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Summer Reading List 

*indicates Required Reading

 

Going into Grade 1- read three books

*The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox by Grace Maccarone

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See by Bill Martin, Jr.

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Tale of a Tadpole by Karen Wallace

Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin, Jr.

I Went Walking by Sue Williams

Today is Monday by Eric Carle

The Busy Spider by Eric Carle 

 

Going into Grade 2 - read four books

*Henry and Mudge (The First Book) by Cynthia Rylant

You may select any books from the series below:

Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel

Amelia Bedelia series by Peggy Parish

Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park

Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne

Henry Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant 

 

Going into Grade 3- read three books

*The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

*The Secret Soldier by Ann McGovern

and one from either author or series listed below

Matt Christopher sports stories

Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger

Andrew Clement’s novels

Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner 

 

Going into Grade 4 - read three books

*The Cricket in Times Square by George Seldon

Granny Torelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech

Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

Niagara Falls or Does It by Henry Winker & Lin Oliver

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee

Let It Begin Here by Dennis Brindell Fradin

 

 

Going into Grade 5 - read three books

*Number the Stars  by Lois Lowry

Listen by Stephanie S. Tolan

The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne Duprau

Joshua’s Song by Joan Hiatt Harlow

The Dark Hills Divided by Patrick Carman

Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Craines by Eleanor Coerr

 

(Please purchase and have the starred book available in September) 

 

Going into Grade 6 - read three books

*Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

*A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The River by Gary Paulson

Woods Runner by Gary Paulson

Mud Shark  by Gary Paulsen

Hatchet by Gary Paulson

A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L’Engle

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L’Engle

Knots in My YoYo String by Jerry Spinelli

Smiles to Go by Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman 

 

Going into Grade 7-  read three books

*Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain

Sounder by William Howard Armstrong

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings

Dicey’s Song by Cynthia Voigt

The Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen

A View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg 

 

Going into Grade 8 - read three books

*To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

*The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929 by Karen Blumenthal

Crispin: Cross of Lead by Avi