Summer Reading List
SUMMER READING LIST - 2010
7th Grade
Hello to all my new 7th Graders! Many of these books have been taken from a list of supplementary reading material associated with the Pathways Reading program for the 8th grade. Others are books that I think you may enjoy. Have fun reading this summer!
You Wouldn't Want to be Sick in the 16th Century! Diseases You'd Rather not Catch - Kathryn Senior
Learning about Forgiveness from the Life of Nelson Mandela - Jeanne M. Strazzabosco
Eyewitness: Eagles and Birds of Prey - Emma Parry-Jones
How to Draw Animals: Famous Artists School Step-by-Step Method - Walt Reed
Just Plane Crazy - Melanie Bockman (Review & Herald)
Jungle Heroes - Eric B. Hare (Pacific Press)
Bud, Not Buddy - Christopher Paul Curtis (Random House)
Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What is an Adjective? - Brian P. Cleary (Lerner Publishing)
Hate that Cat - Sharon Creech
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms - Paul B. Janeczko (Candlewick Press)
How to Survive in Antarctica - Lucy Jane Bledsoe (Holiday House)
Bee-bim Bop - Linda Sue Park (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
The Good Fight: How World War II Was Won - Stephen E. Ambrose
Growing Up in World War II: 1941 to 1945 - Judith Pinkerton Josephson (Lerner Pub)
A Thousand Shall Fall - Susi Hasel Mundy, Maylan Schurch (Review & Herald)
The Upstairs Room - Johanna Reiss (HarperCollins Pub)
Deaf Like Me - Thomas S. Spradley & James P. Spradley
Gallaudet Survival Guide to Signing - Leonard G. Lane
Juliette Low (History Makers Biographies Series - Susan Bivin Aller
Other books that might interest you from the 6th grade list:
Escape from the Slave Traders - Dave & Neta Jackson (Bethany House)
Nature Projects for Young Scientists - Kenneth G Rainis (Scholastic Library)
Knights and Castles: 50 Hands-On Activities to Experience the Middle Ages -
Avery Hart & Paul Mantell
My Name is Brain Brian - Jeanne Betancourt (Scholastic)
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller (Simon & Schuster)
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure - Cindy Neuschwander
The Best Amazing True Mission Stories from Around the World - J.H. Zachary
Mission Pilot: The David Gates Story - Eileen E. Lantry (Pacific Press)
The Hiding Place - Corrie Ten Boom
Escape - Sandy Zaugg (Pacific Press)
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry (Random House)
Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial -
Peter W. Schroeder & Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand (Kar-Ben Publishing)
Out of the Dust - Karen Hesse (Scholastic)
Rosa Takes a Chance: Mexican Immigration in the Dust Bowl Years - Susan Martins Miller
Childhood of Famous Americans - series
Wilma Rudolph
Elizabeth Blackwell
Walt Disney
Langston Hughes
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Paul Revere
Jim Thorpe
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Mark Twain
Wilbur & Orville Wright
and many more
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