Monday, May 12, 2014

Books to Read this Summer

I haven't read these books yet, but they come recommended as summer reads through Scholastic's Instructor magazine:

Young-Adult Adventures: Grades 6-8

Caminar
By Skila Brown. $15.99.
Told in verse and inspired by true events, this coming-of-age story finds Carlos in the middle of Guatemala’s civil war in 1981. The boy is tasked with warning his family members about the approaching soldiers.
The Mark of the Dragonfly
By Jaleigh Johnson. $16.99.
In this fantasy adventure novel, Piper discovers a girl in the wreckage of the Meteor Fields and must help her find her way home to the Dragonfly Territories.
The Riverman
By Aaron Starmer. $15.99.
Fiona Loomis tells her friend Alistair Cleary that a creature called the Riverman is stealing the souls of children—and she will be next. In this first book of a trilogy, Alistair must figure out if Fiona’s tale is truth or fiction.
The Boundless
By Kenneth Oppel. $16.99.
Protagonist Will travels aboard a train called The Boundless as it chugs its way across the Canadian Pacific Railway. Will fends off all sorts of villains intent on stealing a key that unlocks the train’s treasures.
The Finisher
By David Baldacci. $17.99.
New York Times best-selling author Baldacci tells the tale of teenage Vega, who leaves the village of Wormwood for the first time in search of a kindly family friend. Along the way, she must navigate a forest of beasts and uncover long-lost secrets.
Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in
the Pacific

By Mary Cronk Farrell. $24.95.
A detailed work of nonfiction, Pure Grit recounts the saga of 101 brave women who served as Army and Navy nurses in the Philippines during World War II and were taken
prisoner by the Japanese.