Dear Parents and Students,
Our school district has a
required summer reading program, the Millionaire
Club. Students are expected to read at least 5 books
during the summer. Students will need to read a
total of five books. Students should choose
at least two books from the attached list for
their grade level. Because students’ maturity and
reading levels vary, we encourage parents to
participate actively in selecting their children’s
reading.
Students are expected to
read and respond to two books from the list for the
grade they will be entering in the fall. Students
are responsible for obtaining their own books;
public libraries, as well as local booksellers
specializing in children’s and young adult
literature, will have most of these titles
available. All students must be prepared to share
and evaluate the two books they read soon after
school begins in August.
TASK #1: Be prepared
to make a written recommendation to your teacher
that a book you read be retained or deleted from
next year’s list.
TASK #2: Guidelines
for the assignment for the second book you read will
be given the first or second week of school. This
assignment could be in-class writing, a book talk,
or a special project.
TASK #3:
Be prepared to be tested on two books you have read
this summer.
We are very excited about
this program and hope the books on this list will
provide knowledge and pleasure for your child. We
encourage you to read and/or discuss these books
with your student.
Sincerely,
Beverly Teal
Principal
Clifton Middle School
2009 Magnet
Summer Reading List
New
to 6th Grade
Bauer, Joan – Stand
Tall
Choldenko, Gennifer -
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Alvarez, Julia - How
Tîa Lola Came to Stay
DiCamillo, Kate -
Because of Winn-Dixie
Gantos, Jack - Joey
Pigza Swallowed the Key
Holt, Kimberly Willis –
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
Clements, Andrew – No
Talking
Gutman, Dan – Million
Dollar Shot
Ritter, John – The Boy
Who Saved Baseball
Sachar, Louis – Small
Steps
Durrant, Lynda
- My Last Skirt
Fleischman, Sid –
Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini
Hahn, Mary Downing –
Deep and Dark and Dangerous: a Ghost Story
Jackson, Donna –
Phenomena: Secrets of the Senses
Ketchum, Lisa – Into a
new Century: Eight Remarkable Women of the West
Allen, Thomas B. –
Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and
Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
Papademetriou, Lisa –
Sixth Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me
Ryan, Pam Muñoz –
Becoming Naomi Leon
Deem, James M. – Bodies
from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii
Delano, Marfe – Genius:
a Photobiography of Albert Einstein
Murphy, Jim – Inside
the Alamo
Schlosser, Eric – Chew
on This: Everything you Don’t Want to Know About
Fast Food
Thimmesh, Catherine –
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed on the Moon
Clifton Middle School
2009 Magnet
Summer Reading List
New
to 7th Grade
Woodson, Jacqueline -
Locomotion
Flake, Sharon G. -
Begging for Change
Cushman, Karen -
Catherine Called Birdy
Bloor, Edward -
Tangerine
DuPrau, Jeanne -
The City of Ember or any in the series
Hiaasen, Carl - Hoot
Johnston, Tony - Any
Small Goodness
Spinelli, Jerry – Crash
Tolkien, J.R.R. - The
Hobbit
Spinelli, Jerry - Knots
in My Yo-Yo String
Peck, Richard - A Long
Way from Chicago
Salisbury, Graham -
Under the Blood-Red Sun
Carman, Patrick - The
Dark Hills Divide
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
- Running Out of Time
Ibbotson, Eva -
Which Witch
Oppel, Kenneth –
Airborn
Pierce, Tamora -
Sandry's Book
Klise, Kate and Sarah –
Regarding the Sink
Vega, Denise – Click
Here to Find out how I Survived Seventh Grade
Avi – Crispin: The
Cross of Lead
Riordan, Rick – any of the
Percy Jackson and the Olympians series
Feinstein, John – Last
Shot: A Final Four Mystery
Lupica, Mike – The Big
Field
Deem, James M. – Bodies
from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii
Delano, Marfe – Genius:
a Photobiography of Albert Einstein
Murphy, Jim – Inside
the Alamo
Schlosser, Eric – Chew
on This: Everything you Don’t Want to Know About
Fast Food
Thimmesh, Catherine –
Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed on the Moon
Clifton Middle School
2009 Magnet
Summer Reading List
New
to 8th Grade
McKay, Hilary – Saffy’s
Angel
*Park, L.- When My
Name Was Keoko
*Staples, S. - Shiva's
Fire
Tolan, Stephanie –
Surviving the Applewhites
Weeks, Sarah – So B. It
White, R- Deathwatch
Woodson, Jacqueline –
Hush
*Abrahams, Peter -
Down the Rabbit Hole
Broach, Elise –
Shakespeare’s Secret
Hoobler, Dorthy – The
Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
Horowitz, Anthony - The
Alex Rider Series
Horowitz, Anthony –
Three of Diamonds
*Brooks, Terry - The
Elf Queen of Shannara
Cooper, Susan- King of
Shadows
*Eddings, David- Pawn
of Prophecy
McCaffrey, Anne-
Dragonsong
Blackwood, Gary – The
Year of the Hangman
Nelson, Peter – Left
for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the
USS Indianapolis
Aronson, Marc – Witch
Hunt: Mysteries of the Salem Witch Trials
Jones, Charlotte F. –
Westward Ho!: Eleven Explorers of the American West
Myers, Walter Dean –
Hoops
Peters, Julie Anne –
Define Normal
Smith, Roland – Peak
Walker, Sally M. –
Secrets of a Civil War Submarine
Hiaasen, Carl – Scat
Woodson, Jacqueline –
After Tupac & D. Foster
Yee, Lisa – Absolutely
Maybe
Collins, Suzanne – The
Hunger Games
Patterson, James – any of
the Maximum Ride series
Deem, James M. – Bodies
from the Ice: Melting Glaciers and the Rediscovery
of the Past
LeGuin, Ursula – The
Wizard of Earthsea
Durrant, Lynda - My
Last Skirt
* indicates a more challenging choice
