madteaparty Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 Looking for both “assigned” and pleasure reading suggestions. She just came off a very reading-heavy class at WTMA ❤️ and I haven’t thought about her reading for a while. We have a couple moves and other upheaval here so trying to make this easy on us. so far I have Raymie Nightingale and The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate though I don’t know about the latter,‘I read it out loud with DS back then. she finished the Hunger Games series as a read aloud with her dad and we are slowing making our way through My Family and other animals (read aloud with me) 🙏🙏for any suggestions…I should be packing not buying more books 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 I'm doing the summer reading list for Skills For Literary Analysis over the next year to avoid cramming for 7th grade. The Call of the Wild by Jack London The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe How Green was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Shane by Jack Warner Schaefer The Religious Life of the Negro by Booker T. Washington Silas Marner by George Eliot Anne of Green Gables by L. Maude Montgomery A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 In his free time he will be finishing Harry Potter and starting Percy Jackson. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 This summer is The Hobbit (assigned, but accompanied by a dramatized radio version and several activities) Second book in Mysterious Benedict Society Wings of Fire books Hardy Boys, book 1 (assigned-ish. More like "hey, kid, give it a shot") 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookbard Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 For fun, she's reading some book called Self/Less which I haven't pre-read, it's a dystopian type book. Also the Hive series by Janet Edwards which is a kind of dystopian future but not hugely bad - I have read this series, it's fine. Still reading Warriors series and Wings of Fire series. Picked up the Art of War from our bookshelves last night! Just finished the first Mysterious Benedict Society and has had a try of the Enola Holmes series (she wasn't keen but I know other girls have enjoyed it). For something easy but fun, the Skydragon series (Ahn Do, Australian writer) has been good. Ahn Do churns out heaps of very popular books in Australia, the kind with lots of pictures and fairly simple language, but big ideas (Wolf Girl is another - in wartime, a girl has to become friends with a bunch of animals in order to survive. It's a bizarre mix of scariness and animal love but super duper popular over here). For school, Animal Farm has been great over the last year, we've listened to it on audiobook and had lots of discussion. Actually we listened to The Wolf Wilder before it, which is set in Czarist Russia, and I think that was good for setting the scene in terms of where the revolution came from. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenecho Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Some literary ones that also make good summer reading.... The Secret Garden (really, not too old at 7th to read this) Holes My Side of the Mountain The Bronze Bow (Christian content) Summer of My German Soldier (warning...very sad...but I loved it in 7th grade in spite of bawling my eyes out). The Hobbit Island of the Blue Dophins (another tear-jerker) For fun.... Ordinary Princess (also not too young for 7th...I read and loved it at 14) Dragonsinger, Dragonsong, Dragondrums (by Anne McCaffrey...these one she seemed to make especially for pre-teens). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brittany1116 Posted May 22, 2022 Share Posted May 22, 2022 Mine is not one to read for pleasure, particularly not fiction. He agreed to the first Hardy Boys book and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe for summer reading. He'll read daily, but any other titles will be his own choosing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeaganS Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Mine is obsessed with the Keeper of the Lost City series. She and her whole group of friends are devouring it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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