Middle School
Supply List & Summer Reading

Summer Reading 24-25

List of 4 items.

  • Sixth Grade

    Required Reading:
    Thirst by Varsha Bajaj
    ISBN-10: 0593354419
  • Seventh Grade

    Required Reading:
    Alone,
    by Megan E. Freeman
    ISBN-10: 1534467572
  • Eighth Grade

    Required Reading:
    They Called Us Enemy,
    by George Takei
    ISBN-10 : 1603094504
  • Additional Optional Recommended Summer Reading

    Below is a list of books that New Roads Middle School teachers and administrators love and recommend to you. These are great suggestions for you to explore over the summer. What you read is your choice, and you are not required to read the books listed; we encourage parents to reference Common Sense Media in order to research age- and developmental-appropriateness for your student if you have a specific concern.

    Once you have read a book, we invite and encourage students to send an email or a letter to the teacher who recommended it to let that person know your thoughts about the book. We look forward to hearing from you after you have read one of these books!
     
    Josh Adler, Director of Middle School
    Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
    Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
    Noggin by John Corey Whaley
    Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

    Allyson Daniels, Middle School Academic Dean
    Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed
    Piecing me Together by Renee Watson
    The Stars Beneath Our Feet by David Barclay Moore
    Lucky Broken Girl by Ruth Behar
    Ghost by Jason Reynolds
    House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
    Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
     
    Hayley Sherer, K-8 Counselor 
    The Inheritance Games Series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
    The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
    The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

    Elisa Schultz, Spectrum Program Director 
    The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

    Keondria Jooste, English Teacher
    Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adyemi
    Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

    Jessica Fischbein, English Language Arts Teacher 
    Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
    Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
    One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams Garcia
    Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon
    Legend by Marie Lu

    Larry Friedman, Middle School English Teacher
    Coraline by Neil Gaiman
    The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
    Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (rising 8th graders)

    Bob Cloer, Science Teacher & Engineering/Robotics Chair
    The Pearl by John Steinbeck
    A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Saroo Brierley
    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
     
    Nishat Alikhan, Science Teacher
    Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
    Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario (YA Version)
    Refugee by Alan Gratz

    Lauren Valla, K-8 Mathematics Department Chair 
    Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
    The Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne Collins

    Diana Levi, Math Teacher
    Wonder by R. J. Palacio
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

    Barbara Ransom, Mathematics teacher
    Throne of Glass (series) by Sarah J Maas
    ​​I am Number Four (series) by Pittacus Lore
    Uglies (series) by Scott Westerfeld
    Are you There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Bloom
    Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
    Young Elites (series) by Marie Lu
    Into the Blood Red Woods or Devine Intervention by Martha Brokenbrough
     
    Kika Elias, Spanish Teacher & Department Chair 
    El Lector, by William Durbin 
    El Color de Mis palabras OR The Color of My Words, by Lynn Joseph
    (Bilingual students might read this book in Spanish)
    It Ain’t So Awful, Falafel, by Firoozeh Dumas
    Esperanza Rising, Pam Munoz Ryan
    The Hill We Climb, by Amanda Gorman
    La Búsqueda de Un Sueño by Reyna Grande 
    Becoming by Michelle Obama (adapted for young readers)

    Sadie Yarrington, Dance Department Chair 
    The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson
    Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

    Stephen Billington, Music Department Chair 
    All Summer Long, and All Together Now by Hope Larson
    Music is History by Questlove
    Passion For Practice With Musings From Music Masters by Becky Chaffee

    Antonia Carnevale, Drama Department Chair 
    What It Is by Lynda Barry (6-8)
    Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (7-8)
    The Total Tragedy of a girl named Hamlet by Erin Dionne (6-7)
    The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake (6-7)

    Leah Hamilton, Spanish Teacher 
    Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín
    This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us (an anthology) by Katherine Locke (Editor), Nicole Meleby (Editor) Hurricane Child by Kacen Calender
    The Dream Keeper by Langston Hughes

    Leah Antonelis, Spectrum Teacher 
    Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
    Speak Up! By Rebecca Burgess

    Alex Martynowicz, Spectrum Teacher 
    Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
    The Crowns of Croswald by D.E. Night 
    The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Supply List 2024-25 School Year

List of 3 items.

  • Sixth Grade

    Please make sure that you have secured these items for the school year. 

    Required
    • Backpack (with student name)
    • Pens (blue and black)
    • Pencils/Eraser
    • Highlighter
    • Colorful pen for corrections
    • Set of colored pencils
    • Post-Its
    • Headphones (labeled with your name, for in-class use only when allowed by teacher)
    • Ruler (with metric and imperial measures)
    • Combination lock
    • Refillable water bottle (with student name on it)
    Supplies By Subject:

    English: 1 college or wide-ruled Composition book
    Science: 3-ring lab folder, 1-inch folder, loose leaf wide or college ruled paper,
    Spanish: Composition notebook
    History: one subject spiral notebook
    Math: One spiral notebook, spiral notebook with a pocket
    All Subjects:1 Accordion Folder
     
    Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra 2
    2 Graph Ruled Composition Notebooks-(Not need for Spiral notebook with a pocket)
    Scientific calculator TI-30
     
    Geometry Only:
    Compass & Protractor
     
    Optional:
    Glue Stick
    Markers
    Flash Cards

     
     
  • Seventh Grade

    Please make sure that you have secured these items for the school year. 

    Required
    • Backpack (with student name)
    • Pens (blue and black)
    • Pencils/Eraser
    • Highlighter
    • Colorful pen for corrections
    • Set of colored pencils
    • Post-Its
    • Headphones (labeled with your name, for in-class use only when allowed by teacher)
    • Ruler (with metric and imperial measures)
    • Combination lock
    • Refillable water bottle (with student name on it)
    Supplies By Subject:

    English:
    • 1 college-ruled composition book
    • 2 pocket folders
    Science:
    • 1 composition book
    • 1 spiral notebook
    • 2 pocket folders
    Spanish:
    • 1 composition notebook
    • 2 pocket folders
    History:
    Math:
    Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra 2
    2 Graph Ruled Composition Notebooks-(Not need for Spiral notebook with a pocket)
    Scientific calculator TI-30
     
    Geometry Only:
    Compass & Protractor
     
    Optional:
    Glue Stick
    Markers
    Flash Cards
  • Eighth Grade

    Please make sure that you have secured these items for the school year. 

    Required
    • Backpack (with student name)
    • Pens (blue and black)
    • Pencils/Eraser
    • Highlighter
    • Colorful pen for corrections
    • Set of colored pencils
    • Post-Its
    • Headphones (labeled with your name, for in-class use only when allowed by teacher)
    • Ruler (with metric and imperial measures)
    • Combination lock
    • Refillable water bottle (with student name on it)
    Supplies By Subject:

    English:
    • 1 college-ruled composition notebook
    Science:
    • 1 composition book
    • 1 spiral notebook
    • 2 pocket folders
    Spanish:
    • 1 composition notebook
    • 2 pocket folders
    History:
    • 3-ring college-ruled spiral notebook with a pocket
    Math:
     
    Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra 2
    2 Graph Ruled Composition Notebooks-(Not need for Spiral notebook with a pocket)
    Scientific calculator TI-30
     
    Geometry Only:
    Compass & Protractor
     
    Optional:
    Glue Stick
    Markers
    Flash Cards
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