Middle School Summer program

1. Jacob follows clues that take him to a
mysterious island, where he discovers the
crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's School for
Peculiar Children…
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar
Children!
!
by Ransom Riggs
After his grandfather's murder,
apparently by a make-believe creature,
16-year-old Jacob Portman goes to
Wales to learn the truth about his
grandfather's past.!
!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=XWrNyVhSJUU!

2. Also a graphic novel…

3. His performances are record-breaking, but
the side effects are terrible…
Gym Candy
by Carl Deuker
!
Mick
Johnson
is
determined
not
to
make
the
same
mistakes
his
father,
a
failed
football
hero,
made.
But
a8er
being
tackled
just
short
of
the
end
zone
in
a
big
game,
Mick
begins
using
“gym
candy,”
or
steroids.
!
!
!
!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-mRWxKHNi4!
!
!
!

4. Their love is all-consuming.
It’s also dangerous…
The Most Excellent and Lamentable
Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet !
(Graphic Novel)!
by Gareth Hinds
An adaptation of William Shakespeare’s
classic play Romeo and Juliet as a graphic
novel…

5. This summer Nina decides to change
things…
The Summer I Saved the
World in 65 Days
by Michele Weber Hurwitz
It's
summerAme,
and
thirteen-­‐year-­‐old
Nina
Ross
is
feeling
kind
of
lost.
Her
beloved
grandma
died
last
year;
her
parents
work
all
the
Ame;
her
brother's
busy;
and
her
best
friend
is
into
clothes,
makeup,
and
boys.
While
Nina
doesn't
know
what
"her
thing"
is
yet,
it's
definitely
not
shopping
and
makeup.
!
This
summer,
Nina
decides
to
change
things.
She
hatches
a
plan.
There
are
sixty-­‐five
days
of
summer.
Every
day,
she'll
anonymously
do
one
small
but
remarkable
good
thing
for
someone
in
her
neighborhood,
and
find
out:
does
doing
good
actually
make
a
difference?
!
hTps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpUEztoLFzg

6. A fascinating story of the prejudice that faced
black men and women in America’s armed
forces in World War II…
Port Chicago 50
by Steve Sheinkin
On
July
17,
1944,
a
massive
explosion
rocked
the
segregated
Navy
base
at
Port
Chicago,
California,
killing
more
than
300
sailors
who
were
at
the
docks,
criAcally
injuring
off-­‐duty
men
in
their
bunks,
and
shaTering
windows
up
to
a
mile
away.
On
August
9th,
244
men
refused
to
go
back
to
work
unAl
unsafe
and
unfair
condiAons
at
the
docks
were
addressed.
When
the
dust
seTled,
fi8y
were
charged
with
muAny,
facing
decades
in
jail
and
even
execuAon.
!
hTps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFtHI6Usfg

7. Book Choices

8. Use your iPad to open the QR code. Be sure to make a first
choice and a second choice.
http://goo.gl/forms/hEXYqva73z