Summer Enrichment for 2008 - 2009
Carver Middle School
Sixth Graders 

Reading is an integral part of the academics at Carver Middle School.  Over the summer, it is important for students to continue to read independently.  Numerous studies indicate a direct correlation between a students' successes at school and the amount of time they spend reading independently.   

Language Arts students are required to read a minimum of three of the selections listed below.  Students will be tested over their reading selections during the first two weeks of the school year.  Every student will participate in a group activity designed around his or her reading selections. 

Novels:

• Abduction  by Peg Kehret

• *Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix

• *Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

• Catherine, Called Birdy  by Karen Cushman

• *The City of Ember  by DuPrau, Jeanne

• Cracker by Cynthia Kadohata

• Curse of the Blue Figurine  by John Bellairs

• *Eragon  by Christopher Paolini

• *The Face on the Milk Carton  by Caroline B. Cooney

• *Gregor the Overlander by Collins, Suzanne

• Hoops by Walter Dean Myers

• Hostage by Willo Davis Roberts

• *Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

• *Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

• The Island  by Gary Paulsen

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

• *The Lost Years of Merlin by T. A. Barron

• M.C. Higgins, the Great  by Virginia Hamilton

• The Man Who Was Poe  by Avi

• Miracle’s Boys  by Jacqueline Woodson

• *Maximum Ride:  The Angel Experiment  by James Patterson

• Monkey Island by Paula Fox

• The Midwife’s Apprentice  by Karen Cushman

• *The Mistmantle Chronicles Urchin of the Riding Stars  by M.I. McAllister

• The Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine  by Diane Stanley

• Naked Mole-Rat Letters by Mary Amato

• Night of the Twisters  by Ivy Ruckman

• Or Give Me Death by Ann Rinaldi

• The Phantom Tollbooth  by Norton Juster

• *The Princess Diaries  by Cabot, Meg

• *Sammy Keys and the Hotel Thief  by Wendelin VanDraanen

• Shackleton’s Stowaway by Victoria McKernan

• *Son of the Mob  by Gordon Korman

• *Stormbreaker  by Horowitz, Anthony

• The Revealers  by Doug Wilhelm

• The River by Gary Paulsen

• The School Story  by Andrew Clements

• The Scream Museum by Paul Zindel 

• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

• The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

• Way Down Deep by Ruth White

• *A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

 Non-Fiction:

• Amos Fortune, Free Man by Elizabeth Yates

• Built to Last by George Sullivan

• Kids at Work:  Lewis Hines by Russell Freedman

 *First book in a series OR book has a sequel.