Name: ________________________________________________Team____________________
Cutler Middle School
Grade 6
Summer 2015 Reading Project
Be a Movie Producer;
Create a Movie poster and trailer to be used in Cinemas
Many of the great movies made are based upon interesting books.
This summer you get to create an eye catching movie poster like the one on the walls of
cinemas. Included should be pictures of characters and an important scene from the movie
that captures the audience’s attention. The poster should also provide a clear
advertisement of the movie’s purpose and mood
Assignment: You have been chosen to create a movie poster based on a book you’ve read
over the summer months that attracts others to want to see your movie and read your
book!
For this assignment you need to:
 Choose and read a book that can then be turned into a movie, (See list of
suggested books for summer reading)
 Write a trailer for the movie that summarizes the plot without giving away the
ending that makes others to want to see your movie and read your book.
 Hire movie stars to play different roles throughout the movie and include them on
the poster.
 Identify where the movie will be shot – the setting(s)
 Include the theme or central idea, (What does the author want me to know about
people or life in general?).
 Make your poster colorful and attractive. It should be around the size of large
oak-tag /poster board, 12” by 18”.
These posters should be brought in with you on the first day of school and will be
used to create the first bulletin board for all to view and enjoy!
Happy Reading and promoting your “movie”!
Teams A & B
Mrs. Forbes & Mrs. Ryley
Cutler Middle School’s Suggested Summer Reading List: Incoming 6th graders
Nutmeg Book Award 2016 Intermediate Nominees
Sammy Keyes (series) by Wendelin Van Draanen
The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda
Woods
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Elvis and the Underdogs by Jenny Lee and Kelly Light
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage
The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue
Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures by Kate
DiCamillo & K.G. Campbell
The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate
SuperFudge by Judy Blume
One Dog and His Boy by Eva Ibbotson
It’s not the End of the World by Judy Blume
Pie by Sarah Weeks
Winterling by Sarah Prineas
Other Suggested Titles
The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle by Claudia
Logan
April Morning by Howard Fast
Blubber by Judy Blume
Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
Julia of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Schooled b Gordon Korman
39 Clues by Gordon Korman
Hatchet by Gary Paulson
Swindle by Gordon Korman
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Abel’s Island by William Steig
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
QB1 by Mike Lupica
Matilda by Roald Dahl
True Legend by Mike Lupica
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
The Underdogs by Mike Lupica
Hero by Mike Lupica
Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poems by Kristine
O’Connell George
Bat Boy by Mike Lupica
Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang
Last Shot by John Feinstein
Also Known as Harper by Ann Haywood Leal
Next Man Up by John Feinstein
Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
Monster by Walter Dean Myers
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Darius and Twig by Walter Dean Myers
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
A Series of Unfortunate Events By Daniel Handler
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Guardians of Ga’hoole by Kathryn Lasky
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Wolves of the Beyond by Kathryn Lasky
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Holes by Louis Sachar
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O’Brien
No Talking by Andrew Clements
Frindle by Andrew Clements
The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook by
Eleanor Davis
Report Card by Andrew Clements
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
Books on the Every Hero has a Story Summer Reading
List (Connecticut State Library 2015)
http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2683&q=
320322
At the Sea Floor Café: Odd Ocean Critter Poems by
Leslie Bulion
Ubiquitous: Celebrating Natures Survivors by Joyce
Sidman
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson
Series
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
Poppy by Avi
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher
Paul Curtis
John Bellairs Mysteries by John Bellairs
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
The Penderwicks series by Jeanne Birdsall
The Ear, The Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
The Dark Rising by Susan Cooper
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
The Moffats by Eleanor Estes
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Shadow Children by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Dog Friday trilogy by Hilary McKay
Anne of Green ables by L.M. Montgomery
Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Septimus Heap by Angie Sage
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Enola Holmes Mysteries by Nancy Springer
Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle by Claudia Logan
Sammy Keyes by Wendelin Van Draanen
One White Dolphin by Gill Lewis
Dear America Series by various authors
Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
NF: When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs
Began to Swarm by Hannah Bonner
Whales on Stilts! By M.T. Anderson
Science Fair: A Story of Mystery, Danger, International
Suspense, and a Very Nervous Frog by Dave Barry and
Ridley Pearson
NF: Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery
from Your Own Backyard by Loree Grifin Burns
NF: The Book of Blood: From Legends and Leeches to
Vampires and Veins by H.P. Newquist
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Eye of the Storm by Kate Messner
Herbert’s Wormhole by Peter Nelson
Tesla’s Attic by Neal Shusterman & Eric Elfman
Electric Ben: The Amazing Life and Times of Benjamin
Franklin
Lives of the Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (And
What the Neighbors thought) by Kathleen Krull
Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows
Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sue
Montgomery