 Westminster Academy® English Department Middle School Reading List 2011-2012 The required reading selections are listed for the 20112012 school year. Students are encouraged to begin their outside reading during the summer. Evaluations of each book in the core lists and each outside reading selection will be accomplished during the school year by one of these methods. 1. 2. 3. 4. Teacher constructed test Book report/critique Related project Another approved evaluation Index 6th Grade Classical Reading List 7th Grade Reading List 8th Grade Reading List 6th Grade Classical Reading List Title Author Tales of Ancient Egypt Greene D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths D’Aulaire The Wanderings of Odysseus Sutcliff A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle The Bronze Bow Speare 6th Grade Classical Honors Reading List Honors Students will read all the above books as well as the following: Title Author Julius Caesar (No Fear edition, Spark Notes Editors) Shakespeare 6th Grade Outside Reading List ISBN # 978-01403671 978-04404069 978-05534948 978-03123675 978-03951371 ISBN # 978-01586638474 For outside reading, students should select one book from each genre listed below. Three book selections are required; books must be chosen from the list below or approved by the teacher. Students are encouraged to read the outside reading books over the summer. Newberry Medal Winners The High King I, Juan de Pareja Summer of the Swans The Grey King Walk Two Moons Bud, Not Buddy The Midwife’s Apprentice The Slave Dancer Julie of the Wolves M.C. Higgins, the Great Out of the Dust Kira-Kira From The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Onion John The Giver It’s Like This, Cat Island of the Blue Dolphins Bridge to Terabithia A Single Shard Criss Cross The Westing Game Missing May Holes The Witch of Blackbird Pond Maniac Magee Shadow of a Bull Historical Fiction Tiger, Tiger Atticus of Rome, 30 B.C. Pandora of Athens, 399 B.C. The Fire of Ares Birth of a Warrior Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. Jahanasa: Princess of Princesses, India, 1627 Author Alexander Borton de Trevino Byars Cooper Creech Curtis Cushman Fox George Hamilton Hesse Kadohata Konigsburg Historical Fiction (cont.) The Golden Goblet Black Ships Before Troy Author The Eagle of the Ninth The Silver Branch The Lantern Bearers Maia of Thebes, 1463 B.C. The Hittite Warrior The Roman Mysteries book series Fantasy Pandora Gets Jealous Pandora Gets Vain Pandora Gets Lazy A Wind in the Door Sutcliff Sutcliff Sutcliff Turner Williamson Lawrence Author Hennesy Hennesy Hennesy L’Engle Krumgold Lowry Neville O’Dell Paterson Park Perkins Raskin A Swiftly Tilting Planet Many Waters An Acceptable Time The Door Within Trilogy The Wilderking Trilogy Mars Diaries book series The Chronicles of Narnia book series Percy Jackson & the Olympians book series L’Engle L’Engle L’Engle Batson Rogers Brouwer Lewis Riordan Rylant Sachar Speare Spinelli Wojciechowska Author Banks Deneberg Deneberg Ford Ford Gregory Lasky McGraw Sutcliff 7th Grade Classical Reading List Title Author The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Twain Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor Treasure Island Stevenson The Cross and the Switchblade Wilkerson 7th Grade Classical Honors Reading List Honors students will read all the books above as well as the following: Title Author The Miracle Worker Gibson 7th Grade Outside Reading List ISBN # 0140390839 0142401129 0140437681 9780515090253 ISBN # 9781416590842 Students will be required to read one outside reading book per quarter which will be evaluated through an oral or written report. The books must be chosen from the list below or from approved non-fiction books. Students are encouraged to read the outside reading books over the summer. Title Rebecca Born Free Julie Homecoming Across Five Aprils Watership Down Walking up a Rainbow Smuggler's Island The Gold Cadillac Song of the Trees Road to Memphis Let the Circle be Unbroken The Third Millenium Rise and Walk Brian's Winter Among the Hidden The Miracle Worker Through the Gates of Splendor Seven Sleep Series The Maze or any other title The Accused or any other title My Side of the Mountain Anne of Green Gables series The Cay Where the Red Fern Grows Call of the Wild The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Number the Stars Little Women Hatchet The Yearling Flowers for Algernon Any of the Heroes of the Fair series Any book by Janette Oke Any book by Frank Peretti Any book by Bodie Thoene Author du Maurier Adamson Marshall Voigt Hunt Adams Taylor Wortis Taylor Taylor Taylor Taylor Meier Byrd Paulsen Haddix Gibson Elliot Morris Hobbs Rue George Montgomery Taylor Rawls London Twain Lowry Alcott Paulsen Rawlings Keys 8th Grade Classical Reading List Title Author To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee The Good Earth Pearl Buck Peace Child Don Richardson The Pearl John Steinbeck The Diary of Anne Frank (a play which will be read Goodrich and Hackett entirely in class) 8th Grade Classical Honors Reading List Honors students will read the following books instead of the list above: Title Author Robinson Crusoe Defoe Silas Marner Eliot The Good Earth Buck To Kill a Mockingbird Lee The Hiding Place Ten Boom The Diary of Anne Frank (a play which will be read Goodrich and Hackett entirely in class) 8th Grade Outside Reading List Students should read two books from this list during the summer. Title My Brother Sam is Dead Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Kon-Tiki The Witch of Blackbird Pond Killer Angels Christy Julie Watership Down The Three Musketeers The Count of Monte Cristo The Vicar of Wakefield The Courage of Sarah Noble Across Five Aprils Bright Candles Sing Down the Moon Rifles for Watie Call of the Wild White Fang Robinson Crusoe Silas Marner The Hiding Place A Prisoner of Versailles The Shape of Mercy Letters and Papers from Prison Lords of the Earth Goodbye Is Not Forever The Prince and the Pauper Downsiders A Walk Across America Tramp for the Lord Jacob Have I Loved To Have and to Hold Anne Frank Remembered Author Collier Gaines Heyerdahl Speare Shaara Marshall Marshall Adams Dumas Dumas Goldsmith Dalgliesh Hunt Benchley O’Dell Keith London London Defoe Eliot Ten Boom Parsons Meissner Bonhoeffer Richardson George Twain Shusterman Jenkins Ten Boom Paterson Johnston Gies ISBN # 9780446310789 9780743272933 0830704159 9780140177374 Purchase not required ISBN # 9780486404271 087720814X 9780743272933 9780446310789 9780553256697 Purchase not required