Schools
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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