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
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
The Boxcar Children #1 by Gertrude C. Warner
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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report
Grade 4 - Students must choose 1 fiction and 1 non-fiction
Fiction – Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia Mac
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Abel’s
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 –
Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by James Howe
Non-fiction – A New Nation: The
Collins
Look to the Stars by Aldrin (G.P. Putnam publisher)
Grade 6 - Student must choose 1 fiction
Fiction – Dear, Mr. Henshaw by
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
Non-fiction – Secrets, Lies and Algebra by Wendy Lichtman
*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
*Students will receive a copy of this book from Mrs. Sexton