Summer Reading Required For Ernest Ward, Ransom Middle Students

July 15, 2014

Students attending Ernest Ward or Ransom Middle schools in the fall have a summer reading assignment. The students are assigned to read one novel from a reading list for each grade before the first day of school on August 18.

The Ransom Middle School library will be  August 5 from noon until 4 p.m.  for students to check out books that are due by August 19.

Novels can be purchased at area book stores, online or checked out from a school or West Florida Regional Library branch. They can be purchased and read on an e-reader such as the Kindle, Nook or iPad.

Projects focusing on the students’ understanding of basic literature terms and comprehension of the novel will be assigned by language arts teachers once the school year begins.

The Ernest Ward and Ransom Middle reading lists are as follows:

Incoming 6th grade:

  • A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story, Linda Sue Park
  • A Long Way from Chicago, Richard Peck
  • Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (***Ransom only)
  • Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie, Jordan Sonnenblick (***Ernest Ward only)
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick
  • Mockingbird, Kathryn Erkine
  • Old Yeller, Fred Gipson
  • Slob, Ellen Potter
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Avi
  • The Trumpet of the Swan, E.B. White
  • The View from Saturday, E.L Konigsburg

Incoming 7th grade:

  • Any Which Wall , Laurel Snyder
  • Breaking Stalin’s Nose, Eugene Yelchin
  • Dragonwings, Laurence Yep
  • Eragon, Christopher Paolini
  • Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini, Sid Fleischman
  • Heart of a Samurai, Margi Preus
  • Lost in the River of Grass, Ginny Rorby
  • Moon over Manifest, Clare Vanderpool
  • One Crazy Summer, Rita Williams-Garcia
  • The Anybodies, N.E. Bode
  • After Ever After, Jordon Sonnenblick (***Ernest Ward only)

Incoming 8th grade:

  • Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
  • Carver: a Life in Poems, Marilyn Nelson
  • Dead End in Norvelt, Jack Gantos
  • Fire from the Rock, Sharon Draper
  • Football Genius, Tim Green
  • Lockdown, Walter Dean Myers
  • Peter and the Starcatchers, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
  • Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood , Ibtisam Barakat
  • The Wednesday Wars, Gary D. Schmidt
  • Wild Things, Clay Carmichael

For more information, contact your child’s school.

Comments

2 Responses to “Summer Reading Required For Ernest Ward, Ransom Middle Students”

  1. MolinoMomma on July 18th, 2014 9:54 pm

    No EWMS mom, we didn’t know either!! I wouldn’t of seen this if it wasn’t for a friend telling me.

  2. EWMS mom on July 16th, 2014 10:06 am

    Am I the only Mom with a student that did not know about this required project?? I mean I would have thought they should let the kids know via a list at the end of school or something. Now I know kids aren’t perfect but she insitsts she wosnt told! Anyone else???

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