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Elk Grove High School
Friendship Junior High School
Holmes Junior High
John Hersey High School
Lincoln Junior High
Prospect High School

River Trails Middle School

Rolling Meadows High School
School District 26
School District 57
School District 59
School District 214  
St. Emily Parish and School
St. Paul Lutheran School
St. Raymond School

High School Summer Reading Lists 2008

Elk Grove High School
John Hersey High School
Notre Dame High School for Boys (Niles)

Prospect High School
Rolling Meadows High School
Saint Viator High School (Arlington Heights)

Junior High Summer Reading List 2008

Holmes Junior High

Grade 6
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Grade 7
Select One
Sahara Special by Esme Raji Codell
Any Small Goodness by Tony Johnston
Soldier’s Heart by Gary Paulsen

Grade 8
Select One
Hope was Here by Joan Bauer
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen

 

Lincoln Middle School

Students should read the following books during the summer.  Books are listed by grade level for the 2008-2009 school year.

Grade 6
Required of all students:  Downsiders by Neal Shusterman
Honors only:  Rules by Cynthia Lord
Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Grade 7
Required of all students:  Schwa was Here by Neal Shusterman
Honors only:  Wolf Brother by M. Paver
Yankee Girl by Mary Ann Rodman

Grade 8
Required of all students:  Everlost by Neal Shusterman
Honors only:  Black Duck by Janet Taylor Lisle
Fire from the Rock by Sharon Draper

*Author Neal Shusterman is scheduled to appear at Lincoln Middle School in October, 2008.

St. Emily

Grade 6
Aquamarine by Alice Hoffman
Dragon of Lonely Island by Rebecca Rupp
The Misadventures of Maude March by a. Couloumbis
Here Today by Ann M.Martin
Cry of the Icemark Stuart Hill
The Golem’s Eye by Jonathan Stroud
Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
Do You Know the Monkey Man by Dori Hillstad Butler
The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool by Margaret Gray

Grade 7 and 8
Heat by Mike Lupica
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
The Legend of Lady Ilena by Patricia Malone
On the Run (Now You See Them, Now You Don’t) by Gordon Korman
I Have Lived a Thousand Years:  Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton Jackson
A Journey: The Autobiography of Apolo Anton Ohno by Apolo Anton Ohno
TTYL by Lauren myracle
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Whirligig by Paul Fleischman
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Criss Cross by Lynee Rae Perkins
Flight #116 is Down by Carline Cooney
The Ghost Grave by Peg Kehret
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
Learning to Swim by Cheryl Klam
A-List by Zoey Dean
The Boyfriend List by E. Lockhart
If I Tell You I Love You Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
Football Genius by Tim Green
The Stone Goddess by Minfong Ho
Heroes Don't Run by Harry Mazur
Last Shot - A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein
Lucas by Kevin Brooks
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Tex by S.E. Hinton
After the Rain by Norma Fox Mazer

 

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Last Updated On June 4, 2008

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