Hello and welcome to a special Thursday edition of Tuesdays, and a cold one at that! In fact, this has been one of the coldest weeks of the winter for much of the northeast, so what better time than now to think about summer reading?
The summer reading assignments for our tenth graders will be changing this summer, so I asked my students for some suggestions to replace The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, which has worked very well for our lower-level readers, but needs to be supplemented by something with a bit higher lexile score. I asked my students which titles they could think of that might be a little bit more challenging, but not too difficult (think beach reading!) and would still be engaging to incoming tenth graders. The asterisk next to "Recommended" is to signify that these suggestions
are recommended by my students. I have not read all of these titles... yet! Here are their suggestions:
Trash - Andy Mulligan
The Maze Runner - James Dashner
The Boy Who Couldn't Die - William Sleator
The Mortal Instruments - Cassandra Clare
The Host - Stephenie Meyer
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls
The Battle of Jericho - Sharon M. Draper
I'll Meet You There - Heather Demetrios
The 5th Wave - Rick Yancey
The Wave - Todd Strasser
The Other Side of the Island - Allegra Goodman
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
Looking for Alaska - John Green
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Have you read any of these? Which, if any, do you recommend?
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