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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.
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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
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