Pawling Library Summer Reading Headquarters

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Required School Reading

5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

 

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Required School Reading Lists

 

Grade 5 – Tolerance

2 Books Required

Students entering 5th grade are required to read 2 books over the summer, the first book has to come from the list below, the second can be from the list or a book with the same theme of Tolerance.  Students are also required to complete a summer reading project based on the chosen books.  Please ask at the Circulation Desk for a list of the projects.    

Title Author Available Formats
Wonder RJ Palacio Book
e-book download
Book on CD
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
 My Name is Brain Brian  Jeanne Betancourt Book
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
Freak the Mighty  Rodman Philbrick  Book
e-book download
Book on CD
Audio Download
Book on Cassette
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
 El Deafo  Cece Bell Graphic Novel
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
 Savvy  Ingrid Law Book
Book on CD
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
The One and Only Ivan  Katherine Applegate Book
Book on CD
e-Book Download
Available on our kids Kindle
Audio Playaway
Amazon
Out of My Mind  Sharon M. Draper Book
Available on our kids Kindle
Book on CD
e-Book Download
Amazon
 Rules  Cynthia Lord Book
e-Book Download
Large Print
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon

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Grade 6– Peer Pressure

Students entering 6th grade are required to read 2 books over the summer, the first book has to come from the list below, the second can be from the list or a book with the same theme of Tolerance.  Students are also required to complete a summer reading project based on the chosen books.  Please ask at the Circulation Desk for a list of the projects.

Title Author Available Formats
It’s Not Easy Being Mean Lisi Harrison Book
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
Blubber Judy Blume Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Book on Cassette
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town Kimberly Willis Holt Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
The Misfits James Howe Book
Book on CD
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
We Beat the Street Sampson Davis Book
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
Wonder RJ Palacio Book
e-book download
Book on CD
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days Jeff Kinney Book
Book on CD
e-Book Download
Audio Playaway
Available on our kids Kindle
Spanish Book
Amazon
Middle School: My Brother is a Big, Fat, Liar James Patterson Book
Book on CD
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
Middle School: Get Me Out of Here! James Patterson Book
Book on CD
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon

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Grade 7: Identity – Who am I?

Students entering 7th grade are required to read 2 books over the summer, the first book has to come from the list below, the second can be from the list or a book with the same theme of Tolerance.  Students are also required to complete a summer reading project based on the chosen books.  Please ask at the Circulation Desk for a list of the projects.

Title Author Available Formats
Firegirl Tony Abbott Book
Book on CD
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
Sorry I’m Not Sorry Nancy Rue Book
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
Jungle of Bones Ben Mikelsen Book
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
Ghost Hawk Susan Cooper Book
Book on CD
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
The List Siobhan Vivian Book
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
Husky Justin Sayre Book
Book on CD
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
The Giver Lois Lowery Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon

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Grade 8 – Drugs and Alcohol

All students entering 8th grade are REQUIRED to read Bottled Up by Jaye Murray. The second book may come from the list below or you may choose a different book that still matches the theme.  A summer reading project is required, please see front desk for copies of the assignment.

Title Author Available Formats
Bottled Up – REQUIRED FOR ALL STUDENTS Jaye Murray Book
Amazon
That Was Then, This Is Now SE Hinton Book
Amazon
Go Ask Alice Anonymous Book
Book on Cassette
Amazon
Gym Candy Carl Deuker Book
Book on CD
Amazon
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Steven Chbosky Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Book on Cassette
Amazon

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Grade 9

Students entering 9th grade must read 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey (no written assignment required for this book) and then choose a book from the recommended list below or another carefully chosen selection for their summer reading assignment.

Title Author Available Formats
7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens – REQUIRED FOR ALL STUDENTS Sean Covey Book
Book on CD
Amazon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Mark Haddon Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Book on Cassette
Amazon
The Hobbit J.R.R Tolkien Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Book on Cassette
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
The Alchemist Paulo Coelho Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Book on Cassette
Amazon
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Book
e-Book
e-Audiobook
Book on CD
Large Print
Book on Cassette
Amazon
Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee Book
e-Book
e-Audiobook
Book on CD
Large Print
Available on our Kindle
Amazon
The Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Book on Cassette
Amazon
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Book on Cassette
Amazon
Life by the Numbers Keith Devlin Book
Amazon
The Building of Manhattan Donald MacKay Book
Amazon
Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Book on Cassette
Amazon
All The Light We Cannot See Arthur Doerr Book
e-Book
e-Audiobook
Book on CD
Large Print
Available on our Kindle
Amazon
Eleanor & Park Rainbow Rowell Book
e-Book
e-Audiobook
Book on CD
Amazon

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Grade 10

Title Author Available Formats
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien Book
e-book download
Book on CD
Large Print
Amazon
I Am Malala: The Girl who Stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban Malala Yousafzai Book
e-Audiobook download
Book on CD
Large Print
Amazon
Survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi Book
Amazon
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption Laura Hillenbrand Book
e-Book
e-Audiobook
Book on CD
Large Print
Amazon
Manchild in the Promised Land Claude Brown Book
Amazon
The Book Thief Marcus Zusak Book
Book on CD
e-Book Download
e-Audiobook Download
Large Print
Amazon
The Hundred Secret Senses Amy Tan Book
Large Print
Book on Cassette
Amazon
Little Bee Chris Cleave Book
Book on CD
e-Audiobook Download
Large Print
Available on our kids Kindle
Amazon
Atonement Ian McEwan Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Book on Cassette
Amazon
Ender’s Game Orson Scott Card Book
e-Book
e-Audiobook
Book on CD
Amazon
The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie Book
e-Book
Large Print
Book on CD
Amazon
A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Amazon

 

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Grade 11

Title Author Available Formats
19 Minutes Jodi Picoult Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Amazon
Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut Book
Book on CD
Amazon
Plot Against America Philip Roth Book
Book on CD
eBook
Large Print
Amazon
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution Natalie Bober Book
Amazon
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Amazon
Chiefs Stuart Woods Book
Book on CD
e-Book Download
Large Print
Amazon
Tales of the City Armistead Maupin Book
eBook
Large Print
Book on Cassette
Amazon
Inicidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs Book
Amazon
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Book on Cassette
Amazon
Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Book
Book on CD
Book on Cassette
Amazon
1776 David McCullough Book
e-Book
e-Audiobook
Large Print
Book on CD
Amazon
My Dearest Friend: Letters of John and Abigail Adams Margaret Hogan, C. James Taylor
Joseph Ellis
Book
Amazon
*any book by David McCullough, Mark Kurlansky, or Bill Bryson

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Grade 12

Title Author Available Formats
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen Book
eBook
eAudiobook
Book on CD
Large Print
Amazon
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey Book
eAudiobook
Book on CD
Amazon
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Book
Book on CD
eBook
Amazon
A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Book
eBook
Book on CD
Large Print
Amazon
Nickel and Dimed Barbara Ehrenreich Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Amazon
Q & A: a Novel Vikas Swarup Book
Amazon
Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson Book
eAudiobook
Large Print
Book on CD
Amazon
Freakonomics Stephen Dubner & Steven Levitt Book
Book on CD
eBook
eAudiobook
Large Print
Amazon
Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan Book
e-Book
Book on CD
Large Print
Amazon
I Am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe Book
Book on CD
Amazon
Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington Book
Amazon
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B DuBois Book
Book on CD
Amazon
The Boys in the Boat  Daniel James Book
e-Book
Large Print
Book on CD
Amazon
The Tipping Point Malcolm Gladwell Book
e-Book
e-Audiobook
Book on CD
Amazon

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