FCS Summer Reading List
A Letter from Fulton County
Dear Students and Parents,
The Fulton County School System strongly believes in developing readers who read both for information and for pleasure. Books on the Summer Reading List vary in subject matter and level of difficulty. Our intent is to provide students and their parents with a wide range of authors and styles of writing in both fiction and non-fiction, and to allow students to select reading materials that match their interests.
Lexile levels are indicated for most books, and they address vocabulary and sentence structure. When vocabulary is repeated often and sentences are more simply written, a text has a lower Lexile scores. Texts with less frequently-used vocabulary and with complex sentence structures have higher Lexile scores.
However, Lexile levels do not address subject matter. While a text may have a lower Lexile number, the contents could be more mature. The short descriptions with each book title should assist you in your selections.
Enjoy your summer reading.
Fulton County Schools English/Language Arts Department
Fulton County Schools Media Services Department