Need some reading ideas?  In June  students were asked for summer reading recommendations.  These are the most commonly mentioned titles:

Boys’ Favorites

Series
Artemis Fowl (Colfer)
Inheritance Series (Eragon, etc.) (Paolini)
Inkheart (Funke)
Maximum Ride (Patterson)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Riordan)
Ranger’s Apprentice (Flanagan)
Redwall (Jacques)
Sherlock Holmes (Doyle)

Individual Books
The Hero and the Crown (McKinley)
Catch Me If You Can (Abagnale)
Elephant Run (Roland Smith)
Rifles for Watie (Keith)
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie (Lubar)
Airborn & Skybreaker (Oppel)
Shoeless Joe (Kinsella)

 
Girls’ Favorites

Series
His Dark Materials (Pullman)
Inkheart (Funke)
Maximum Ride (Patterson)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Riordan)
Twilight Saga (Meyer)

Individual Titles
Chinese Cinderella (Mah)
Island of the Blue Dolphins (O’Dell)
Gone (Grant)
Monsoon Summer (Perkins)
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie (Lubar)
The Secret Life of Bees (Kidd)
The Mysterious Benedict Society (Stewart
Walk Two Moons (Creech)

           Have a Great Summer!

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