6th Grade Summer Reading Assignment for Language Arts
The Georgetown School of Arts and Sciences
Mrs. Lane Crosby
LCrosby@TheGeorgetownSchool.org
6th grade—you will read 3 books. On the first day of class, you will have a test on the 3 books.
1. Choose 1 book from this list (Choose a book that you have not read). Do not read an abridged
version.
Baseball in April by Gary Soto
Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodges Burnett
Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
2. Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
3. Read 1 book of your choice (that you have not read before and that does not have a movie version).
Your book should be on your grade level.
7th Grade Summer Reading Assignment for Language Arts
The Georgetown School of Arts and Sciences
Mrs. Lane Crosby
LCrosby@TheGeorgetownSchool.org
7th grade—you will read 3 books. You will complete a crossword puzzle on The Giver by July 18.
You will have a test on books the other books on the first day of school.
1. The Giver by Lois Lowry (you must read this in the first half of the summer)
2. Choose a book from this list that you have not read. Do not read an abridged version. If you have
read all these books, please email your teacher LCrosby@TheGeorgetownSchool.org
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
3. Read 1 book of your choice (that you have not read before and that does not have a movie version).
Your book should be on your grade level.
Crossword Puzzle for The Giver
At the top of the page, you should write OMH (On My Honor) and sign your name. This means that
you are promising you did not lie, cheat, or steal (in other words, the work is your own; you did not
take anything from the internet, another person, or any other source). You must sign this honor code
pledge for all work at The Georgetown School.
Mail your completed puzzle (postmarked by July 18) to:
The Georgetown School
Attn: Mrs. Crosby
1200 Highmarket St.
Georgetown, SC 29440
8th Grade Summer Reading Assignment for English I
The Georgetown School of Arts and Sciences
Mrs. Lane Crosby
LCrosby@TheGeorgetownSchool.org
8th grade—you will read 3 books (4 books if you plan to take honors). You will complete a
crossword puzzle on The Giver or Farewell to Manzanar by July 18. You will have a test on the
other books the first day of class.
1. Choose one of the following (if you have read one, you must choose the other)
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
2. Jesse by Gary Soto
3. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
4. If you wish to earn honors credit, please read a book from the honors list and complete the honors
assignment in addition to the regular English I assignment.
Crossword Puzzle
At the top of the page, you should write OMH (On My Honor) and sign your name. This means that
you are promising you did not lie, cheat, or steal (in other words, the work is your own; you did not
take anything from the internet, another person, or any other source). You must sign this honor code
pledge for all work at The Georgetown School.
Mail your completed puzzle (postmarked by July 18) to:
The Georgetown School
Attn: Mrs. Crosby
1200 Highmarket St.
Georgetown, SC 29440
English I Honors Assignment (due the first day of class)
Read one of the following books. You will have a test the first day of school and an assignment the first
week of school.
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Battle of the Books Competition
In November, our middle school students will compete in the SCISA Battle of the Books competition.
They will work together as a team (6 students at a time) to answer questions about 20 different books.
We will read some of these books in class this fall, but reading from this list over the summer will help
you prepare for the competition. Here are the books on the list:
Eight Cousins (Alcott)
Chains (Laurie Anderson)
A String in the Harp (Bond)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Boyne)
Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis)
Pictures of Hollis Woods (Giff)
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly (Hansen)
Jason’s Gold (Will Hobbs)
Turtle in Paradise (Jennifer Holm)
Farewell to Manzanar (Houston)
The Lottery Rose (Hunt)
A Single Shard (Park)
Jip, His Story (Paterson)
Counting by 7’s (Holly Sloan)
The Egypt Game (Snyder)
The Red Pony (Steinbeck)
The Land (Mildred D. Taylor)
Feathers (Woodson)
The Dollhouse Murders (Wright)
Dragonwings (Laurence Yep)
Summer Reading
9th and 10th Grade:
Ancient History- The Goddess of Yesterday
by Caroline B. Cooney
11th and 12th Grade American Literature
All Students
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
English 9/10: Genres- The Short Story,
The Novel and The Graphic Novel
All students- Choose TWO of the
following:
Emma by Jane Austen
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Passing by Nella Larsen
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken
Kesey
Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
Honors – In addition choose one of the
following
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Reading quizzes and writing assignments
will be given in the first week of school
Plus choose one of the following:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Light in August by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee
Williams
Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Catch-22by Joseph Heller
Native Son by Richard Wright
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn
Warren
Honors:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Reading quizzes and writing assignments
will be given in the first week of school