CMS Summer Reading 2014

STUDENT RECOMMENDATION: While Charley is learning to cope with a severe leg injury and losing her mother, she meets a wild, abused dog whith whom she feels an immediate connection. Can one heartbroken girl help mend the battered spirit of an untamable dog?

STUDENT RECOMMENDATION: Ruby, a genius code-cracker and daring detective, along with her sidekick butler, Hitch, work for a secret crime-busting organization called Spectrum. Ruby gets into lots of scrapes with evil villains, but she is always ice-cool in a crisis.

STUDENT RECOMMENDATION: Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids - when spending the night at the local library, he find himself locked in - he must solve every clue and every secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route. And the stakes are very high...

STUDENT RECOMMENDATION: This summer the Penderwick sisters have a wonderful surprise: a holiday on the grounds of a beautiful estate called Arundel. Soon they are busy discovering the summertime magic of Arundel's sprawling gardens, treasure-filled attic, tame rabbits, and the cook who makes the best gingerbread in Massachusetts. But the best discovery of all is Jeffrey Tifton, son of Arundel's owner, who quickly proves to be the perfect companion for their adventures...

STUDENT RECOMMENDATION: Eleven-year-old Emily has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn't even really like poetry... She discovers there is a family secret contained in her volume of Emily Dickinson's poems - just after she loses it. As Emily and her friends search for the lost book Emily's understanding of destiny begins to unravel and then rewrite itself.

Student Recommendation! Melody is the smartest kid in her whole school, but no one knows it - Melody can't talk, walk, or write. Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind-until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. Get ready to meet a girl whose voice you'll never, ever forget.

When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.

Joss, the 7th son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe, must team up with a human girl to re-create Earth when the planet is accidentally erased from existence.

In 1599 England, 12-year-old thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets colorful characters, and joins an "oddities" show, where he learns to see beyond appearances.

Early's father has disappeared, and now her family has been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless. It's up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.

Believing that he has achieved his purpose throughout several eventful lives, Buddy the dog is drawn to a troubled teen whom he struggles to help until they are separated.

Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl. Newbery Honor book.

Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.

Eel, an orphan, and his best friend Florrie must help Dr. John Snow prove that cholera is spread through water, and not poisonous air, when an epidemic sweeps across their London neighborhood in 1854.

During a class trip to the Montana woods, three sixth-graders, athletic Ian, sensitive PJ, and brainy Kendra, are separated from their group and must rely on each other to survive as they encounter zombies and more.

In Victorian London, an undertaker's son who can see ghosts and is haunted by their constant demands for attention must decide whether to help when a horrible disease imprisons ghosts into empty houses in the world of the living.

Student Recommended! (And last year's CMS required summer read) A boy with a facial deformity who is trying to fit in at his new school - a portrait of one community's struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance as Auggie becomes a hero to root for.

Follows the work of forensic scientists excavating grave sites in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others.

Discusses the adventures of Richard Evelyn Byrd and his dog Igloo as they raced to the North Pole.