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Krista R. Herrera, Principal
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Middle School
Summer Reading List

Click here for the 2008 Summer Reading Journal

6th Grade

Stone Fox
By John Reynolds Gardiner

Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Babe and Me
By Dan Gutman
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
By Eleanor Coerr

Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Crossing Jordan
By Adrian Fogelin
This is a moving, coming-of-age story of a young girl who overcomes family prejudice and cultural differences when she befriends a black girl in a small working-class town. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Pictures of Hollis Woods
By Patricia Reilly Giff
Hollis, who was abandoned at birth, makes a habit of running away from foster homes until she finds Josie, a retired art teacher. Hollis begins to feel wanted. They share the joy and appreciation of art. Through Hollis’s artwork, readers learn about the family that Hollis last lived with and her longing to be a part of a family. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
MIllion Doller Kick
By Dan Gutman
Thirteen-year-old Whisper, who hates sports, is torn when she gets a chance to win a million dollars by kicking a goal against a local soccer hero. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Esperanza Rising
By Pam Munoz Ryan

Esperanza is a rich, young girl living in Mexico on her father’s large ranch. Bandits kill Esperanza’s father and their estate is left to a wicked uncle. Esperanza and her mother escape to work in the migrant fields of California. She eventually finds “hope” in the English translation of her name.

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Regular Guy
By Sarah Weeks

Because he is different from his eccentric parents, twelve-year-old Guy is convinced he has been switched at birth with a classmate whose parents seem more normal.

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The Bad Beginnings
By Lemony Snicket
This book is the first book in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. This story is about three siblings (14, 12, and an infant) who are orphaned when their house burns down and they have to live with an evil relative who plots to deviously obtain their sizable inheritance.  
Black Beauty
By Anna Sewell
Black Beauty tells us the story of his sometimes pleasant and often difficult life as a horse in the 19th century. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library

7th Grade

Crash!
By Jerry Spinelli
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
The Revealers
By Doug Wilhelm
Tired of being bullied and picked on, three seventh-grade outcasts join forces and, using scientific methods and the power of the Internet, begin to create a new atmosphere at Parkland Middle School. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Chasing the Falconers
By Gordon Korman
Aidan and Meg Falconer are their parents' only hope. The Falconers are facing life in prison-unless Aidan and Meg can follow a trail of clues to prove their innocence. The problem? Right now they're trapped in a juvenile detention center. Until they escape one night-and find themselves on the run, both from the authorities and from a sinister attacker who has his own reason to stop them. The Falconers must use their wits to make it across the country, with plenty of tests along the way. Gordon Korman takes readers into FUGITIVE territory-with thrilling results. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library

Tangerine
By Edward Bloor

Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
101 Ways to Bug Your Parents
By Lee Wardlaw
Steve’s parents call off the family vacation and enroll him in a creative writing class instead. As a result, Steve comes up with a ridiculous moneymaking project. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Surviving the Applewhites
By Stephanie Tolan
Jake, a budding delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family’s Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interest he never knew he had. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Survivors: True Stories of the Holocaust
By Allan Zullo and Marva Bovsun
Tells the stories of nine Jewish children who survived the Holocaust. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Slake's Limbo
By Felice Holman
Aremis Slake, unloved and neglected, runs away to live in the subway tunnels. Slake is ingenious in the way he learns to survive the urban terrain without parents Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
By Jennifer Allison
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Treasure Island
By Robert Stevenson
Come aboard the good ship Hispaniola and set sail in a thrilling story of buried treasure, piracy, and derring-do in days past.  

8th Grade

Zach's Lie
By Roland Smith
When 13-year-old Jack Osborne's father is arrested for drug trafficking, Jack, his older sister Joanne, and their mother are forced to flee their comfortable home and take on new identities through the Witness Relocation Program.  

Stargirl
By Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl Caraway, a 10th grader at Arizona’s High School, who wears pioneer dresses and kimonos to school, strums a ukulele in the cafeteria, laughs when there are no jokes, and dances when there is no music. She stuns the whole school. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Red Midnight
By Ben Mikaelsen
After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Small Steps
By Louis Sachar
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes alon Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Ransom
By Lois Duncan
Held hostage on a bus, five kids make some startling discoveries about themselves when they are forced to cooperate in order to escape. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
The Young Landlords
By Walter Dean Myers
Five devoted friends become landlords and try to make their Harlem neighborhood a better place to live. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Z for Zachariah
By Robert C. O'Brien
Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Robinson Crusoe
By Danial Defoe
The original solitary castaway and his attempt to establish his life on a deserted island. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Bucking the Sarge
By Christoper Paul Curtis
Deeply involved in his cold and manipulative mother's shady business dealings in Flint, Michigan, fourteen-year-old Luther keeps a sense of humor while running the Happy Neighbor Group Home For Men, all the while dreaming of going to college and becoming a philosopher. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library
Downsiders
By Neal Shusterman
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures. Click Here for a Link to the Broward County Public Library

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