Summer Reading  Requirements –Read at least one from the list –Read at least one of your choice  Check Ms. A’s website for this PowerPoint and for a link to the CB Summer Reading List.

Deathwatch Robb White  Ben, a college student, is hired by Madec to be his guide in the Mojave Desert in order to find the prized animal, the Bighorn Sheep. While the two were hunting, Madec accidentally kills an old prospector. He then gives Ben two options after he insists on reporting the murder. Either he would be killed on the spot or given the chance to survive in the desert with no clothes or supplies.

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie Jordan Sonnenblick  Thirteen-year-old Steven has a totally normal life: he plays drums in the All- Star Jazz band, has a crush on the hottest girl in the school, and is constantly annoyed by his five-year- old brother, Jeffrey. But when Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia, Steven's world is turned upside down. He is forced to deal with his brother's illness and his parents' attempts to keep the family in one piece.

Found Margaret Peterson Haddix  One night a plane appeared out of nowhere, the only passengers aboard: thirty-six babies. As soon as they were taken off the plane, it vanished. Now, thirteen years later, two of those children, Jonah and Chip, receive sinister messages, and they begin to investigate their past. Their quest to discover where they really came from leads them to a conspiracy that reaches from the far past to the distant future—and will take them hurtling through time.

The House of the Scorpion Nancy Farmer  Matt was not born; he was harvested. His DNA came from El Patrón, lord of a country called Opium—a strip of poppy fields lying between the US and what was once Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a petri dish. He is a boy now, but most consider him a monster—except for El Patrón. El Patrón loves Matt as he loves himself, because Matt is himself. Matt is threatened by El Patrón's power- hungry family, and he is surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards. Escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But escape from the estate is no guarantee of freedom because Matt is marked by his difference in ways he doesn't even suspect.

Mockingbird Kathryn Erskine  Caitlin has Asperger's. The world according to her is black and white; anything in between is confusing. Before, when things got confusing, Caitlin went to her older brother, Devon, for help. But Devon has died, and Caitlin's dad is so distraught that he is just not helpful. Caitlin wants things to go back to the way things were, but she doesn't know how to do that. Then she comes across the word closure— and she realizes this is what she needs. And in her search for it, Caitlin discovers that the world may not be black and white after all.

Peeled Joan Bauer  Hildy wants something monumental to happen, so she can finally prove herself to be more than a high school journalist. The problem? Her town’s biggest story stars a ghost—not an easy interview. But while the local paper is playing up people’s fears with shocking headlines of creepy happenings, Hildy is determined to discover what’s really going on. Unfortunately, her desire to uncover the truth causes a stir. With rumors swirling and tensions high, can Hildy push past all the hype and find out the real truth?

 Gecko, Terence, and Ajay serve time in juvenile detention centers until Mr. Healy takes them into his halfway house, hoping to make a difference in their lives. One night there is a fight, and Healy is accidentally knocked unconscious. When he awakes in the hospital, he has no memory of them or of the halfway house. Afraid of being sent back to Juvie, the guys hatch a crazy scheme to continue on as if the group leader never left. But if the boys are found out, their second chance will be their last. The Juvie Three Gordon Korman