Smethport Area Jr.-Sr. High School Library
Summer Reading List
The following are complied lists of books for summer reading for all grades! Remember to keep reading over the summer and visit your local public library to open the door to the world through reading!
Grade 7-8
CONTEMPORARY FICTION:
Crazy Lady! Conly
Frenchtown Summer Cormier
Snail Mail No More Danziger & Martin
A Girl Named Disaster Farmer
Whirligig Fleishman
The Eagle Kite Fox
The Cuckoo's Child Freeman
Jack's New Power: Gantos
Second Cousins Hamilton
Hidden Talents Lubar, D.
145th Street Stories Myers
Achingly Alice Naylor
Walker's Crossing Naylor
All Alone in the Universe Perkins
Holes Sachar
Stargirl Spinelli
Belle Prater's Boy White
My Angelica Williams
Lena Woodson
Child of the Owl Yep
BIOGRAPHY:
The Double Life of Pocahontas Fritz
Samuel Adams Fradin
The Life and Death of Crazy Horse Freedman
Rocket Boys/October Sky Hickman
Black Pioneers: An Untold Story Katz, Wm.
No Pretty Pictures Lobel
Gutsy Girls: Young Women Who Dare Schwager
Knots in my Yo-Yo String Spinelli
Chinese Cinderella: The Story of an Unwanted Daughter Yen Mah
FANTASY/SCIENCE FICTION:
The Iron Ring Alexander
On a Pale Horse Anthony
Tomorrowland Cart, M.
King of Shadows Cooper
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm Farmer
Ella Enchanted Levine
Rose Daughter Mc Kinley
The Changeover Mahy
The Golden Compass Pullman
The Other Ones Thesman
INFORMATIONAL BOOKS:
Navajo Code Talkers Aaseng
Anthology for the Earth Allen, Judy
Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers Budhos
Liberty Curlee
Neale S. Godfrey's Ultimate Kids' Money Book Godfrey
A Dime A Dozen Grimes
Black, Blue and Gray: African Americans in the Civil War Haskins
The Bone Dectectives: How Foresenic Anthropologists Solve Crimes... Jackson
From Slave Ship to Freedom Road Lester
Terror of the Spanish Main: Sir Henry Morgan & His Buccaneers Marrin
Black Hands, White Sails Mc Kissack
At Her Majesty's Request Myers, W.D.
MYSTERY:
Skellig Almond, David
In the Middle of the Night Cormier
The Case of the Missing Cutthroats George
The House of Dies Drear Hamilton
The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn Hoobler
Murdered, My Sweet Nixon
The Ruby in the Smoke Pullman
The Westing Game Raskin
The View from the Cherry Tree Roberts
Hand of the Necromancer Strickland
The Vandemark Mummy Voight
Never Trust a Dead Man Vande Velde, Vivian
The Case of the Goblin Pearls Yep
LEGENDS AND MYTHS:
The Deetkatoo: Native American Stories about Little People Bierhorst, John ed.
Kissing the Witch Donoghue
The Ch'i-Lin Purse Fang
Her Stories Hamilton
Spiders in the Hairdo Holt, D.
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights Mc Caughrean
Greek and Roman Mythology Nardo, Don
Parizal: The Quest of the Grail Knight Paterson
Passenger Say
CORE LITERATURE:
GRADE 7:
Among the Volcanoes Castaneda
Dark Is Rising Cooper
Monkey Island Fox
Young Landlords Myers
Scorpions Myers
Black Pearl O'Dell
Hatchet Paulsen
Witch of Blackbird Pond Speare
Let the Circle Be Unbroken Taylor
Grab Hands and Run Temple
Taste of Salt Temple
Homecoming Voight
Goodbye, Vietnam Whelan
Dragonwings Yep
GRADE 8:
Nothing But the Truth Avi
Journey of the Sparrows Buss
Year of Impossible Goodbyes Choi
Children of the River Crew
Diary of Anne Frank Frank
The Giver Lowry
Hoops Myers
Lyddie Paterson
Harriet Tubman Petry
High Elks Treasure Sneve
The Pearl Steinbeck
Road to Memphis Taylor
Dicey's Song Voight
Dragon's Gate Yep
HISTORICAL FICTION:
Bud, Not Buddy Curtis, Christopher Paul
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple Cushman
The Apprenticeship of Lucas Whitaker De Felice
Lily's Crossing Giff
A Light in the Storm: the Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin Hesse, Karen
Stones in Water Napoli
The War In Georgia Oughton
Jip: His Story Paterson
Alida's Song Paulsen
My Heart is on the Ground: The Diary of Nanie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl
Rinaldi, Ann Joan of Arc Stanley, Diane
LIBROS EN ESPAÑOL 6-8:
Trubino Armstrong
Entre Dos Lunas Creech
Laura Contra el Tiempo Cueto
Diario Zlata Filipovic
Julie y los lobos George
Rebeldes Hinton
El dador Lowry
La Senora Frisby y las ratas de Nimh O'Brien
No me llama Angelica O'Dell
Einstein y la relatividad Parker
Un puente hasta Therabithia Paterson
El signo del castor Speare
Lloro por la tierra Taylor
Espacio y planetas Time-Life
Juan de Pareja Trevino
Grade 9-12
CONTEMPORARY FICTION:
Go and Come Back Abelove
Speak Anderson
Rules of the Road Bauer
Ender's Game Card
Frenchtown Summer Cormier
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes Crutcher
Catherine Called Birdy Cushman
Whirligig Fleishman
A Life for a Life Hill, E.
The Circuit: Stories from the Migrant of a Migrant Child Jimenez
Toning the Sweep Johnson
Deliver Us From Evie Kerr
Different Seasons King
Heart in Atlantis King
Finding My Voice Lee
Saying Goodbye Lee
Tomorrow, When the War Began Marsden
Spindle's End Mc Kinley
145th Street Stories Myers
Monster Myers
Soldier's Heart Paulsen
Freak the Mighty Philbrick
Holes Sachar
Caucasia Senna
Oddballs Sleator
Lord of the Rings Tolkien
The Road Home White
Facing The Music Wiley
Doing Time: Notes From the Undergroud Thomas
ROMANCE FICTION:
Lasso The Moon Covington
Someone Like You Dessen, Judy
Dither Farm Hite
The Image Game Johnston
The Raging Quiet Jordan
Love Story, Take Three Miklowitz
In Your Dreams Neenan
If It Weren't For Sebastian Ure
David and Della Zindel
Early Sorrow: Ten Stories Of Youth Zolotow
MYSTERY:
The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories Christie
Remember Me Clark
Hush Little Baby Cooney
The Silver Pigs Davis
The Hound Of The Baskervilles Doyle
The Twisted Widow Duncan
Time and Again Finney
Short Circuits Gallo, ed.
The Blessing Way Hillerman
The Green Mile King
Blood And Chocolate Klause
The Death of Colonel Mann Peale
A Morbid Taste for Bones Peters
Ruby in the Smoke Pullman
The Spirit House Sleator
The Killer's Cousin Werlin
BIOGRAPHY:
Shipwrecked at the Bottom of the World Armstrong
Maud: The Life of L.M. Montgomery Bruce
Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women Conway, ed.
Who Killed My Daughter? Duncan
Black Cowboy: The Life And Legend Of George Mc Junkin Folsom
Barrio Boy Galarza
Eleanor's Story Garner
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave Hamilton
W.E.B. Dubois: A Biography Hamilton
Years Jackson
Louisa May Johnston
No Pretty Pictures Lobel
Chinese Cindrella Mah
Commander in Chief Marrin
Thomas Jefferson: The Revolutionary Aristocrat Meltzer
Rosa Parks: My Story Parks
Anonymously Yours Peck
Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust Rochman, ed.
Knots in My Yo-Yo Spinelli
Matthew Brady: His Life and Photographs Sullivan
Behind the Mask Thomas
POETRY:
I Am The Darker Brother Adoff, ed.
The Voice That Is Great Within Us: Carruth, ed.
I Too Sing America: African American Poetry Clinton
Shimmy, Shimmy, Shimmy Like My Sister Kate Giovanni
Pierced by a Ray of Sun: Poems for the Times We Feel Alone Gordon, ed.
The Open Boat: Poems from Asian America Hongo, ed.
Going Over to Your Place Janeczko, ed.
A Night Without Armor Jewel
Lifelines: A Poetry Anthology Marcus, ed.
Earth, Air, Fire & Water Mc Cullough, ed.
What Have You Lost? Nye, ed.
Quiet Storm: Voices of Young Black Poets Okutoro, ed.
War and the Pity of War Philip
Light-Gathering Poems: Poems of Hope and Healing Rosenberg, ed.
The Rose That Grew In Concrete Shakur
ANTHOLOGIES:
Growing Up Latino: Memoirs And Stories Augenbraum, ed.
33 Things Every Girl Should Know Bolden, ed.
Growing Up Female Cahill
Tomorrowland: Ten Stories About the Future Cart, M., ed.
Where Angels Glide At Dawn: New Stories From Latin America Conway, ed.
Trapped: Cages of Mind and Body Duncan, Lois,, ed.
Dirty Laundry Stories About Family Secrets Fraustino, ed.
Join In Gallo, ed.
No Easy Answers Gallo, ed.
Who Do You Think You Are? Rochman & Mc Campbell, eds.
Help Wanted: Short Stories Silvey, ed.
Pieces Of The Heart: New Chicano Stories Soto, ed.
In America Thomas, ed.
SELECTED CORE LITERATURE:
GRADE 9:
Miracle Worker Gibson
Raisin in the Sun Hansbury
Annie John Kincaid
Animal Farm Orwell
Late Great Me Scoopertone
Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare
Twelfth Night Shakespeare
Jesse Soto
GRADE 10:
Good Earth Buck
Farewell to Manzanar W. Houston
Flowers for Algeron Keyes
Midsummer's Night Dream Shakespeare
Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare
Antigone Sophocles
Night Weisel
Black Boy Wright
GRADE 11:
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Angelou
Great Gastby Fitzgerald
Death of a Salesman Miller
In Nueva York Mohr
An Island Like You Ortiz-Cofer
Macbeth Shakespeare
Othello Shakespeare
Jungle Sinclair
Joy Luck Club Tan
GRADE 12:
House of Spirits Allenade
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Alvarez
Canterbury Tales Chaucer
A Doll's House Ibsen
Metamorphosis Kafka
Color of Water Mc Bride
Coming of Age in Mississippi Moody
Grass Dancer Power
Hamlet Shakespeare
Frankenstein Shelley
Ceremony Silko
Oedipus Sophocles
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