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Summer Reading Books?

My daughter is going to be entering 7th grade in September. Every year their school assigns every child with a summer reading packet. They have to choose 1 out of 3 books to read, and do an activity on it. I would like to know what you think of these books, and if you would recommed them. The books are: Tangerine[edward bloor] Running Out of Time [m. Peterson] and Walk Two Moons [sharon creech] thanks, only answer if you read atleast one of these books.

Public Comments

1. Tangerine is the best one!!!
2. The only one that I haven't read is Tangerine. I REALLY enjoyed running out of time... I read it in the fith grade though. I don't know what your daughters reading level is though so... but it's a really good book regardless. I really like Sharron Creech books. I don't think that walk two moons was her best, but it's still pretty good... that's what I have to say about them!
3. "running out of time" and "walk two moons" are both excelent books and easy to do a project on... i read walk two moons as a novel for literature class and did a book report on running out of time...i like both of them very much. I've never heard of tangerine. I personally liked walk two moons better because i prefer more light, funny books, but running out of time is a great suspense/adventure type. Walk two moons would probably be easier to do a project one because of the multiple themes, story lines, characters, etc. Those would be my personal suggestions.
4. Tangerine is an EXCELLENT choice for this age group (although I read it an an adult and still loved it). It's well written and should easily make a good project--not too hard, but not boringly easy.
5. I've read all three. Running Out of Time is excellent. It's about a young girl who lives in an 1800s settlement, but when a diphtheria epidemic sweeps through and people start dying, her mother sends her on a quest for medical assistance and reveals to her that they actually live in the 20th century and are part of a living museum, with cameras and people watching them from outside. It's really good, and unless she's seen the movie "The Village" (over which the author of ROOT has considered suing the producer), she probably won't guess the twist. Tangerine is about a boy, and is sort of mystery. Sibling rivalry, migrant farmworkers in the citrus trade in Central Florida, soccer, starting a new school, etc. all enter into the story. I found it very entertaining, too -- the boy's reaction to common things that happen in Central Florida (like sinkholes, portable classrooms, bog fires, and cookie cutter developments) was amusing. Walk Two Moons is kind of a chick book, with a girl on a trek to find her missing mother. She goes across the country in a car with her grandparents. It's fairly emotional, and drags a bit in places, but still a good read. It was a Newbery Medal winner several years ago. I put them in the order that I would recommend them to my own daughters.