TMS Summer Reading List 2009

Taylor Middle SchoolSummer Reading List 2009

Incoming 6 th Grade Hard Hit by Ann Turner ($18.40)The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going ($7.56)Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff ($7.56)

Incoming 6 th Grade (Pre-AP) Overboard by Elizabeth Fama ($6.49)The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis ($6.49)

Mrs. Engelke’s and Ms. Mayer’s classes (soon to be Mrs. Widmer’s)The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket($7.56)The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going ($7.56)

Incoming 7 th Grade (read one) Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen ($7.03)Bang by Sharon Flake ($8.64)Crash by Jerry Spinelli ($7.03)The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis ($7.56)

Incoming 7 th Grade Pre-AP (read one) Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt ($7.56)The Cay by Theodore Taylor ($7.03)The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan ($8.64)Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor ($8.64)Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin ($8.64)

Incoming 8 th Grade (read one) see p. 2 for 8 th Grade Pre-AP How Not to be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler ($17.30)39 Clues: Book 1 by Rick Riordan ($14.06)Shock Point by April Henry ($8.64)The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ($18.40)Found, The Missing Book 1 by Margaret Haddix ($7.56)

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TMS Summer Reading List 2009

Incoming 8 th Grade Pre-AP (read one) I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson ($7.56)Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson ($7.56)Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli ($7.56)Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz ($6.49)Into the Wild by John Krakauer ($15.10)Life As We Knew It by Gabrielle Zevin ($7.56)

Incoming 9 th Grade English I regular (read one) West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet ($7.56)The Contender by Robert Lipsyte ($7.56)The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney ($7.56)

Incoming 9 th Grade English I Pre-AP (read one) Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ($15.10)Watership Down by Richard Adams ($17.32)Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes ($9.74)The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier ($8.11)

Incoming 9 th Grade Legacy High School West Side Story (required) ($7.56)Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ($15.10)Watership Down by Richard Adams ($17.32)Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes ($9.74)The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersSilas Mariner by George EliotThe Miracle Worker by William GibsonA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry1984 by George Orwell

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