Dear Parents,
A review of the impact of summer reading found that children can lose up to 60% of their skill over a two-month vacation. Encourage and help your child maintain their reading gains by visiting the library or bookstore and read this summer. Children who read during the summer are better prepared when school resumes in the fall. Here are some suggested titles your child may enjoy.

Seventh Grade

Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Journey From the Sparrows by Fran Leeper Buss

The Man Who Was Poe by Avi

The Maze by Will Hobbs

Myst, The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller, Robyn Miller and David Wingrove
Night by Elie Wiese
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Redwall by Brian Jacques
River Thunder by Will Hobbs

Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Where the Lilies Bloom  by Vera and Bill Cleaver
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien
Star by Jerry Spinelli
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

Eighth Grade

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

Children of the River by Linda Crew

The Chosen by Chaim Potak

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flogg

Ironman by Chris Crutcher

Johnny Tremain  by Esther Forbes

Lone Wolf by Kristine L. Franklin

Lyddie by Katherine Paterson

Midget by Tim Bowler

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum