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Summer Reading Lists 2008

Dracut Junior & Senior High - Due to the limited supply of books, only one summer reading book may be borrowed at a time. These books are not renewable.

Dracut Elementary and Intermediate Schools - You may take out more than one summer reading book at a time. They may be renewed one time only.

Children's Room book limits - There is no limit on the total numbers of books you can check-out. However, please select only "3 of a kind" i.e. 3 books by the same author, 3 books from the same series, 3 non-fiction books on the same subject.

Dracut Grade Schools

Entering Grade 1 (PDF file)

Entering Grade 2 (PDF file)

Entering Grade 3 (PDF file)

Entering Grade 4 (PDF file)

Entering Grade 5 (PDF file)

Entering Grade 6 (PDF file)

Lakeview Junior High School

Entering Grade 7

Entering Grade 8

Dracut Senior High School

Entering Grade 9

Entering Grade 10

Entering Grade 11

Entering Grade 12

Essex Agricultural and Technical High School

Greater Lowell Technical High School

Lakeview Junior High School
Required Summer Reading 2008

Listed below are the required summer reading assignments for all students enrolled in English 7 during the 2008-2009 school year. The Dracut Public School District believes that summer reading is a very worthwhile experience and an important extension of the curriculum. Summer reading is also intended to be an enjoyable experience. With this in mind, students and their families are encouraged to visit their local library and read, read, read.

Entering Grade 7

All incoming 7th grade students must read TWO books and complete TWO story plans, one for each book.

  • Crash by Jerry Spinelli - reading level 4
  • The Summer of Riley by Eve Bunting - reading level 4
  • The View of Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg - reading level 4
  • Snow Bound by Harry Mazer - reading level 5
  • Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan - reading level 5
  • Al Capone Does My Shirts by G. Choldenko - reading level 6-7
  • Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac - reading level 6-7
  • The Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz- reading level 7
  • Emergency Room by Caroline Cooney - reading level 7
  • Jade Green: A Ghost Story by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - reading level 7-8
  • The Doom Stone by Paul Zindel - level 8
  • Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer - reading level young adult

Entering Grade 8

All incoming 8th grade students must read TWO books and complete TWO story plans, one for each book.

  • Under the Baseball Moon by John Ritter - reading level 5
  • Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli - reading level 6
  • Travel Team by Mike Lupica - reading level 6
  • Baseball in April by Gary Soto - reading level 6
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell by David Michaels - reading level 7
  • Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman - reading level 7-8
  • The Great Fire by Jim Murphy - reading level 7-8
  • Waiting for the Rain by Sheila Gordon - reading level 7-8
  • Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer - reading level 8
  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom - reading level 8-9
  • The Uglies by Scott Westerfield - reading level 8-9
  • Kissing Doorknobs by Terry Hesser - young adult
  • Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulsen - young adult
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker - adult level

Dracut Senior High School
Required Summer Reading

Printable PDF File for Grades 9-12

Listed below are the required summer reading assignments for ALL students enrolled in English 9-12 during the 2008-2009 academic year. An essay or exam on these books will be administered during the first week of school and these scores will be averaged with you first quarter grades. The Dracut Public Library School District believes that summer reading is a very worthwhile experience and an important extension of our curriculum.

Summer reading is also intended to be an enjoyable experience. With this in mind, students and their families are encouraqaged to visit their local library and read, read, read.

Every student will select and read TWO books from the appropriate list.

Entering Grade 9

  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Drive by Larry Bird and Bob Ryan
  • Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
  • The Alchemist by Paula Coelho
  • Eleven Seconds by Travis Roy
  • Invasion: Story of D-Day by Bruce Bliven
  • The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
  • My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
  • Double Helix by Nancy Werlin

Entering Grade 10

  • The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  • Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
  • A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour by John Feinstein
  • The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan
  • It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong
  • For One More Day by Mitch Albom
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • Dreams from My Father or The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Entering Grade 11

  • My Jim by Nancy Rawles
  • Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
  • Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  • Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
  • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  • Last Shot by John Feinstein
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Entering Grade 12

  • Alive by Piers Paul Read
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Night Hoops by Carl Deuke
  • The Brethren by John Grisham
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  • The Locket by Richard Paul Evans
  • The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
  • The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing by M. T. Anderson
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

This page was last updated on 06/11/2008.