The English/Language Arts Department has established a summer reading program to promote the enjoyment of reading outside the academic environment and to encourage lifelong reading habits and experiences.

During the first full week of the school year, students will take an objective examination based on two required readings. The examinations are designed to discourage the use of abridged editions and film adaptations. Encourage your child to take notes and review them prior to the tests. Both test results will be averaged with the grades for the first quarter. This list has been distributed to the town library and local bookstores. You might want to consider purchasing used books, or borrowing them from other students.

Your child should select and read two (2) titles from the following:

Across the grain, by Jean Ferris
Along the tracks, by Tamar Bergman
Babyface, by Norma Fox Mazer

Boy in the moon, by Ron Koertge
Brave, by Robert Lipsyte
Cages, by Peg Kehret

Death walk, by Walt Morey
Don't look and it won't hurt, by Richard Peck

Downriver, by Will Hobbs
Dragonsong, by Anne McCaffrey
Drowning of Stephan Jones, by Betty Greene

Forbidden City, by William Bell
Jackaroo, by Cynthia Voigt
Journey of the sparrows, by Fran Leeper Buss

Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
Life without friends, by Ellen White
Man from the other side, by Uri Orlev

Nightmare, by Davis Willo Roberts
Pilot down, presumed dead, by Marjorie Phleger
Rain catcher, by Jean Thesman

Rice without rain, by Minfong Ho
Ryan White: my own story, by White/Cunningham
Stranger with my face, by Lois Duncan

Tell me how the wind sounds, by Leslie Guccione
Tiger in the well, by Philip Pullman
Trouble with lemons, by Daniel Hayes

We all fall down, by Robert Cormier
What you don't know can kill you, by Fran Arrick
Woodsong, by Gary Paulsen