William Dandy Middle School

Summer Reading Program

REMEMBER READING NEVER STOPS!

Sixth Grade

Unit 1- Discovering Your Voice

Suggested Books:

• Farewell Speech by Gehrig, Lou
• Speech to National Council of Negro Women (2001) by Rice, Condoleezza
• Two Viewpoints by Burr, Amelia Josephine
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Jacobs, Harriet
• Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

Seventh Grade

Unit 1- Reality Check

Suggested Books

• The Twenty-One Balloons by Pene du Bois, William
• The Yearling by Rawlings, Majorie Kinnan
• The Long Road to Gettysburg by Murphy, Jim
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Douglass, Frederick

Eighth Grade

Unit 1- Gadgets and Glitches

Suggest Books

• Rip Van Winkle by Irving, Washington
• Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Thimmesh, Catherine
• The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Freedman, Russell
• Trapped: How the World Rescued 33 Miners from 2,000 Feet Below the Chilean Desert by Aronson, Marc
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain Poet (unknown)
• The Gift of the Magi by Henry, O.

Be prepared to discuss or complete an activity about your book when you return to school for the 2022/2023 school year.