Cordova Middle School
Hatchet: by Gary Paulson
Holes: by Louis Sachar
Summer Reading List
2015
Visit your neighborhood Library.
We recommend 60 minutes of reading
per day!
CLUE
Entering 6 Grade
th
The House of Dies Drear: by Virginia Hamilton
The Westing Game: by Ellen Raskin
Entering 7 Grade
th
The Omnivore’s Dilemma : The Secrets Behind
What You Eat, Young Readers’ Edition; by
Michael Pollan
The Giver: by Lois Lowry
Bridge to Terabithia: by Katherine Patterson
Summer Reading Scrapbook
CLUE 7th and 8th
Due: August 10, 2015
*For each required summer reading book create at
least three scrapbook pages.
Include:
Title of the Book
Author’s Name
Author’s Purpose
Themes
Symbols
Summary of the Book
Name your favorite characters for the listed summer
fiction books and explain why he/she is your
favorite.
Would you recommend this book? Why or why not?
(Use the Internet to research to find your answers.)
The Giver: by Lois Lowry
The Call of the Wild: by Jack London
7th Grade
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: by Mark Twain
Entering 8 Grade
th
The American Plague-The Untold Story of Yellow
Fever, The Epidemic that Shaped our History: by
Molly Caldwell Crosby (Memphis, TN)
The Outsiders: by S.E Hinton
House of the Scorpion: by Nancy Farmer
6th Grade
We would like the Standard classes to
read 2 books, the Enrichment classes to
read 3 books, and the Honors classes to
read a minimum of 4 books.
Tom Sawyer: by Mark Twain
Face on the Milk Carton: by Caroline Cooney
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry: by Mildred Taylor
Maniac Magee: by Jerry Spinelli
8th Grade
Mrs. Okeon’s classes
The Outsiders: by S.E. Hinton
Ms. Wadlington’s classes
Divergent: by Veronica Roth
All 8th Grade Classes
Night: by Elie Wiesel
To Kill a Mockingbird: by Harper Lee