Reading List for a Somerset SUMMER!

Grades 6-8
Somerset Middle/High schoolers are required to read three books this summer. Choose
two from the list below, and one from the Classics list on the back of this sheet. You will be
assessed on your three books with an assignment on the first week of school in the fall. A
special incentive will be given to those who successfully complete the summer reading
assignment. (The book list has been compiled from the 2014-2015 Battle of the Books titles
& classics).

Author Title
Alcott Eight Cousins
Anderson, Laurie Chains
Avi, Greg City of Orphans
Bauer Stand Tall
Bond A String in the Harp
Buckingham, Royce The Dead Boys
Freedman, Russell Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle-Makers son
Helped Light the Flame of Liberty
Giff Pictures of Hollis Woods
Hahn December Stillness
Hansen I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly
Henkes Olivers Ocean
Hesse, Karen Out of the Dust
Hobbs, Will Jasons Gold
Holm, Anne I Am David
Holm, Jennifer Our Only May Amelia
Holm, Jennifer Turtle in Paradise
Horowitz, Anthony Stormbreaker
Hunt The Lottery Rose
Lasky, Kathryn Guardians of Gahoole 02: The Journey
Lu, Marie Legend
OReilly, Bill Kennedys Last Days: The Assassination That
Defined a Nation
Paterson Jip, His Story
Riordan, Rick The Son of Neptune
Shahan, S. Death Mountain
Sloan, Holly Counting by 7s
Soto Baseball in April
Snyder The Egypt Game
Taylor, Mildred D. The Land
Tolen Surviving the Applewhites
Woodson Feathers
Wright The Dollhouse Murders
Zindel The Pigman

CLASSICS (CHOOSE 1 FROM THIS LIST)
Alcott, Louisa May 19, 2014 Little Women
Burnett The Secret Garden
Conan-Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Crane The Red Badge of Courage
Defoe Robinson Crusoe
Estes The Hundred Dresses
Eyre Jane Eyre
George On the Far Side of the Mountain
Gibson The Miracle Worker
Hemingway The Old man and the Sea
Hillenbrand Seabisquit: An American Legend
Houston/Houston Farewell to Manzanar
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
LAmour The Shadow Riders or Hondo
London The Call of the Wild
Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
Paterson Bridge to Terabithia
Schaefer Shane
Shakespeare A Midsummer Nights Dream or The Tempest
Shelley Frankenstein
Stevenson Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde
Tolkien The Hobbit
Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Wells The Time Machine

My top 5 choices are (just in case you cant find your top three):
1. ___________________________________________
2. ___________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________
4. ___________________________________________
5. ___________________________________________

To find out about books, check the Amazon website, or ask your parents, friends, and other
adults which books from this list they have read. You may also want to check with a review
website such as Common Sense Media in case there is subject material to which you may be
sensitive.