Kent Center School - Summer Reading Suggestions 2004

Students Entering Seventh Grade

 

 

Students will enjoy the following books and series.  Selections may also include
other titles and series by these authors.

 

  • Alexander, Lloyd                         Time Cat

 

  • Bauer, Joan                                Squashed
  • Bawden, Nina                             Granny the Pag
  • Beatty, Patricia                           Charlie Skedaddle
  • Bridges, Sue Ellen                        All Together Now
  • Byars, Betsy                               Herculeah Jones series
  • Byars, Betsy                               The Pinballs

 

  • Cabot, Meg                                 The Princess Diaries
  • Cormier, Robert                          I am the Cheese
  • Creech, Sharon                           Granny Torrelli Makes Soup
  • Creech, Sharon                           Ruby Holler
  • Curtis, Christopher Paul                Bud, Not Buddy
  • Curtis, Christopher Paul                The Watsons go to Birmingham – 1963

 

  • Deaver, Julie Reece                     The Night I Disappeared
  • DiCamillo, Kate                           The Tale of Despereaux

 

  • Farmer, Nancy                            The Ear, the Eye and the Arm
  • Farmer, Nancy                            A Girl Named Disaster
  • Fleischman, Paul                         Bull Run
  • Fritz, Jean                                  Brady
  • Funke, Cornelia                           Inkheart

 

  • Giff, Patricia Reilly                       Pictures of Hollis Woods

 

  • Haas, Jessie                                Shaper
  • Harlow, Joan Hiatt                       Shadows on the Sea
  • Hesse, Karen                              Aleutian Sparrow
  • Hoffman, Alice                            Green Angel
  • Holt, Kimberly Willis                     When Zachary Beaver Came to Town
  • Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas       The Ghost in the Tokaido Inn
  • Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas       The Demon in the Teahouse

 

  • Jacques, Brian                            Redwall series

 

  • Konigsburg, E.L.                          The View from Saturday

 

  • Lewis, C.S.                                 Chronicles of Narnia series
  • Lowry, Lois                                 Gathering Blue

 

  • MacPhail, Catherine                     Missing
  • Mahy, Margaret                          Memory
  • Martin, Ann M.                            A Corner of the Universe
  • McGhee, Alison                           Snap
  • Myers, Walter Dean                     Hoops

 

  • Oates, Joyce Carol                       Big Mouth and Ugly
  • O’Brien, Robert C.                       Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

 

  • Paterson, Katherine                     Jacob Have I Loved
  • Paulsen, Gary                             Harris & Me
  • Peck, Richard                             A Long Way From Chicago
  • Peck, Richard                             A Year Down Yonder
  • Peck, Robert Newton                   A Day No Pigs Would Die
  • Peck, Robert Newton                   Extra Innings

 

  • Rawls, Wilson                              Where the Red Fern Grows
  • Rylant, Cynthia                           Every Living Thing

 

  • Sachar, Louis                              Holes
  • Salisbury, Graham                       The Lord of the Deep
  • Spinelli, Jerry                              Library Card
  • Spinelli, Jerry                              Maniac Magee
  • Spinelli, Jerry                              Star Girl

 

  • Taylor, Mildred                            Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
  • Taylor, Theodore                         The Cay

 

  • Voight, Cynthia                           Homecoming

 

  • Williams, Laura E.                        The Executioner’s Daughter
  • Woodruff, Elvira                          The Ravenmaster’s Secret

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Look for your summer reading fun at

Kent Memorial Library

32 North Main Street

Kent, CT 06757

860.927.3761

 

Monday-Friday         10 AM – 5:30 PM

Saturday                 10 AM – 4:00 PM

 

Closed Sundays and Connecticut State Holidays