7th Grade Summer Reading rev. 1/31/14 Summer 7 2014
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Students are expected to read at least FIVE books from the Kinkaid summer reading book list, including
the core novel which will be discussed in class. Students are required to keep a reading log to be signed
by the student and parent and turned in to his/her advisor the first week of school.
Rebecca Stead. When You Reach Me. Newbery Award Winner (core novel to be read by all incoming 7th
graders)
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a
twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an
anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space. Book Trailer
Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
The classic story of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy in nineteenth-century New England.
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Blue Balliet. Hold Fast.
On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless-­‐-­‐and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father. Book Trailer
Baseball Crazy: Ten Short Stories That Cover All the Bases.
A collection of ten short stories from popular, contemporary authors that celebrate the joys of America's
favorite pastime and the wonder, frustration, and delight of its fans.
Chris Bradford. Young Samurai: the Way of the Warrior. The Way of the Sword. The Way of the Dragon. The
Way of Earth. The Ring of Water. The Ring of Fire. The Ring of Wind. (Young Samurai series) (only one
counts)
Orphaned by a ninja pirate attack off the coast of Japan in 1611, twelve-year-old English lad Jack Fletcher is
determined to prove himself, despite the bullying of fellow students, when the legendary sword master who
rescued him begins training him as a samurai warrior. Book Trailer
Julie Chibarro. Deadly.
Sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski takes a job in the early 1900s as assistant to the head epidemiologist at
New York's Department of Health and Sanitation, who is trying to discover how a seemingly healthy woman
can be spreading typhoid fever. Book Trailer
Eoin Colfer. Airman
This is a fast-paced, highly entertaining tale of flying machines, criminals, martial arts, swordplay, princesses,
poisons, and evil villains, mixed with themes of justice, revenge, romance, good triumphing over evil, realizing
one's dreams, blackmail, conspiracy, corruption, and betrayal. Book Trailer
Susan Cooper. Ghost Hawk.
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white
man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing
7th Grade Summer Reading rev. 1/31/14 how his world changes.
James Dashner. The Maze Runner. The Scorch Trials. Death Cure. The Kill Order. (The Maze Runner series)
(only one counts)
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the
community in which he finds himself if he is to escape. Book Trailer
Erin Dionne. The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet.
All Hamlet Kennedy wants is to be a normal eighth grader. But with parents like hers - Shakespearean scholars
who actually dress in Elizabethan regalia . . . in public! – it’s not that easy. As if they weren’t strange enough,
her genius seven-year-old sister will be attending her middle school, and is named the new math tutor. Then,
when the Shakespeare Project is announced, Hamlet reveals herself to be an amazing actress. Even though she
wants to be average, Hamlet can no longer hide from the fact that she - like her family - is anything but
ordinary. Book Trailer
Jasper Fforde. The Last Dragonslayer. The Song of the Quarkbeast. (The Chronicles of Kazam) (only one
counts)
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is
fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big
Magic. Book Trailer
Kelly Fiore. Taste Test.
While attending a New Hampshire culinary academy, North Carolina high schooler Nora suspects someone of
sabotaging the academy's televised cooking competition.
John Flanagan. The Outcasts. The Invaders. The Hunters. (Brotherband Chronicles series) (only one from this
series can count)
Hal, Stig, and the other outcasts do not have the size and strength of the Skandians, but when they face off
against the Wolves and the Sharks in an ultimate race for survival, they hope that their courage and cunning are
enough to help them win in a game that everyone seems to think is a matter of life and death. Book Trailer
Kerstin Gier. Ruby Re. Sapphire Blue. Emerald Green. (The Ruby Red Trilogy) (only one counts)
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth Shepherd unexpectedly travels through time to the eighteenth century, and she must
find out why her mother lied about her date of birth to hide her ability, research her history, and work with
Gideon, another time traveler. Book Trailer
Will Hobbs. Take Me to the River.
When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio
Grande River, they face a tropical storm and a fugitive kidnapper. Author Book Talk
S. J. Kincaid. Insignia. Vortex. (Insignia Series) (only one counts)
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin
training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the
actual fighting off-planet. Book Trailer
7th Grade Summer Reading rev. 1/31/14 Kristen Landon. The Limit.
When his family exceeds its legal debt limit, thirteen-year-old Matt is sent to the Federal Debt Rehabilitation
Agency workhouse, where he discovers illicit activities are being carried out using the children who have been
placed there. Book Trailer
Andy Lane. Death Cloud. Rebel Fire. Black Ice. (Sherlock Holmes: the Legend Begins series) (only one
counts)
In 1868, with his army officer father suddenly posted to India, and his mother mysteriously "unwell," fourteenyear-old Sherlock Holmes is sent to stay with his eccentric uncle and aunt in their vast house in Hampshire,
where he uncovers his first murder and a diabolical villain. Book Trailer
Jack London. The Call of the Wild.
Buck, who is half St. Bernard and half Scotch shepherd, is abducted and taken to the Klondike where he reverts
to the wild and becomes a leader of a pack of wolves. Book Trailer
Marie Lu. Legend ,Prodigy. Champion. (Legend series) (only one counts)
In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous
criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
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Mike Lupica. Travel Team. Summer Ball. Travel Team & the Big Field. (only one counts)
After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national
prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
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Marissa Meyer. Cinder. Scarlet. Cress. (Lunar Chronicles series) (Only one counts)
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's
illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined
with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle. Book Trailer
Annabel Monaghan. A Girl Named Digit. Double Digit. (A Girl Named Digit series) (only one counts)
After identifying a terrorist plot, a brilliant seventeen-year-old girl from Santa Monica, California, gets involved
with the young FBI agent who is trying to ensure her safety. Book Trailer
Jaclyn Moriarty. A Corner of White: The Colors of Madeleine, Book One. The Cracks in the Kindom. (Colors
of Madeleine series) (only one counts)
Fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England, struggling to cope with poverty and her mother's illness,
and fifteen-year-old Elliot of the Kingdom of Cello in a parallel world where colors are villainous and his father
is missing, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds and find they can be of great help to
each other.
Andy Mulligan. Trash.
A group of fourteen-year-old boys, who make a living picking garbage from the outskirts of a large city, finds
something special and mysterious that brings terrifying consequences. Book Trailer
7th Grade Summer Reading rev. 1/31/14 Jim Murphy. Truce: the Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting.Tells the story of the December 25, 1914, truce
between German and British soldiers as they laid down their weapons and met in No Man's Land to celebrate
Christmas. Book Trailer
Jennifer A. Nielsen. The False Prince. The Runaway King. The Shadow Throne. (Ascendance series) (only one
counts)
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to
impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war. Book Trailer
William Osborne. Hitler’s Secret: a Novel.
Otto and Leni, two young refugees from the Nazis living in England, are sent on a secret mission to Bavaria, to
extract a young girl attending a summer camp, and who may hold the key to the war.
Brandon Sanderson. The Rithmatist.
As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only
watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice. Book Trailer
Steve Sheinkin. Lincoln’s Grave Robbers.
An account of how counterfeiter Benjamin Boyd's gang stole the body of Abraham Lincoln and demanded
Boyd's release from jail and two hundred thousand dollars as ransom and the efforts of the Secret Service to
recover the remains.
Arthur G. Slade. The Hunchback Assignments. The Dark Deeps. Empire of Ruins. Island of Doom. (The
Hunchback Assignments series) (only one counts)
In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the
Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.
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Jerry Spinelli. Hokey Pokey.
Ever since they were Snotsippers, Jack and the girl have fought, until one day she steals his bike and as he and
the Amigos try to recover it, Jack realizes that he is growing up and must eventually leave the "goodlands and
badlands of Hokey Pokey." Book Trailer
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island.While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed
them money, the mistress of an inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune. Book
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Clare Vanderpool. Moon Over Manifest or Navigating Early. 2014 Kyle Likover Memorial Visiting Author.
Moon Over Manifest (Newbery Award Winner): Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter
who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and
where she hopes to find out some things about his past. Book Trailer Book Trailer
Navigating Early: Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they
deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters.
Bridget Zinn. Poison.
7th Grade Summer Reading rev. 1/31/14 When sixteen-year-old Kyra, a potions master, tries to save her kingdom by murdering the princess, who is also
her best friend, the poisoned dart misses its mark and Kyra becomes a fugitive, pursued by the King's army and
her ex-boyfriend Hal.