Required Summer Book:  The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis 

Dear Parents and Students,

Summer reading is crucial if students want to maintain their reading skills throughout the long summer break.  Therefore, we would like to encourage pleasure reading for the summer as well as the completion of a required book for summer reading.

Please complete this book before the start of school.  Students will take an AR Quiz on this title and complete a review with their sixth grade Design teacher when they return to school.  

Two additional books are required for summer reading.  Those books may be of the student’s choosing, but must be within the appropriate reading level for middle school students. The print books, or eBooks, may be fiction or non-fiction. The students should be prepared to discuss why they chose those books and if they would recommend them to their friends.

Union Academy eBook Collection: Unfortunately, our eBook collection on Destiny is not available to incoming 6th graders until the School District uploads the new students into our system. Once students are loaded, they may access hundreds of eBooks on their stand-alone computers, iPads, and smart phones. You may check for access in August. When available, you may use our Catalog “Destiny” to locate and read eBooks online (please make sure the book is a 4.0 or higher reading level). To access Destiny from the school board home page (polkschoolsfl.com), click the student tab and then the ONLINE RESOURCES link. You will see Follet Destiny located at the top. Find Union Academy under the middle school link on the left and then click “log in” located in the upper righthand corner. Once Destiny Discover loads, you will see “Welcome and Your Name”. This indicates that you are logged in correctly and ready to download books from the catalog. You should now see our entire collection of eBooks. Simply click on the title of the book you wish to read. Below is your log in information:
Login ID: 5300 and their AR number (no spaces). The password is the same as their login.

*NOTE – If you are not logged in, you will not be able to download your eBook.

Students may also read eBooks using their PLUS account through the public library system.
You can access PLUS from the online resource link as well.
Login ID: 5300 and their AR number (no spaces). The password is the same as their login.

Students may also read eBooks using their PLUS account through the public library system. You can access PLUS from the online resource link as well.
Login ID: 5300 and their AR number (no spaces). The password is the same as their login.