Summer

While you are lying by the pool and taking in the sun, don't forget the best way to get ahead in school is by improving your reading. Take a book with you to the pool. Take a book with you to the beach. Take a book with you anywhere you end up on these lazy summer days.

Some suggested reading for 7-9th grade...

1. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
2. That Was Then, This Is Now, by S.E. Hinton
3. Tex, by S.E. Hinton
4. Rumblefish, by S. E. Hinton
5. Holes, by Louis Sachar
6. So Far from the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
7. My Brother, My Sister, and I, by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
8. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
9. Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen
10. Small Steps, by Louis Sachar
11. Other Books by Gary Paulsen: Brian’s Hunt, Brian’s Winter, Brian’s
Return, Woodsong, The River.
12. Far North, by Will Hobbs
13. Bearstone, by Will Hobs
14. Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes
15. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle
16. Flush, by Carl Hiaasen
17. The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi
18. Midnight Magic, by Avi
19. Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech
20. Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls