O’Maley Middle School Summer Reading 2012

Grade Six
Like all students at O’Maley Middle School, entering sixth graders are expected to read two books over the ten week summer.  One book is read by the entire grade, the other is chosen from a list, and students will complete a literacy activity based on their “choice book”.  This work will be recorded as a first assignment for grade 6, and will provide the basis for book conversations in September.  Instructions for the Literacy activity are available in PDF form here.
All Grade 6 Summer Reading books are available at the Sawyer Free Library, or for purchase at The Bookstore in Gloucester.         

All Read: The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch
Choice Books:

Al Capone Shines my Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko

The Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Parry

The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick

Neil Armstrong is My Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino

The Unfinished Angel by Sharon Creech

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Grade Seven

ALL GRADE READ:  Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.

Choice:
Entering Grade 7th “Choice Book” List ~ readers choose one book from these fiction selections:

Evermore  by Alyson Noel 

Firegirl by Tony Abbott


The Great Wide Sea  by Madaline Herlong


Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner


The Orange Houses  by Paul Griffen 

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton


Ten Hours Until Dawn by Michael Tougias


When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

 

Grade Eight

ALL GRADE READ:  Borderline by Allan Stratton

Choice:
Entering Grade 8 “Choice Book” List ~ readers choose one book from these fiction selections:

Abarat by Clive Barker

Alice Bliss by Laura Harrington

Blank Confession by Pete Hautman

How to Survive Middle School by Donna Gephart

The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester

The Great Wide Sea by M.H. Herlong

Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion by Loree Burns


 

     

GHS Summer Reading 2012

 
GHS Link to Summer Reading Assignments


 

 

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