Royster Summer Reading List 2012 Book Title
Author
ISBN
Grades
The Fault in Our Stars The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman Learning to Talk Bear Middle School Mockingjay
John Green Meg Wolitzer Roland Cheek James Patterson Suzanne Collins
978-0525423041 978-0918981028 978-0316101691 978-0439023511
8-9* 7-9 7-9 7-9 7-9
* Contains mature language, mature content, and/or challenging
reading level more appropriate for mature readers.
Royster Summer Reading List 2012 The Fault in Our Stars By Meg Wolitzer Grades 8-9 Genre: Realistic Fiction ISBN: 978-0525478812 Hazel Grace Lancaster is (miraculously) alive thanks to an experimental drug that is keeping her thyroid cancer in check. In an effort to get her to have a life (she withdrew from school at 13), her parents insist she attend a support group at a local church. It's at this support group that she meets Augustus Waters, a former basketball player who has lost a leg to cancer. The connection the two of them form is instant, and leads the two to take a trip together that will change their lives forever. The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman By Meg Wolitzer Grades 7-9 Genre: (Mostly) Realistic Fiction ISBN: 978-0525423041 Nate has an overly competitive father. April wants to get noticed by her sports-obsessed family. Duncan Dorfman possesses a supernatural power that gives him an unfair advantage in Scrabble. These are kids who don’t seem like they’re cut out to become best friends, but when they meet at a Scrabble Tournament, their paths will cross unexpectedly. [Type text]
Learning to talk Bear By Roland Cheek Grades 7-9 Genre: Non-Fiction ISBN: 978-0918981028 During 20 years as a guide and outfitter in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Roland Cheek was bound to bump up against a grizzly bear now and then. At first, he had his mind set on a grizzly rug. But when his chance finally came, he couldn’t pull the trigger. Instead, he chose to learn everything he could about grizzlies, and he shares what he learned in this book. Middle School by James Patterson Grades 7-9 Genre: Humor ISBN: 978-0316101691 Rafe Khatchadorian has a plan for making his first year of middle school the best year ever. Rafe will break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct, and his best friend, Leonardo the Silent, will award him points for every rule he breaks. Chewing gum in class-5,000 points! Running in the hallway-10,000 points! Pulling the fire alarm-50,000 points! But will Rafe really be able to earn his points without getting caught?
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Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins Grades 7-9 Genre: Fantasy ISBN: 978-0439023511 *This book is a sequel. Students who select this book must first read The Hunger Games and Catching Fire. Every year in the nation of Panem, there is a televised tournament called The Hunger Games, in which twelve teens fight a gruesome battle to the death. Katniss Everdeen has survived twice. Now, the rebels in District 13 want Katniss to be the face of a revolution against the Capital, but she’s not sure if she can make it through a third showdown. Grades 9 The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore Genre: Non-Fiction ISBN: 978-0385528207 In 2000, Wes Moore had recently been named a Rhodes Scholar in his final year of college at Johns Hopkins University when he read a newspaper article about another Wes Moore who was on his way to prison. It turned out that the two of them had much in common, both young black men raised in inner-city neighborhoods by single mothers. Stunned by the similarities in their names and backgrounds and the differences in their ultimate fates, the author eventually contacted the other Wes Moore to try to find out how their lives had become so different.
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