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Page 1 of 24 Revised 04/2015
Grades 6 – 8 PWCS Summer Reading Program
Louise A. Benton Middle School
The purpose of the PWCS Summer Reading Program is to encourage students to enjoy quality literature and to continue developing their independent reading skills. Student participation in the program is voluntary. Students who choose to participate in the program are required to complete a minimum of two books.
Students participating in the program in Grades 6 - 8 will complete a list of books read. The documentation is to include the name of the author, the title of the book, an explanation of the topic or plot of the book, and a parent or guardian statement that the student has completed the reading.
Students in Grades 6 - 8 who participate in Prince William County Public Library's Summer Reading Program, the Public Library documentation will apply. Students will receive an extra “A” (100) for each book completed, for a total of two. The summer reading documentation will be submitted by the student by the end of the first week of school.
The following titles are suggestions for summer reading. Other books selected by the student with guidance from a parent/guardian and/or librarian may be used. Participation in the PWC Public Library Summer Reading Program and its documentation is also acceptable.
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PWCS Sixth Grade Summer Reading Program
Suggested Reading
The following titles are suggestions for summer reading. Other books selected by the student with guidance from a parent/guardian and/or librarian are also acceptable. Participation in the PWC Public Library Summer Reading Program
and its documentation is also acceptable.
Author Title Pub.
Date
Annotation
PWC Public
Library
Call Number
Bell, Cece
El Deafo
2014
The author recounts in graphic novel format
her experiences with hearing loss at a young
age, including using a bulky hearing aid,
learning how to lip read, and determining
her "superpower
J 741.5
Bel
Draper,
Sharon M.
Out of My
Mind
2010
Considered by many to be mentally
retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader
with cerebral palsy discovers a
technological device that will allow her to
speak for the first time.
J Fic
Draper
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Fitzgerald,
Laura Marx
Under the Egg
2014
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-
year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable,
hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but
it is her search for answers in her
Greenwich Village neighborhood that
brings a real treasure.
J M
Fitzgerald
Fleming,
Candance
Amelia Lost:
The Life and
Disappearance
of Amelia
Earhart
2011
Tells the story of Amelia Earhart's life - as a
child, a woman, and a pilot - and describes
the search for her missing plane.
J Bio
Earhart
Fleming,
Candance
On the Day I
Died: Stories
From the
Grave
2012
In a lonely Illinois cemetery one cold
October night, teen ghosts recount the
stories of their deaths in different time
periods, from 1870 to the present, to
sixteen-year-old Mike, who unknowingly
picked up a phantom hitchhiker.
YA Fic
Fleming
Greenwald,
Tom
Charlie Joe
Jackson’s
Guide to NOT
Read (series)
2011
Middle schooler Charlie Joe is proud of his
success at avoiding reading, but eventually
his schemes go too far.
J Fic
Greenwald
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Hemphill,
Michael
Stonewall
Hinkleman and
the Battle of
Bull Run
2009
While participating in a reenactment of the
Battle of Bull Run, twelve-year-old
Stonewall Hinkleman is transported back to
the actual Civil War battle by means of a
magic bugle.
J Fic
Hemphill
Korman,
Gordon
The Hypnotists
(Series)
2003
Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended
from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but
he has just begun to realize that he can
control other peoples' actions with
sometimes frightening results--especially
when the head of the Sentia Institute plans
to use Jackson for his own benefit.
J Fic
Korman
Lai,
Thanhha
Inside Out and
Back Again
2011
Through a series of poems, a young girl
chronicles the life-changing year of 1975,
when she, her mother, and her brothers
leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
J Fic
Lai
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Lord,
Cynthia
Half a Chance
2004
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer
father, has just moved to a small rural
community in New Hampshire, and with
her new friend Nate she plans to spend the
summer taking photos for a contest, but
pictures sometimes reveal more than people
are willing to see. .
J Fic
Lord
Marrin,
Albert
Years of Dust:
The Story of
the Dust Bowl
2009
In the 1930s, dangerous black storms swept
through the Great Plains. Created by drought
and reckless farming, these lethal storms were
part of an environmental, economic, and
human catastrophe that changed the course of
American history. In riveting, accessible prose,
an acclaimed historian explains the causes
behind the disaster and explores the Dust
Bowl's impact.
J 978.032
Mar
Murphy,
Jim
An American
Plague: The
True and
Terrifying
Story of the
Yellow Fever
Epidemic of
1793
2003
1793, Philadelphia. The nation's capital and
the largest city in North America is
devastated by an apparently incurable
disease, cause unknown . . . In a powerful,
dramatic narrative, critically acclaimed
author Jim Murphy describes the illness
known as yellow fever and the toll it took
on the city's residents, relating the epidemic
to the major social and political events of
the day and to 18th-century medical beliefs
and practices.
J 614.541
Mur
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Palacio, R.J.
Wonder
2012
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was
born with extreme facial abnormalities and
was not expected to survive, goes from
being home-schooled to entering fifth grade
at a private middle school in Manhattan,
which entails enduring the taunting and fear
of his classmates as he struggles to be seen
as just another student.
J Fic
Palacio
Patterson,
James
Public School
Superhero
2015
In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a
world famous superhero, but in the real
world he's a sixth grade "Grandma's Boy"
whose struggles to fit in at his Washington
D.C. inner city school will put his grades
and family loyalty to the test
J Fic
Patterson
Schrefer,
Eliot
Endangered
(Series)
2012
Sophie is not happy to be back in the Congo
for the summer, but when she rescues an
abused baby bonobo she becomes more
involved in her mother's sanctuary--and
when fighting breaks out and the sanctuary
is attacked, it is up to Sophie to rescue the
apes and somehow survive in the jungle.
YA Fic
Schrefer
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Swanson,
James
The President
Has Been
Shot!: The
Assassination
of John F.
Kennedy
2013
Recounts the 35th president's assassination
and details key events while sharing
informative back matter and archival
photographs.
J 973.222
Swa
Turnage,
Sheila
Three Times
Lucky
(Series)
2012
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo
Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now
eleven, and her best friend Dale turn
detective when the amnesiac Colonel,
owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with
his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a
murder.
J M
Turnage
White, Ruth
You’ll Like it
Here
(Everybody
Does)
2011
Forced to flee a small North Carolina town
when the neighbors suspect they are aliens,
sixth-grader Meggie Blue and her family
leave Earth and arrive in Fashion City,
where individuality is punished and the
greatest crime is being "grossly unique."
Juv Fic
White
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Williams-
Garcia, Rita
One Crazy
Summer
2010
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from
Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a
month with the mother they barely know,
eleven-year-old Delphine and her two
younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as
they discover that their mother, a dedicated
poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion
of their visit and wants them to attend a
nearby Black Panther summer camp.
J Fic
Williams-
Garcia
Yelchin,
Eugene
Breaking
Stalin’s Nose
2011
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-
year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted
Communist, but when police take his father
away and leave Sasha homeless, he is
forced to examine his own perceptions,
values, and beliefs.
J Fic
Yelchin
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PWCS Seventh Grade Summer Reading Program
Suggested Reading
The following titles are suggestions for summer reading. Other books selected by the student with guidance from a parent/guardian and/or librarian are also acceptable. Participation in the PWC Public Library Summer Reading Program
and its documentation is also acceptable.
Author Title Pub.
Date
Annotation PWC Public
Library
Call Number
Bartoletti,
Susan
Campbell
Hitler youth:
Growing Up in
Hitler’s
Shadow
2005
The story of a generation of German young
people who devoted all their energy to the
Hitler Youth and the propaganda that
brought gave Hitler his power, and the
youths that resisted the Nazi movement.
J 943.086
Bar
Bauer,
Joan
Almost Home
2012
Sixth-grader Sugar and her mother lose
their beloved house and experience the
harsh world of homelessness.
J Fic
Bauer
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Frost, Helen
Hidden
2011
When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra
meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are
overwhelmed by memories from six years
earlier when Darra's father stole a car,
unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
YA Fic
Frost
Goldblatt,
Mark
Twerp
2013
In Queens, New York, in 1969, twelve-
year-old Julian Twerski writes a journal for
his English teacher in which he explores his
friendships and how they are effected by
girls, a new student who may be as fast as
Julian, and especially an incident of
bullying.
YA Fic
Goldblatt
Goldsmith,
Connie
Traumatic
Brain Injury:
From
Concussion to
Coma
2014
Two soccer players collide on the field. A
soldier in Afghanistan is thrown to the
ground during a bomb explosion. A teen has
an accident while riding her bike--and she
isn't wearing her helmet. Each of these
incidents can produce a traumatic brain
injury (TBI). Find out about the different
types of TBIs, what causes them, and how
they are diagnosed and treated.
J 619.481
Gol
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Gratz,
Alan
Prisoner B-
3087
2013
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book
relates his story of survival from the Nazi
occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven,
through a succession of concentration
camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
YA Fic
Gratz
Horowitz,
Anthony
Stormbreaker
(Series)
2001
After the death of the uncle who had been
his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider
is coerced to continue his uncle’s dangerous
work for Britain’s intelligence agency, MI6.
YA Fic
Horowtiz
Hiassen, Carl
Scat
2013
Nick and his friend Marta decide to
investigate when a mysterious fire starts
near a Florida wildlife preserve and an
unpopular teacher goes missing.
YA Fic
Hiaasen
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Hunt, Lynda
Mullay
One for the
Murphys
2012
After heartbreaking betrayal, Carley is sent
to live with a foster family and struggles
with opening herself up to their love
YA Fic Hunt
Korman,
Gordon
Schooled
2007
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother,
Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never
watched television, tasted a pizza, or even
heard of a wedgie. But when his
grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is
forced to move in with a guidance
counselor and attend the local middle
school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-
dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education
could prepare him for the politics of public
school.
YA Fic
Korman
Leyson,
Leon
The Boy in the
Wooden Box
2013
The biography of Leon Leyson, the only
memoir published by a former Schindler's
List child.
YA Bio
Leyson
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Markle,
Sandra
The Case of the
Vanishing
Honey Bees:
a Scientific
Myster
2014
Honeybees are a crucial part of our food chain.
As they gather nectar from flowers to make
sweet honey, these bees also play an important
role in pollination, helping some plants produce
fruit. But large numbers of honeybees are
disappearing every year ... and no one knows
why. In this real-life science mystery, scientists
and beekeepers are working to answer these
questions ... and save the world's honeybees
before it's too late.
J 595.799
Mar
Meyer,
Marissa
Cinder
(Series)
2013
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth,
observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder,
a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes
involved with handsome Prince Kai and
must uncover secrets about her past in order
to protect the world in this futuristic take on
the Cinderella story.
YA Fic
Meyer
Mills,
Claudia
Zero Tolerance
2013
Seventh-grade honor student Sierra Shepard
faces expulsion after accidentally bringing a
paring knife to school, violating the school's
zero-tolerance policy.
YA Fic
Mills
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Nielsen,
Jennifer
The False
Prince
(Series)
2012
In the country of Carthya, a devious
nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal
competition to be selected to impersonate
the king's long-missing son in an effort to
avoid a civil war.
YA Fic
Nielsen
Partridge,
Elizabeth
Marching for
Freedom: Walk
Together,
Children, and
Don’t You
Grow Weary
2009
Only 44 years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win
blacks the right to vote. Focusing on the
courageous children who faced terrifying
violence in order to march alongside King,
this is an inspiring look at their fight for the
vote. Stunningly emotional black-and-white
photos accompany the text.
J 323.1196
Par
Reinhardt,
Dana
The Summer I
Learned to Fly
2011
Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer
of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop
and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but
when her widowed mother begins dating,
Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and
Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
YA Fic
Reinhardt
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Riordan,
Rick
The Red
Pyramid
(Series)
2010
After their father's research experiment at
the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian
god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a
dangerous journey across the globe--a quest
which brings them ever closer to the truth
about their family, and their links to a secret
order that has existed since the time of the
pharaohs.
J Fic
Riordan
Schlitz,
Laura Amy
Splendors and
Glooms
2012
When Clara vanishes after the puppeteer
Grisini and two orphaned assistants were at
her twelfth birthday party, suspicion of
kidnapping chases the trio away from
London and soon the two orphans are
caught in a trap set by Grisini's ancient
rival, a witch with a deadly inheritance to
shed before it is too late.
J Fic
Schlitz
Selznick,
Brian
The Invention
of Hugo Cabret
2007
When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan
living and repairing clocks within the walls
of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a
mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter,
his undercover life and his biggest secret
are jeopardized.
J Fic
Selznick
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PWCS Eighth Grade Summer Reading Program
Suggested Reading
The following titles are suggestions for summer reading. Other books selected by the student with guidance from a parent/guardian and/or librarian are also acceptable. Participation in the PWC Public Library Summer Reading Program
and its documentation is also acceptable.
Author Title Pub.
Date
Annotation PWC Public
Library
Call
Number
Alexander,
Kwame
The Crossover
2014
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh
and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on
and off the court as their father ignores his
declining health.
YA Fic
Alexander
Baldacci,
David
The Finisher
2014
Vega Jane has never left the village of
Wormwood. But this isn't unusual, nobody
has ever left the village of Wormwood. At
least not until Quentin Herms vanishes into
the unknown. Vega knows Quentin didn't just
leave, but that he was chased. And he's left
behind a very dangerous trail of clues that
only she can decode. Vega is determined to
uncover the truth. But the closer she gets, the
more she risks her life.
J Fic
Baldacci
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Bragg,
Georgia
How They
Choked:
Failures, Flops,
and Flaws of
the Awfully
Famous
2014
Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes, epic
failures even lead to super successes...
sometimes they become deep dark secrets.
But remember-to fail is human, to laugh
about our shortcomings divine. How They
Choked knocks fourteen famous achievers off
their pedestals to reveal the human side of
history.
J 920
Bra
Carman,
Michael
Pulse
(Series)
2013
In the year 2051, who has a pulse? With the
help of her mysterious classmate Dylan
Gilmore, Faith Daniels discovers that she can
move objects with her mind. This telekinetic
ability is called a "pulse," and Dylan has the
talent, too. In order to save the world, Faith
will have to harness not only the power of her
mind, but the power of her heart, too.
YA Fic
Carman
Erksine,
Kathryn
Seeing Red
2013
When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red"
Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants
to sell their automobile repair shop and move
her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is
desperate to stop the sale even if it means
unearthing some dark family secrets in a
Virginia rife with racial tensions.
J Fic
Erskine
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Falls,
Kat
Dark Life
2011
When fifteen-year-old Ty, who has always
lived on the ocean floor, joins Topside girl
Gemma in the frontier's underworld to seek
and stop outlaws who threaten his home, they
learn that the government may pose an even
greater threat.
J Fic
Falls
Fleischman,
John
Phineas Gage:
A Gruesome
But True Story
About Brain
Science
2002
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his
head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas
was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in
1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot
through his brain. Miraculously, he survived
another eleven years and became a textbook case
in brain science. But he was forever changed by
the accident, and what happened inside his brain
will tell you a lot about how your brain works
and what makes us who we are.
J 363.1
Fle
Freedman,
Russell
Abraham
Lincoln and
Frederick
Douglas: the
Story Behind
an American
Friendship
2012
A clear-sighted, carefully researched account
of two surprisingly parallel lives and how
they intersected at a critical moment in U.S.
history.
J 973.70922
Fre
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Gaiman, Neil
The Graveyard
Book
2008
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that
he has been raised by ghosts and other
denizens of the graveyard.
YA Fic
Gaiman
Gantos, Jack
Dead End in
Norvelt
(Series)
2011
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania,
twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the
summer of 1962 grounded for various
offenses until he is assigned to help an
elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore
involving the newly dead, molten wax,
twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies,
underage driving, lessons from history,
typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
J Fic
Gantos
Korman,
Gordon
Masterminds
2015
A group of kids discovers they were cloned
from the DNA of some of the greatest
criminal masterminds in history for a
sociological experiment.
J Fic
Korman
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Lu,
Marie
Legend
2011
In a dark future, when North America has
split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-
olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy
June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture
him, discover that they have a common
enemy.
YA Fic
Lu
Magoon,
Kekla
The Rock and
The River
2009
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam
Childs is caught in a conflict between his
father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil
rights for African Americans and his older
brother, who has joined the Black Panther
Party
YA Fic
Mag
Morpurgo,
Michael
Shadow
2014
Teenager Aman and his mother lose their
loyal spaniel Shadow while escaping
Afghanistan to flee to England. Now they
must depend on a friend and his grandfather
to enable Shadow's return.
YA FIC
Morpurgo
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Preller,
James
Bystander
2009
Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are
consequences to not standing by and
watching as the bully at his new school hurts
people, but although school officials are
aware of the problem, Eric may be the one
with a solution.
YA Fic
Pre
Sandler,
Martin
The Impossible
Rescue: The
True Story of
an Amazing
Arctic
Adventure
2012
In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off
Alaska's coast was as dangerous as it was
lucrative. And in that particular year, winter
blasted early, bringing storms and ice packs that
caught eight American whale ships and three
hundred sailors off guard. Their ships locked in
ice, with no means of escape, the whalers had
limited provisions on board, and little hope of
surviving until warmer temperatures arrived
many months later. Here is the incredible story
of three men sent to rescue them.
J 979.803
San
Scott, Elaine
Buried Alive!:
How 33 Miners
Survived 69
Days Deep
Under the
Chilean Desert
2011
Describes the 2010 mining accident in San
Jose, Chile, in which thirty-three men became
trapped underground for over sixty days and
details the rescue efforts and the worldwide
media coverage of the event.
J 363. 11
Sco
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Schmidt,
Gary
The
Wednesday
Wars
2007
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday
afternoons when all his classmates go to
either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-
grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs.
Baker's classroom where they read the plays
of William Shakespeare and Holling learns
much of value about the world he lives in.
J Fic
Schmidt
Smith,
Roland
Peak
2007
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the
youngest person to reach the top of Mount
Everest.
YA Fic
Smith
Woodson,
Jacqueline
Brown Girl
Dreaming
2014
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest
writers, tells the moving story of her childhood
in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina
and New York, Woodson always felt halfway
home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares
what it was like to grow up as an African
American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the
remnants of Jim Crow and her growing
awareness of the Civil Rights movement.
Touching and powerful, each poem is both
accessible and emotionally charged, each line a
glimpse into a child's soul as she searches for her
place in the world.
J Bio
Woodson
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Prince William County Public Schools Summer Reading 2015
Documentation Grades 6-8
Students in Grades 6-8 who read a minimum of two books will receive an extra “A” (100) for each book completed, for a total of two. Please include the name of the author, the title of the book, publishing information, and an explanation of the general topic or plot of the book along with a parent or guardian signature stating that the student has completed the reading. Completion of the summer reading will be recorded for students by the end of the second week of school. The format to use in recording the bibliographic information includes the name of the author, the title of the book, the location and name of the publisher, and date of publication. Example:
Christopher, Matt. Great Moments in the Summer Olympics. New York: Brown and Co.,
2012. Print.
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**Please note students may also participate in the Prince William County Public Library Summer Quest Program, and the Public Library documentation will apply.
Summer Reading Documentation Form Grades 6-8
Use this form for EACH title you read.
Student Name:
Bibliographic Information Sample: Using MLA format (author’s last name, first name. Title. City of publication: Publishing Company, date. Medium of Publication.) Example: Christopher, Matt. Great Moments in the Summer Olympics. New York: Brown and Co., 2012. Print.
Bibliographic Information:
Explanation of the general topic or plot of book:
Parent or Guardian Signature Date