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Middle School Summer Experience

Each Middle School student will receive a book, inspired by prompted journals such as Wreck This Journal and The Trickster's Hat. The books contain a series of prompts to complete during the summer holidays, covering various topics and highlighting skills that students will build upon in NEIA classes.

For anyone wishing to complete the tasks digitally, the following template can be copied and designed to their liking.  Please select "Use Template for New Design."

You can see digital and print samples below created by Erin and Kaitlin. 

Students are encouraged to channel their creativity and make the books their own. When students return to school in the fall, they will share their books in PIN and Advocacy. 

For the Books, Books, Books page, find some recommended reads on the New Reads page of the library's website, or the MA Teen Choice Book Awards listed below. 

Upper School Summer Reading

Throughout the school year, NEIA students participated in several events thematically linked to sustainability, from the M20 Summit to the MIT Day of AI. In the spirit of continuing this important conversation, the Upper School Summer Reading titles explore this through various lenses. 

Upper School students are asked to choose one of the titles from the following list, considering sustainability through entrepreneurship, innovation, social justice, and future-focused thinking. Upon returning to school in the fall, students will complete an activity in Advocacy groups utilizing the titles. 

When available, links to ebooks and audiobooks through NEIA's SORA account are linked within the list. Other ebooks and audiobooks may be available through your public library, and some links are available at the bottom of the page. 

Nonfiction:

  • Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
  • Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage by Daniel Esty
  • The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism  by Adrienne Buller
  • Revolution in a Bottle: How Terracycle is Eliminating the Idea of Waste by Tom Szaky
  • Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes
  • A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington

Fiction:

 

More Reading Options?

The MA Teen Choice Book Awards list of nominees has been curated by a committee of public librarians, school library media specialists and educators. Kaitlin, as well as Rachel the Teen Librarian from the Marlborough Public Library, are members of the committee!

Teens across the state, as well as NEIA students, are invited to read the titles this summer and vote for their favorite books in September! The slides below include descriptions of all the nominees!

eBooks and Audiobooks

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Check out ebooks and audiobooks for free using the Sora app. Select our school, then log in with your NEIA email address. Browse and select books to enjoy! Loans are for 20 days.   

All residents of and students who attend school in MA can acquire an e-card through the Boston Public Library, where a number of the upper school summer reading titles are available as ebooks and audiobooks. 

Additionally, you can check your local library! In MA, there are several consortiums including CWMARS, CLAMS, SAILS with both print and digital access to a number of titles.