 Summer Reading Lists 2008
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Below are the Summer Reading lists for each grade level. Please read your child’s list carefully, as certain books are required reading while other books can be chosen from a selection.
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Students entering Kindergarten
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Required:
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
Easy:
Do You Want to Be My Friend by Eric Carle
Average:
Will I Have A Friend By Miriam Cohen
Challenging:
A House for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
Student Choice: Choose at least two
Easy:
School Bus by Donald Drews
What Game Shall We Play by Pat Hutchins
Round is Mooncake by Roseanne Thong
Average:
Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Bunny Cakes by Rosemary Wells
Challenging:
Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet Ahlberg
Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come by Nancy Carlson
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Kindergarten ABC by Jacqueline Rogers
Mama Don't Go: Yoko and Friends School Days by Rosemary Wells
Spiritual Enrichment Books:
I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting off a little Self-Esteem by Jamie Lee Curtis
The Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell
The Clown of God by Tomie DePaola
Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae
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Students entering First Grade
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Required Reading:
Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
Two picks from the following choices:
Easy:
Brown Bear, Brown Bear by Bill Martin
Biscuit Goes to School by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Pat Schories
Yes, Jesus Loves Me by Sue Williams
Hop On Pop by Dr. Seuss
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Average:
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
Challenge:
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
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Students entering Second Grade
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Required Reading:
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
Choose one from the following Chapter Series:
Easy:
Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant
Arthur by Marc Brown (early chapter series)
Average:
Cam Jansen by David Adler
Nate the Great by Marjorie W. Sharmat
Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
Challenge:
A-Z Mysteries by Ron Roy
Bailey School Kids by Debbie Dadey
Junie B. Jones Barbara Park
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
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Students entering Third Grade
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Required Reading:
Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary
Frindle by Andrew Clements
One Choice from the following list of ROALD DAHL Books
Easy:
The Enormous Crocodile
Esio Trot
The Magic Finger
Average:
Fantastic Mr. Fox
George’s Marvelous Medicine
The Giraffe and the Pelly Melly and Me
The Twits
The Minpins
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
Challenge:
The BFG
Danny the Champion of the World
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
The Witches
Non-fiction Autobiographical Stories
(Very challenging)
Boy by Roald Dahl
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
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Students entering Fourth Grade
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Required are three books before school begins:
Math:
The Best of Times by Greg Tang
Choose one of the following required books.
The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read one book from the following selections:
Easy:
A River Ran Wild by Lynn Cherry
Sarah Morton’s Day by Kate Waters
Samuel Eaton’s Day by Kate Waters
Magic Tree House Series (any one from)
Average:
The Islander by Cynthia Rylant
Black Star, Bright Dawn by Scott O’DellDear America (choose any from the series)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles
Each Little Bird that Sings by Deborah Wiles
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Ben and Me: An Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin by His Good Mouse by Robert Lawson
Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary
Abel’s Island by William Steig
Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid-Banks
Challenge:
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott by Daniel Shealy
The Book of Three (Pyrdain Chronicles) by Lloyd Alexander
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
M.C.Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton
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Students entering Fifth Grade
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Required:
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes or Mr. Revere and I by Robert Lawson
One pick from the following:
Easy:
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Average:
Indian Captive: Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski
The Witch of Black Bird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Invincible Louisa by Corneilia Meigs
Loser by Jerry Spinelli
Challenging:
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Students entering Sixth Grade
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Required:
A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle (sequel to the Fifth Grade read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle)
Choose one from the following:
A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montgomery Ward
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene DuBois
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
SIXTH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES
Required – choose one from the following:
The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong
The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Walking the Bible by Bruce Feiler
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Students entering Seventh Grade
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Required:
Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
One book from the following authors:
Lloyd Alexander
Agatha Christie
Lois Duncan
James Herriot
Madeleine L’Engle
David Macauley
Jules Verne
Ann Rinaldi
Virginia Hamilton
SEVENTH GRADE SCIENCE
Required – pick two biographies (male and female) from the following biography series:
Giants of Science – Penguin Group
Solutions: Profiles in Science for Young People – Barron’s Educational Series
Inventing the Future – National Geographic Society
Women’s Adventures in Science – National Academy Press
SEVENTH GRADE RELIGION
Required for the first week of school – bring a copy of the following:
Joshua by Joseph F. Girzone
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Students entering Eighth Grade
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Required:
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
In addition locate one biographical selection about Charles Dickens and one selection describing Dickensian England. Online resource is ok.
EIGHTH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES
Choose one of the following:
Steal Away by Jennifer Armstrong
The Captive by Joyce Hansen
A Picture of Freedom by Pat McKissack
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
EIGHTH GRADE RELIGION
Required: Biography of a Saint - student choice
*Recommended:
Any Saint biography by author Louis de Wohl
Any Saint biography by Ignatius Press
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