Madeira Beach Fundamental

Required Summer Reading 2016-2017 School Year

Grades 6-8

Summer Reading Required List

All incoming 6th grade, 7th grade, & 8th grade students: Read at least 1 Sunshine State Young Readers 2016-2017 Middle School title of their choosing. The complete list is on the back of this letter and an annotated list is available at: http://www.floridamediaed.org/ssyra.html

Additional Advanced/Honors Reading Requirements:

·  Incoming 7th grade Advanced Language Arts Students: Read Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney in addition to the one SSYR book.

·  Incoming 8th grade Advanced Language Arts Students: Read Tangerine by Edward Bloor in addition to the one SSYR book.

·  Incoming 8th graders enrolled in English I Honors: Read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens in addition to the one SSYR book.

*Incoming Honors English students will have an additional assignment.

*Incoming 7th graders and students with Advanced 8th Grade Language Arts will be required to do a project when they return to school over one of their books.

All students will need to complete the Reading Counts Quiz for their SSYR book and any additional advanced/honors books by the end of August.

Books are available at local libraries (put yours on hold now), some titles will be available through the Madeira Beach front office, and many titles are available online for Kindle or other reading devices.

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I, ______(print student name) understand which book(s) I will be reading over the summer and that I will be assessed on my assigned book(s) when I return to school next year.

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(Student Signature)(Current Grade)

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(Parent Signature) (Date)

Sunshine State Young Reader’s

Award Program

2016-2017

Grades 6-8

All Fall Down by Ally Carter

17 points

Bot Wars by J.V. Kade

18 points

The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

7 points

Echo by Pam Munoz Ryan

20 points

Frenzy by Robert Lettrick

15 points

The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart

10 points

Insignia by S.J. Kincaid

27 points

Nickel Bay Nick by Dean Pitchford

13 points

The Neptune Project by Polly Holyoke

12 points

The Sinister Sweetness of Splendid Academy by Nikki Loftin

14 points

The Summer I Saved the World in 65 Days by Michele Weber Hurwitz

The Tapper Twins Go To War (With Each Other) by Geoff Rodkey

7 points

Turn Left at the Cow by Lisa Bullard

15 points

The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Barry

11 points