09-10+7th

All students entering seventh grade are asked to read two of the books described below. Complete the story map (at the bottom) for each book and return it along with the titles read and both parent and student signatures.
 * Summer Reading Titles • Entering Grade 7 • June 2009**

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
 * Al Capone Does My Shirts** by Gennifer Choledenko

Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
 * Black Duck** by Janet Taylor Lisle

wo teenagers learn that every player on a professional football team--which is supposed to play in the Super Bowl--has failed their drug test and the owner has covered up the results, and now they must find a way to prove it. Sequel to Last Shot and Vanishing Act.
 * Cover Up** by John Feinstein (or other book by the author)

Thirteen-year-old, Southern California surfer Yumi Ruiz-Hirsch is a unique mix of Jewish, Japanese, and Cuban heritage; and when her grandfather, Saul, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she asks him to tell her his life story in order to better understand her own history.
 * I Wanna be Your Shoe Box** by Cristina Garca

Left an orphan after the influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.
 * Listening for Lions** by Gloria Whelan

When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
 * London Eye Mystery** by Siobhan Dowd

A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest and build a relationship with his estranged father.
 * Peak** by Roland Smith

In1872 England, recently orphaned Sally Lockhart is looking for facts about death of her Father and becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
 * Ruby in the Smoke** by Phillip Pullman

A graphic novel account of the career of Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige, discussing the show he put on as a popular player, as well as the respect he demanded as an African-American. (Graphic Novel)
 * Satchel Page: Striking Out Jim Crow** by James Sturm

Fifteen short texts, each accompanied by Tan's signature black-and-white and full-color artwork, take the mundane world and transform it into a place of magical wonders. (Graphic Novel)
 * Tales from Outer Suburbia** by Shaun Tan

Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
 * Waiting for Normal** by Leslie Connor

When thirteen-year-old San Lee moves to a new town and school for the umpteenth time, he is looking for a way to stand out when his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, gained in his previous school, provides the answer--and the need to quickly become a convincing Zen master.
 * Zen and the Art of Faking it** by Jordan Sonnenblick