Required Summer Reading List


Grade 2 (Choose 2)
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Just Grandpa and Me by Mercer Mayer
No More Monsters for Me by Peggy Parrish
Grizzwold by Syd Hoff
Never Spit on Your Shoes by Denys Cazet
 
Grade 3 (choose 2)
Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion by Suzy Kline
Curious George Flies a Kite by Margret Rey
Horrible Harry's Secret by Suzy Kline
Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne
Or any Magic Tree House book by Mary Pope Osborne
 
Grade 4 (Choose 2)
Book Level 3.2 - 4.3
Lighthouse Mystery or The Yellow House Mystery,or other books in the Box Car Children series by Gertrude Warner
Judy Moody MD. by Megan McDonald
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Skinny Bones by Barbara Park
The Spy on Third Base by Matt Christopher
A to Z Mysteries by Rob Roy (any book in the series)
The Adventures of the Bailey School Kids series by Debbie Dadey and Marcia Jones

Book Level 4.5 - 5.1
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Betsy-Tacy by Maud Hart Lovelace
Henry & Beezus by Beverly Cleary
The Winged Colt of Casa Mia by Betsy Byars
Fox Steals Home by Matt Christopher
Mare in the Meadow by Ben Baglio (or other Animal Ark book)
The Report Card or Room One by Andrew Clements
 
Grade 5 (Choose 2)
Book level 3.9-5.2
Cat Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate KiCamillo
Soup by Robert Newton Peck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Ida Early Comes Over the Mountain by Robert Burch
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald

Book level 5.3-6.7
Sounder by William Armstrong
Tracker by Gary Pausen
Justin Morgan Had a Horse by Marguette Henry
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
Phanton Tollbooth by Juster Norton
Any book by:
Franklin Dixon (Hardy Boys Mysteries Series)
Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew Mysteries)
Gertrude Warner (The Box Car Children Series)
Paul Hutchens (The Sugar Creek Gang Series)
 
Grade 6 (Choose 2)
Choose any 2 AR books on 4th, 5th or 6th grade level.
 
Summer Reading 7th - 12th Grade
Mrs. Krichbaum's 2010-2011 Juniors and Seniors only: The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey.

All other 7th - 12th Grade English Classes will not be required to do summer reading, it will be incorporated into the school year.
 


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