Summer Reading
Adventure
Everett Public Schools
Two Cities, One School District
Read to Cure the “Summer
Slide”
Studies show that the effect of reading four to five
books over the summer is enough to stop a
decline in reading achievement from spring to fall.
In a nutshell, if you don’t use it, you lose it. When
school starts in the fall, students who don’t read
over the summer “slide” backwards.
What should you do to be a
part of the program?
Read two books from your grade level list and
complete an activity for each.
• Three Quotes that represent the main character and
explain…
• Draw an object that symbolizes the theme and explain…
• Write a poem that represents a major conflict…
• Create a comic strip that summarizes your book…
• Explain how the novel is a product of the author’s
experiences…
Can I Read Other Books?
Of course! After you finish the required books,
read as many books as you can, and read any
book that interests you. You can complete other
activities to earn other incentives. Or just read for
fun!
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1861)
 In this unflaggingly suspenseful
story of aspirations and moral
redemption, humble, orphaned Pip,
a ward of his short-tempered older
sister and her husband, Joe, is
apprenticed to the dirty work of the
forge but dares to dream of
becoming a gentleman. And,
indeed, it seems as though that
dream is destined to come to pass
— because one day, under sudden
and enigmatic circumstances, he
finds himself in possession of "great
expectations.“
 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836
808/ Clip from a movie version
Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by
Sherman Alexie (2007)
 Budding cartoonist Junior leaves
his troubled school on the
Spokane Indian reservation to
attend an all-white farm town
school where the only other
Indian is the school mascot.
 https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=iQMyOkvbu7A
 Student book trailer
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
(2011)
 In 1941, fifteen year old Lina, her
mother, and brother are pulled from
their Lithuanian home by Soviet
guards and sent to Siberia, where her
father is sentenced to death in a
prison camp while she fights for her
life, vowing to honor her family and
the thousands like hers by burying
her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.
Based on the author's family, includes
a historical note.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
u630dERY5Sc
 Author video
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (2013)
 Set over the course of one
school year in 1986, this is the
story of two star- crossed misfits
smart enough to know that first
love almost never lasts, but
brave and desperate enough to
try.
 https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=qoXDeHfvuww
 Student trailer
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
(1991)
 For Esperanza, a young girl
growing up in the Hispanic
quarter of Chicago, life is an
endless landscape of concrete
and rundown tenements, and
she tries to rise above the
hopelessness.
 https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=jYqFvWEh9nQ
 Student trailer
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen by
Susin Nielsen (2012)
 When thirteen-year-old Henry
and his family relocate to a city
to leave behind a secret tragedy,
Henry finds a journal is his best
friend.
 https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=7J5BAFDF6xY&index=7&list
=PLKFeLoSdGJVzmW9ypmGrJ__
JJpnfmxZG- student trailer
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)
 In the year 2044, reality is an ugly
place. The only time teenage Wade
Watts really feels alive is when he's
jacked into the virtual utopia known
as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life
to studying the puzzles hidden within
this world's digital confines—puzzles
that are based on their creator's
obsession with the pop culture of
decades past and that promise
massive power and fortune to
whoever can unlock them. But when
Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he
finds himself beset by players willing
to kill to take this ultimate prize. The
race is on, and if Wade's going to
survive, he'll have to win—and
confront the real world he's always
been so desperate to escape.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i
fXryyx4erU
Where do I find books?
 Visit the Jackson Library during
the summer.
 Order the book through the UW
Bookstore.
 Visit the Mill Creek Library.
Where can I go online?
 Visit the Jackson Library page for
updates and book ideas. They
will have all of the summer
information posted for your
reference