2021 SUMMER READING BEGINS

SUMMER READING BEGINS

JUNE 1-JULY 30, 2012

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READ A TAIL ABOUT TALES

AND DISCOVER

SUMMER- A NEW WORLD

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Bailey's Summer Reading

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SELECTION OF NUTMEG WINNERS 2022

BAILEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

GRADE 7 & 8 CT STATE WINNERS

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State Summer Reading Guide ENTERING GRADE 8

State Summer Reading Journal

https://portal.ct.gov/SDE/CTRead/Connecticut-
Reads

State Summer Reading Form

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WHHS Summer Reading Guide

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GRADE 7 WILL RECEIVE A COLLECTION

OF SCHOLASTIC BOOKS IN CLASS

Nutmeg MIDDLE SCHOOL

Nominations 2022

START READING NOW!
Get a reward at the start of next school year.

FUTURE 9TH GRADERS-
CHOOSE FROM NUTMEG
AWARD WINNERS

MORE GREATFICTION

City of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson

Going from a maid’s daughter to a highly trained thief, Tina’s life has been far from easy.
With her mother dead, she is determined to destroy the man who killed her. But as she gets
closer, will the truth come out the way she had hoped? Set in the streets of Sangui City, Kenya and the remote Congo.

Click’d by Tamara Ireland Stone CLICK'D
is a empowering novel about friendship, dreams, and following your heart. Allie’s new app CLICK'D turns out to be a huge hit and watching her app go viral is amazing! But when she discovers a glitch that threatens to expose everyone's secrets, she has to figure out how to make things right. Can Allie fix her app and win back her friends before she presents CLICK'D to the judges?

Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray Noemi
A human girl, and Abel, a mechanized warrior, are enemies, forced to try to survive aboard a long abandoned ship. These enemies become unlikely allies who must work together to help the galaxy find peace. And along the way, they just may find out what it truly means to be human.

Frostblood by Elly Blake
Ruby has been hiding her illegal power to manipulate fire her whole life, but after being captured and imprisoned by the Frostblood King, she knows she must fight. When a rebel group releases her, she vows to learn to use her powers, and destroy the king.

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
Can you escape your true nature? Lynet and her stepmother, Mina, have always gotten along, but when secrets from the past are revealed, they find their relationship changing. A dark and compelling retelling of Snow White.

Illegal by Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin
A solid graphic novel that highlights the plight of an undocumented immigrant. Ebo sets out from Ghana for Europe in search of his brother Kwame and sister Sisi. Facing challenging landscapes and circumstances, his only hope to is be reunited with his family.

Posted by John David Anderson
When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his D & D-playing friends don’t care. Frost doesn’t even own a cell. Frost and his friends start posting sticky notes and it catches on. Soon everyone is posting, but for every positive note, there is a negative one. Words have power and school will never be the same.

Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
Jade is supposed to be fighting for a way out of a poor neighborhood to save her future. She attends a mostly white private school, takes SAT prep classes, and has just joined Women to Women, a program for “at risk” youth. But Jade isn’t in a rush to leave her neighborhood. She doesn’t want to be saved, she doesn’t need to be saved, and it’s time she explains that to the “helpful” adults in her life.

Saints and Misfits by S. K. Ali Janna
A Muslim teen, is struggling with her identity while realizing that her extended family contains saints, misfits, and monsters. A powerful coming-of-age story.

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NON-FICTION

The Boys Who Challenged Hitler: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club By Phillip Hoose Farrar, -A group of teenagers in Denmark resist the Nazi invasion of their country and inspire others to follow suit in this award-winning nonfiction book.

I AM MALALA By Malala Yousafzai-Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever to build a better world.

How They Croaked: The Awful Ends of the Awfully Famous By Kevin L'MalleyA wildly humorous collective biography featuring horrifying medical treatments and deaths of nineteen famous men and women, this surprisingly heavily researched compendium is terrific book bait for the reluctant reader.

We Fought Back- by Allan Zullo Teen resisters and their stories of the Holocaust.

Heroes of the Environment by Harriet Rohmer

True stories of people who are helping protect our planet.

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MORE FICTION

Lost in the Sun By Lisa Graff -Trent blames an unfortunate event for his misfortunes and tries to turn things around. He is able to make that turn when he meets Fallon, and together they help him find the healing and redemption he seeks.

The Running Dream By Wendelin Van Draanen

When a school bus accident leaves 16 year old Jessica an amputee, she returns to school with a prosthetic limb and her track team finds a way to help rekindle her dream of running again.

Batboy By Mike Lupica

Baseball is Brian's life. Everything he knows he learned from his dad, an ex-major league pitcher who now works as a coach for a team in Japan. Brian lands a spot on a travel team and his dream job as batboy at Comerica Park for the Detroit Tigers. Hank Bishop, his all time fa-vorite player, rejoins the Tigers after serving a suspension for a steroid scandal. Brian soon learns that heroes aren't always what they seem.

Dead to Me By Mary McCoy - Veronica Mars meets L.A. Confidential as sixteen year-old Alice tries to piece together the events that lead to her older sister winding up in a coma.

The Iron Trial By Holly Black and Cassandra Clare Despite his father’s warnings about the dangers of magic, Callum enrolls in the Magisterium and begins to learn about himself and his own bewildering powers.

Alive And Kicking Vol. 3 of the World War II Series By Chris Lynch

Heroes, Action, Mystery and the Battle of Midway and a downed aircraft carrier. Is Hank MIA or really alive somewhere?

The Mark of the Dragonfly By Jaleigh Johnson - When plucky machinist Piper saves Anna after a meteor shower, both girls stow away on an armored train to escape the man chasing them.

Everything, Everything-By Nicola Yoon- Maddy is a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly is the boy who moves in next door . . . and becomes the greatest risk she’s ever taken.

The Young Elites-By Marie Lu-After a brief epigraph in which a deadly and mysterious illness is discovered, the story opens in the mythical country of Kenettra with 16 year-old Adelina ...

Wonder By R.J. Palacio-"Auggie" Pullman is a 10-year-old living in Manhatten and has a rare medical facial deformity. The story continues with lessons on acceptance, friendship and bullying.

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond By Brenda Woods

Violet is a smart, funny, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl in a family of blondes. Her mom is white, and her dad, who died before she was born, was black. She attends a mostly white school where she sometimes feels like a brown leaf on a pile of snow. Now that Violet’s eleven, she decides it’s time to learn about her African American heritage. Despite getting off to a rocky start trying to reclaim her dad’s side of the family, she feels her confidence grow as the pieces of her life start coming together.

One Dog and His Boy By Eva Ibbotson

All Hal ever wanted was a dog. When he realizes that Fleck, the dog his parents give him for his birthday, is only a rental, Hal and his canine companion go on the lam. The pair is joined by other dogs-for-rent who also long for freedom, and by Hal’s new friend, Pippa, on a quest for happiness.

The Walk On, The Sixth Man, and The DH -By John Feinstein- Perfect for baseball lovers novels in the Triple Threat series which explores what happens when athletes break the rules.

The Selection by Kiera Cass - While America Singer's heart was torn between Aspen and Prince Maxon, her friend Marlee knew exactly what she wanted—and paid the price. Read the complete series. The Prince, The Elite, The Guard and The One, The Queen, The Heir, The Favorite and The Crown.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen 13 year old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father, flying over the Canadian wilderness in a single engine airplane when the pilot, the only other person on board, has a heart attack and dies. Miraculously, Brian survives the crash and must quickly learn to survive in the harsh wilderness. Check out the other titles in this series: Brian’s Saga: The River, Brian’s Winter, Brian’s Return and Brian’s Hunt.

Code of Honor by Alan Gratz - Kamran Smith seems to have it all; he’s got a beautiful girlfriend, he’s on top of his football game AND his best friend just scored them free tickets to the Super Bowl. But suddenly, life takes a sharp turn for the worse. Kamran’s older brother, Darius, who had been fighting loyally in the US Army in Afghanistan, is identified as a terrorist. Suddenly, Kamran’s entire family is under suspicion.

Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman by Marc Tyler Noble-man

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster grew up during the Depression reading about their heroes Flash Gordon and Tarzan. Jerry also wrote stories of his own, and Joe loved to draw. Comic books were new back then, and they wanted to write and illustrate their own. When they were 24, they created the first and best superhero of all time.

The Vietnam Series by Chris Lynch

Best friends find themselves signing up for service for the Vietnam War but into different branches and vow to help each other come home.

I am a Seal Team Six Warrior by Haroward R. Wasdin

Memoirs of An American Soldier made up of the elite in the country. This tale tells of how Wasdin overcame the odds to enter the exciting and dangerous world of U.S. Navy SEALS and Special Forces snipers.

“Reading gives us somewhere to go
when we have to stay where we are.”

- Mason Cooley

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

On their way home a friend challenges Joel to swim in the treacherous river canyon. Both boys have been warned not to go there. Joel doesn't want his friend to think he is scared so he gives in to his best friend's request until he realized that his friend doesn't swim.

Things Not Seen by Andrew Clements

Bobby Phillips wakes up to find out that he is not blind but just plain invisible. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason for his new condition. He feels alone and until he meets a girl who is blind. But his time is running out for a cure. He has to find out how to be seen again before it’s too late.

The Maze Runner by James Dashner In the dark of an elevator, a teenaged boy awakes with no memories other than that his name is Thomas. When the elevator comes to a halt, the doors open and Thomas finds himself surrounded by many teenaged boys. Their leader, a boy in his late-teens named Alby, welcomes him to the Glade ...enter into a dystopian world.

Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Trevor's social studies teacher, Reuben St. Clair, gives the class an extra-credit assignment, challenging his students to design a plan to change society, Trevor decides to start a goodwill chain. To begin, he helps out three people, telling each of them instead of paying him back they must "pay it forward" by helping three others. At first, nothing seems to work out as planned, but slowly he begins to see how his plan takes over.

The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

The seven stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who much rebuild it. But to this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing-their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career. READ & Enjoy the rest of the series- Independent Study & Graduation Day

The Giver by Lois Lowry - A novel set in a society, which, at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. 12-year-old Jonas has been chosen for a very unusual position and learns he must change their world.

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”

― Lemony Snicket

REMEMBER THAT BOOKS OPEN MINDS!!!!

BAILEY READERS BECOME

GREAT LEADERS!!

Parents:

Please Encourage Your Child with Summer Reading!

The research is clear: children who don’t read during the summer can lose up to three months of reading progress and that loss has a cumulative, long-term

effect.

Visit the Public Library -

Get to know the librarians in your community and what the library has to offer. Librarians will help your child locate books that match their interests. While you are there, check out a book for yourself!

Don't leave home without it -

Have your child bring along a book or magazine any time they have to wait, such as at a doctor's office. Always try to fit in reading!

Take control of the television -

It's difficult for reading to compete with TV and video games.

Encourage reading as a free-time, quiet time activity.
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