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2 Books and 2 Magazine or Newspaper Articles
The required readings will go toward your English grade in the fall.
After reading each book or article, students must fill out the Willow Creek Reading Log on the back of this list. The comment should be specific to the reading. For example: I liked reading this because the main character, Omar, reminds me of my father because he was such a loyal man. Credit may not be earned or the log may be returned to the reader if the comment is too general. For example, It was a good story. (or) It was an exciting book.
Each entry requires a parent signature.
Al Capone Does My Shirts (Choldenko)
Alabama Moon (Key)
Alex Rider series (Horowitz)
Bad Girls Don’t Die (Alender)
Beastly (Flynn)
Bluford series (various authors)
Bonechiller (McNamee)
Change-Up (Feinstein)
A Child Called “It” (Pelzer)
Cirque Du Freak series (Shan)
Conspiracy 365 series (Lord)
Corner of the Universe (Martin)
Cover-Up (Feinstein)
Cracker (Kadohata)
Cryptid Hunters (Smith)
Death on the Nile (Christie)
Deep and Dark and Dangerous (Hahn)
A Dog’s Life (Martin)
Dunk (Lubar)
Ender’s Game (Card)
Fairest (Levine)
Fallen Angels (Myers)
Fire from the Rock (Draper)
Found (Haddix)
Giver (Lowry)
Goosegirl (Hale)
The Graveyard Book (Gaiman)
Green Glass Sea (Klages)
Gym Candy (Deuker)
Heist Society (Carter)
Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Adams)
The Hobbit (Tolkien)
The Hunger Games (Collins)
Iqbal (D’Adamo)
The Juvie Three (Korman)
Keys to the Kingdom (Nix)
Last Apprentice (Delaney)
Leviathan (Westerfeld)
Life As We Knew It (Pfeffer)
Luxe (Godbersen)
Maximum Ride series (Patterson)
The Moves Make the Man (Brooks)
1984 (Orwell)
Peak (Smith)
Ranger’s Apprentice series (Flanagan)
The Red Kayak (Cummings)
Scorpions (Myers)
Sea of Shadows (Harlow)
Search and Destroy (Hughes)
Septimus Heap series (Sage)
Skeleton Creek series (Carman)
Soldier X (Wulffson)
Speak (Anderson)
Tears of a Tiger (Draper)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne)
Uglies (Westerfeld)
Under a War-Torn Sky (Elliott)
A Walk to Remember (Sparks)

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The reaction comment should be specific to the reading. For example, I liked reading this because the main character, Omar, reminds me of my father because he was a loyal man. etc. Credit may not be earned or the log may be returned to the reader if the comment is too general. For example, It was a good story. (or) It was an exciting book.
Title Author #Pages Parent's Signature
My reaction to the book and why: (3-5 sentence responses)
Title Author #Pages Parent's Signature
My reaction to the book an why: (3 -5 sentence responses)
Title Author #Pages Parent's Signature
My reaction to the magazine/newspaper article and why: (3 -5 sentence responses)
Title Author #Pages Parent's Signature
My reaction to the magazine/newspaper article and why: (3 -5 sentence responses)