Our Lady of Mount Carmel School

SUMMER READING LIST 2010

Students Entering :     GRADE 8

REQUIRED BOOKS:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Be prepared to discuss on the first week of school. 

2. Did Adam and Eve Have Bellybuttons? And 199 Other Questions from   Catholic Teenagers - Be prepared to discuss during the first week of school. 

Activity:

Read at least one of the books from the list below. Open the worksheet by clicking on this link, Summer Reading Worksheet,  Save this worksheet to your computer.  Complete by typing the required information in the text boxes.  Save and then print a copy to bring on the first day of school.

TITLE                                                               AUTHOR

FOR STUDENT’S WHOSE LAST NAMES BEGIN WITH A THROUGH C:

Loch                                                                 Zindel, Paul

Out of Patience                                                  Meehl, Brian

Pictures of Hollis Woods                                    Giff, Patricia Reilly

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry                              Taylor, Mildred

Romeo and Juliet: Together and Alive at Last        Avi

 

FOR STUDENT’S WHOSE LAST NAMES BEGIN WITH D THROUGH G

Seven Songs of Merlin                                        Barron,T. A.

Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World                  Armstrong, Jennifer       

Skellig                                                              Almond, Darrel

Smiles to Go                                                     Spinelli, Jerry

 

FOR STUDENT’S WHOSE NAMES BEGIN WITH H THROUGH M:

SOS Titanic                                                       Bunting, Eve

Stormbreaker                                                     Horowitz, Anthony

The Maze                                                          Hobbs, Will

 

The Name of This Book is Secret                        Bosch, Pseudonymous

 

FOR STUDENT’S WHOSE LAST NAMES BEGIN WITH N THROUGH R:

 

The Teacher’s Funeral                                        Peck, Richard

 

The Thief                                                           Turner, Megan Whalen

 

The Trial                                                            Bryant, Jen

 

The Wednesday Wars                                        Schmidt, Gary

 

FOR STUDENT’S WHOSE LAST NAMES BEGIN WITH S THROUGH Z:

 

Third Eye                                                          Nixon, Joan Lowery

 

Time for Dancing                                                Hurwin, Davida Wills

 

Trouble With Lemons                                         Hayes, Daniel

 

Weirdo                                                              Taylor, Theodore

 

Which Way Freedom                                         Hansen, Joyce