Los Angeles Unified School District Hale Charter Academy 23830 Califa Street, Woodland Hills CA 91367 www.HaleCharterAcademy.com Phone (818) 313-7400 Fax (818) 346-7517 Michelle King Michelle King Superintendent of Schools Vivian Ekchian Local District Northwest Superintendent Christopher Perdigao Principal Dear Incoming Sixth Graders, Welcome to Hale Charter Academy, we look forward to meeting you in August and starting a productive school year. Please select one of the novels below as reading material for the summer for your introduction into middle school. In alignment with the Common Core State Standards, the following reading material will ease your transition in August. The reading will be a component of your work for the first grading period of the fall semester. There will be class work and / or discussions on the material. You may wish to keep notes on your reading focused upon the setting, characters, conflicts, and main events of the novel. See you in August, Hale Charter Academy 6 th Grade English Department Author Title Synopsis Genre Lexile Boyne, John The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school, he discovers his belongings are packed in crates. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance. Historical Fiction 1080 Clare, Cassandra City of Bones Discover the world of the Shadow hunters in the first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Fantasy 710 Gantos, Jack Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up. Realism 970 Haddix, Margaret Peterson Running Out of Time Fantasy historical novel set in the 1840s frontier and in the 1990s, as a girl becomes a subject in a strange experiment. Science Fiction 730 Horowitz, Anthony Stormbreaker After the death of his uncle, Alex is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency M16. Adventure Series 870 Ibbotson, Eva Which Witch? The Great Wizard announces a competition among the witches to help him find a wife. Fantasy / Humor 940 Konigsburg, E.L. The View from Saturday Four students are chosen by their teacher to represent their class in the Academic Bowl competition. Realism 870 Nielsen, Jennifer The False Prince An orphan is forced into a twisted game with deadly stakes. Choose to lie...or choose to die. Adventure Series 710 Prince, Karen Switch Trouble is brewing in Karibu and Maya and her leopard are about to make matters worse. Their risky ‘switching’ trick has jettisoned them right out of the secret realm into the mess they left behind them. Fantasy Series 870 Paulsen, Gary Liar, Liar Kevin is very good at lying and it makes life easier…or so he thinks. But when he starts lying to impress the girl of his dreams things spiral out of control. Humor 940 Riordan, Rick The Red Pyramid Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. The siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe -- a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs. Adventure Series 650 The Lexile measure of a book refers to its text difficulty only. A Lexile measure does not take the subject matter or content of the book into consideration. Synopsis from Barnes and Noble.com and Lexile.com. The average Lexile for Sixth Grade reading levels is between 800 and 1000, Seventh Grade between 900 and 1050 and Eighth Grade between 1000 and 1150. These are average levels. For more information, visit www.lexile.com
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Los Angeles Unified School District
Hale Charter Academy 23830 Califa Street, Woodland Hills CA 91367
InalignmentwiththeCommonCoreStateStandards,thefollowingreadingmaterialwilleaseyourtransitioninAugust.Thereadingwillbeacomponentofyourworkforthefirstgradingperiodofthefallsemester.Therewillbeclassworkand/ordiscussionsonthematerial.Youmaywishtokeepnotesonyourreadingfocuseduponthesetting,characters,conflicts,andmaineventsofthenovel. SeeyouinAugust, HaleCharterAcademy6thGradeEnglishDepartmentAuthor Title Synopsis Genre Lexile Boyne, John The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school, he discovers his belongings are packed in crates. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance.
Historical Fiction
1080
Clare, Cassandra City of Bones Discover the world of the Shadow hunters in the first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.
Fantasy 710
Gantos, Jack Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up.
Realism 970
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Running Out of Time Fantasy historical novel set in the 1840s frontier and in the 1990s, as a girl becomes a subject in a strange experiment.
Science Fiction
730
Horowitz, Anthony Stormbreaker After the death of his uncle, Alex is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency M16.
Adventure Series
870
Ibbotson, Eva Which Witch? The Great Wizard announces a competition among the witches to help him find a wife.
Fantasy / Humor
940
Konigsburg, E.L. The View from Saturday
Four students are chosen by their teacher to represent their class in the Academic Bowl competition.
Realism 870
Nielsen, Jennifer The False Prince An orphan is forced into a twisted game with deadly stakes. Choose to lie...or choose to die.
Adventure Series
710
Prince, Karen Switch Trouble is brewing in Karibu and Maya and her leopard are about to make matters worse. Their risky ‘switching’ trick has jettisoned them right out of the secret realm into the mess they left behind them.
Fantasy Series
870
Paulsen, Gary Liar, Liar Kevin is very good at lying and it makes life easier…or so he thinks. But when he starts lying to impress the girl of his dreams things spiral out of control.
Humor 940
Riordan, Rick The Red Pyramid Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. The siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe -- a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Adventure Series
650
The Lexile measure of a book refers to its text difficulty only. A Lexile measure does not take the subject matter or content of the book into consideration. Synopsis from Barnes and Noble.com and Lexile.com. The average Lexile for Sixth Grade reading levels is between 800 and 1000, Seventh Grade between 900 and 1050 and Eighth Grade between 1000 and 1150. These are average levels. For more information, visit www.lexile.com
Suggested Summer Reading List
Incoming Seventh Graders
Author Title Synopsis Genre Lexile Adams, Douglas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The story of a British earthling plucked from his planet, and his subsequent adventures elsewhere in the universe.
Science Fiction
1000
Balliett, Blue Chasing Vermeer Petra and Calder are drawn into a mysterious labyrinth.
Mystery 770
Flake, Sharon The Skin I'm In A 13-year-old girl, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is.
Realism 670
Haugaard, Erick
The Samurai's Tale In 16th Century Japan, an orphan is taken in by a general serving a great warlord and grows up to become a samurai.
Historical Fiction
960
Hiaasen, Carl Hoot Roy becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
Realism 760
Hawking, Lucy & Stephen
George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt
An out-of-this-world adventure story with essays by Hawking on space travel. *For STEAM Academy students*
Science Fiction
940
Mah, Adeline Yen
Chinese Cinderella The author tells of her painful childhood in China where she lived until she was 14 with her father, stepmother, and siblings, all of whom considered her bad luck.
Biography 960
Myers, Walter Dean
SLAM! 1997 Coretta Scott King Award
Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city.
Realism 750
Namioka, Lensey
Ties that Bind, Ties that Break
Ailin's life takes a different turn when she defies the traditions of Chinese society by refusing to have her feet bound.
Historical Fiction
830
Paulsen, Gary Brian's Winter Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness.
Adventure 1140
Salisbury, Graham
Blue Skin of the Sea Eleven stories follow Sonny Mendoza and his cousin as young men growing up in a Hawaiian fishing village.
Realism 810
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Flipped In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings have changed over the years.
Realism 720
The Lexile measure of a book refers to its text difficulty only. A Lexile measure does not take the subject matter or content of the book into consideration. Synopsis from Barnes and Noble.com and Lexile.com. The average Lexile for Sixth Grade reading levels is between 800 and 1000, Seventh Grade between 900 and 1050 and Eighth Grade between 1000 and 1150. These are average levels. For more information, visit www.lexile.com
Suggested Summer Reading List
Incoming Eighth Graders
Author Title Synopsis Genre Lexile Abeel, Samantha
My Thirteenth Winter
Abeel tells her story of living with and overcoming dyscalculia as she describes in detail how her life was affected by her learning disability before and after she was diagnosed.
Autobiography 1050
Adams, Douglas
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Arthur Dent and his comrades in arms hurtle across space desperately in search of a place to eat.
Science Fiction
970
Anderson, Laurie Halse
Chains
As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. This is the prequel to Forge, which is taught in 8th grade classes.
Historical Fiction
780
Bloor, Edward Tangerine A boy fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his sight.
Realism 680
Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Game
After the earth is twice attacked by aliens, the world government begins breeding military geniuses.
Science Fiction
780
Crichton, Michael
Sphere Four scientists confront a terrible power one thousand feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
Science Fiction
610
Deuker, Carl Heart of a Champion
A fast-paced sports novel that explores a boy's rite of passage when he learns that athletes are not perfect.
Realism 650
Du Maurier, Daphne
Rebecca Is Rebecca really dead? Her insidious influence seems to extend beyond the grave.
Mystery / Classic
880
Hobbs, Will Far North After the destruction of their floatplane, 16-year-old Gabe and his friend, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness.
Adventure 820
Rinaldi, Ann The Girl in Blue To escape an abusive father and arranged marriage, Sarah enlists in the Union Army and becomes a spy in the house of a Confederate sympathizer.
Historical Fiction
680
The Lexile measure of a book refers to its text difficulty only. A Lexile measure does not take the subject matter or content of the book into consideration. Synopsis from Barnes and Noble.com and Lexile.com. The average Lexile for Sixth Grade reading levels is between 800 and 1000, Seventh Grade between 900 and 1050 and Eighth Grade between 1000 and 1150. These are average levels. For more information, visit www.lexile.com