Cocopah and Chaparral Summer Reading
The English and Language Arts teachers at Cocopah and Chaparral have selected summer reading books for students entering each grade in 2018-2019.
Assignments for each grade level are detailed below, and clicking the book titles will take you straight to the Amazon purchase page for the paperback version of the book.
(Purchasing through these links will send a portion of your purchase to the Cocopah APT via the Amazon Associates program.)
6th Grade Summer Reading
Choose ONE of the following novels for your assignment:
- Island of the Blue Dolphins, by Scott O’Dell
- Crossing the Wire, by Will Hobbs
- The Ranger’s Apprentice: Ruins of Gorlan, by John Flanagan
- Schooled, by Gordon Korman
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6th Grade Honors Summer Reading
Choose ONE of the following novels for your assignment:
- Ask Me No Questions, by Marina Budhos
- Star Girl, by Jerry Spinelli
- The Perfect Shot, by Elaine Marie Alphin
- Payback Time, by Carl Deuker
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7th Grade Summer Reading
Choose ONE of the following novels for your assignment:
- Graceling, by Kristin Cashore
- Heir Apparent, by Vivian Vande Velde
- Pax, by Sara Pennypacker
- Zen and the Art of Faking It, by Jordan Sonnenblick
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7th Grade Honors Summer Reading
Choose ONE of the following novels for your assignment:
- Graceling, by Kristin Cashore
- Heir Apparent, by Vivian Vande Velde
- Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Zen and the Art of Faking It, by Jordan Sonnenblick
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8th Grade Summer Reading
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry
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8th Grade Honors Summer Reading
- Uglies, by Scott Westerfield
AND your choice of ONE of the following
- October Sky, by Homer Hickam
- Piecing Me Together, by Renee Watson
- Watership Down, by Richard Adams
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9th Grade Summer Reading
Choose ONE of the following books for your assignment:
- The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
- The Port Chicago 50, by Steve Sheinkin
- Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, by Karen Blumenthal
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9th Grade Honors Summer Reading
Read ALL of the following books for your assignment:
- The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
- The Port Chicago 50, by Steve Sheinkin
- Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, by Karen Blumenthal
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