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2023 School Summer Reading Lists: Odyssey Charter School

This guide provides links to the Delaware Library Catalog for school summer reading lists.for public, private, and charter schools.

2023

Odyssey Charter School Summer Work 2023

Grade 5

Choose one of the following novels:

The Cay by Theodore Taylor
ISBN: 9780385079068
Check the Delaware Library Catalog for e-book and other editions of this title.
Maritcha by Tonya Bolden
ISBN: 9780810950450
Rules by Cynthia Lord; Jessica Almasy (Narrated by)
ISBN: 9781428152113
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
ISBN: 9780374480127
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
ISBN: 9780803740815
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
ISBN: 9780312367541

Grade 6

Choose one of the following novels:

Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
ISBN: 9780439269698
Bystander by James Preller
ISBN: 9780312379063
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
ISBN: 9781416905868
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
ISBN: 9780439903547
A Diamond in the Desert by Kathryn Fitzmaurice
ISBN: 9780670012923
The Golden Goblet by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
ISBN: 9780140303353
topic will be discussed in Social Studies
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
ISBN: 9780316809061
A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
ISBN: 9780545682428
One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
ISBN: 9780060760908
The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
ISBN: 9780545946179
Savvy by Ingrid Law
ISBN: 9780142414330

Grade 7

Choose one of the following novels:

Blended by Sharon M. Draper
ISBN: 9781442495005
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
ISBN: 9780765317384
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
ISBN: 9780618055814
The Last Last-Day-of-Summer by Lamar Giles; Dapo Adeola (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781328460837
Lincoln's Grave Robbers by Steve Sheinkin
ISBN: 9780545405720
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds; Alexander Nabaum (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781481438285
Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
ISBN: 9780062747808
The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
ISBN: 9780385321754
Check the Delaware Library Catalog for e-book and other editions of this title.

Grade 8

Choose one of the following novels:

American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781596431522
The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Braden
ISBN: 9781510737488
The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
ISBN: 9781101997239
Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender
ISBN: 9781338129304
Unbroken (the Young Adult Adaptation) by Laura Hillenbrand
ISBN: 9780385742528
Young Adult Version

Grades 9-12: One School, One Book

I Will Always Write Back by Martin Ganda; Caitlin Alifirenka; Liz Welch (As told to)
ISBN: 9780316241311
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AP Language & Composition

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
ISBN: 9780618706419
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I Will Always Write Back by Martin Ganda; Caitlin Alifirenka; Liz Welch (As told to)
ISBN: 9780316241311
Check the Delaware Library Catalog for e-book and other editions of this title.

Grade 12 English Dual Enrollment

I Will Always Write Back by Martin Ganda; Caitlin Alifirenka; Liz Welch (As told to)
ISBN: 9780316241311
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Selected Short Stories: