the Summer Reading Challenge

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CBM Summer Reading Challenge: Read FIVE texts this summer that you can talk about with your teacher and classmates when you return! (Yes...that’s right...just READ!

Like to LOL?!? Check out... Dave Berry books Anything by Pseudonymous Bosch Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson James Patterson’s I funny and middle

Love sports? Read books by... Mike Lupica, Carl Deuker* Paul Volponi Jake Maddox Tim Green OR Read Non-Fiction books about your favorite sport, Sports Illustrated (Magazine), or the sports section of the Post and Courier (Newspaper)

Like learning about real-life icons, heros and adventurers? Check out these biographies and autobiographies—

Any FIVE texts—not just novels!

Ready for a vacation, but not travelling this summer? Read books about other cultures! The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian Hold Tight, Don’t Let Go

History buff? Future scientist? Check out books by... Alan Gratz Ann Rinaldi Lauren Tarshis Popular Science (magazine) National Geographic (magazine)

Calling all artists and musicians!! You might like to...

Addicted to Pretty Little Liars? Love a good mystery? You might like…

Read blogs written by experts Visit the Gibbes Museum of Art or Charleston Symphony Orchestra to pick up local reading material!

See suggestions below!)

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Not into novels? Consider reading...



Magazines



Lauren Myracle Sara Dessen* Sara Shepard Books* Books by Lois Duncan Mary Downing Hahn Cynthia Defelice

A Daily Blog Newspapers

I am Malala

Graphic Novels

No Summit out of Sight

DISCUS (contact CBM for username and PW)

Courage to Soar

Studies show that reading

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books over the summer turns summer BRAIN DRAIN into BRAIN GAIN!

BACK TO SCHOOL MISSION: Complete the log on the back of this sheet so you are ready to share what you’ve read with your classmates, teachers, principals, and anyone else who will listen! During the first month of school, we will create blogs, newscasts, posters, displays, and book reviews to share with the CBM School Community! *Denotes Young Adult author most appropriate for 7th/8th graders