Summer Reading

6th Grade

Space

The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson

Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

Planet Earth

Downriver by Will Hobbs

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Earthquake at Dawn by Kristiana Gregory

Forces and Energy

Isaac Newton by Kathleen Krull

October Sky by Homer H. Hickman

The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

7^th Grade

Genetics

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker by Cynthia DeFelice

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

Carver: A life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson

Adaptations

California Blue by David Klass

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong

The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History by Thor Hanson

Matter

How to Make a Universe with 92 Ingredients: An Electrifying Guide to the Elements by Adrian Dingle

Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin

The Disappearing Spoon: and Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table by Sam Kean

Napoleon’s Buttons by Penny Le Couteur

8th Grade

Waves/ Transformation of Energy

My Old Man and the Sea: A Father and Son Sail Around Cape Horn by David Hayes

Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse

Ecosystems

Anthology for the Earth (poetry) by Judy Allen (editor)

Flush by Carl Hiaasen

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Weather

This Big Sky by Pat Mora

Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman