Blind Brook Middle School Summer Reading 2012
Dear 7th and 8th Graders,
7th and 8th grade students are expected to read one assigned fiction book and one nonfiction book of their choice during the summer.
Fiction Reading
Incoming 7th graders will be reading Anything but Typical by Nora Raleigh Baskin.
Incoming 8th graders will be reading The Giver by Lois Lowry.
Books will be distributed to all students before the end of the school year.
Non-Fiction Reading
Choose from the list below or find something similar on your own.
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7th and 8th grade Non-Fiction Suggested Summer Reading
Gene Adair
Thomas Alva Edison: Inventing the Electronic Age
Catherine M. Andronik
Copernicus: Founder of Modern Astronomy
Armstrong, Jennifer
Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance
Marc Aronson
Robert F. Kennedy: A Twentieth–Century Life
Susan Bachrach
Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow
Ann Bausum
Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwer on the Front Line of the Civil Rights Movement
Susan Beller
Cadets at War: The True Story of Teenage Heroism at the Battle of New Market
Ross Bernstein
The Code: the Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliation in the NHL
Natalie Bober
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution
James Bradley
Flags of Our Fathers: The Heroes of Iwo Jima
Joseph Bruchac
A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull
Cylin Busby
The Year We Disappeared
Betsy Byars
The Moon and I
Jack Canfield, Mark Victor, & Kimberly Kirberger (editors)
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning
Ilene Cooper
Jack: The Early Years of John F. Kennedy
Michael Coren
The Man Who Created Narnia: The Story of C. S. Lewis
Julie Cummins
Tomboy of the Air: Daredevil Pilot Blanch Stuart Scott
James Deem
Bodies from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Recovery of the Past
Phil Esposito
Hockey is My Life
Jeanette Farrell
Invisible Allies: Microbes That Shape Our Lives
Zlata Filipovic
Zlata’s Diary: A Child’s Life in Sarajevo
Sid Fleischman
The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer’s Life
Candace Fleming
Ben Franklin’s Almanac: Being a True Account of the Good Gentleman’s Life
Anne Frank
Diary of a Young Girl
Russell Freedman
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Jean Fritz
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton
Beverly Gherman
Ansel Adams: America’s Photographer: A Biography for Young People
James Cross Giblin
Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin Book and John Wilkes Booth
Jane Goodall
The Chimpanzees I have Loved: Saving Their World and Ours
Al Gore
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
Marjorie Hart
Summer at Tiffany
Pierre Haski
Diary of MaYan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl
Karen Hesse
Letters from Rifka
Deborah Hopkinson
Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York, 1880-1924
LeBron James and Buzz Bissenger
Shooting Stars
Haven Kimmel
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Moorland, Indiana
Ellen Levine
A Fence Away From Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II
Michael Lewis
The Blind Side
Adeline Mah
Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Jerry McNeely (story and teleplay) and novelization by Richard E. Peck
Something for Joey
Milton Meltzer
Walt Whitman: A Biography
Walter Dean Myers
The Greatest: Muhammad Ali
Jim Murphy
Blizzard! The Storm that Changed America
The Great Fire
The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
Peter Nelson
Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
Apolo Ohno
No Regrets
Gary Paulsen
My Life in Dog Years
How Angel Peterson Got his Name: And Other Outrageous Tales about Extreme Sports
David Pelzer
A Child Call “It”: Once Child’s Courage to Survive
Stephen Pincock
Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers, From the Ancient Pharaohs to Quantum Cryptography
Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Three Little Words: A Memoir
Michael Rosen
Shakespeare: His Work and His World
Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Icy Sparks
David Sheiff
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction
Ken Silverstein
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and his Homemade Nuclear Reactor
James L. Swanson
Chasing Lincoln's Killer
Chris Woodford
Cool Stuff and How it Works
Don Wulffson
The Kid Who Invented Popsicles
The Kid Who Invented the Trampoline