Everything you ever wanted to know about summer reading...
The Middle School Summer Reading Book Fair will be held Tuesday, May 22 - Thursday, May 24 in the lobby of the Middle School building. The choice books for rising 6th - 8th graders will be sold from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., and library staff and volunteers will be on hand to help you select titles. Order forms have been sent home with current 5th - 7th graders, and are also available on this page. All proceeds from this sale will be used to buy more books for classroom libraries and for the Media Center. Thank you for being a Book Sale customer!
For Rising Fifth Graders:
Book Lists Alphabetical by Title
Book List by Genre and with Book Descriptions
Discussion Questions
For Rising Sixth Graders:
Book Lists Alphabetical by Title
Book List by Genre and with Book Descriptions
Discussion Questions
Summer Reading Rising 6th Order Form.doc
For Rising Seventh Graders:
Book Lists Alphabetical by Title
Book List by Genre and with Book Descriptions
Discussion Questions
Summer Reading Rising 7th Order Form.doc
For Rising Eighth Graders:
Book Lists Alphabetical by Title
Book List by Genre and with Book Descriptions
Discussion Questions
Summer Reading Rising 8th Order Form.docx
For Upper School
Book Lists for 9th - 12th without Book Descriptions
Book Lists for 9th - 12th with Book Descriptions
And for AP Calculus BC students: A Tour of the Calculus by David Berlinksi.
Still have questions? Contact Dr. Mandyck in the library, by email or by phone (706-433-2614).
When lonely, ten-year-old Hal learns that his wealthy but neglectful parents only rented Fleck, the dog he always wanted, he and new friend Pippa take Fleck and four other 8dogs from the rental agency on a trek from London to Scotland, where Hal's grandparents live. (JUV FIC IBBOTSON)
Charles Henderson is the last British spy left in occupied France in 1940. He and his young agents are translating for the German high command and sending information back to Britain about the Nazi plans to invade England in September, on Eagle Day. The RAF must destroy the Nazi invasion fleet, but Northern France is heavily defended and the camouflaged barges are impossible to target at night. Together, Henderson and his team hatch a daring plan to guide the British bombers to their target. Their lives are on the line, but the stakes couldn't possibly be higher. (JUV FIC MUCHAMORE) 
Britain, 1941. The government is building a secret army of intelligence agents to work undercover, gathering information and planning sabotage operations. Henderson's boys are part of that network. They'll have to parachute into unknown territory, travel cross-country and outsmart a bunch of adults in a daredevil exercise. In wartime Britain, anything goes. (JUV FIC MUCHAMORE) 
In the spring of 1941, German submarines are prowling the North Atlantic, sinking ships filled with the supplies Britain needs to survive. With the Royal Navy losing the war at sea, six young agents must sneak into Nazi-occupied Europe and sabotage a submarine base on France's western coast. If the submarines aren't stopped, the British people will starve. (JUV FIC MUCHAMORE)
For the five teens who modeled as Disney Hologram Imaging hosts, life is settling down when an intriguing video arrives. The Overtakers are plotting to attempt a rescue of two of their leaders, both of whom the Disney Imagineers have hidden away somewhere following a violent encounter in Epcot. An attack by new Overtakers at Downtown Disney, startles the group. A dark cloud in the Kingdom Keeper era is unfolding, and with dissension in their ranks, it's unclear if there's any chance of escape. (JUV FIC PEARSON)
Twelve-year-old Chase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--in Mexico, where a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption of a volcano. (JUV FIC SMITH)
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous. (YA FIC AGUIRRE) 
When seventeen-year-old Cammie wakes up in a convent high in the Alps, she slowly comes to realize that she's been tortured, the last four months have been erased from her mind, and an ancient terrorist organization is hunting for her. (YA FIC CARTER)
On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in her island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the Second World War. (YA FIC COOPER)
In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social whirl of London parties and balls, they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans despite growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever. (YR FIC COOPER) 
Sixteen-year-old Violet Ambrose's ability to find murder victims and their killers draws the attention of the FBI just as her relationship with Jay, her best-friend-turned-boyfriend, heats up. (YA FIC DERTING) 
In the near future, the conjoined Armstrong twins, under the guise of the Armstrong Fancy Gifts Corporation, plot to create their own version of utopia using nanobots, while a guerilla group known as BZRK develops a DNA-based biot that can stop bots, but at risk of the host's brain. (YA FIC GRANT) 
When Wendy Everly was six years old her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. Eleven years later, Wendy learns that her mother was right and that she is actually a changeling troll, who, at the age of seventeen, must be returned to her rightful home. (YA FIC HOCKING) 
Wendy, a changeling troll princess, returns to her rightful home, a frightening, beautiful world where she discovers her new powers, fights enemies who want to use her abilities for evil, and struggles with romantic decisions. (YA FIC HOCKING) 
Soon after moving to a small Texas town, fifteen-year-old Katie Parker's rebelliousness complicates her life at home and school, but when she is accused of vandalism, she finds hope through a new friendship, involvement in a play, and her foster family's faith in God and her. (YA FIC JONES) 
Sixteen-year-old Katie Parker finds her newly blossoming faith tested after a tornado rips through town, her foster mother is diagnosed with cancer, and Katie is accused of stealing. (YA FIC JONES) 
After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter. (YA FIC KLASS) 
After falling in love, Lena and Alex flee their oppressive society where love is outlawed and everyone must receive "the cure"--an operation that makes them immune to the delirium of love--but Lena alone manages to find her way to a community of resistance fighters, and although she is bereft without the boy she loves, her struggles seem to be leading her toward a new love. (YA FIC OLIVER) 
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. (YA FIC STIEFVATER) 
By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound. (YA FIC WARMAN) 
At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother. (YA FIC WARMAN) 
Recreates the 1912 sinking of the Titanic as observed by millionaire John Jacob Astor, a beautiful young Lebanese refugee finding first love, "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Captain E.J. Smith, and others including the iceberg itself. (YA FIC WOLF) 
Told from their own viewpoints, seventeen-year-old Jill, in grief over the loss of her father, and Mandy, nearly nineteen, are thrown together when Jill's mother agrees to adopt Mandy's unborn child, but nothing turns out as they had anticipated. (YA FIC ZARR) 
The events of No Way Out have affected everyone in the Community, and not everyone has survived to pick up the pieces. (GN FIC KIRKMAN)
A gradual mutation of a virulent strain of super flu gives rise to millions of the undead, who quickly overwhelm treatment facilities and swarm cities around the world, leaving survivors on their own against a legion of the infected. This chilling story is told through the scraps of paper, scrawled signs, and cryptic markers left by survivors as they struggle to stay alive and find those they've lost in a world overrun by zombies. (FIC LOST ZOMBIES) 
Presents a graphic novel parody of "The Hunger Games" series. (GN FIC PETRUCHA)
One of the best quarterbacks in the history of college football traces his path to success, discussing his childhood as the son of Christian missionaries and how his faith combined with his drive to succeed have made him the person he is today. (MCN B TEBOW) 
Along with her best friend, the fourteen-year-old narrator navigates a 1970s American girlhood, including challenges from popular girls and the first hints of womanhood. (MCN FIC BEARD)
With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, Judy should be the star of Darcy Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the edge of town? A scathingly funny and moving book about dreams and reality, at once light on its feet and profound. (MCN FIC DEWOSKIN) 
Raised by parents so intentionally isolated that they speak their own hybrid dialect, abused youth Marjorie witnesses her parents' submission to a sadistic cult leader before she is rescued by another abuse survivor who teaches her stoneworking skills. (MCN FIC MERULLO) 
Using a vast array of vintage memorabilia, this beautiful full-color novel, told in the form of a scrapbook, follows Frankie Pratt who, dreaming of becoming a writer in 1920, goes to Vassar, which becomes a stepping stone to an international adventure until a family crisis forces her to come home. (MCN FIC PRESTON) 
Chronicles the rollicking misadventures of Forrest Gump, an idiot savant college football player whose mathematical genius does not prevent his flunking out and who finds himself drafted for Vietnam. (FIC GROOM) 
Ren MacCormack moves from Boston to the small town of Bomont, where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out. Bomont's councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by invoking ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizes the town, and falls in love with the minister's troubled daughter, Ariel. Remake of the 1984 film starring Kevin Bacon. (DVD FIC FOOTLOOSE)
Tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy. (DVD FIC HUGO) 
Kermit and Fozzie travel to Hollywood to hit it big as stars. They're joined on the way by Miss Piggy and numerous other familiar faces. (DVD F MUPPET)
Unquenchably curious young reporter Tintin and his fiercely loyal dog Snowy discover a model ship carrying an explosive secret. Drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Tintin find himself in the sightlines of Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, a diabolical villain who believes Tintin has stolen a priceless treasure tied to a dastardly pirate. With the help of Snowy, Captain Haddock, and bumbling detectives Thompson & Thompson, Tintin will travel half the world to find the final resting place of the Unicorn. (DVD FIC TINTIN)
Contains 22 episodes from the thirteenth season of the series. (DVD FIC SIMPSONS)
The hot-headed young D'Artagnan joins forces with three veteran Musketeers to prevent the villainous Cardinal Richelieu from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war. (DVD FIC THREE)
Is access to clean drinking water a basic human right, or a commodity that should be bought and sold like any other article of commerce? Stephanie Soechtig examines the big business of bottled water. Viewers get a behind-the-scenes look into the unregulated and unseen world of an industry that aims to privatize and sell back the one resource that ought never to become a commodity: our water. Here is a powerful portrait of the lives affected by the bottled water industry. (DVD 338.47) 
Judith Ortiz Cofer writes poetry, essays, stories and novels for children and adults, and she will visit Athens Academy's Middle and Upper School students on Thursday, March 22nd. Please see below for the schedule and to pre-order any of her books. 
