Summer Reading List

School Year 2010 – 2011

 

 

 

Kindergarten

 

 

Grade 1

Fiction – Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus - by M. Williams

Non-fiction – Spots of Light (a book about stars) by Dana Rau

                      

Grade 2

Fiction – Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

Non-fiction – One Giant Leap The Story of Neil Armstrong by Don. Brown

 

Grade 3  - Students must choose 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction

Fiction – Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary

               Stanley in Space by Jeff M. Brown

               The Boxcar Children #1 by Gertrude C. Warner

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Non-fiction – So You Want To Be President by Judith S. George

                       Helen Keller by Margaret Davidson

                       Amelia Earhart: Pioneer of the Sky by John Parlin 

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Grade 4  -  Students must choose 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction

Fiction – Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia Mac Lachlan

                Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater

                Abel’s Island by William Steig

Non-Fiction – Ben Franklin (Man of Many Talents) by “Time for Kids”

                        Pocahontas by “Time for Kids”

                        Any Matt Christopher Athletic Biographies

                        Example: On the Mound with Greg Maddux

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Grade 5  - Students must choose 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction

Fiction – Charlottes Web by E.B. White

                Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko

                 Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by James Howe

Non-fiction – A New Nation: The United States (1783-1815) Maestro &

                        Collins               

                      Look to the Stars by Aldrin (G.P. Putnam publisher)  

 

Grade 6  -  Student must choose 1 fiction

Fiction – Dear, Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

                Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

                Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes

Non-fiction – Helen Keller – A Photographic Story of Life by Leslie Garret

 

Grade 7

Fiction – The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell *

Non-fiction – Secrets, Lies and Algebra by Wendy Lichtman 

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*Students will receive a copy of this book from Mrs. Sexton

 

Grade 8

Fiction – Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse *

Non-fiction – The Number Devil by Han Magnus Enzenaberger

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*Students will receive a copy of this book from Mrs. Sexton