Lynn Public Schools Middle School Summer Reading 2007

Students Entering Grade 6

Students must read (at least) one book of the following:

Love that Dog, Sharon Creech
Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo
Indigo, Alice Hoffman

Students must choose at least two books written by any of the following authors:

Avi
Paul Fleischman
Cornelia Funke
Kathryn Lasky
Patricia Lauber
Milton Melzer
Christopher Paolini
Ken Teague
E.B. White
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laurence Yep
Jane Yolen

Students Entering Grade 7

Students must read (at least) one book of the following:

The Magician's Nephew, C.S. Lewis
Baseball in April, Gary Soto
Stargirl, Jerry Spinelli

Students must choose at least two books written by any of the following authors:

K.A. Applegate
Clive Barker
Robert Caprio
Sharon G. Flake
Jean Fritz
Brian Jacques
Walter Dean Myers
Garth Nix
Scott O'Dell
Gary Paulsen
Elizabeth Speare
Theodore Taylor

Students Entering Grade 8

Students must read (at least) one book of the following:

Slam, Walter Dean Myers
Lyddie, Katherine Patterson
Max the Mighty, Rodman Philbrick

Students must choose at least two books written by any of the following authors:

Lloyd Alexander
Rachael Carson
Susan Cooper
Robert Cormier
S.E. Hinton
Anthony Horowitz
Jack London
Lois Lowry
J.K. Rowling
Philip Pullman
Jules Verne
Paul Zindel