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1998

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Gavin Middle School Summer Reading Lists
1998


The Following Teachers answered the request for Summer Reading Suggestions:

LANGUAGE ARTS:

Ms. O’Sullivan’s suggestions: [ grade 6]

"The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Patterson

"Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Patterson

"Harriet The Spy" by Louise Fitzhugh

"Song of The Trees" by Mildred Taylor

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Ms. Gould’s suggestions: [ grade 8]

"The Slave Ship" by Emma Gelders Sterne

"The Story of Junipero Serra" by Horence M. White

"The Story of Daniel Boone" by William Cunningham

"Freedom Train" by Dorothy Sterling

"Who Really Discovered America" by S. Kiensky

Mr. Thomas’ suggestions: [ grade 8 ]

" Great Negroes Past and Present " by Russell Adams

" Rosa Parks " by Eloise GreenField

" Season of Yello Leaf " by Douglas Jones

" Piper’s Ferry " by Clifton Wisler

" The Massacre at Fall Creek " by Jessamyn West

" My Brother Sam is Dead " by James Lincoln Collier

" I’M Deborah Sampson: A Soldier in The War of The Revalution " by Patricia Clapp

SCIENCE:

Ms. Dillon and Ms Messam’s Suggestions: [ grade 6 ]

"Career Discovery Encyclopedia" by Carol Summerfield, editor

"Childcraft - Scientists and Inventors" the Childcraft How and Why Library

"The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

"The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

"Some of The Kinder Planets" by Tim Wynne-Jones

"Mistakes That Worked" by Charlotte Jones

" The Bone Detectives" by Donna Jackson

Ms. Lake’s Suggestions: [ grade 8 ]

"Call of The Wild" by Jack London

"Life Before Man" by Zdenek Spiner

The Plants We Eat" by Millicent Selsam

"So You Have To Do A Science Project" by ?

"Animals That Frighten People" by Dorothy Shuttleworth


 


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