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Library Posts Summer Reading Lists

Lists for Robert R. Lazar Middle School and Montvill Township High School

The Montville library website has published the summer reading lists for both Robert R. Lazar middle school and Montville high school 2010 - 2011 school years. The middle school lists includes three books to choose from for the sixth-, seventh- and eight-grade students in both the honor and standard classes. The high school list is also broken down into grade sections.

The 2010-2011 school year is scheduled to begin on September 7. The reading list can be viewed here or at the Montville library website.

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Robert R. Lazar middle school summer reading list:

Grade six

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Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Bloomabilty by Sharon Creech

When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

Grade six honors

Thief of Always by Clive Barker

The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

Memories of Summer by Ruth White

Grade seven

Crash by Jerry Spinelli

A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger

Grade seven honors

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson

The Pigman by Paul Zindel

Grade eight

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

Flush by Carl Hiaasen

Grade eight enriched

The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick

Pirates! by Celia Rees

Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer

Grade eight honors

So Yesterday by Scott Westerfeld

Dreams and Visions (14 Flights of Fantasy) edited by M.Jerry Weiss and Helen Weiss

Ironman by Chris Crutcher

Montville high school summer reading list:

English grade 9 (formerly Essentials and CP)

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

English grade nine honors

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

English grade 10 (formerly Essentials and CP)

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

English grade 10 GL

Roots by Alex Haley

English grade 10 honors

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

English grade 11 (formerly Essentials and CP)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

English grade 11 GL

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

English grade 11 honors

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

English grade 11 advanced placement

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

On Writing by Stephen King

English grade 12 (formerly Essentials and CP)

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

English grade 12 honors

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Stranger by Albert Camus

English grade 12 adcanced placement

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Mythology and Allusion

The Odyssey translation by Robert Fagle

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan


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