Summer Reading 2024 (Polson)

Books in LION for Polson Middle School students' summer reading
 

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21. Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone

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Author:
Rowling, J. K.
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4.7 stars
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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.

22. Hatchet

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Author:
Paulsen, Gary
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3.8 stars
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.

23. The hate u give

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Author:
Thomas, Angie
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4.4 stars
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"Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...

24. Hey, kiddo

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Author:
Krosoczka, Jarrett
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5 stars
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"In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through...

25. How they croaked: the awful ends of the awfully famous

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Bragg, Georgia
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A look at the deaths of several famous people throughout history and the circumstances surrounding those deaths.

26. The Hunger Games

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Author:
Collins, Suzanne
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4.8 stars
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.

27. Insignia

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Author:
Kincaid, S. J.
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4 stars
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Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.

28. Kent State

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Author:
Wiles, Deborah
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Told from different points of view--protesters, students, National Guardsmen, and "townies"--recounts the story of what happened at Kent State in May 1970, when four college students were killed by National Guardsmen, and a student protest was turned into a bloody battlefield.

29. The light in hidden places

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Author:
Cameron, Sharon, 1970-
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4.8 stars
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Sixteen-year-old Catholic Stefania Podgórska has worked in the Diamant family's grocery store for four years, even falling in love with one of their sons, Izio; but when the Nazis came to Przemyl, Poland, the Jewish Diamants are forced into the ghetto (and worse) but Izio's brother Max manages to escape, and Stefania embarks on a dangerous course -- protecting thirteen Jews in her attic, caring for her younger sister, Helena, and keeping everything...

30. Lily and Dunkin

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Author:
Gephart, Donna
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"Lily Jo McGrother, born Timothy McGrother, is a girl. But being a girl is not so easy when you look like a boy. Especially when you're in the eighth-grade. Norbert Dorfman, nicknamed Dunkin Dorfman, is bipolar and has just moved from the New Jersey town he's called home for the past thirteen years. This would be hard enough, but the fact that he is also hiding from a painful secret makes it even worse. One summer morning, Lily Jo McGrother meets...

31. Long way down

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Author:
Reynolds, Jason
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4.8 stars
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As Will, fifteen, sets out to avenge his brother Shawn's fatal shooting, seven ghosts who knew Shawn board the elevator and reveal truths Will needs to know.

32. Manning up

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Walsh, Bee
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"Jack is at the top of his game. He's a senior running back on the football team, dominating every opponent in his way. To everyone else, Jack is totally in control. In reality, he struggles with an eating disorder that controls every aspect of his daily life. When Jack starts using steroids, he feels invincible, but will the steroids help him win the big game, or will he lose everything he's ever worked for?"--Provided by publisher.

33. The Nazi hunters: how a team of spies and survivors captured the world's most notorious Nazi

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Bascomb, Neal
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Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust.

34. Nightbooks

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White, J. A.
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5 stars
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Imprisoned by Natacha, a witch, in a New York apartment, Alex must tell her a new scary story every night in order to stay alive.

35. One of us is lying

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Author:
McManus, Karen M.
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4.3 stars
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Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Bad body Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude...

36. Orbiting Jupiter

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Author:
Schmidt, Gary D.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice." --

37. The poet X : a novel

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Author:
Acevedo, Elizabeth
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5 stars
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When Xiomara Batista, who pours all her frustrations and passion into poetry, is invited to join the school slam poetry club, she struggles with her mother's expectations and her need to be heard.

38. Poisoned water: how the citizens of Flint, Michigan fought for their lives and warned the nation

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Author:
Cooper, Candy J., 1955-
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4 stars
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39. The Port Chicago 50: disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights

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Sheinkin, Steve
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40. Posted

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Author:
Anderson, John David, 1975-
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5 stars
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In middle school, words aren't just words. They can be weapons. They can be gifts. The right words can win you friends or make you enemies. They can come back to haunt you. Sometimes they can change things forever. When cell phones are banned at Branton Middle School, Frost and his friends Deedee, Wolf, and Bench come up with a new way to communicate: leaving sticky notes for each other all around the school. It catches on, and soon all the kids in...