The objective of summer reading is to assist students in cultivating skills that have been built upon throughout their academic year. It is the hope that reading will strengthen and reinforce those skills that are vital to all aspects of academics and beyond.

GRADE 7 Regents SUMMER READING PROJECT

Below you will find a list of books to choose from as you embark on your summer reading project.

As you read, please complete the following project. You can find all the directions for the project on the Google Slides link below. The project will be due in mid-September.

Click here for the Book Snaps Project

Students need to read ONE book from the list below.  

Journey and Survival

• Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan by John Bul Dau (paperback (pbk) available)
• Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen
• The Front Desk by Kelly Yang

Women in the Work Force

• Hidden Figures (Young Reader’s Edition) by Margot Lee Shettlerly
• The Radium Girls: Young Readers’ Edition: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark by Kate Moore

The Teen Brain and Technology

• Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper (pbk and Kindle)
• Confessions of a So-called Middle Child, Maria Lennon (pbk and Kindle)
• Ungifted by Gordon Korman
• Fish In a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Understanding Perspectives

• Chains, Laurie Halse Anderson (pbk and Kindle)
• Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
• Other Words from Home by Jasmine Warga

Listed below are resources for students: 

A video explaining how to access online reading and audiobooks from SORA. SORA Instructions

 

Make sure to check out your school’s library:

• CVMS:  https://sites.google.com/pinebushschools.org/cvms-library/home
• Crispell: https://sites.google.com/pinebushschools.org/libraryatcrispell/home  

 

Don’t forget your local libraries!

• Pine Bush Area Public Library- 223-227 Maple Ave, Pine Bush, NY https://pinebusharealibrary.org/
• Middletown Thrall Library- 12 Depot Street, Middletown, NY https://www.thrall.org/WelcomeHome.html
• Mamakating Library- 128 Sullivan Street, Wurstboro, NY https://mamakatinglibrary.org/

 

You can check the availability of each text from the following merchants:

• http:///www.half.com (re-seller of new to used book) Bargains can be found!
• http://www.amazon.com
• http://www.barnesandnoble.com