Wayne Township Public Schools

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1 Directions: Students are to read two novels of their choice from the list below. Students need to complete a graphic organizer for each novel. Students will submit a total of two completed graphic organizers to their teacher in September. A completed sample of each organizer has been posted for students to view, using the text Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles. Blank copies of each organizer have also been posted for students to use to complete this assignment. Fiction/Realistic Fiction The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. El Deafo by Cece Bell Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here she is different. She is sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends. Gustav Gloom and the People Taker by Adam T. Castro There's one house on Sunnyside Terrace that isn't like the others. It's a dark, eerie mansion with looming towers, a layer of mist in the front yard, and one resident: Gustav Gloom, a pale-skinned ten year old boy. Lunch Money by Andrew Clements Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at money-making projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school. P.S. Longer Letter Later by Paula Danziger and Ann M. Martin Twelve- year- old best friends, Elizabeth and Tara Starr continue their friendship through letter writing after Tara Starr's family moves to another state. Ransom by Lois Duncan A typical school bus ride home for five teenagers turns into a nightmare when the bus driver is a stranger intent on kidnapping them and holding them for ransom.

2 Fiction/Realistic Fiction Continued Kidnapped, Book One: The Abduction (Or Other Titles in the Series) by Gordon Korman It's every brother's worst fear. As Aiden and his sister, Meg, are walking home from school one day, a van pulls over and Meg is kidnapped. While Meg fends off her kidnapers and plans an escape, Aiden must team up with the FBI to try to find her. Game Changers (Or Other Titles in the Series) by Mike Lupica When the coach's son, Shawn O'Brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old Ben McBain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent Shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want the position. Heat by Mike Lupica Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof. QB1 by Mike Lupica Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine. Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye When fourteen- year- old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the tensions between Jews and Palestinians. The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn money to take care of himself and his father, so he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch a Bluefin tuna. Beneath by Roland Smith Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop, right up until the day Coop ran away from their home just outside Washington, D.C.; now a year later he has received a package containing a digital voice recorder and a cryptic message from his brother. This leads Pat on a strange and dangerous journey to the mysterious community living beneath the streets of New York City.

3 Fiction/Realistic Fiction Continued Crash by Jerry Spinelli Seventh grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family. Wringer by Jerry Spinelli As Palmer comes of age he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his Pennsylvania town's annual Pigeon day or find the courage to oppose it. The River Between Us by Richard Peck Tilly Pruitt is fifteen-years- old when a steamboat docks at her small Illinois town on the banks of the Mississippi River. The boat carries two mysterious female passengers who will change Tilly's life, and that of her family, forever. When Tilly's twin brother Noah runs away to fight in the Civil War, Tilly and one of the women follow in an action-packed adventure. Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other and their families have changed over the years. Historical Fiction Sophia s War: A Tale of Revolution by Avi In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy. The Fighting Ground by Avi Thirteen-year-old Jonathan goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and discovers the real war is being fought within himself.

4 Historical Fiction Continued Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes When a fourteen-year-old silversmith apprentice is severely burned by molten silver, he becomes a dispatch rider for the Committee for Public Safety where he meets many Boston patriots involved in the new struggle for independence from England. There he learns that he may be able to overcome his handicap enough to join the fight. Titanic Book One: Unsinkable (Or Other Titles in the Series) by Gordon Korman Although the Titanic ship is meant to be unsinkable, there is plenty of danger waiting on its maiden voyage for four of its passengers--paddy, a stowaway; Sophie, under police custody; rich yet troubled Juliana; and Alfie, who hides a secret. Tides of War: Blood in the Water (Or Other Titles in the Series) by C. Alexander London Cory McNab wanted to be a Navy SEAL, but he washed out of the program. Now he is a member of the Navy's Marine Mammals Program, where he is partnered with a searchand-recovery dolphin named Kaj. Together, Cory and Kaj are the Navy's best hope when a US spy submarine is lost in enemy waters. With the help of Kaj's bio-sonar, they should be able to locate the submarine before its secrets fall into the wrong hands. But the mission gets complicated when a team of Navy SEALs runs into trouble. Can Cory succeed where his heroes have failed, or is he in too deep? Dear America Series by Various Authors An impressive series that will challenge students to make connections from prominent historical events to relevant life situations. Mystery Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts by Avi When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a Black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders. Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliet When seemingly unrelated and strange events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.

5 Mystery Continued On the Run: Chasing the Falconers (Or Other Titles in the Series) by Gordon Korman Aidan and Meg Falconers' parents are facing life in prison unless Aidan and Meg can prove their innocence, but first they must escape from a juvenile detention center and elude both the authorities and a sinister attacker who has his own reason to stop them. The 39 Clues; Book One: The Maze of Bones (Or Other Titles in the Series) by Rick Riordan After their beloved aunt and matriarch of the world's most powerful family dies, orphaned siblings Amy and Dan Cahill compete with the less honorable Cahill descendants in a race around the world to find cryptic clues to a mysterious fortune. Sammy Keys and the Hollywood Mummy (Or Other Titles in the Series) by Wendelin Van Draanen A Hollywood actress, who had been competing with Sammy's mother for an important role, is murdered, but thirteen year old Sammy and her friend Marissa are on the case. Fantasy/Science Fiction Gregor the Overlander (Or Other Titles in the Series) by Suzanne Collins When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world in New York City, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy Tales of Magic: Half Magic (Or Other Titles in the Series) by Edward Eager Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes. The Beasts of Clawstone Castle by Eva Ibbotson While spending the summer with elderly relatives at Clawstone Castle in northern England, Madlyn and her brother Rollo, with the help of several ghosts, attempt to save the rare cattle that live on the castle grounds.

6 Fantasy/Science Fiction Continued A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L Engle Meg and Charles Wallace set out with their friend Calvin in a search for their father. His top secret job as a physicist for the government has taken him away and the children search through time and space to find him. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightening Thief (Or Other Titles in the Series) by Rick Riordan After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, god of the Sea, Percy Jackson is whisked away from boarding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to prevent a war between the gods. The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid (Or Other Titles in the Series) by Rick Riordan Brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs. Traditional Tales The Magician s Elephant by Kate DiCamillo When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her. Olympians: Zeus, King of the Gods (Or Other Titles in the Series) by George O Connor A graphic novel retelling of stories from Greek mythology about the exploits of the young Zeus and how he rallied an army and overthrew his father, Kronos, to become king of the gods. Non Fiction Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson by Barry Denenberg In 1947, Jackie Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field as a Brooklyn Dodger, confronting racism on and off the diamond, while becoming one of the greatest players of the game.

7 Non Fiction Continued Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics (Young Readers Adaptation) by Daniel James Brown Out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the astonishing tale of nine working class boys, from the American West, who at the 1936 Olympics showed the world what true grit really meant. With rowers who were the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington s eight-oar crew was never expected to defeat the elite East Coast teams. Yet, they did, and went on to shock the world by challenging the German boat rowing for Adolf Hitler. Famous Phonies: Legends, Fakes and Frauds Who Changed History by Brianna DuMont Some of the biggest names in the past are actually fakes and frauds. Uncover the fabrications in the lives of twelve history changers, from philosophers to presidents. Marley: A Dog Like No Other (Young Readers Adaptation of Marley and Me) by John Grogan Adapted for young readers, Marley: A Dog Like No Other follows the life story of an exuberant Labrador Retriever that gets into perpetual trouble and experiences a range of inspiring adventures. Across America on an Emigrant Train by Jim Murphy An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's twelve day journey from New York to California in 1879, interwoven with a history of the building of the transcontinental railroad and the settling of the West. Hidden Like Anne Frank by M. Prins and P.H. Steenhuis The story of fourteen children who hid in secret rooms and behind walls, suffering from hunger, sickness, and the looming threat of Nazi raids; all in the name of survival. Smile by Raina Telgemeier Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with onagain, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more: a major earthquake, boy confusion, and friends who turn out to be not so friendly.