SUMMER READING - MIDDLE SCHOOL | 2020 - MCCALLIE SCHOOL
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Summer Reading Middle School | 2020
Dear McCallie Middle School Families,
Welcome to those of you who are new to Finally, students will also read one book of
McCallie and hello to returning families! I hope their choice.
you all are doing well during this strange and
difficult time. While we are all looking ahead In addition to the required reading, students
with uncertainty, we are also carrying on. are invited to participate in the (optional)
Things look different, but we are still learning Summer Reading Challenge!
and hopefully holding on to those things that
bring us joy. At McCallie, we want to encourage Please see the Summer Reading Guide (link
boys to find joy in books and reading. Part of below) for more information about the
the way that we encourage McCallie students 2020 book selections, the Summer Reading
to read is our Summer Reading program, and I Challenge, as well as recommended books for
hope that you enjoy this year’s selections. the choice book.
This summer, every Middle School student will Summer Reading Guide:
read the young readers’ version of Outcasts https://libguides.mccallie.org/
United by Warren St. John. This non-fiction mssummerreading2020
book follows one season of a soccer team
of refugee boys in a small town outside of Please let me know if you have any questions.
Atlanta, Georgia. It is a fascinating story
of how boys from all different countries, Happy reading!
religions, and backgrounds find a family in
their dynamic coach and their soccer team.
Margaret Wadley
I am very excited about this book and highly
McCallie School Librarian
recommend that you read it as a family!
In addition, each grade will have an assigned
book. 6th graders will read The War that
Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
7th graders will read The Outsiders by S.E.
Hinton. 8th graders will read Murder on the
Orient Express by Agatha Christie.
FAQs
How many books do I have already read? different versions of my
I have to read? Please choose a book that book available to buy. How
Three. Each Middle School you have never read before. do I know which one to
student will read the all- get?
school book (Outcasts We’ve provided an ISBN for
United by Warren St. John), Am I allowed to read my each book to help you find a
the grade-level book, and book(s) on an eReader copy; however, you are not
one choice book. You can (Kindle, iPad, required to read that exact
find book recommendations Nook, etc.)? edition, unless noted. Please
on the Summer Reading Absolutely! note that there is an adult
Guide. Of course, we would version of Outcasts United.
love for you to read as many We are reading and discussing
books as you want! Can I listen to the audio- the young readers’ version.
book version of one or
Can I choose a book that more of my books?
Yes, but you must read along I have another question
as you listen. about summer reading.
What should I do?
There are several Contact Mrs. Wadley at
mwadley@mccallie.org.
McCallie Summer Reading / Middle School 1
Required Reading
ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL BOOK 6TH GRADE BOOK
Outcasts United: The Story The War that Saved My Life
of a Refugee Soccer Team by Kimberly Brubraker Bradley
That Changed a Town, ISBN-13: 978-0147510488
adapted for young people
by Warren St. John Ten-year-old Ada has never left her
one-room apartment. Her mother
ISBN-13: 978-0385741958
is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted
foot to let her outside. So when her
Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical little brother Jamie is shipped out
Southern town until it was designated of London to escape the war, Ada
a refugee settlement centre in the doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks
1990s, becoming home to scores of out to join him. So begins a new
families in flight from the world’s war adventure of Ada, and for Susan
zones—from Liberia and Sudan to Iraq and Afghanistan. Suddenly Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada
Clarkston’s streets were filled with women wearing the hijab, the teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for
smells of cumin and curry, and kids of all colours playing football German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love
in any open space they could find. Among them was Luma Mufleh, Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold
a Jordanian woman who founded a youth football team to unify them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall
Clarkston’s refugee children and keep them off the streets. These back into the cruel hands of their mother?
kids named themselves the Fugees. This fast-paced chronicle
of a single season is a complex and inspiring tale of a small town
becoming a global community—and an account of the ingenious
and complicated ways we create a home in a changing world.
McCallie Summer Reading / Middle School 2Required Reading
7TH GRADE BOOK 8TH GRADE BOOK
The Outsiders Murder on the
by S.E. Hinton Orient Express
ISBN-13: 978-0142407332 by Agatha Christie
ISBN-13: 978-0062073495
According to Ponyboy, there are
two kinds of people in the world: Just after midnight, a snowdrift
greasers and socs. A soc (short for stops the Orient Express in its
“social”) has money, can get away tracks. The luxurious train is
with just about anything, and has an surprisingly full for the time
attitude longer than a limousine. A of the year, but by the morning
greaser, on the other hand, always it is one passenger fewer. An
lives on the outside and needs American tycoon lies dead in his
to watch his back. Ponyboy is a compartment, stabbed a dozen
greaser, and he’s always been proud of it, even willing to rumble times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a
against a gang of socs for the sake of his fellow greasers—until killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify
one terrible night... the murderer—in case he or she decides to strike again.
McCallie Summer Reading / Middle School 3For more information contact:
Margaret Wadley
mwadley@mccallie.org
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