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Reading is basic to all learning and is encouraged at The Perkiomen School Middle School. During the summer, students entering grades five through eight are required to read a minimum of two books from the attached grade level lists. English assignments, in the early fall, are based on the summer reading. These can include in class writing assignments and/or homework assignments. 

Summer Reading Guidelines

  • Students should choose two books from their respective grade’s list.
  • They should not choose books they have already read.
  • If a student enrolls after August 15, they only have to read one book.
  • ESL students do not have to do summer reading.
  • Preparing a Study Guide is optional, but strongly encouraged.

Optional Study Guide

Students may choose to take notes as they read and develop study guides. The students should develop the study guides on their own with only organizational help from parents. They should not be so long or detailed that they are not useful. Study guides are meant to be a quick reference tool that can be used when completing assignments.

Possible Organizational Format

Main characters: Make a list of the main characters and describe them. Students should include: age, physical description, and notes about the character's personality.

Setting: Include the time and place in which the novel takes place. The setting may change throughout the story.

Conflict: What is the problem or conflict in the story? Are there other minor conflicts that are also important?

Plot Summaries: Divide the book into five to ten sections and write a plot summary for the sections.

Optional Reading Opportunities

Reading Olympics: Our middle school has a very active Reading Olympics Team. We hope that students will look at the Reading Olympics Book list to get a head start on the reading for the club if they are interested in joining. The link to the Reading Olympics book choices is on the school web site under Middle School.

 

Summer Reading Choices

(Choose two from your respective grade)

6th Grade

Title

Author

The Sea of Trolls

Nancy Farmer

Dragonsong

Anne McCaffrey

The Golden Compass

Philip Pullman

The Subtle Knife

Philip Pullman

The Amber Spy Glass

Philip Pullman

The True Confession of Charlotte Doyle

Avi

Chasing Vermeer

Balleitt Blue

The View from Saturday

E.L. Konigsburg

Hatchet

Gary Paulsen

Catherine Called Birdy

Karen Cushman

Stargirl

Jerry Spinelli

My Side of the Mountain

Jean Craighead George

 

7th Grade

Title

Author

Tangerine

Edward Bloor

The Giver

Lois Lowry

Artemis Fowl

Eoin Colfer

Dragondrums

Anne McCaffrey

Dragonflight

Anne McCaffrey

Eragon

Christopher Paolini

Eldest

Christopher Paolini

Brisingr

Christopher Paolini

Bud, Not Buddy

Christopher Paul Curtis

The Rifle

Gary Paulsen

The Wanderer

Sharon Creech

Heat

Mike Lupica

Out of the Dust

Karen Hesse

 

8th Grade

Title

Author

Milkweed

Jerry Spinelli

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

The Chosen

Chaim Potok

The Promise

Chaim Potok

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

The Ruby in the Smoke

Philip Pullman

Warriors Don't Cry

Melba Patillo

Travel Team

Mike Lupica

Animal Farm

George Orwell

Fever 1793

Laurie Halse Anderson

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie

Jordan Sonnenblick

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