Summer Reading 2008

Grade 7

Required Reading

All required summer reading books will be available from www.varsitybooks.com after June 1, 2008. If you have any difficulty obtaining these titles, call Sue Clayton in the Business Office at (410) 263-9231, ext. 1262.

Read THREE books and answer the Guiding Questions for each one. Click here for the Guiding Questions.

To help you organize your thoughts, the Learning Department has created Pre-Writing Organizers (click here) that you can use to help answer each of the guiding questions.

Seventh graders MUST read:

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Plus TWO books from the following list:

Bread And Roses, Too	Katherine Paterson
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two	Joseph Bruchac
Elijah of Buxton	Christopher Paul Curtis
Esperanza Rising	Pam Muñoz Ryan
Hattie Big Sky	Kirby Larson
Kira-Kira	Cynthia Kadohata
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy	Gary D. Schmidt
So B. It	Sarah Weeks

Recommendations for Supplemental Reading

In addition to reading the required titles listed above, all students are encouraged to read several previously unread titles from the following list.