St. Andrew Apostle School
Summer 2010 Reading
Lorraine Bentley, Librarian Media Specialist.
12-year-old Jason Blake is an autistic, aspiring author. While his own world is chaotic and often frightening, his writing opens a new world for him – one where he can be normal.
When twins Eli and Eddy were born, their billionaire father began building an underground compound for the family’s protection should their be a nuclear attack. When he is nine, Eli finds himself rushing into the compound from a camping trip with his parents and his sisters but without his twin and his grandma and then staying there for fifteen years!
Matt Pin, 7th grader, was airlifted from Vietnam at age 10 and adopted by a supportive, loving American family. The problem is that Matt is haunted by memories of Vietnam and the younger brother he left behind.
When her mother and her kindly step-father separate, Addie’s stepfather leaves and takes her two little sisters with him. Addie is left alone to cope with her mother’s increasingly erratic behavior and to take care of herself. She almost succeeds!
Savvy, age 13, is 6’2” tall and an amazing basketball player. Life is going great for her until a rival player sees steroids in Savvy’s gym bag.
The paths of three people – Ally, a self-confident home-schooled kid; Bree, an urban middle-school social butterfly moved by her parents to the middle of nowhere; and Jack, sentenced to working on a summer project with his teacher after flunking science – cross at the Moon Shadow Campgrounds during a total eclipse.
Newton Goddard Starker lives under a mysterious family curse. Almost all of his family, including his mother, have died from lightning strikes. At age 14 and the last of the Starker family line, Newton believes he has the answer – enrolling as a student in the Jerry Potts Academy for Survival.
Jimmy Cannon lives in the railroad town of Rowlesburg, WV, where he wants to grow up and work on steam engines like his family has done for generations. His story is told through incidents, each of which happens on Halloween across the years 1940 – 1949.
In this 2010 Newbery Award winner, Miranda, a teenage girl living in New York City in 1979, watches her best friend Sal get punched in the stomach and then no longer wants to hang out with her, befriends a lonely girl who gets dropped by her best friend, receives a series of mysterious notes, and finds her mother is selected to appear in the $20,000 Pyramid TV show.
Have you ever wondered about John Wilkes Booth, the man who murdered Abraham Lincoln? Who was he? Why did he do it? How did he do it? And when? What mistakes led to his capture and death? This book, though non-fiction, reads like a mystery and will provide you with some of the answers.