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EAGLE ROCK JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GRADE MAGNET SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT Mr. Hicks, English Department [email protected]

Overview: Read three books on your own this summer. A list of student-selected books is attached. You will write three one page book reports and present them to the class the first week of school. The three reports should feature two non-fiction book reports and one fiction report. You have the option of summarizing a second fiction book in addition to the main assignment. This project will constitute a significant portion of your first five week grade. The reports should be completed on a word processor, and you will need to keep a copy for yourself. BOOK REPORT FORMAT: I.

INTRODUCTIONState the Title and Author of the book Tell us why you selected it for your independent reading

II. SUMMARYb. State a theme or main idea in the book How does the book start? How is a central problem revealed? Describe the main characters. What kind of people are they? III. KEY POINTSChoose one key point or theme in the book. A key point is a symbolic word, image, phrase, or event that occurs in the story. It can be the point where you realize what the meaning of the story is, or where you find out what a main character is really like because of an action he takes or a decision that he undertakes. It can also be a word or image that reappears in the story and helps the reader to understand or appreciate. IV. EXCERPTChoose one paragraph or sequence that you like and write it down. Include the page number where it appears in the book. Explain why this paragraph is significant. V. CLOSINGFinish with the following statement: “What I learned from this book is…….” -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I have read the requirements for the assignment, and understand that the book reports are due the first day of school. __________________________________ Student Signature  

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7th  Grade  Magnet  Summer  Reading  List   Non-­Fiction   A  Journal  of  the  Plague   Year  1665   Abe  Lincoln  Grows  Up  

  Defoe,  Daniel  

Boy:  The  tales  of   Childhood   Chinese  Cinderella  

Dahl,  Roald  

Londoner  who  describes  the  horrors   of  the  bubonic  plague   The  life  of  Abraham  Lincoln  as  a   teenager   Autobiographical  tales  of  a   veterinary  surgeon   Man  helps  hundreds  during  the   1990s  Rwandan  Genocide   Autobiography  

Ma,  Adeline  Yen  

Story  of  an  unwanted  girl  child  

Come  Back  to   Afghanistan  

Akbar,  Said  Ayker   and  Burton,  Susan  

Coyotes  

Bronson,  Wilfrid  

Diary  of  a  Young  Girl  

Frank,  Anne  

First  they  Killed  my   Father   Gandhi,  Great  Soul  

Ung,  Luong  

An  Afghan  teenager  living  in   California,  visits  homeland  after   9/11   How  coyotes  are  related  to  other   wild  and  domestic  dogs   A  13  year  old  Jewish  Girl  hidden   from  the  Nazis  during  WWII   A  privileged  Cambodian  family   suffers  in  their  search  for  freedom   biography  

All  Creatures  Great  and   Small   An  Ordinary  Man  

Genghis  Khan:   Conqueror  of  the  World   Global  Warming  

Sandburg,  Carl   Herriot,  James   Rusesabagina,  Paul  

Severance,  John  B.   De  Hartog,  Leo  

Helen  Keller:  The  Story   of  my  Life   Hitler  Youth:  Growing  up   in  Hitler’s  Shadow   In  My  Hands  

Alvin,  Virginia   Silverstein   Keller,  Helen  

The  story  of  the  Mongolian  conquest   of  Asia   Explains  global  warming  and  the   Greenhouse  effect   Autobiography  

Beatoletti,  Susan   Campbell   Gut,  Irene  

Boys  who  were  raised  to  carry  out   Hitler’s  vision   Polish  girl  observing  the  Holocaust  

Into  Thin  Air  

Krakauer,  John  

Ishi  in  Two  Worlds  

Kroeber,  Theodora  

It’s  Our  World  Too  

Hoose,  Philip  

Joan  of  Arc  

Pickels,  Dwayne  

Survival  on  Mt.  Everest  though  the   eyes  of  a    mountain  climber   A  California  Native  wanders  out  of   the  woods  in  1916.    How  does  he   react  to  modern  America?   Children  from  different  races  talk   about  peer  pressure  and   communities   Biography  of  a  Medieval  heroine  

Journey  of  the  Heart  

Pettit,  Jane  

Maya  Angelou’s  childhood  

Kaffir  Boy  

Mathabane,  Mark  

Last  Chance  in  Texas:   Redemption  of  Criminal   Youth   Madame  Curie  

Hubner,  John  

Story  of  a  black  you  coming  of  age  in   Apartheid  Africa   A    troubled  juvenile  who  finally  gets   things  straight  

Curie,  Eve  

**Scientist  who  discovered  radiation  

Mai  Jameson,  First   African  in  Space   Mark  Twain,  an   Autobiography   Martin  Luther  King  Jr.  

 

For  people  who  want  to  try  

Twain,  Mark  

**His  life  as  a  famous  writer  and  a   great  American  humorist   Autobiography  

Michelangelo  

Stanley,  Diane  

Mohandas  Gandhi  

Shields,  Charles  J.  

My  Family  and  Other   Animals   My  Season  with   Penguins:  An  Antarctic   Journal   Passionate  Nomad:  The   Life  of  Freya  Stark   Pirates  

Durrell,  Gerald  

King,  M.L.  

Webb,  Sophie  

Pride  of  the  Malay  Race  

Geniesse,  Jane   Fletcher   Carpenter,  John   Reece   Palma,  Dr.  Rafael  

Rascal  

North,  Sterling  

Seabiscuit  

Hillenbrand,  Laura  

Traitor,  The  Case  of   Benedict  Arnold  

Fritz,  Jean                  

The  story  of  one  of  the  greatest  artist   who  ever  lived  and  how  he  created   his  vision   Gandhi’s  legacy  for  the  Indian  people   Dr.  Durrell  has  authored  several   books  about  animal  behaviors     Female  explorer  maps  the  Arabian   peninsula   How  pirates  lived   Biography  of  Jose  Rizal,  Philippine   hero   About  respecting  the  nature  of  a  wild   Animal   Bottom  level  racehorse  who   becomes  a  champion  because  people   believe  in  him   How  a  leader  of  the  emerging  United   States  decides  to  betray  the  new   country  

7th  Grade  Magnet  Summer  Reading  List   Fiction     Adams,  Richard   Adams,  Douglas   Angelou,  Maya   Blume,  Judy   Chaucer,  Geoffrey,  adapted  by   Hastings,  Selena   Cisneros,  Sandra   Conan  Doyle,  Arthur   Green,  Hannah   Hamilton,  Virginia   Hamilton,  Virginia   Le  Guin,  Ursula   Mc  Caffrey,  Anne   Morrison,  Toni   O’Dell,  Scott   O’Dell,  Scott   Poe,  Edgar  Allen   Potok,  Chaim   Sewell,  Anna   Shelley,  Mary  Wollstonecroft   Soto,  Gary   Stevenson,  Robert  Louis   Sutcliff,  Rosemary   Sutcliff,  Rosemary   Tolkien   Tolkien   White,  T.H.    

Watership  Down   The  Hitchhiker’s  Guide  To  The   Galaxy   I  know  why  the  Caged  Bird  Sings   Are  you  there  God?    It’s  Me,   Margaret   Canterbury  Tales   House  on  Mango  Street   Sherlock  Holmes  Min.  of  3  stories   or  one  novel   I  never  promised  you  a  Rose   Garden   Sweet  Whispers,  Brother  Rush   The  People  could  Fly   The  Wizard  of  Earthsea  (3  vols.)     Dragonriders  of  Pern  (3  vols.)   Bluest  Eye   Island  of  the  Blue  Dolphins   Road  to  Damietta   Collected  Short  Stories  Minimum  of   3       The  Chosen   Black  Beauty   Frankenstein   Baseball  in  April  and  other  Stories   Treasure  Island   Black  Ships  Before  Troy:  The  Story   of  the  Iliad   Light  Beyond  the  Forest   The  Hobbit   Lord  of  the  Rings  (3  vols)   Once  and  Future  King