Welcome to Summer Reading 2008

These study guides/practice tests may form the basis for class discussion or quizzes. However, you should familiarize yourself with them, even if they are not assigned - they may help you sort out difficulties with the text.

   

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Summer Reading

6th Grade

7th Grade

8th Grade

Latin I

Latin II

Spanish

Study Skills Tip

 

Rising 6th Grade

Flush

Study Guide

 

PLUS

Turn Homeward, Hannalee

Study Guide

OR

Boy's War

(required books)

 

Rising 7th Grade

Peak

Study Guide

 

 

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

listen to excerpts

play Maximum Ride game

Which Maximum Ride character are you most like?

listen to Maximum Ride theme songs

sweepstakes contest - you could win!!

quiz

 (required books)

Rising 8th Grade

The Wave

 

Study Guide

Practice Test

 

The Cheat

 

Study Guide  

(required books)

 

Be Adventurous

 

Dragons & Monsters & Aliens, Oh My

 

This is Your Life
That's Classic

 

* Alanna: The First Adventure

 fun trivia quiz

* Seeker

 

Bono
Beauty

Study Guide

 

* Fablehaven

fun trivia quiz

 

Gregor The Overlander  

Study Guide

 

 

How Angel Peterson Got His Name

 

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

quiz

 

The Game of Sunken Places

quiz

 

* The Lighthouse Land

Michael Jordan

 

Black Beauty

fun trivia average quiz

fun trivia difficult quiz

 

* Stormbreaker

 Jeopardy questions

 

 

Sisters Grimm: Fairy Tale Detectives

Book 1 Study Guide

Book 1 quiz

 

Book 2 Study Guide

Book 2 quiz

 

 

   

 

 

 

* Midnighters: The Secret Hour

quiz

 

GA Book Award

 

Especially for Upper Grades 7 - 8

 

All Ages

 

 Happy Kid

 

  Shield of Stars

 

 

 Do Not Pass Go

 

 Blood on the River: James Town 1607

Study Guide

 

 

Defiance

 

The Runaway Princess

 

 

 

The Story of Jonas
 

 

The Thing About Georgie

Study Guide

 

 

 

Letters from Rapunzel

 

 

 

Rules

Study Guide

 

 

 

Truth and Salsa

 

 

 

Heat

 

 

 

The Lightening Thief

Study Guide

 

 

 

Journey to the Blue Moon

 

 

 

So B. It

Study Guide

 

 

 

 

 

Way Down Deep

Study Guide

 

 

 It's So Today

 

Family and Friends

 

Sporting Goods

 Very Funny 

School

Stuff

Unfortunate Events
 

 Thou Shalt Not Dump The Skater Dude

 

  Tangerine

 Study Guide

 

 No More Dead Dogs

Study Guide

 

Saving Francesca

Study Guide

Touching Spirit Bear

Study Guide

quiz

 

 I Am the Wallpaper

 

 Football Hero

 

 Romeo and Juliet - Together At Last
Lemonade Mouth

 

 

* Lord of the Deep 

Study Guide

 

       

You're History

 

 Long, Long Ago

 

 It's War
Sea Shanty
Things That Go Bump
Who Dun It
 

 Cruel as the Grave

Study Guide

Code Talkers

Study Guide

  

 Bloody Jack

fun trivia

 

Corlaine

Study Guide

fun trivia

another fun trivia

 

Dead Girls Don't Write Letters

Study Guide

The Ropemaker
  

 My Friend the Enemy

Study Guide

 

 Tom Cringle

Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Last Shot
  

 

 

 

Skeleton

Study Guide

 

The Name of This Book is Secret

 

 

Sammy Keys mysteries

 

Multi-Cultural

 

Bound

 

The Conch Bearer

 

Esperanza Rising

Study Guide

 

Homeless Bird

Study Guide

 

Toning the Sweep

 

 

Mature Readers - need parental permission to read these books

 

Acceleration

Study Guide

 

Bigmouth and Ugly Girl

Study Guide

Breaking Rank

Fade to Black

Study Guide

 The Truth About Forever

 

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series

fun trivia

 

Dark Angel

 

 
 

 

Teacher Recommendations

 

Math

Science
Social Studies
 
E=MC^2: A Biography

 

Jurassic Park

Quiz

 

Disaster: Three Real-Life Stories of Survival

A Gebra Named Al

 

When Objects Talk: Solving Crime with Science

 

 

 

Graphic Novels - Not Your Father's Comic Books

 

 

Shockrockets: We Have Ignition

 

Way of the Rat
Day of Infamy: Attack on Pearl Harbor
Young Avengers: Sidekicks

 

Cryptozoo Crew

 

 Miki Falls: Spring

Max Hamm: Fairy Tale Detective

Diary of a Whimpy Kid

 

 

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