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EISENHOWER MIDDLE SCHOOL REQUIRED SUMMER READING LIST
GRADE 6 BOOKS, FOR CURRENT GRADE 6, 7 & 8 STUDENTS
GRADE 6: AUTHOR TITLE TYPE CURRICULUMRELATED Alcott, L. Little Women Classic Avi Crispin Adventure Avi The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Historical Fiction Burnford, S. The Incredible Journey Animal Fiction Cleaver Where the Lilies Bloom Realistic Fiction Cooper, S. The Boggart Fantasy Creech, S. Granny Torrelli Makes Soup Realistic Fiction Evslin, B. The Adventures of Ulysses Ancient Greece Evslin, B. The Greek Gods Ancient Greece Evslin, B. The Trojan War Ancient Greece Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy Fiction Fox, P. The Slave Dancer Historical Fiction Funkr, C. Inkheart Fantasy Giff, P. Lily's Crossing Historical Fiction Giff, P. Pictures of Hollis Woods Realistic Fiction Gregory, K. Cleopatra VII Royal Diaries Hesse, K. Out of the Dust Historical Fiction Hobbs, W. Downriver Adventure L'Engle M. A Wrinkle in Time Fantasy MacHale, D. Pendragon: Book One - The Merchant of Death Fantasy Paolini, C. Eragon Fantasy Paulson, G. Soldier's Heart Historical Fiction Rawlings The Yearling Animal Fiction Richter, C. The Light In The Forest Adventure Ryan, P. Esperanza Rising Realistic Fiction Snyder The Egypt Game Mystery Spyri Heidi Classic Taylor, T. The Cay Survival Tolan, S. Surviving the Applewhites Realistic Fiction/Humor Wrede, P. Dealing With Dragons Fantasy Please select any two of the books listed above. Books with an asterisk (*) indicate curriculum related literature. Assessments will be conducted for both books in the Fall.
Book Summaries
Alcott, L. Little Women
Four sisters mature and fall in love during the 1860's in a small New England town.Avi Crispin
A 14th century peasant boy discovers his true identity when he becomes part of an entertainment troupe with his best friend Bear the juggler. Together they share in a mysterious action packed adventure.Avi The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Charlotte Doyle, thirteen, returning from school in England to join her family in Rhode
Island, is deposited on a seedy ship with a ruthless, mad captain and a mutinous crew.
Refusing to heed warnings about Captain Jaggery's brutality, Charlotte seeks his guidance and approval only to become his victim.Burnford, S. Incredible Journey
A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier and a young Labrador retriever travel 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their familyCleaver, V. Where the Lilies Bloom
Eccentric Appalachian children survive the death of their father and subsequent deprivations by bluff and deception.Cooper, S. The Boggart
The Boggart is an invisible, indestructible Celtic mischief-maker who becomes wary of attachment to those whom he is bound to outlive. When the last MacDevon clan chief dies and leaves his crumbling castle to his heirs, a Canadian family named Volnik, the Boggart gets trapped in a desk shipped from Scotland. His ancient presence in a modern world electrifies Emily and Jessup Volnik's lives until they finally figure out what he is and how to ship him back home in a computer game that could either save or lose him forever.Creech, S. Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
With the help of her wise old grandmother, twelve year old Rosie manages to work out
Some problems in her relationship with her best friend.Evslin, B. The Adventures of Ulysses
The leader of the Greek forces returning from Troy encounters the Cyclops, the beautiful sorceress Circe and more, as he tries to ward off the anger of the gods.Evslin, B. The Greek Gods
The biography of all the gods of ancient Greece.Evslin, B. The Trojan War
Chronicles the Trojan War.Fitzhugh Harriet the Spy
When Harriet Welsch grows up, she wants to be an author. So, she figures it's a good way to practice for her future vocation by writing down everything she sees on her spy route in a secret notebook. You can imagine her horror when the secret notebook is confiscated by her classmates and read aloud! Now Harriet's knee-deep in trouble as the tables are turned on her.Fox, P. Slave Dancer
Kidnapped by the crew of an African bound ship, 13 year old Jesse discovers to his horror that he is on a slave ship of human cargo.Giff, P. Lily's Crossing
The summer of 1944 was supposed to be as carefree as the past summers of Lily's life -- spent in Rockaway, in her family's house by the Atlantic Ocean. But World War II changes everything: Lily's best friend moves away to a wartime factory town and Lily's father heads overseas to the war. Then Lily meets Albert, a refugee from Hungary who has a very tragic past. The secrets these two children share and the special friendship they form will change both their lives forever.Giff, P. Pictures of Hollis Woods
A child of the New York Foster Care System, Hollis Woods has many heartfelt experiences. She is, however, longing for that one perfect family who will nurture and cultivate her dreams.Gregory, K. Cleopatra VII
While her father is in hiding after attempts on his life, twelve-year-old Cleopatra records in her diary how she fears for her own safety and hopes to survive to become Queen of Egypt some day.Hesse, K. Out of the Dust
In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.Hobbs, W. Downriver
Jessie, 15, is one of eight problem teens participating in a nine-week outdoor survival education program. The first part of the program, mountain climbing, almost ends in disaster when Jessie panics and has to be talked down. But the real challenges start when the group, led by charismatic Troy Larsen, decides to ditch the counselor and head for the Grand Canyon to do some unsupervised white-water rafting.L'Engle, M. A Wrinkle in Time
Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to have been blown off course and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract," which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle in time. Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?Paolini, C. Eragon
Eragon and a dragon hatchling are thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and
Power. The fate of the empire rests in their hands.Paulson, G. Soldier's Heart
Although he was eager to enlist, 15-year-old Charley Goddard has a change of heart after experiencing both the physical horrors and mental anguish of Civil War combat. Battle by battle, Gary Paulsen shows readers the turmoil of war through one boy's eyes and one boy's heart -- and gives voice to all the anonymous young men who fought in the Civil War.Rawlings, The Yearling
A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.Richter, C. The Light in the Forest
John Butler, born in a small frontier town, was captured at age four by the Lenni Lenape Indians and raised by the great warrior, Cuyloga, who named the boy "True Son." He grew up thinking, feeling, and fighting like an Indian. Now rescued and restored to his family because of a treaty to return all white captives to their own people, John Butler rebels against this civilization and desires to return to the tribe. Escaping from the family farm in Pennsylvania, he discovers the eternal and irreconcilable conflict between the two worlds. "True Son"/John Butler asks, "Who am I? Where do I belong?"Ryan, P. Esperanza Rising
Esperanza and her mother are forced to relinquish their lifestyle and wealth in Mexico to work in labor camps and adapt to harsh circumstances.Snyder The Egypt Game
The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she's not sure they'll have anything in common. But she soon discovers that they both love anything to do with ancient Egypt. When they stumble upon a deserted storage yard behind the A-Z Antiques and Curio Shop, Melanie and April decide it's the perfect spot for Egypt Game. Before long there are six Egyptians instead of two. After school and on weekends they all meet to wear costumes, hold ceremonies, and work on their secret code. Everyone thinks it's just a game, until strange things begin happening to the players. Has the Egypt Game gone too far?Spyri Heidi
Heidi, a lively orphan girl, goes to live with her grandfather in a little hut high in the Alps. Soon she is in perfect harmony with her surroundings leading a carefree life with her grandfather and her constant companion, Peter, a young goatherd. But her happiness is short-lived when she is sent to stay with a rich city family as a companion for her sick cousin Clara. Although she becomes fond of the older girl, Heidi is terribly homesick.Taylor, T. The Cay
Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he's eager to glimpse it firsthanduntil the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed. When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the middle of the sea. Besides Stew Cat, his only companion is an old West Indian, Timothy. Phillip remembers his mother's warning about black people: "They are different, and they live differently." By the time the castaways arrive on a small island, Phillip's head injury has made him blind and dependent on Timothy. This is the story of their struggle to survive, and of Phillip's efforts to adjust to his blindness and to understand the dignified, wise, and loving old man who is his companionTolan, S. Surviving the Applewhites
A budding juvenile delinquent is sent for home schooling in an artsy creative academy.
Under the supervision of the Applewhite family, a group of eccentric teenagers discover
their nitch in the world.Wrede, P. Dealing with Dragons.
Princess Cimerone and the dragon Kazul share a spirited adventure with an extraordinary cast of characters in this first book in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles series. Cimorene is an iconoclastic princess bored with court life. Outraged by an arranged engagement to a dull prince and prevented from following her preferred pursuits of cooking and magic, she runs away to become the princess of a dragon.
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