Northeast Middle School
7th Grade Optional Summer Reading Assignment 2014
As you prepare for Seventh Grade, it is important to continue reading throughout the
summer! To be prepared for the challenging curriculum, it is suggested that rising
seventh graders read two of the novels listed below. These novels, like other
literature studies in the seventh grade, were selected to integrate well with our
curriculum. These novels can be found at the Public Library and at most bookstores.
The Mint Hill Public Library will have a copy of this book list. To help in your
selection, check out the book reviews on www.amazon.com. You must complete this
assignment before the end of the 1st grading period next school year, so summer would be a great
time to start.
If you have questions, please call us at 980-343-6920.
Title
Author
Al Capone Does My Homework
Al Capone Shines My Shoes
Boy on the Wooden Box: how the impossible became
possible … on Schindler’s List
Breaking Stalin’s Nose
The Eye of Minds
Fire from the Rock
Just Another Hero
November Blues
Panic
The Graveyard Book
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: how daring slaves and free
Blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War
Heat
The Million-Dollar Throw
Insurgent
Last Shot: a Final Four Mystery
Matched
Crossed
Reached
Pretty Little Liars (or any book of this series)
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Three Times Lucky
Ungifted
We Beat the Street: how a friendship pact
helped us succeed
Gennifer Choldenko
Leon Leyson
Eugene Yelchin
James Dashner
Sharon M. Draper
Neil Gaiman
Thomas B. Allen
Mike Lupica
Veronica Roth
John Feinstein
Allyson Braithwaite Condie
Sara Shepard
Walter Dean Myers
Shiela Turnage
Gordon Korman
Sampson Davis
Northeast Middle School
8th Grade Optional Summer Reading Assignment 2014
As you prepare for Eighth Grade, it is important to continue reading throughout the
summer! To be prepared for the challenging curriculum, it is suggested that rising
eighth graders read two of the novels listed below. These novels, like other literature
studies in the eighth grade, were selected to integrate well with our curriculum. These
novels can be found at the Public Library and at most bookstores. The Mint Hill Public
Library will have a copy of this book list. To help in your selection, check out the book
reviews on www.amazon.com. You must complete this assignment before the end of the 1st
grading period next school year, so summer would be a great time to start.
If you have questions, please call us at 980-343-6920.
Title
Author
Al Capone Does My Homework
Al Capone Shines My Shoes
Candy Bomber: the Story of the Berlin Airlift’s
“Chocolate Pilot”
The Case of the Flesh-eating Bacteria: Annie Biotica
solves skin disease crimes
The Case of the Sneezy Popcorn: Annie Biotica solves
respiratory system disease crimes
Dear America: the diary or journal of
“someone from American history”
(choose one of this Series)
Dodger
Evermore (or other book in this Series)
Saving Zoe
Game Changers
Heat
The Million-dollar Throw
Travel Team
Hold Fast
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers
Matched
(or other book in this Series)
Panic
Pretty Little Secrets (or other book in this Series)
Prisoner B-3087
Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympic Games
Three Times Lucky
We Beat the Street: how a friendship pact
helped us succeed
Wintergirls
Gennifer Choldenko
Michael O. Tunnell
Michelle Faulk
various authors
Terry Pratchett
Alyson Noel
Mike Lupica
Blue Balliett
Steve Sheinkin
Allyson Braithwaite Condie
Sharon M. Draper
Sara Shepard
Alan Gratz
John Feinstein
Shiela Turnage
Sampson Davis
Laurie Halse Anderson
Northeast Middle School
6th Grade Optional Summer Reading Assignment 2014
As you prepare for Sixth Grade, it is important to continue reading throughout the
summer! To be prepared for the challenging curriculum, it is suggested that rising sixth
graders read two of the novels listed below. These novels, like other literature studies
in the sixth grade, were selected to integrate well with our curriculum. These novels
can be found at the Public Library and at most bookstores. The Mint Hill Public Library
will have a copy of this book list. To help in your selection, check out the book reviews
on www.amazon.com. You must complete this assignment before the end of the 1st grading
period next school year, so summer would be a great time to start.
If you have questions, please call us at 980-343-6920.
Title
Author
Al Capone Does My Homework
Al Capone Shines My Shoes
A Black Hole Is NOT a Hole
Bomb: the race to build -- and steal -- the world’s
most dangerous weapon
The Case of the Flesh-eating Bacteria: Annie Biotica solves
skin disease crimes
Clockwork Princess
(or other book in this Series)
Game Changers
George Washington, Spymaster: how America Outspied
the British and won the Revolutionary War
I Pledge Allegiance (or other book in this Series)
Insurgent
Just Another Hero
Last Shot: a Final Four Mystery
Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympic Games
Lincoln’s Grave Robbers
Marooned: the strange but true adventures of
Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe
Maze Runner
(or other book in this Series)
Matched
(or other book in this Series)
The One and Only Ivan
Pretty Little Liars
(or other book in this Series)
Radiance
(or other book in this Series)
The Sound of Your Voice, Only really Far Away
(or other book in this series)
Survival in the Storm: the Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards
Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer
(pick one of Series)
Three Times Lucky
Ungifted
Gennifer Choldenko
Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano
Steve Sheinkin
Michelle Faulk
Cassandra Clare
Mike Lupica
Thomas B. Allen
Chris Lynch
Veronica Roth
Sharon Draper
John Feinstein
Steve Sheinkin
Robert Kraske
James Dashner
Allyson Braithwaite Condie
Katherine Applegate
Sara Shepard
Alyson Noel
Frances O’Roark Dowell
Katelan Janke
John Grisham
Shiela Turnage
Gordon Korman