1. TMS Summer Reading List 2009
Taylor Middle School
Summer Reading List 2009
Incoming 6th Grade
Hard Hit by Ann Turner ($18.40)
The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going ($7.56)
Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff ($7.56)
Incoming 6th Grade (Pre-AP)
Overboard by Elizabeth Fama ($6.49)
The Killing Sea by Richard Lewis ($6.49)
Mrs. Engelke’s and Ms. Mayer’s classes (soon to be Mrs. Widmer’s)
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket($7.56)
The Liberation of Gabriel King by K.L. Going ($7.56)
Incoming 7th Grade (read one)
Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen ($7.03)
Bang by Sharon Flake ($8.64)
Crash by Jerry Spinelli ($7.03)
The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis ($7.56)
Incoming 7th Grade Pre-AP (read one)
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt ($7.56)
The Cay by Theodore Taylor ($7.03)
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan ($8.64)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor ($8.64)
Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin ($8.64)
Incoming 8th Grade (read one) see p. 2 for 8th Grade Pre-AP
How Not to be Popular by Jennifer Ziegler ($17.30)
39 Clues: Book 1 by Rick Riordan ($14.06)
Shock Point by April Henry ($8.64)
The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ($18.40)
Found, The Missing Book 1 by Margaret Haddix ($7.56)
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2. TMS Summer Reading List 2009
Incoming 8th Grade Pre-AP (read one)
I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson ($7.56)
Soldier X by Don L. Wulffson ($7.56)
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli ($7.56)
Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz ($6.49)
Into the Wild by John Krakauer ($15.10)
Life As We Knew It by Gabrielle Zevin ($7.56)
Incoming 9th Grade English I regular (read one)
West Side Story/Romeo and Juliet ($7.56)
The Contender by Robert Lipsyte ($7.56)
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney ($7.56)
Incoming 9th Grade English I Pre-AP (read one)
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ($15.10)
Watership Down by Richard Adams ($17.32)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes ($9.74)
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier ($8.11)
Incoming 9th Grade Legacy High School
West Side Story (required) ($7.56)
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston ($15.10)
Watership Down by Richard Adams ($17.32)
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes ($9.74)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Silas Mariner by George Eliot
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
1984 by George Orwell
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