I Will Always Write Back |2016 |Seventh grader Caitlin selects a pen pal from Zimbabwe, the most exotic place she has heard of. Caitlin and Martin |

| | | |correspond for six years, building a friendship and trust that widens Caitlin's world view and allows Martin to be honest|

| | | |about his incredible challenges. |

|Jarrow, Gail |Red Madness: How a Medial Mystery |2014 |Provides an account of the mysterious disease called pellagra that spread across the American South in the early 1900s |

| |Changed What We Eat | |that made people weak, disfigured, and insane and sometimes caused their deaths; and discusses how doctors and public |

| | | |health officials found the cause of the illness and stopped the epidemic. |

|Myers, Walter Dean |Monster |1999 |While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the |

| | | |courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken. |

|Peterson Haddix, |Uprising |2007 |Bella, along with hundreds of other immigrants, works long hours at a grueling job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. |

|Margaret | | |Yetta, a coworker from Russia, has been crusading for a union, and when factory conditions worsen, she helps workers rise|

| | | |up in a strike. |

|Ryan, Pam Munoz |Echo |2014 |Lost in the Black Forest, Otto meets three mysterious sisters and finds himself entwined in a prophecy, a promise, and a |

| | | |harmonica--and decades later three children, Friedrich in Germany, Mike in Pennsylvania, and Ivy in California find |

| | | |themselves caught up in the same thread of destiny in the darkest days of the twentieth century, struggling to keep their|

| | | |families intact, and tied together by the music of the same harmonica. |

|Salerni, Dianne K |The Eighth Day |2014 |Orphan Jax doesn't expect much on his thirteenth birthday, but when he discovers there's an extra day squeezed between |

| | | |Wednesday and Thursday whose origins are rooted in Arthurian legend, it's clear his life will never be the same. |

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|PWCS Eighth Grade Summer Reading Program |

|Suggested Reading |

|Author |Title |Pub. Date |Annotation |

|Schutten, Jan Paul |The Mystery of Life: How Nothing |2015 |“Yes, even Lady Gaga is made up of atoms.” Atoms are the basis of every living and non-living thing on Earth, but where |

| |Became Everything | |and how did life begin—and how do we know? |

|Tolkein, J. R. R. |The Hobbit |1937 |The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering |

| | | |wizard granted his wish. |

|Volponi, Paul |Final Four |2013 |Four players at the Final Four of the NCAA basketball tournament struggle with the pressures of tournament play and the |

| | | |expectations of society at large. |

|Yousafzai, Malala |I Am Malala: how one girl stood up |2014 |Malala Yousafzai's describes her fight for education for girls under Taliban rule, the support she received from her |

| |for education and changed the world | |parents to pursue an education, and how the Taliban retaliated against her by trying to kill her. |

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