Summer+Assignment+Book+List

//2010 Summer Reading List Seventh Grade//   Ø __Crooked River__ by Shelley Pearsall Ø __East__ by Edith Pattou Ø __The Ruins of Gorlan__ (The Ranger’s Apprentice, Book 1) by John Flanagan Ø __The Golden Compass__ (or sequels) by Philip Pullman Ø __Hoot__ by Carl Hiassen Ø __Redwall__ (and series) by Brian Jacques Ø __Inkheart__ or __Inkspell__ by Cornelia Funke Ø __Tangerine__ by Edward Bloor Ø __The City of Ember__ (or sequel) by Jeanne DuPrau Ø __Treasure Island__ by Robert Louis Stevenson Ø __Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor and the Merimac__ by Avi Ø __The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants__ (or series) by Ann Brashares Ø __It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life__ by Lance Armstrong Ø __The Hobbit__ by J.R.R. Tolkien Ø __The House of the Scorpion__ by Nancy Farmer Ø __Kira-Kira__ by Cynthia Kadohata Ø __Life of Pi__ by Yann Martel Ø __Stormbreaker__ (or series) by Anthony Horowitz Ø __The Lightning Thief__ (or series) by Rick Riordan Ø __Under the Blood Red Sun__ (or sequel) by Graham Salisbury Ø __Amazing Grace__ by Megan Shull Ø __The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition__ by Caroline Alexander Ø __Heat__ or __Travel Team__ by Mike Lupica Ø __Flags of Our Fathers__ by James Bradley Ø __Peter and the Starcatchers__ (or sequels) by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Ø __A Great and Terrible Beauty__ (or sequels) by Libba Bray Ø __Eragon__ (or sequels) by Christopher Paolini Ø __The Secret Garden__ by Frances Burnett Ø __Midnight for Charlie Bone__ (or series) by Jenny Nimmo Ø __The Merchant of Death__ (or Pendragon series) by D.J. MacHale Ø __A Wrinkle in Time__ by Madeleine L’Engle Ø __The Alchemyst__ (or sequels) by Michael Scott Ø __No More Dead Dogs__ by Gordon Korman Ø __Rules__ by Cynthia Lord Ø __The Graveyard Book__ by Neil Gaiman Ø __The Wednesday Wars__ by Gary D. Schmitt

Looking for Something a Bit More Challenging?

Ø __The Good Earth__ by Pearl S. Buck Ø __Watership Down__ by Richard Adams Ø __Little Women__ by Louisa May Alcott Ø __Flowers for Algernon__ by Daniel Keyes Ø __Into Thin Air__ by Jon Krakauer