Summer Reading 2009

Beginning this summer we are requiring our students progressing into grades 5, 6, 7, and 8 to read during the summer. Included below are a series of suggested books for the students to choose from at their upcoming grade level. These books are available in libraries, used book stores, local book stores and in paperback copies. Our hope would be that the children read more than these selections. Learning assessments, tests, quizzes, etc. will be given to all students the first week of school as they begin their reading class to assure that students do the reading.

~ The Family Under the Bridge by Natalie Carlson

~ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl

~ James and the Giant Peach by Ronald Dahl

~ The Hoboken Chicken Emergency  by Daniel Pinkwater

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

~ Stealing Home, The Story of Jackie Robinson  by Barry Denenberg

~ The Egypt Game  by Zilpha Snyder

~ Abel's Island  by William Steig

~ Charlotte's Web  by E.B. White

Going into Grade 5 (choose 3 books to read)

~ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

~ Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry  by Mildred Taylor

~ Lilies of the Field by William Barrett

~ Holes by Louis Sachar

~ Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

~ My Brother Sam is Dead by James and Christopher Collier

~ The Witch of Blackbird Pond  by Elizabeth George Spear

Going into Grade 6 (choose 3 books  to read)

~ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

~ Mythology by Edith Hamilton

~ Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

~ Bulfinch's Mythology

~ The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

~ Anne Boleyn and Me, The Diary of Elinor Valjean by Alison Prince

Going into Grade 7 (choose 2 books  to read)

~ The Outsider  by S.E. Hinton

~ Tom Sawyer  by Mark Twain

~ A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

~ The Chocolate War  by Robert Cormier

~ Beyond the Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

~ Forever in Blue  by Ann Brashares

~ Animal Farm by George Orwell

Going into Grade 8 (choose 3 books to read)