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The Central Private Parents Club (CPPC) encourages participation of all parents and teachers associated with CPS, at all grade levels. CPPC raises funds for school academic improvement, including purchasing teaching materials and equipment. Meetings are held on the 3rd Monday of each month. Annual dues are $20.00 per family. 2009-2010 Officers: Kellye Jeansonne, President; Stephanie Will, Secretary; Jan Byland, Treasurer For detailed information, click on http://www.cpparents.com

The Central Private Athletic Club (CPAC) encourages participation of all parents and teachers associated with CPS and is not limited to parents of student-athletes. CPAC provides for maintenance and improvements to CPS athletics and athletic facilities. Meetings are held on the 2nd Monday of each month. Annual dues are $25.00 per family. 2009-10 Officers:
Cindy Ussery, President; Keith Gregoire, 1st VP; Clark Wells, 2nd VP; Kris Fryoux, Secretary; Debbie Pike, Treasurer

2008-2009 SUMMER READING______________________________________________

Grades 1-6____________________________________________________________

In Grades 1-3: Students will receive their first reading grade from the test given on summer reading during the first week of school.
Entering Grade 1
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
Great Deay for Up by Dr. Seuss

Entering Grade 2
Arthur's Tooth by Marc Brown
Watch Out! Man-eating Snake by Patricia Reilly Giff

Entering Grade 3
Stink: The Incredible Shrinking Kid by Megan McDonald
Lions at Lunchtime by Mary Pope Osborne

In Grades 4-6: Summer is a wonderful time to enjoy great literature and further develop vocabulary and comprehension skills. Grade 4 students are required to read three (3) Accelerated Reader books of their choice; Grade 5 and 6 students are required to read four (4) A. R. books of their choice. Accelerated Reader book lists are available at Central, Greenwell Springs, Baker, and Zachary public library branches. Students must adhere to the book level minimums indicated below for the grade they will enter next fall or they will not receive A. R. point credit. Students will be required to complete A. R. testing on their summer reading books by the end of the first week of school. A specific testing date/deadline will be given at the beginning of the new school year. These A. R. points will be averaged as part of the first report card Reading grade. Of course, students may read more books if they like and test on those also; this only helps boost A. R. points that are required for the nine-week period. The minimum book level requirements are as follows:

Entering Grade 4: CHOOSE 3 BOOKS
4.0 Christopher, Matt. Red Hot Hightops
4.0 Hurwitz, Johanna. The Hot and Cold Summer
4.0 Lovelace, Maud Hart. Betsy-Tacy
4.0 Wallace, Bill. Blackwater Swamp
4.4 DiCamillo, Katie. Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
4.5 LaFaye, A. Worth
4.7 Kadahata, Cynthia. Kira Kira
4.9 Clements, Andrew. Report Card

Entering Grade 5: CHOOSE 4 BOOKS
5.0 Cleary, Beverly. Ribsy
5.0 Sperry, Armstrong. Call It Courage
5.1 Farley, Walter. The Black Stallion
5.4 Creech, Sharon. Walk Two Moons
5.6 Dahl, Roald. The BFG
5.7 Dahl, Roald. Matilda
5.8 Lewis, C. S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
5.8 Lowery, Lois. It's Your Move, J.P.!
5.9 Paulsen, Gary. The River
5.9 Speare, Elizabeth George. The Bronze Bow

Entering Grade 6: CHOOSE 4 BOOKS
6.0 Snider, Zilpha Keatley. The Witches of Worm
6.3 Eager, Edward. Half Magic
6.3 Lewis, C. S. Prince Caspian
6.3 Lowery, Lois. Anastasia Krupnik
6.4 George, Jean Craighead. Julie of the Wolves
6.4 Gipson, Fred. Savage Sam
6.4 Paulsen, Gary. Woodsong
6.5 George, Jean Craighead. On the Far Side of the Mountain
6.7 Hinton, S. E. The Outsiders
6.7 Voight, Cynthia. Building Blocks

Grades 7-12___________________________________________________________

Students in grade 7-12 will select two (2) books from their appropriate grade level list below. On or before August 15, 2008, each student will access his/her book’s evaluation guides and certification forms from the CPS website for completion. Instructions will be found on the guides and forms. Each thorough evaluation is worth a possible 50 points. Up to two additional evaluations will be accepted for a possible 10 bonus points each. Students may evaluate additional books on or above their own grade level for bonus points, not to exceed two evaluations.

The titles of each grade level selection are followed by the authors and ISBNs. Most books are available for loan from the public library or from Mrs. Kinchen (first-come, first-served loan) and for purchase at Barnes and Noble or www.amazon.com.

Entering 7th grade
Tim, Defender of the Earth! by Sam Enthoven (ISBN-13: 9781595141842)

Sure Fire by Jack Higgins (ISBN-13: 9780399247842)

Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher (ISBN-13: 9780689850424)

Go Big or Go Home by Will Hobbs (ISBN-13: 9780060741419)

Entering 8th grade
Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz(ISBN-13: 9780786838561)

Hush: An Irish Princess’ Tale by Donna Jo Napoli (ISBN-13: 9780689861765)

Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers (ISBN-13: 9780439916240)

Bullyville by Francine Prose (ISBN-13: 9780060574970)

Entering 9th grades
Hole in the Sky by Pete Hautman(ISBN-13: 9781416968221)

Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper (ISBN-13: 9781416953487)

Diary of Pelly D by L. J. Adlington (ISBN-13: 9780060766160)*available at www.amazon.com and Barnes & Noble

Test by William Sleator (ISBN-13: 9780810993563) *available at www.amazon.com and Barnes & Noble

Entering 10th grade
Aftershock by Kelly Easton (ISBN-13: 9781416900535)

Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson (ISBN-13: 9780142411568)

Being by Kevin Brooks (ISBN-13: 9780439903424)

Outcasts by L. S. Matthews (ISBN-13: 9780385733670)

Entering 11th grade
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (ISBN-13: 9781595141712)

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (ISBN-13: 9780439680134)

Trigger by Susan Vaught (ISBN-13: 9781599902302)

Deadline by Chris Crutcher (ISBN-13: 9780060850890)

Entering 12th grade
Cheater by Michael Laser (ISBN-13: 9780525478263)

In the Space Left Behind by Joan Ackermann (ISBN-13: 9780060722555)

Unwind by Neal Shusterman (ISBN-13: 9781416912040)

Search and Destroy by Dean Hughes (ISBN-13: 9781416953715)

GRADE LEVEL SYNOPSES OF BOOKS
SUMMER READING SYNOPSES – Grade 7

Tim, Defender of the Earth! by Sam Enthoven
TIM, aka Tyrannosaurus: Improved Model, is the product of a top-secret government military experiment, and he couldn’t be more loveable. Sure, he’s an enormous monster to most, but at heart he’s just a big, awkward, 13-year-old who realizes he could be all that stands between the earth and total destruction. Now TIM must form an unlikely alliance with 15-year-olds Chris and Anna in order to save humanity from the greatest threat it has ever known: Anna’s father, the brilliant and demented Professor Mallahide, and his growing tide of vicious, all-consuming nanobots.

Sure Fire by Jack Higgins
For 15-year-old twins Rich and Jade, their lives have just been turned upside down. When their mother is tragically killed in a car crash, their long-lost father John Chance appears to collect them at the funeral. He’s a bachelor who lives on his own, and it’s clear that Rich and Jade aren’t welcome. But when Chance suddenly disappears, Rich and Jade uncover the truth: he’s a spy. And now, whoever kidnapped their father is after them, too.

Alphabet of Dreams by Susan Fletcher
Mitra and her little brother, Babak, are beggars in the city of Rhagae, scratching out a living as best as they can with what they can beg for – or steal. But Mitra burns with hope and ambition, for she and Babak are not what they seem. They are of royal blood, but their father’s ill-fated plot against the evil tyrant, King Phraates, has resulted in their father’s death and their exile. Now disguised as a boy, Mitra has never given up believing they can rejoin what is left of their family and regain their rightful standing in the world.

Go Big or Go Home by Will Hobbs
A meteorite is hurtling toward the Black Hills of South Dakota . . . Brady Steele watches in awe as a fireball comes crashing through the roof of his house. Brady immediately calls his cousin, Quinn. They both love all things extreme, and this is the most extreme thing ever! Fred, as Brady names his space rock, turns out to be one of the rarest meteorites ever found. Professor Rip Ripley from the museum in Hill City wants to study a sliver of it in search of extraterrestrial bacteria. He’s hoping to discover the first proof of life beyond earth, a momentous breakthrough for the new science of astrobiology. During a wild week of extreme bicycling, fishing, and caving, Brady and Quinn battle their rivals, the notorious Carver boys, for possession of the meteorite. With each new day, Brady is discovering he’s able to do strange and wonderful feats that shouldn’t be possible. At the same time, he’s developing some frightening symptoms. Could he be infected with long-dormant microbes from space? Is Fred a prize or a menace?

SUMMER READING SYNOPSES – Grade 8

Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz
High atop Hathorne Hill, near Boston, sits Danvers State Hospital. Built in 1878 and closed in 1992, this abandoned mental institution is rumored to be the birthplace of the lobotomy. Locals have long believed the place to be haunted. They tell stories about the unmarked graves in the back, of the cold spots felt throughout the underground tunnels, and of the treasures found inside: patients’ personal items like journals, hair combs, bars of soap, or even their old medical records, left behind by the state for trespassers to view. On the eve of the hospital’s demolition, six teens break in to spend the night and film a movie about their adventures.

Hush: An Irish Princess’ Tale by Donna Jo Napoli
Melkorka is a princess, the first daughter of a magnificent kingdom in medieval Ireland – but all of this is lost the day she is kidnapped and taken aboard a marauding slave ship. Thrown into a world she has never known, alongside people that he former country’s laws regarded as less than human, Melkorka is forced to learn quickly how to survive. Taking a vow of silence, however, she finds herself an object of fascination to her captors and masters, and soon realizes that any power, no matter how little, can make a difference.

Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers
Operation Iraqi Freedom, that’s the code name. But the young men and women in the military’s Civil Affairs Battalion have a simpler name for it: WAR. Walter Dean Myers looks at a contemporary war by creating memorable characters like the book’s narrator, Birdy, a young recruit from Harlem who’s questioning why he even enlisted; Marla, a blond, tough-talking, isecracking gunner; Johnesy, a guitar-playing bluesman who just wants to make it back to Georgia and open a club.

Bullyville by Francine Prose
Bart Rangely, the narrator, has begun eighth grade when his father dies in one of the Twin Towers on 9/11, and because his mother would have been at the same office except for Bart’s illness that day, he achieves unwanted fame as the Miracle Boy. (Nobody knows that Bart’s dad had left his mom for another woman.) The publicity lands Bart a full scholarship to prestigious nearby Bailywell Prep, known to the locals – with good reason – as Bullywell. Bart’s mentor, Tyro Bergen, steadily persecutes Bart, and although he eventually retaliates, Bart feels obligated to protect his mother’s illusions about Bailywell. The headmaster accommodates the deep pockets of Tyro’s parents, who fund Bart’s scholarship and leave have their own reasons for confusing the manipulation of others with compassion and generosity.

SUMMER READING SYNOPSES – Grade 9

Hole in the Sky by Pete Hautman
In 2028 a deadly flu virus ravages the earth. Only one in 2,000 survive the virus, and these “survivors” are rarely left unaffected. By 2038, only 38 million people remain on earth. Most of them live in small communities, ever fearful of outsiders who might bring the deadly flu. Ceej Kane lives with his uncle and his survivor sister, Harryette, in an abandoned hotel on the rim of the Grand Canyon. His quiet, boring life suddenly becomes a desperate adventure when Uncle and Harryette disappear. Searching for them, Ceej and his only friend, Tim, are attacked by the Kinka, a renegade band of half-mad survivors who spread the flu to make more of their own. Worse yet, it appears that Harryette has joined them.

Copper Sun by Sharon M. Draper
Amari’s life was once perfect. Engaged to the handsomest man in her tribe, adored by her family, and living in a beautiful village, she could not have imagined everything could be taken away from her in an instant. But when slave traders invade her village and brutally murder her entire family, Amari finds herself dragged away to a slave ship headed to the Carolinas, where she is bought by a plantation owner and given to his son as a birthday present. Survival seems all that Amari can hope for. But then an act of unimaginable cruelty provides her with an opportunity to escape, and with an indentured servant named Polly, she flees to Fort Mose, Florida, in search of sanctuary at the Spanish colony. Can the illusive dream of freedom sustain Amari and Polly on their journey, fraught with hardship and danger?

Diary of Pelly D by L. J. Adlington
The notebook is wrapped in faded brown paper, sealed in a battered water can. Toni V, who works on the City Five demolition crew, unearths it as he’s drilling through concrete. He shouldn’t smuggle it back to his room, and he definitely shouldn’t read it. But he does. At first, Toni V thinks Pelly D is rich, stupid, and petty. Yet, he can’t help starting to care for her, especially since she begins to write about the gene tagging, the bombs, and the fighting. Her words slowly reveal the chilling state of her world. What happed to Pelly D? Toni V needs to know. He has only one clue: dig - dig everywhere.

Test by William Sleator
Ann, a teenage girl living in the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the very near future, is threatened on her way home from school by a mysterious man on a black motorcycle. Soon, she and a new friend are caught up in a vast conspiracy of greed involving the megawealthy owner of a school testing company. Students who pass his test have it made; those who don’t disappear . . . or worse.

SUMMER READING SYNOPSES – Grade 10

Aftershock by Kelly Easton
Seventeen-year-old Adam and his parents are driving home to Rhode Island from a peace rally in Seattle when the accident happens. In a single, horrible moment, his parents are gone. And Adam is alone. In a speechless state of shock, Adam begins walking across the country, toward home. But he can’t think in a straight line; the past and present merge in his thoughts, and the future’s a blank. As flashes of memory come to him – some wonderful, some violent – he begins to wonder if he has truly lost everything.

Paranoid Park by Blake Nelson
The adventure-turned-nightmare begins at Paranoid Park, an “underground” skateboard park in Portland, Oregon. Finding himself with nothing to do on a Saturday night, a high school junior enters the park looking for excitement and ends up involved in a scuffle between Scratch, a “borderline gutter punk,” and a security guard. The guard is killed. There are no witnesses except the two surviving boys, and when Scratch flees the scene, the boy who is left must decide what to do.

Being by Kevin Brooks
It was just supposed to be a routine exam. But when the doctors snake the fiber-optic tube down Robert Smith’s throat, what they discover doesn’t make medical sense. Plastic casings. Silver filaments. Moving metal parts. In his naked, anesthetized state on the operating table, Robert hears the surgeons’ shocked comments: “What is that?” “It’s me,” Robert thinks, “and I’ve got to et out of here.” Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, he manages to escape, and to embark on an orphan’s violent odyssey to find out exactly who – exactly what – he is.

Outcasts by L. S. Matthews
A school field trip turns into a surreal, life-altering adventure for five teenagers when they are chosen to spend a week at a manor in the English countryside, famous for an ancient skull found on the property that purportedly screams from time to time and is said to cause disaster if removed from the site. On the day they arrive, however, the skull is missing. As the students gather in a room known as “the professor’s study,” something akin to an earthquake occurs, reality splits, and they end up in another dimension. How will they make it back to the world as they know it?

SUMMER READING SYNOPSES – Grade 11

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker – his classmate and crush – who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he’ll find out how he made the list.

The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell
When 16-year-old Helmuth Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he tries to expose the truth with leaflets, he’s tried for treason. Sentenced to death and waiting in a jail cell, Helmuth’s story emerges in a series of flashbacks that show his growth from a naïve child caught up in the patriotism of the times, to a sensitive and mature young man who thinks for himself.

Trigger by Susan Vaught
Seventeen-year-old Jersey Hatch attempted to blow his brains out using his father’s gun. Now, back home from rehab and frustrated with his limitations caused by the gunshot wound, Jersey struggles to remember why he wanted to kill himself. He must re-learn to tie his own shoelaces and to somehow pass algebra and graduate high school. He must try to repair old friendships as severed as the connection between his brain and his once-athletic body. Jersey tries to answer the question of why he wanted to end his very good life and whether he can stop himself from trying to end it again.

Deadline by Chris Crutcher
Ben Wolf has big things planned for his senior year – well, he had big things planned. Now what he has is some very bad news and only one year left to make his mark on the world. How can a pint-sized, smart-aleck seventeen-year-old do anything significant in the nowheresville of Trout, Idaho? First, Ben makes sure that no one else knows what is going on – not his superstar quarterback brother, Cody, not his parents, not his coach, no one. Next, he decides to become the best 127-pound football player Trout High has ever seen; to give his close-minded civics teacher a daily migraine; and to held the local drunk clean up his act. Living with a secret isn’t easy, though, and Ben’s resolve begins to crumble . . . especially when he realizes that he isn’t the only person in Trout with secrets.

SUMMER READING SYNOPSES – Grade 12

Cheater by Michael Laser
Karl Petrofsky has spent his years in school trying to hide the “A’s” on his papers. He sees himself more as a shy maverick than a geek. When the smoothest guy in high school asks him to aid and abet a ring of high-tech cheaters, Karl flatly refuses. But then the tyrannical assistant principal makes an example of a hapless student – and threatens anyone caught cheating with expulsion and an indelible stain on his or her permanent record. This means war!

In the Space Left Behind by Joan Ackermann
When Colm Drucker’s mother head out to Las Vegas for her third honeymoon, Colm has plans of his own – organizing his baseball cards, playing guitar, and remodeling the family house as a surprise wedding present. But from the start of his week home alone, Colm, practical and adept, is faced with a series of unforeseen and bewildering events. His dog, Chester, meets an untimely death. His long-absent father calls out of the blue. When Colm learns that his mother plans to put the family home he dearly loves up for sale, he resolves to do everything in his power to save it, even if it means traveling cross the country with the one person Colm never wanted to depend on for anything.

Unwind by Neal Shusterman
In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would “unwind” them. Connor’s parents want to be rid of him because he’s a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev’s unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of his family’s strict religion. Brought together by hance, and kept together by desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. If they can survive until their eighteenth birthdays, they can’t be harmed – but when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, are wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away.

Search and Destroy by Dean Hughes
Just out of high school, Rick Ward thinks he wants to go to college and become a writer, but the circumstances of his life work against him. His girlfriend admires his writing, but she wants him to protest the Vietnam War and stop playing beach volleyball with his friends. The day after she breaks up with him, he quits his job when his abrasive boss repeatedly finds fault with his work, and his father throws him out of the house. Knowing that he will not be able to earn enough money for college in the fall, he feels that the Army is his only option. When Rick ventures into the Vietnam jungle, he discovers that no one – not protestors, liticians, or writers – has got a clue. War is far bigger, scarier, and more complicated than anything he ever could have imagined.