Jennifer and Tony's 7th & 8th Grades
2013 Summer Reading
It's a LONG list -- just over 30 students, at least 115 different books read, and so much variation!
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Everyone read If a Tree Falls at Lunchtime by Gennifer Choldenko. A group of 8th graders met with the author at the Decatur Book Festival over Labor Day weekend. The following Friday, the entire junior high gathered to watch a film of the interview, and participate in activities related to the book.
Well Witched by Frances Hardinge
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Graceling, Fire & Bitterblue (trilogy) by Kristin Cashore
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
13 Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Colibri by Ann
Cameron
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
Shipbreaker by
Paolo Bacigalupi
Double Dutch by
Sharon Draper
Matched by Ally
Condie
the Warriors series by Erin Hunter
Being Friends with Boys by Terra Elan McVoy
Theodore Boone: The Accused by John Grisham
The Future of Us
by Carolyn Mackler & Jay Asher
Speak by
Laurie Halse Anderson
The Goddess Inheritance by Aimee Carter
Pride and Popularity
by Jenni James
The Mindreaders
by Lori Brighton
Sweetness by
Lindsay Paige
Close to Famous by Joan Bauer
Snapshot by
Angie Stanton
Zoo Break by Gordon Korman
I Funny by
James Patterson
Wonder by R. J.
Palacio
Tom Sawyer by
Mark Twain
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Red Leech (Young Sherlock Holmes) by Andrew Lane
Mockingjay by
Suzanne Collins
Noughts and Crosses
by Malorie Blackman
The Book Thief
by Marcus Zusak
The Birchbark House
by Louise Erdrich
Finally by
Wendy Mass
The Dark is Rising
by Susan Cooper
The Kane Chronicles series by Rick Riordan
Soul Surfer by Bethany Hamilton
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenweiler by E. L. Koenigsburg
Elsewhere the Shadows
by Jacqueline West
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Speigelman
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher
Laika by Nick
Abzakis
Inside of a Dog
by Alexandra Horowitz
How Ya’ Like Me Now?
by Brendan Halpin
The Boy Sherlock Holmes series by Shane Peacock
Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld
The Demon in the Tea House by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Brain Jack by
Brian Falkner
Freak the Mighty
by Rodman Philbrick
What Happened to Goodbye? and Lock and Key
by Sarah Dessen
The Clique by
Lisi Harrison
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Shutout by
Brendan Halpin
Pretty Face by
Mary Hogan
Thirteen Plus One
by Lauren Myracle
Whale Talk by
Chris Crutcher
The Door of No Return
by Sarah Mussi
Farenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Tuck Everlasting
by Natalie Babbit
Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson
On Pointe by
Lorie Ann Grover
Samurai Shortstop
by Alan Gratz
My Mother the Cheerleader by Robert Sharenow
The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Boneshaker by
Cherie Priest
the Inheritance series by Christopher Paolini
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Eleven by
Patricia Reilly Giff
the Pendragon series by D. J. MacHale
Dune by Frank
Herbert
I, Robot by
Isaac Asimov
Code Talker by
Joseph Bruchac
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
All the Broken Pieces
by Ann Burg
Legend series
by Marie Lu
The Hit by
David Baldacci
The daVinci Code
by Dan Brown
Ender’s Shadow
by Orson Scott Card
The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler and Sarah Gibb
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz and Hugh D'Andrade
The City of Ember
by Jeanne duPrau
My Life in Dog Years
by Gary Paulsen
Pearl Harbor by
Judy Hasaday
Shot and Framed: Photographers at the Crime Scene by Diane Webber
Guilty by a Hair: Real-Life DNA Matches by Anna Prokos
Dicey’s Song by
Cynthia Voigt
The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar
Doll Bones by
Holly Black
Odysseus in the Serpent Maze by Jane Yolen and Robert Harris
The Girls of No Return by
Erin Saldin
Love and Other Perishable Items by Laura Buzo
Dark Shore by
Kevin Emerson
the Delirium series by Lauren Oliver
the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan
The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore
Star Girl by
Jerry Spinelli
Son by Lois Lowry
Running with the Buffaloes by Chris Lear
Ruby Redfort: Look Into My Eyes by Lauren Child
the Gallagher Girls series by Ally Carter
Tessa Masterson Will Go To Prom by Emily Franklin & Brendan Halpin
Nothing Pink by
Mark Hardy
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
Go For the Goal
by Mia Hamm
Every Soul a Star
by Wendy Mass
Hatchet by Gary
Paulsen
Miracle Wimp by
Erik P. Kraft
Pop by Gordon
Korman
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonenblick
I Represent Sean Rosen
by Jeff Baron
