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Summer 2008 Reading List

*Required Reading

Going into Kindergarten – there is no required Summer Reading for students entering Kindergarten.  Parents are encouraged to read to their child daily.  Most public libraries publish a listing of recommended books.

 

Going into First Grade – read three books

*The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Today is Monday by Eric Carle

The Busy Spider by Eric Carle

Itchy, Itchy Chicken Pox by Grace Maccarone

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

Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin, Jr.

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Tale of a Tadpole by Karen Wallace

I Went Walking by Sue Williams 

 

Going into Second Grade – read four books

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

*Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon by Arnold Lobel

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

 

Going into Third Grade – read three books

*The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary

*The Secret Solider by Ann McGovern

and one from either author or series listed below:

Matt Christopher’s sports stories

Andrew Clement’s novels

Amber Brown series by Paula Danziger

Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner 

 

Going into Fourth Grade – read three books

*Granny Torelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech

The Cricket in Times Square by George Seldon

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

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

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis 

 

Going into Fifth Grade – read three books

*The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne Duprau

My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Artemis Fowl – The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer

Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O’Dell 

*Required Reading

Going into Sixth Grade – read three books

*Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis

*A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

A Corner of the Universe by Ann Martin

The River by Gary Paulson

Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

 

Going into Seventh Grade – 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

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi

 

Going into Eighth Grade – 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

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

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 

 

*Required Reading