Hobby MS Summer Reading 2024
Hobby Middle School is a community of readers! The goal of Summer Reading is to engage ALL students in challenging, high interest books of their choice. Throughout the summer, students will actively read at least one novel and participate in a reading/writing connection activity within the first grading period once the new school year begins.
Summer Reading is REQUIRED for all Advanced ELA students. All other students are highly encouraged to participate in order to strengthen reading skills, and just to have FUN! Choose a book from your home, public library, online source, or a local bookstore. While all books are valuable, we want you to choose books that are a comfortable challenge for you. They may be novels, books in verse, informational books, graphic novels, or audiobooks.
● For a free San Antonio Public Library card, which can be used to check out online books as well as books at the library, visit: https://goo.gl/oxAzxt
● For free ebooks through Northside, check out https://soraapp.com/welcome. Here’s a video about how to use Sora.
Book Choices: We have put together a list of suggested authors and popular novels you may want to choose from. Don’t forget to ask family members, friends, and teachers for suggestions!
| Popular Series: Track series by Jason Reynolds The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins Miss Peregrine series by Ransom Riggs The Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer Dork Diaries series by Rachel Renee Russell The Selection series by Kiera Cass Fear Street series by R.L. Stine Middle School series by James Patterson Serafina series by Robert Beatty Arc of Scythe series by Neal Schusterman | Recent Award Winners:
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| Suggested Reading Lists: 2024 Lone Star Reading List (middle school list) Texas Topaz Reading List (non-fiction) Maverick Reading List (graphic novels) 2024 Bluebonnet List (elementary list) | Popular Authors: Kwame Alexander Jennifer Nielsen Sharon Draper Alan Gratz Mike Lupica Raina Telgemeier Tomi Adeyemi Rick Riordan Gordon Korman Allie Condie Mary Downing Hahn Shannon Hale Jennifer Holm Kazu Kibushi |
There are no required assignments or projects for students to complete during the summer. However, when the new school year begins, ELA teachers will provide some opportunities for reading/writing connections for students to review the elements of their chosen books. Advanced ELA students will receive a grade and/or extra credit for these assignments.
Ms. Heather Trible, Hobby Middle School’s ELA Instructional Coach, is happy to answer your questions about Summer Reading. Email her at heather.trible@nisd.net.
