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Perkiomen Valley Library at Schwenksville
a branch of the Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library
serving the residents of Collegeville, Trappe, and Schwenksville Boroughs
plus Perkiomen, Lower Frederick, and Skippack Townships

290 Second Street    ~    Schwenksville, PA 19473
phone: 610-287-8360    website: www.pvlibrary.net

               

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2008-2009 Summer Reading Selections for Perkiomen Valley Middle/High Schools

6th grade    7th grade    8th grade    9th grade    10th grade    11th grade    12th grade
 

Students are required to choose one title from the reading list for their grade.  These titles are available through MCLINC. 

6th Grade
         
Choice 1: Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
          Choice 2: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
          Choice 3: The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
          Choice 4: Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi
          Choice 5: Heat by Mike Lupica

7th Grade
         
Choice 1: Dork on the Run by Carol Gorman
          Choice 2: Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
          Choice 3: The Alchemist: a Fable about Following Your Dreams by Paulo Coelho
          Choice 4: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
          Choice 5: The Thief Lord by Cornelia Caroline Funke

8th Grade
         
Choice 1: Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques
          Choice 2: The Stalker by Joan Lowery Nixon
          Choice 3: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
          Choice 4: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
          Choice 5: Double Identity by Margaret Peterson Haddix

9th Grade
         
Choice 1: Shadowmaker by Joan Lowery Nixon
          Choice 2: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
          Choice 3: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
          Choice 4: Something for Joey by Richard Peck
          Choice 5: Peeling the Onion by Wendy Orr

10th Grade
         
Choice 1: The Once and Future King: the Sword in the Stone (only) by T.H. White
          Choice 2: The Chosen b Chaim Potok
          Choice 3: The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
          Choice 4: Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
          Choice 5: Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

11th Grade
         
Choice 1: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
          Choice 2: My Antonia by Willa Cather
          Choice 3: Native Son by Richard Wright
          Choice 4: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
          Choice 5: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

12th Grade
         
Choice 1: The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
          Choice 2: 1984 by George Orwell
          Choice 3: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
          Choice 4: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
          Choice 5: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

 


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The Perkiomen Valley Library at Schwenksville is a branch of the Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library and is a participating member of the Pennsylvania Access program.