St. Matthew 2010/2011 Summer Reading
2nd Grade
Summer Reading List for Students Rising to 2nd Grade
Each student must read three (3) books from the following list.


  • The Berenstain Bears Think of Those in Need, Stan & Jan Berenstain
  • Deserts, Gail Gibbons
  • Cactus Hotel, Brenda Z. Guiberson
  • Curious George Goes to the Hospital, Margaret & H. A. Rey
  • Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Judi Barrett
  • Alexander and the Terrible, Very Bad Day, Judith Viorst
  • George and Martha, James Marshall
  • A Picture Book of George Washington, David A. Adler
  • Goldilocks Returns, Lisa Campbell Ernst
  • Henry and Mudge and the Sneaky Crackers, Cynthia Rylant
  • Nate the Great and Fishy Prize, Marjorie Weinmann Sharmat
  • The Little House, Virginia Lee Burton
  • Sunflower House, Eve Bunting
  • Junie B. Jones and her Big, Fat Mouth, Barbara Park
  • Dogs Don't wear Sneakers, Laura Numeroff

    3rd Grade
    Summer Reading List for Students Rising to 3rd Grade
    Students have one required book and must choose another book from the selected list.


    Required Reading: Class Clown, Johanna Hurwitz

    Select one book from the following series.
  • Horrible Harry, Suzy Kline
  • Magic Tree House, Mary Pope Osborne
  • Magic School Bus, Joanna Cole

    4th Grade
    Summer Reading List for Students Rising to 4th Grade
    Students have one required book and must choose another book from the selected list.


    Required Reading: Charlotte's Web, E. B. White

    Select one book from the following list.
  • The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Beverly Cleary
  • The Borrowers, Mary Norton
  • Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Junie B. Jones, Barbara Park
  • How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell
  • The Hundred Dresses, Eleanor Estes
  • There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, Louis Sachar
  • The Trumpet Swan, E. B. White
  • Loser, Jerry Spinelli

    5th Grade
    Summer Reading List for Students Rising to 5th Grade
    Students will have one required reading, one book from selected list, and one book of your choice.


    Required Reading: Mistakes that Worked, Charlotte Foltz Jones

    Select One of Following:
  • My Life as a 5th Grade Comedian, Elizabeth Levy
  • Nothing's Fair in the Fifth Grade, Barthe DeClements
  • Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
  • The White Stag, Kate Seredy
  • The Football Fugitive, Catcher with a Glass Arm, or any other book by Matt Christopher
  • Any Vet Volunteers, Thomas Rockwell

    For emerging readers
  • How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell

    For advanced readers
  • The Westing Game, Ellen Paskin

    Students will choose any book of their liking to read, with the following conditions:
    a. The book must be about 100 pages, divided into chapters.
    b. The book can be fiction or non-fiction, but non-fiction books must be at least 50% text.
  • Grade 6
    Summer Reading List for Students Rising to 6th Grade
    Students have one required book and must choose another book from the selected list.


    Required Reading: Maniac Magee, Jerry Spinelli

    Selected List:
  • Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
  • Light in the Forest, Conrad Richter
  • Sarah Bishop, Scott O'Dell
  • When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle
  • The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
  • Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Redwall, Brian Jacques

    Grade 7
    Summer Reading List for Students Rising to 7th Grade
    Students have one required book and must choose another book from the selected list.


    Required Reading: Downriver, Will Hobbs

    Selected List:
  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  • Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine
  • Tex, S. E. Hinton
  • Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl

    Grade 8
    Summer Reading List for Students Rising to 8th Grade
    Students have one required book and must choose another book from the selected list.


    Required Reading: Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

    Selected List:
  • The Call of the Wild, Jack London
  • The Last of the Mohicans, James Fennimore Cooper
  • All Things Bright and Beautiful, James Herriot
  • 1984 or Animal Farm, George Orwell
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
  • Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
  • The Miracle Worker, William Gibson