EAGLE College Prep
Summer Reading 2014
All students enrolled in 3rd through 8th grade are required to
read the books listed below by the first day of school. During
the first week of school each class will complete a project/book
report/essay relating to the summer reading. Books can be
checked out from the library or purchased.
THIRD GRADE:
Please read any Magic Treehouse book by Mary Pope Osborne. You will need to
complete a Cereal Box Report due during the first week of school.
Supplies: Empty cereal boxes, construction paper, crayons and/or markers, glue
DIRECTIONS:
Front of Box:
1. Trace around you cereal box on construction paper.
2. Cut out the shape on the construction paper.
3. Create a name for the cereal box that is related to the title of the book and
sounds like a cereal. Do not use the exact title of the book.
4. Use your imagination to decorate the cover.
5. Glue the cover to the front of the cereal box. (NOTE: Create cover before
gluing to the box!)
Right Side:
1. Trace around the side of you cereal box on construction paper.
2. Cut out the shape on the construction paper.
3. Write the heading “ingredients” on the paper.
4. List several main characters and settings.
5. Write a sentence about each.
6. Glue to right side of cereal box.
Left Side:
1. Cut a side panel for your cereal box from construction paper.
2. Write a short summary of the story. Be very descriptive and lively!
3. Glue to left side of cereal box.
Cereal Box Report continued…
Back of box:
1. Trace around your cereal box on construction paper.
2. Cut out the shape on the construction paper.
3. On this paper, design a game, puzzle, word search, word scramble, maze,
crossword puzzle, hidden objects illustration that links with the story.
4. Glue the paper to the back of the box
Top of box:
1. Trace around the top of your cereal box on construction paper.
2. Cut out the shape on the construction paper.
3. Write the title, author, and number of pages in the book.
4. List the number of stars you would give this book if you were a book critic,
1-5.
Prize:
1. Choose and place an object inside the box (like a free prize in cereal). The
object should represent something from the story: an event, a character,
the setting, etc.
FOURTH GRADE:
Earthquake in the Early Morning Magic Treehouse
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Write a brief ½ page summary. Please include the title, author and
description.
FIFTH GRADE:
Rules by Cynthia Lord
(Newbery Honor Medal Winner)
 Write a brief ½ page summary. Please include the title, author and
description.
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
(Newbery Honor Medal Winner)

Write a brief ½ page summary. Please include the title, author and
description.
Sixth Grade Summer Reading 2014
EAGLE College Prep
Dear rising sixth graders!
This summer you will need to read THREE books: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (required), one
biography of your choice, and at least one free-choice book. We encourage you to read as
many books as you would like.
What to read:
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Hatchet by Gary Paulsen (REQUIRED)
o
Brian Robeson is a thirteen year-old son of divorced parents. As he travels on a bush
plane to visit his father in the oil fields in northern Canada for the summer, the pilot
suffers a heart attack and dies; Brian tries to land the plane, but ends up crashlanding into a lake in the forest, saving nothing but his hatchet—a gift his mother
gave him shortly before his plane departed—and his own life.
o
We suggest that you read this book toward the end of the summer because
we will discuss the book, have a quiz, and work on a writing assignment
during the first two weeks of school. These items will count towards your
grade.
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One BIOGRAPHY of your choice
o
Write a brief ½ page summary of the biography that you read. Please be sure
to include the title and author as well as the major events in the person’s life.
o
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Please have your summary on the first day of school.
FREE CHOICE: you may read any other book(s) of your choice. Some suggestions are
listed at the bottom. We invite you to read any books that you are excited about.
o
Write a brief ½ page Book Review on your free choice book. Please include
the title, author, genre, and recommendation, describing why you liked the
book.
o
Please have your book review by the first day of school.
Book Recommendations:
You may choose a free choice book from this list or any other book that interests you.
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck
The View from Saturday by EL Konigsburg
Any Newbery Award Winner or Honor Book
Any National Book Award Book
Seventh Grade Summer Reading 2014
EAGLE College Prep
Dear rising seventh graders!
This summer you will need to read THREE books: The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
(required), one historical fiction book of your choice, and at least one free-choice book. We
encourage you to read as many books as you would like.
What to read:
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The Red Pony by John Steinbeck (REQUIRED)
o
Ownership of a beautiful red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and
death.
o
We suggest that you read this book toward the end of the summer because
we will discuss the book, have a quiz, and work on a writing assignment
during the first two weeks of school. These items will count towards your
grade.

One Historical Fiction book of your choice
o
Write a brief ½ page summary of the biography that you read. Please be sure
to include the title and author as well as the major events in the person’s life.
o

Please have your summary on the first day of school.
FREE CHOICE: you may read any other book(s) of your choice. Some suggestions are
listed below. We invite you to read any books that you are excited about.
o
Write a brief ½ page Book Review on your free choice book. Please include
the title, author, genre, and recommendation, describing why you liked the
book.
o
Please have your book review by the first day of school.
Book Recommendations:
You may choose a free choice book from this list or any other book that interests you.
TELL US WE’RE HOME by Budhos, Marina,
ETHAN SUSPENDED by Ehrenberg, Pamela
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE by Abrahams, Peter
TUNNELS by Gordon, Roderick
THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins
Any Newberry Award Winner or Honor Book
Any National Book Award Book
Eighth Grade Summer Reading 2014
EAGLE College Prep
Dear rising eighth graders!
This summer you will need to read FIVE literary works: Animal Farm by George Orwell
(required), THREE short stories of your choice, and at least one free-choice book. We
encourage you to read as many books as you would like.
What to read:
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Animal Farm by George Orwell (REQUIRED)
o
Politically minded farm animals undergo a revolution against their human
master and establish a new government that fails because of a corrupt leader
tempted by greed and power.
o
Please write a ½ page summary of EACH CHAPTER immediately after you
read it. Do not only include what happens in the chapter, also include any
symbols, metaphors, or emerging themes that you find in each chapter.
o
We suggest that you read this book toward the end of the summer because
we will discuss the book, have a quiz, and work on a writing assignment
during the first two weeks of school. These items will count towards your
grade.
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Choose THREE short stories
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Write a brief ½ page summary of each short story that you read. Please be sure to
include the title and author.
o
Please have your summaries on the first day of school.
o
Author Suggestions: O. Henry, Washington Irving, John Updike, Edgar Allen
Poe, Flannery O’Conner
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FREE CHOICE: you may read any other book(s) of your choice. Some suggestions are
listed below. We invite you to read any books that you are excited about.
o
Write a brief ½ page Book Review on your free choice book. Please include
the title, author, genre, and recommendation, describing why you liked the
book.
o
Please have your book review by the first day of school.
Book Recommendations:
You may choose a free choice book from this list or any other book that interests you.
TELL US WE’RE HOME by Budhos, Marina,
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE by Abrahams, Peter
TUNNELS by Gordon, Roderick
THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins
THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS by John Boyne
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkein
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
Any Newbery Award Winner or Honor Book
Any National Book Award Book