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2007 Required Summer Reading
Earth to Matthew
Earth to Matthew by Paula Danziger
Matthew is completing sixth grade and everything around him is changing. He has a sister who bosses him and parents who embarrass him. He battles with his classmates, Vanessa and Amanda, and he notices a change in his feelings about girls. Where will Spaceship Earth take Matthew next?
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Esperanza Rising
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California. There they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
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Fade
Fade by Robert Cormier
Thirteen-year-old Paul Moreaux inherits the ability to become invisible, but the power soon leads to death and destruction.
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Find a Stranger, Say Good-Bye
Find a Stranger, Say Good-Bye by Lois Lowry
A college-bound student decides it's time to find her natural mother, no matter what.
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Flipped
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
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