Prairie Middle School
2016 Summer Reading Book List
Please have your child read at least one book from the grade level list he or she will be
entering in the 2016-2017 year.
6th Grade
Gregor the Overlander
Chains
By: Suzanne Collins
By: Laurie Halse
Anderson
Navigating Early
By: Clare Vaderpool
The strange case of Origami
Yoda
By: Tom Angleberger
Bomb: The Race to Buildand steal-the World’s
Most Dangerous Weapon
By: Steven Sheinkin
How to Steal a Dog
By: Barbara O’Connor
The Underdogs
The one and only Ivan
By: Mike Lupica
By: Katherine Applegate
7th Grade
The Uglies
The House of Scorpion
Scott Westerfield
Nancy Farmer
The Maze Runner
Through My Eyes
James Dashner
Ruby Bridges
8th Grade
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Roll of Thunder Hear My
Cry
Mildred Taylor
Tunnels
Fahrenheit 451
Roderick Gordon &
Brian Williams
Ray Bradbury
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Double Entry Journal Summer Reading Assignment
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Assignment is due the first day of school to your Language Arts Teacher, August 11, 2016.
How does it work? Choose your book for summer reading and begin to read. On the left side, of this sheet, you will copy a short
quote from your book that you find interesting (write page number in parentheses). In the right column, write your reaction to the
quote you found. Your reactions can include your opinions, disagreements, interpretations, connections to your life, comments
about grammar, or new vocabulary learned.
You must use 20 different quotes. See example.
Quote from the Text
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“In that one slight motion, I see the end of
hope, the beginning of destruction of
everything I hold dear in the world.” (pg. 75)
My Reaction to the Quote
Katniss can’t really be giving up? She fought
and lived in the first battle. She is a fighter, she
doesn’t give up!
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8th Grade Summer Reading List
8th Graders: Please select one of the following books to read this summer. At the beginning of next year, at
OHS, you will be asked to complete a response activity. Enjoy!
The DaVinci Code
by Dan Brown
The Crossing
by Gary Paulsen
Ender’s Game
by Orson Scott Card
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
The Art of Racing in
the Rain
by Garth Stein
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
Death with
Interruptions
by José Saramago
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
Unbroken
by Laura Hillenbrand
(nonfiction)
The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration in the Age
of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
The Perks of Being a
Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
Speak
by Laurie Halse
Anderson
A Child Called “It”
by Dave Pelzer
Aspen
by Rebekah Crane
The Outsiders
by S.E. Hinton
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli