Summer Reading List
Incoming Seventh Graders
Before you start school in August, you will read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. You will come prepared to discuss it the first week of class. You will also read two other books, one from the A list and one from the B list. For each book you read, please do the following:
q Send me a postcard that includes your name and the name of the book you have read. Please send only one book title per card. Mail your card to my home address:
Ms. Judith Galas
1609 Hillcrest Road
Lawrence, KS 66044
q Each postcard should include a two-sentence description of the book.
q A parent must sign each postcard.
q All three postcards must be to me by the week of August 6.
The information from the books will be used in several ways in class, so I encourage you to keep simple notes on the books you read. You will need to remember the main characters and what they were like, the story’s major problem, the setting, and perhaps the scenes that most captured your imagination or that taught you something.
Here’s how your readings might be included in your studies:
q Your first writing assignments will involve one or more of your books
q You may be asked to make a class presentation on your book
q Class discussions
1. Animal Farm by George Orwell
2. Call of the Wild by Jack London
3. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
4. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
5. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (abridged version #
6. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
7. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
8. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
9. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
10. The Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum
11. Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
12. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
13. Watership Down by Richard Adams
# abridged version acceptable
1. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
2. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
3. Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Bobbitt
4. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
5. Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
6. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
7. Bridge at Terabitha by Katherine Patterson
8. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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