Join Your Public Library’s Summer Reading Program Ives Main Library -­‐ 33 Elm St. -­‐ (203) 946-­‐8129 Fair Haven Branch -­‐ 182 Grand Ave. – (203) 946-­‐8115 Mitchell Branch, -­‐ 37 Harrison St. -­‐ (203) 946-­‐8117 Stetson Branch -­‐ 200 Dixwell Ave. -­‐ (203) 946-­‐8119 Wilson Branch -­‐ 303 Washington Ave. -­‐ (203) 946-­‐2228 Check out the Governor’s Summer Reading Program http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2683&q=320322 Summer Reading
2015 Summer Reading 2015 This summer you will be required to read at least two novels. The novels should be titles of your choice with a lexile within the upper range of your reading achievement level. Once you return to school in September you will be required to take an Accelerated Reader quiz on your choice novels. On the next page you will find suggestions for reading with a lexile number next to it. Remember you can read any two novels of your choice as long as there is an Accelerated Reader quiz available for those titles. Check www.arbookfind.com to make sure there is an available quiz. The chart below will help you decide if the novels are in the upper range of your reading achievement level. Grade Lexile Range Up to 300 140-­‐500 330-­‐700 445-­‐810 565-­‐910 665-­‐100 735-­‐1065 805-­‐1100 855-­‐1165 905-­‐1195 940-­‐1210 The lexile of any book can be found at lexile.com. Use the quick book search box at the top right corner of the website to make sure the novel you choose is in the upper range of your reading achievement level as indicated by your Star Reading test results. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11-­‐12 Angela’s Ashes 1110 Frank McCourt Animal Farm 1370 George Orwell The Autobiography of Malcom X 1300 Haley/Malcolm Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman 710 Ernest Gaines The Bean Trees 900 Barbara Kingsolver The Bluest Eye 920 Toni Morrison The Boy in Striped Pajamas 1080 John Boyne Brave New World 870 Aldous Huxley Breath, Eyes, Memory 750 Edwidge Danticat Brian’s Song 850 William Blinn Buried Onions 850 Gary Soto The Chocolate War 820 Robert Cormier City of Bones 720 Cassandra Clare The Contender 760 Robert Lipsyte Dark Dude 980 Oscar Hijuelos DaVinci Code 980 Dan Brown Dracula 800 Bram Stoker Emma 1300 Jane Austen Esperanza Rising 750 Pam Munoz Ryan Fade 990 Robert Cormier Fahrenheit 451 890 Ray Bradbury A Farwell to Arms 730 Ernest Hemingway Feed 770 M.T. Anderson Five People You Meet in Heaven 780 Mitch Albom Girl, Interrupted 760 Susanna Kaysen Graceling 730 Kristin Cashore The Handmaid’s Tale 750 Margaret Atwood Harry Potter (any) 880 J.K. Rowling The Help 730 Kathryn Stockett Holes 660 Louis Sachar The House of Scorpion 660 Nancy Farmer The House on Mango Street 870 Sandra Cisneros I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1330 Maya Angelou In the Time of Butterflies 910 Julia Alvarez It’s Kind of a Funny Story 700 NedVizzini Kite Runner 840 Khaled Hosseini Krik? Krak! 880 Edwidge Danticat A Lesson Before Dying 750 Ernest Gaines The Life of Pi 830 Yann Martel The Lovely Bones 890 Alice Sebold My Sister’s Keeper 840 Jodi Picoult A Night to Remember 950 Walter Lord Nightjohn 770 Gary Paulsen One Hundred Years of Solitude 1410 Garcia Marquez/Rabassa A Passage to India 950 E.M. Forster The Pigman and Me 1040 Paul Zindel The Pigman 950 Paul Zindel Raymond’s Run 800 Toni Bambera The Red Badge of Courage HL680 Stephen Crane Red Glass 800 Laura Resau Rocket Boys/October Sky 900 Homer Hickam Rumble Fish 680 S..E. Hinton The Runner 840 Cynthia Voight The Secret Life of Bees 840 Sue Monk Kidd Shine 870 Jack Schaefer She’s Come Undone 760 Wally Lamb Slaughterhouse-­‐Five 850 Kurt Vonnegut Sunrise Over Fallujah 780 Walter Dean Myers Swim the Fly 620 Don Calame A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 810 Betty Smith That Was Then, This Is Now 780 S.E. Hinton Unwind 740 Neal Schusterman Woodsong 1090 Gary Paulsen