(Updated June 1, 2021)

Instructions for 6^th and 7^th Grades:

For your summer reading, you are to choose two books from the list for the grade level you will be entering in September.  It is recommended that you purchase the books so that you can annotate them and bring them to school on the day of the summer reading assessment.

It is strongly suggested that you annotate each book as you read.  Annotating is taking notes and commenting on the text to deepen your understanding and comprehension of the text.  These notes help you to understand and organize what you read.  There is a brief video on annotating if you are not sure how to complete it.

When you annotate, you should be highlighting important details, writing notes in the margins, and using post-its to summarize, make connections to the text, jot down personal opinions/ reflections, question things you do not understand, and react to characters and story events.

Pay particular attention to:

1. Setting- time and place

2- Characterization- descriptions and clues about characters including direct and indirect

character traits

The summer reading assessment will be given within the first two weeks of school.  If you have any questions, please email Mrs. Agulles at mrsagulles@kellenberg.org.

Instructions for 8^th Grade:

For your summer reading, you are to choose two books from the list for the 8^th grade.  The books MUST be purchased because you will need to bring them to school on the day of the summer reading assessment.

As you read each book, you MUST annotate the book.  This will be looked at by your teacher and will count as part of your grade.    Annotating is taking notes and commenting on the text to deepen your understanding and comprehension of the text.  These notes help you to understand and organize what you read.  There is a brief video on annotating if you are not sure how to complete it.

When you annotate, you should be highlighting important details, writing notes in the margins, and using post-its to summarize, make connections to the text, jot down personal opinions/ reflections, question things you do not understand, and react to characters and story events.

Pay particular attention to:

1. Setting- time and place

2- Characterization- descriptions and clues about characters including direct and indirect

character traits

The summer reading assessment will be given within the first two weeks of school.  If you have any questions, please email Mrs. Agulles at mrsagulles@kellenberg.org.

You may purchase summer reading books through Amazon.
Please click the title of the book to be taken to Amazon.com where you may order your books.

Cadets

• The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
• My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
• Crash by Jerry Spinelli
• A Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
• Rascal by Sterling North
• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Season of Styx Malone – Kekla Magoon

Tyros

• Escape from Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan
• Counting by 7’s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
• The Kicks: Saving the Team by Alex Morgan
• Jim Thorpe by Joseph Bruchac
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare

Squires

• The Cay by Theodore Taylor
• Ghost by Jason Reynolds
• Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
• I Will Always Write Back by Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda, and Liz Welch
• Star Girl by Jerry Spinelli
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Goodnight, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
• Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter