Summer Enrichment for 2008-2009
Carver Middle School
Seventh Graders 

Seventh graders may also read books from the sixth grade list that they haven’t read or ever taken a Reading Counts quiz for.  When school starts, you will be expected to take 3 Reading Counts quizzes on books you have not tested on before.

 Novels:

• Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

• Bearwalker by Joseph Bruchac

• Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan

• Book Without Words by Avi

• Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis

• Canyons by Gary Paulsen

• City of the Beasts by Isabel Allender

• Code Talker:  A Novel by Joseph Bruchac

• Cover-Up by John Feinstein

• Devil on My Heels by Joyce McDonald

• *Down the Rabbit Hole:  An Echo Falls Mystery by Peter Abrahams

• *Dragonsdawn by Anne McCaffrey

• Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick

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

• Flip by David Lubar

• Handbook for Boys by Walter Dean Myers

• Heat by Mike Lupica

• Hidden Roots by Joseph Bruchac

• *Hidden Talents by David Lubar

• Hit the Road by Caroline B. Cooney

• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

• *House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton

• Last Shot:  A Final Four Mystery by John Feinstein

• Locked in Time by Lois Duncan

• *Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

• *Make Lemonade by Virginia Wolff

• **Millicent Min:  Girl Genius by Lisa Yee

• Miracle on 49^th Street by Mike Lupica

• Monkey Island by Paula Fox

• Notes from the Midnight Driver by Jordan Sonnenblick

• Oddballs by William Sleator

• *Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot

• Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings

• The Rumpelstiltskin Problem by Vivian Vande Velde

• Second Stringer by Thomas Dygard

• Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

• Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac

• So Totally Emily Ebers by Lisa Yee

• **Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee

• The Starplace by Vicki Grove

• Summer Ball by Mike Lupica

• Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls

• Travel Team by Mike Lupica

• *True Sight by David Stahler

• The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley-Holland

• The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake

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

• Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt

• Year of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty

Non-Fiction:

• Blizzard! By Jim Murphy

• Boy:  Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

• Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster:  The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine by Albert Marrin

• Force and Motion by Peter Lafferty

• Invisible Enemies by Jeanette Farrell

 Recommended Titles for College Bound Students

Read any version of the classics listed below, but try to find “The Whole Story” Series version to read:

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

• Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

• Black Beauty:  The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell

• The Call of the Wild by Jack London

• Heidi by Johanna Spyri

• The Hound of the Baskervilles:  Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

• Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson

• White Fang by Jack London

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

** This is one of a set of books by Lisa Yee.  Millicent Min:  Girl Genius was the first book written.  Each of these books presents a different viewpoint of the same thing.  You hear Millicent Min’s, Stanford Wong’s, and Emily Eber’s versions when you read all three books.