Below is the Summer Reading list we sent home with your child! It may look a little overwhelming but sit tight! Each week we will be posting a reading list with one book from the collection that we recommend your child reads. This way, it will be easy to keep track of and you'll only have to make one trip to the library each week:) You may even want to check out a few of these yourself, parents!
Preschool through Grade 2
Preschool through Grade 2
A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchak
Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
Magic School Bus series by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley
Abuela by Arthur Dorros
How My Family Lives in America by Susan Kuklin
Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
Mirandy and Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Grades 3 and 4
My Name Is Maria Isabel by Alma Flor Ada
Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? by Jean Fritz
Much Ado about Aldo by Johanna Hurwitz
The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
Mop, Moondance, and the Nagasaki Knights by Walter Dean Myers
Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Grades 5 and 6
Powwow by George Ancona
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Midwife’s Apprentice by Karen Cushman
The Dairy of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russell Freedman
The Journey: Japanese Americans, Racism and Renewal by Sheila Hamanada
Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton
Family Pictures = Cuadros de Familia by Carmen Lomas Garza
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Maizon at Blue Hill by Jacqueline Woodson
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Grades 7 and 8
The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Houston
The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson
The Egypt Game by Zilphia Snyder
Shiva’s Fire by Suzanne Staples
The Bomb by Theodore Taylor
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Ryder Haggard
Sahara by Clive Cussler
The Eternal Spring of Mr. Alto by Shelia Garrigue
The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
Year of Impossible Goodbyes by Sook Choi
The Courage to Stand Alone: Letters from Prison and Other Writings by Wei Ching-sheng
Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang
Journey to Jo’Burg by Beverly Naidoo
The Girl with the White Flag by Timiko Higa
The Zucchini Warriors by Gordon Korman
The Storyteller’s Daughter by Cameron Dokey
Diamonds in the Shadows by Caroline B. Cooney
Peak by Roland Smith
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Centennial by James Mitchener
Amistad: A Long Road to Freedom by Walter Dean Myers
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Close to Shore: the Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916 by Michael Capuzzo
The Watsons Go to Birmingham: 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Magic of Oz by Frank Baum
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Beyond the Burning Time by Katherine Lasky
Jacob, Have I Loved by Katherine Patterson
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Water is Wide by Richard Conroy
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Shoeless Joe and Me by Dan Gutman
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
To be a Slave by Julius Lester
When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
1776 by David McCullough
Killer Angels by Jeff Shaara
Rocket Boys/October Sky by Homer Hickam
