All students entering grade 7 must read three books and write a two-page book report for each book.  The book report guideline is attached.  These book reports are due on the first day of school and will count as a test grade in Reading. Please hand them in to your teacher.

Students may choose from the list below:

     1.  Any age appropriate Christian biography.

2.  Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O?Dell

3.  Sounder by William Armstrong

4.   Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

5.  Cooper Kids Adventure Series by Frank Peretti

6.  Adventures Down Under: Escape to Murray River by Robert    

       Elmer

7.  Reel Kids Adventure Series: The Amazon Stranger by Dave Gustaveson

8.  Reel Kids Adventure Series: The Dangerous Voyage by Dave Gustaveson

9.   Number The Stars by Lois Lowry

10.   Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

11.  Left Behind: The Kids Series by Jerry    Jenkins & Tim LaHaye

12. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgon Burnett

13. The Giver by Lois Lowry

14. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

15. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

If you read any of these books last year, you must choose different books this year.

Books may be found in your local public library and/or Barnes & Noble, Morning Star Christian Bookstore, Waldenbooks.

Please note that effort was taken to select a large variety of books for our summer reading list including classics, biographies of inspirational Christians, and books by well known Christian authors.  We encourage parents to be involved in their child’s selection of their summer reading books and although these books have been recommended to be summer reading books by colleges and other Christian schools, we realize that not all the books on the list may be deemed appropriate by all families.

Why do we do summer reading?

 Richard Allington from the University of Tennessee says, “For the past several years my colleague Anne McGill-Franzen and I have been studying the impact of summer reading, or the lack of it, on children's reading achievement. At this point it seems safe to conclude that children who don't read during summer vacation experience a summer reading loss. The loss is typically one of several months on standardized reading tests. But such small losses accumulate to substantial losses over time. On the other hand, children who read several books during the summer months experience no such loss and may actually find their scores on standardized tests improve a bit.”