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Showing posts with label Summer Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer Reading. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Summer Quest at the Alexandria Library

SummerQuest 
Cool off at the Alexandria Library this summer with SummerQuest and SummerQuest Junior! 
This year's theme is Every Hero Has a Story, and the library will have programs with magicians, musicians, animals, science, storytimes and more that are perfect for kids ages 0-5 and ages 6-12! 

Kids can also receive a fun prize if they read 10 books by the end of August! 

Programs are free, open to all interested families, and you do not need a library card to attend.
For more information:

Monday, July 2, 2012

Another Summer Reading list for Students

There may be some repetition ( http://alexandriamom.blogspot.com/2012/05/summer-reading.html ) 
but I just found another one of my lists for summer reading.....


Anything by: 
Roald Dahl
Gary Paulson
Andrew Clements
Rick Riordan


Series: 
Peter and the Star Catchers
Narnia
Magik


100 Cupboards
The Book without Words


Classics/Award Winners: 
Of Mice and Men
Bud Not Buddy
The House on Mango Street
Out of the Dust
Roll Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Giver
Animal Farm
The Pigman
Things Fall Apart
To Kill A Mockingbird

6th/7th Grade 
 Maniac Magee, Spinelli
 Invention of Hugo Cabret, Selznick
Maze of Bones: 39 Clues, Riordan
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Kinney
Watsons Go To Birmingham, Curtis
The Egypt Game, Snyder
Walk Two Moons, Creech
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis
The Acorn People by Ron Jones
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen
Freak the Mighty, Rodman Philbrick
The Incredible Journey, Sheila Burnford
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Bartoletti
Seven Sons and Seven Daughters by Barbara Chen
The Iron Ring by Lloyd Alexander
Ordinary Magic by Malcolm Bosse
the Conch Bearer by Chitra Bannerjee Divakauruni
Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher
The Broken Tusk by Uma Krishnaswami
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Blizzard by Jim Murphy 

7th Grade 

The Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
Crispin: Cross of Lead by Avi
Anna of Byzantium by Tracey Barrett
Year of Wonder: A Novel about the Plaque by Geraldine Brooks
Lady with an Alien by Michael Resnick 
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopald
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine


8th Grade 



 The Outsiders, Hinton
Taking Sides, Soto

Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
The Young Man and the Sea, Rodman Philbrick
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Carl
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Call of the Wild, London
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Night by Elie Wiesel 

9th Grade

 Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury
Into the Wild by Krakauer
The Hobbit by Tolkien
Rebecca by du Maurier


10th Grade




Nickel and Dimed by Ehrenriech 
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Smith
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Kesey

11th Grade

The Picture of Dorian Gray byWilde
Invisible Man by Ellison
Catch-22 by Heller

12th Grade

Guns, Germs and Steel by Diamond 
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig
The Glass Castle byWalls







Monday, May 7, 2012

Summer Reading

Summer Reading: A compilation of area schools required summer reading lists.


6th and 7th Grade:

Ghosts I have Been by Richard Peck
Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Acorn People by Ron Jones
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Freak the Mighty, by Rodman Philbrick
The Incredible Journey, by Sheila Burnford


8th Grade 

Night by Elie Wiesel
The Outsiders by Susan Hinton
Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
The Young Man and the Sea, Rodman Philbrick
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Carl
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
Haveli by Suzanne Fisher Staples
White Fang by Jack London


9th  Grade
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach
The Pigman, Paul Zindel
A Day No Pigs Would Die, Newton Peck
The Hobbit by JR Tolkein
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer



 10th Grade:
Nickled and Dimed, Ehrenreich
Blessings, Anna Quindlen
The Bean Trees, Kingsolver
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer

 11th Grade:
The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, Paula Gun Allen
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Angelou
The Bluest Eye, Morrison
If I Die in the Combat Zone, O’Brien
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
The Awakening by Kate Chopin




12th Grade:
The Glass Castle, Walls

The Metamorphosis, Kafka 

Snow Falling on Cedars, Guterson

The Kitchen God’s Wife, Tan

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Hardy

Catch-22, Heller

Anna Karenina, Tolstoy

Dracula, Stoker

The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood

Frankenstein, Shelley