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Title: Why reading during the summer

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Why reading during the summer?

Summer reading plays an important part in a
students future academic success. Educational
studies indicate that students who read during
the summer maintain and improve important
academic skills like vocabulary and critical
reading. Data indicates that students who read
during the summer experience success in school at
a higher rate than students who do not read.

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Ninety Six High School Summer Reading 2009

Requirements
Who participates?
All students who will be in 9th 12th grade at
NSHS during the 2009-2010 school year.
What do students do?
Read and keep a simple log of titles, pages and
times read in June, July and the first part of
August.
Students are encouraged to read a variety of
books.
Students may borrow a book to read from the
school library, the public library, a friend,
neighbor or family member, or purchase a book.
Summer reading requirements, project information
and suggestions are listed on the school webpage
at www.greenwood52.org/nshs.

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Summer Reading Project Optional

Complete a project about one book you read during
the summer and turn it in with your reading log
to the library by Fri., Aug. 21 to earn a coupon
worth 2 grade points. This coupon may be applied
to the subject of choice at the end of the first
quarter grading period.
Sample projects might include, but are not
limited to, posters, shadow boxes, banners, or
grocery bag displays. Be creative, design your
own project.

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Project Guidelines
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Sample Reading Log
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Sample different kinds of books.
Contemporary fiction about teens coping with
lifes tough
times
A book about an event in U. S. history
A biography or memoir
A book of poetry
A young adult classic
S. C. Young Adult nominees (current)
A self-help book for teenagers
Any book from the 2007 or 2008 NSHS Summer
Reading list

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Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson
Socially inept Tyler Miller thinks his senior
year of high school is going to be a year like no
other. After being sentenced to a summer of
"character building" physical labor following a
graffiti prank, his reputation at school receives
a boost, as do his muscles. Enter super-popular
Bethany Milbury, sister of his tormentor, Chip,
and daughter of his father's boss. Tyler's
newfound physique has attracted her interest and
infuriated Chip, leading to ongoing conflicts at
school. Likewise, Tyler's inability to meet his
volatile father's demands to "be an asset, not a
liability" adds increasing tension. All too
quickly, Tyler's life spirals out of control.
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Money Hungry by Sharon Flake
Raspberry Hill, 13, loves money. She sells
clearance holiday candy and pencils, and keeps
her lunch money rather than eat. She hoards every
dime she can gather and hides her cash in her
room. Greed drives her and is more important than
friends, boys, or her mother's love. She and her
mother now have a place of their own, but life in
the projects is hardly ideal.
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What happened to Cass McBride? By Gail Giles
What happened to Cass McBride? Well, she has been
buried alive by Kyle Kirby, who blames her for
his brother David's suicide. After asking Cass
out, David finds a note she leaves for a friend
in which she laughs about an invitation from
someone so low on the food chain. Then David
hangs himself. Told in alternating voices,
including that of a police officer, this intense
story has some horrifying moments readers will
feel as terrorized as Cass as she struggles to
survive, both physically and mentally. At the
same time, there are plenty of psychological
thrills as Cass tries to win her release by
outwitting Kyle
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Bad Boy by Walter Dean Myers
Myers paints a fascinating picture of his
childhood growing up in Harlem in the 1940s, with
an adult's benefit of hindsight. What emerges is
a clear sense of how one young man's gifts
separate him from his peers, causing him to stir
up trouble in order to belong. .
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Schooled by Paul Langan
Lionel Shephard dreams of joining the NBA, but
while his father disapproves of his plans, his
teachers are threatening to fail him--unaware of
his poor reading abilities--and Lionel needs to
decide how far he is willing to go for his
dreams.
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No Way Out by Peggy Kern
Afraid of being taken from his grandmother and
placed in a foster home, Harold Davis, a Bluford
High freshman, begins to work for the
neighborhood drug dealer, Londell James, but
Harold's choice leads him to world more dangerous
than he could have imagined.
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Raising the Dead by Ron Rash
Ron Rash has wrapped astounding imagery in
Appalachian family stories and folk tales to
create a masterful picture/protest of the
creation of the Jocassee Reservoir. As a result,
the ghosts in these poems, of the Jocassee Valley
and its aqua-burial and of the revisited
ancestors and historical figures will haunt the
reader beyond the pages of the book. Despite his
daily academic environment, Rash has avoided the
temptation to bury his stories and images in
literary language. He has the ability to produce
profound poetry in everyday words.
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NSHS Top Ten Books