Summer Reading

Each of the Tantasqua/ Union 61 town’s libraries will have copies of the book. The Jr High Main Office will have the book available to borrow, starting at the end of June. Quantities are limited.

OTHER OPTIONS:
The book may also be purchased at Barnes and Noble or on Amazon.com. The audio version may be free with audible.com or kindle.

Incoming Seventh Graders must choose ONE of the following novels:
Becoming Naomi León by Pam Muñoz Ryan. This is a coming-of-age novel by Pam Muñoz Ryan about a quiet Latina girl, whose life with her great-grandmother and younger brother is peaceful until her mother reappears after abandoning her and her brother years earlier.

Moo by Sharon Creech. When Reena, her little brother, Luke, and their parents first move to Maine, Reena doesn’t know what to expect. She’s ready for beaches, blueberries, and all the lobster she can eat. Instead, her parents “volunteer” Reena and Luke to work for an eccentric neighbor named Mrs. Falala, who has a pig named Paulie, a cat named China, a snake named Edna—and that stubborn cow, Zora. This heartwarming story, told in a blend of poetry and prose, reveals the bonds that emerge when we let others into our lives.

Nothing But the Truth by AVI Set in the small New Hampshire town of Harrison, the novel is the story of how ninth-grader Philip Malloy’s efforts to get out of a class with Ms. Narwin, his English teacher, is transformed into a viral story that casts Philip as a patriotic hero and his teacher as a villain.

Life as We Knew It, by Susan Beth Pfeffer, is about a high school sophomore who realizes that life has changed forever. An asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother learn how to survive the struggles that unfold, trying to hold on to any hope that is left.

Far Far Away by Tom McNeal In this dark, contemporary fairy tale, Jeremy Johnson Johnson hears voices. Or, specifically, one voice: The ghost of Jacob Grimm, one half of The Brothers Grimm. Jacob watches over Jeremy, protecting him from an unknown dark evil whispered about in the space between this world and the next. However, Jeremy cannot be protected from everything in Never Better as he ventures out and meets new people.

Tangerine by Edward Bloor Paul Fisher sees the world from behind glasses so thick he looks like a bug-eyed alien. But he’s not so blind that he can’t see there are some very unusual things about his family’s new home in Tangerine County, Florida. The chaos of sinkholes is compounded by constant harassment from his football-star brother, and adjusting to life in Tangerine isn’t easy for Paul - until he joins the soccer team at his middle school. With the help of his new teammates, Paul begins to discover what lies beneath the surface of his strange new hometown.