Hello TMS Families!
Tiverton Middle School is pleased to announce its summer reading program for 2023. You will find reading suggestions that will prepare your student for Module 1 in the fall. Students may choose from Wit and Wisdom's suggested reading list for Module 1 below. Please choose from the grade your student will be entering in August 2023. There will not be a summer reading assignment.
In addition to the choices below, the Tiverton Library will be running its usual summer reading programs. Here is the link for those programs: https://tivertonlibrary.org/ki...
Happy Reading!
Grade 5:
Biography
● (N/A) Sacajawea, Joseph Bruchac
Historical Account
● (610L) Trail of Tears, Joseph Bruchac
● (850L) A History of US: The New Nation: 1789-1850, Joy Hakim
● (890L) How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark, Rosalyn
Schanzer
● (1050L) Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears, Alex W. Bealer
Novel
● (690L) Seaman’s Journal: On the Trail with Lewis and Clark, Patricia Eubank
● (790L) Zia, Scott O’Dell
● (820L) Sing Down the Moon, Scott O’Dell
● (860L) Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
● (970L) The Birchbark House, Louise Erdrich
● (1000L) Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O’Dell
● (N/P) Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War, Helen Frost
Grade 6:
Picture Book (Informational)
● (930L) Pass Go and Collect $200: The Real Story of How Monopoly was Invented, Tanya Lee Stone
● (NC1030L) Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Great Depression, Carole Boston Weatherford
Historical Account
● (1170L) Children of the Great Depression, Russell Freedman
Novels
● (730L) On the Blue Comet, Rosemary Wells
● (750L) A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck
● (750L) Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
● (800L) Moon Over Manifest, Clare Vanderpool
● (810L) My Side of the Mountain, Jean Craighead George
● (900L) Sounder, William H. Armstrong
● (920L) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor
● (930L) No Promises in the Wind, Irene Hunt
Grade 7:
Drama
● (N/A) Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village, Laura Amy Schlitz
● Historical/Scientific/Technical/Economic Accounts
● (AD650L) Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta 1325–1354, James Rumford
● (920L) Miquel's Brave Knight: Young Cervantes and his Dream of Don Quixote, Margarita Engle
● (1090L) Manners and Customs in the Middle Ages, Marsha Groves
● (1120L) Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction, David Macaulay
● (N/A) The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa, Patricia McKissack and Fredrick McKissack
Novels
● (620L) The Inquisitor's Tale: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog, Adam Gidwitz
● (770L) A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, E.L. Konigsburg
● (780L) Crispin: The Cross of Lead, Avi
● (880L) The Kite Fighters, Linda Sue Park
● (920L) A Single Shard, Linda Sue Park
● (990L) The Door in the Wall, Marguerite de Angeli
● (1030L) Adam of the Road, Elizabeth Janet Gray
● (1170L) Catherine, Called Birdy, Karen Cushman
Grade 8:
Poetry
● (NP) Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters
● (NP) Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices, Walter Dean Myers
● (N/A) I Am Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices, Paul Fleischman
● (910L) 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, Naomi Shihab Nye
Novels
● (HL620L) The Red Pencil, Andrea Davis Pinkney
● (750L) One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia
● (800L) Inside Out and Back Again, Thanhha Lai
● (900L) Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson
● (NP) Witness, Karen Hesse
● (720L) A Long Walk to Water, Linda Sue Park