9 CP/Academy Summer Reading Assignments 5

ALL WORK IS DUE ON THE FIRST FULL DAY OF SCHOOL,

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015!!!!

PURPOSE OF SUMMER READING:

·  To keep your mind active throughout the summer

·  To encourage you to enjoy reading good books

·  To make you think about what you have read and then share ideas

ASSIGNMENT and READING:

Select ONE of the FIVE options to read. Your options are:

Reality Check by Peter Abrahams

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman

Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar

Breaking Night: My Journey from Homeless to Harvard by Liz Murray

DIRECTIONS:

While you are reading, you are to do the following:

1)  You are to complete the chart provided. You will be responsible for handing in this chart completed on the first full day of school.

2)  You will also be given an assessment on the book you selected on the first full day of school.


Name ______

Title of Book: ______

Author: ______

Summer Reading Chart – Be sure to fill out as you are reading.

Setting
Main characters with a brief description
Conflicts/Problems
15 Key Events of Your Book (Include beginning, middle, and end of the book)
Author’s Messages or Lessons to the Reader (Big Idea)
Reaction/Feelings about the Book

9th Grade Summer Reading Choices

Reality Check by Peter Abrahams
“Except for football Fridays, Cody Laredo’s favorite day of the school year was always the last.” That’s because aside from football, there isn’t much about school that Cody really likes. Make that football and his girlfriend, Clea, the smartest, prettiest, sweetest, and richest girl at school. But then Clea drops a bombshell; she is headed to boarding school in Vermont. As if school wasn’t bad enough without Clea, a torn ACL stops Cody’s football career cold. As the weeks drag on, Cody stops bothering to show up at school at all. Then he sees this newspaper headline: “Local Girl Missing.” It seems Clea went out for a horseback ride at her new school and never came back; she vanished without a trace. With only a recent letter from Clea to provide clues, Cody sets out on a cross-country road trip to Vermont to join the search party. His quest to win back the girl of his dreams turns into a frantic race to save both of their lives.
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Clay Jensen comes home from school and finds a package by his front door. He's excited. An unexpected package with no return address, for him? What Clay finds inside is a shoebox full of cassette tapes. He rushes to the old cassette player in the garage to check out these mysterious tapes. What he hears when he inserts the first tape is the voice of Hannah Baker. Hannah, the girl he'd had a crush on, went to school with, and worked with at the movie theater. Hannah Baker, the girl who committed suicide. Clay soon realizes that these tapes aren't just a suicide note; instead, these are thirteen reasons -- thirteen people, to be exact -- who created a snowball-effect of events that led Hannah to believe that suicide was her only option. But why is Clay on that list? How could he possibly be one of the reasons that she killed herself?
Son of the Mob by Gordon Korman
Vince Luca, 17, has a problem. His father is the King of the Mob, and although Vince tries to keep a low profile at school, his family connections keep bringing him unwanted attention. The Porsche he gets for his birthday gets him arrested on stolen vehicle charges. During a football game he makes touchdown after touchdown because word has gotten around about him and nobody is willing to tackle him. Then a hot date is ruined when he finds an unconscious body in the trunk of his car. Vince's life is tangled up with the family business, no matter how hard he tries to stay out of it. Then he meets gorgeous Kendra, and when she innocently reveals that her father's an FBI agent—the very same FBI agent who is investigating Vince’s family—it's a match made in heaven. Maybe. Romeo and Juliet meet the Mafia in this fast-paced, funny novel.
Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
Welcome to Scott Hudson's freshman year of high school. He isn't the handsomest or most popular guy around, and he doesn't have a clue how to talk to Julia, who once shared his peanut butter crackers and has somehow morphed into a beautiful girl over the summer. Seniors smack him on the head on the bus. He doesn't have classes with his best friends. His Spanish teacher has a thick French accent. His gym teacher is seriously demented and is surely out to kill him. And his homework load is enormous. Then, in trying to get Julia’s attention, he finds himself covering sports for the school newspaper, working on the school play, and running for the student council. On top of all of this, his parents have announced that they're having a baby. He may be in way over his head. Will Scott eventually find his place in the confusing world of high school? Will he ever win Julia’s heart? And most importantly, will he ever get enough shut-eye?
Breaking Night: My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
by Liz Murray
Liz Murray is famous for going from “homeless to Harvard,” and now she’s sharing her story in this amazing memoir. She was born to loving but drug-addicted parents in the Bronx. In school she was teased constantly for her dirty clothes and lice-infested hair. She was soon skipping so much school that she was placed in a halfway house for girls. By fifteen she was out on the streets, getting food out of trashcans and riding the subway all night to keep warm. How did she make it off the streets and all the way to Harvard and beyond? There’s only one way to find out – read Breaking Night, an inspiring and sometimes unbelievable story of triumphing over adversity!