Suggested Summer Reading - Entering Grade 7
Suggested Summer Reading - Entering Grade 7
Russell Sage Book & E-book Catalog
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E-books available from SORA
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Churmin, Nancy. Martin & Anne : The Kindred spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank (Biography)The story of their parallel journeys to find hope in darkness and to follow their dreams.
Dee, Barbara. Maybe He Just Likes You. (Realistic Fiction)When boys in her class start touching seventh-grader Mila and making her feel uncomfortable, she does not want to tell her friends or mother until she reaches her breaking point.
DiCamillo, Kate. The Tiger Rising. (Realistic Fiction)Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. (Horror)Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Gibbs, Stuart. Spy School Revolution. (Action-Adventure)Benjamin Ripley is hoping for some peace at spy school, but when the CIA conference room next to where Ben and Alexander are trying to explain everything to Ben's parents (no easy task) is blown up, suspicion falls on fellow trainee (and secret crush) Erica.
Ha, Robin. Almost American Girl. (Graphic Novel / Memoir)The author recounts how she and her mother moved from South Korea to the United States.
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. (Adventure)Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Kraus, Stephanie. Game-Changers: Lin-Manuel Miranda. (Biography)Looks at the life of actor, composer, lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda who created and starred in the Broadway musicals "In the Heights" and "Hamilton.".
LeZotte, Ann Clare. Show Me a Sign. (Historial Fiction)In 1805, Mary has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. (Historical Fiction)In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
Moore, David Barclay. The Stars Beneath Our Feet. (Realistic Fiction)It;s Christmas Eve in Harlem, but twelve-year-old Lolly Rachpaul and his mom aren't celebrating. They're still reeling from his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting. Then Lolly's mother's girlfriend brings him a gift that will change everything.
Patterson, James & Chris Tebbets. Middle School, The Worst Years of My Life. (Realistic Fiction / Humor)After transferring to a new middle school, Rafe butts heads with the rule-crazy principal. Rafe decides his new school could do with a little less strictness and a lot more fun, so he plans a series of pranks to teach the principal a lesson.
Reynolds, Jason. Sunny. (Realistic Fiction)Sunny's mom died giving birth to him and it seems like his dad blames him. The only thing Sunny can do right in his dad's eyes is to win first place running the mile, like his mother. Sunny hates running and loves to dance. When he discovers a track event that allows him to incorporate elements of dance that he loves, he learns to let go of what's eating him up inside.
Riggs, Ransom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. (Fantasy / Horror)Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.
Riordan, Rick. Percy Jackson's Greek Gods. (Non-fiction)Percy Jackson, a modern-day demigod, tells the origin stories of the gods of Olympus and provides an insider's point of view, with plenty of attitude.
E-books available from Open Library
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Almond, David. Clay. (Fantasy)Davie, a gifted sculptor who has the gift of creation, brings a life-size figure to life--and Clay is born. Clay is innocent, but Stephen has special plans for him. What has Davie helped to unleash on the world? Greenberg, Jan. Andy Warhol. (Biography)Warhol's rise, as the Pittsburgh-bred son of Eastern European immigrants, from poverty to wealth, from obscurity to status as a Pop icon, is played out in all of its success and excess. Hautman, Pete. Invisible. (Realistic)Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever. Hopkinson, Deborah. Up Before Daybreak: People and Cotton in America. (Non-fiction)The voices of the forgotten men, women, and children who worked in the cotton industry in America over the centuries, spring to life through oral histories and archival photos. Hopkinson, Nalo. Midnight Robber. (Science fiction)The Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating Carnival. To Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a costume to wear at the festival--until her corrupt father commits an unforgivable crime. Johnson, Angela. The First Part Last. (Realistic)Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter. Reedy, Trent. Words in the Dust. (Realistic)Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, and is given hope when American troops offer her surgery to fix her cleft palate. Peck, Richard. A Year Down Yonder. (Historical)Mary Alice's childhood summers in Grandma Dowdel's sleepy Illinois town were packed with enough drama to fill the double bill of any picture show. All Mary Alice can know for certain is this: when trying to predict how life with Grandma might turn out . . . better not. Runyon, Brent. Surface Tension. (Realistic)During the summer vacations of his thirteenth through his sixteenth year at the family's lake cottage, Luke realizes that although some things stay the same over the years that many more change. Vande Velde, Vivian. Heir Apparent. (Fantasy)In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed--and Giannine seems to be finding them all.
NYC Public Libraries (Queens, Brooklyn, NYPL) Summer Reading Web Site
Booklists, Events, Reading Challengewww.summerreading.orgNYC Public Libraries (Queens, Brooklyn, NYPL) Summer Reading Web Site