We encourage all students to continue reading throughout the summer. You can find each grade's summer reading list by clicking the grade below. Check with the front office about specific requirements for each teacher for the beginning of the school year.
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Happy Reading!
Kindergarten
Books By Title:
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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Caps for Sale
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Make Way for Duckling
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Blueberries for Sal
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First Grade, Here I come!
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The Listening Walk
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The Little House
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The Grouchy Ladybug
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Books By Series:
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Franklin Series
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Clifford Series
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Amelia Bedelia Series
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Laura Joffe Numeroff Series
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Berenstein Bears Series
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Henry and Mudge Series
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Frog and Toad Series
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Biscuit Series
1st Grade
Title | Author | Reading Level |
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Abe Lincoln's Hat | Brenner | 2.9 |
Amelia Bedelia Series | Parish | 1.5 - 4.5 |
Arthur Meets the President | Brown | 2.9 |
Arthur's Loose Tooth Series | Hoban | 2.6 - 3.1 |
B is for Betsy (Carolyn Haywood series) | Haywood | Range |
Bravest Dog Ever, The | Staniford | 2.5 |
Cat in the Hat Comes Back, The | Seuss | 2.1 |
Cat in the Hat, The | Seuss | 2.1 |
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom | Martin | 2.9 |
Chicken Soup with Rice | Sendak | 3.2 |
Chrysanthemum (Henkes Book Series) | Henkes | 2.8 |
Clifford's Pals (Clifford Book Series) | Bridwell | 2.4 |
Clifford's Puppy Days | Bridwell | 1.9 |
Corduroy | Freeman | 3.5 |
Curious George Series | Rey | 1.3 - 2.5 |
Father Bear Comes Home | Minarik | 2.1 |
Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night | Spier | 2.7 |
Franklin Series | Bourgeois | 1.0 - 3.4 |
Frederick | Lionni | 3.1 |
Frog and Toad are Friends Series | Lobel | 2.1 - 2.9 |
Giving Tree, The | Silverstein | 2.6 |
Goodnight Moon | Brown | 1.8 |
Green Eggs and Ham | Seuss | 1.5 |
Grouchy Ladybug, The | Carle | 2.8 |
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King | Marzollo | 2.8 |
Happy Birthday, Moon | Asch | 2.6 |
Harold and the Purple Crayon | Johnson | 1.9 |
Henry and Mudge Series | Rylant | 2.1 - 2.9 |
Hop on Pop | Seuss | 1.5 |
I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today | Seuss | 2.9 |
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Series | Numeroff | 2.7 |
Ira Sleeps Over | Warber | 2.2 |
Just Me and My Babysitter | Mayer | 1.3 |
Leo the Late Bloomer | Kraus | 1.2 |
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse | Henkes | 3.5 |
Little Bear Series | Minarik | 1.4 - 2.8 |
Little Engine that Could, The | Piper | 3.5 |
Little Rabbit's Loose Tooth | Bate | 3.2 |
Madeline | Bemelmans | 3.1 |
Make Way for Ducklings | McCloskey | 3.1 |
Meet Abraham Lincoln | Pingry | 3.7 |
Miss Rumphius | Cooney | 2.9 |
Mitten, The | Brett | 3.9 |
Napping House, The | Wood | 2.8 |
Nate the Great | Sharmat | 1.8 |
Noisy Nora | Wells | 2.6 |
One Fish Two Fish | Seuss | 1.7 |
Owl at Home | Lobel | 2.7 |
Picture Book of Abraham Lincoln Series, The | Adler | 2.7 |
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? | Martin | 1.6 |
Popcorn | Asch | 2.9 |
Poppleton | Rylant | 2.1 |
Pumpkin, Pumpkin | Titherington | 1.5 |
Put Me in the Zoo | Lopshire | 1.7 |
Rosie's Walk | Hutchins | 1.4 |
Runaway Bunny, The | Brown | 2.9 |
Snowy Day, The | Keats | 1.8 |
Stone Soup | McGovern | 2.4 |
Story of Ferdinand, The | Leaf | 2.9 |
Story of Johnny Appleseed, The | Aliki | 2.9 |
Strega Nona | dePaola | 3.1 |
Tale of Peter Rabbit | Potter | 2.5 |
There's a Wocket in my Pocket | Seuss | 2.1 |
Tops and Bottoms | Stevens | 2.1 |
Very Hungry Caterpillar, The | Carle | 2.6 |
Where the Wild Things Are | Sendak | 2.9 |
Zack's Alligator Goes to School | Mozelle | 2.2 |
2nd Grade
Title | Author |
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Velveteen Rabbit | Margery Williams |
Trumpet of the Swan | E.B. White |
Sugar Creek Gang Series | Paul Hutchins |
Saddle Club | Bonnie Bryant |
Pipi Longstocking | Astrid Lindgren |
The Mouse and the Motorcycle | Beverly Cleary |
Ramona Series | Beverly Cleary |
Nate the Great Series | Majorie Weinman Sharmat |
Mr. Popper's Penguins | Astrid Lindgren |
Magic Tree House Fact Finder Nonfiction Books | Mary Pope Osborne |
Magic Tree House/Merlin Series | Mary Pope Osborne |
Magic School Bus Chapter Book Series | Joanna Cole |
Little House in the Big Woods Series (Not Little House on the Prairie - planned as read together in 3rd Grade) | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
Imagination Station Chapter Books | Adventures in Odyssey |
Flat Stanley Series | Jeff Brown |
Encyclopedia Brown Series | Donald Solo |
Cul-de-Sac Kids Series | Beverly Lewis |
Cam Jansen Series | David A. Adler |
Caddie Woodlawn | Carol Ryrie Brink |
Boxcar Children Series | Gertrude Chandler Warner |
Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo |
Berenstain Bears Chapter Books (Not Picture Books) | Berenstain |
Bear Called Paddington | Michael Bond |
Arthur Chapter Books (Not Picture Books_ | Marc Brown |
American Girl Series | Mary Casanova |
3rd Grade
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The Best School Year Ever - Barbara Robinson
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Nothing but Trouble - Jacqueline Davies
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Encyclopedia Brown, boy Detective Series - Donald J. Sobol
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Nim's Island - Wendy Orr
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Trumpet of the Swan - E.B. White
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Sarah, Plain and Tall - Patricia MacLachlan
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"I Survived" Series - Lauren Tarshis
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Wayside School Series - Louis Sachar
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The Rescue Princesses Series - Paula Harrison
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Little House Series (Except Little House on the Prairie) - Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Chronicles of Narnia Series (Except the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe) - C.S. Lewis
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Hardy Boys Series - Franklin Dixon
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Boxcar Children Series - Gertrude Chandler Warner
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Any Books by Beverly Cleary (Ramona, Henry Higgins, Socks, etc.)
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Any Books by Roald Dahl (Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The BFG, etc.)
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4th Grade
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The Black Stallion - Walter Farley
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Redwall - Brian Jacques
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The Silver Chair; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; Prince Caspian (Any in the series other than "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe") - CS.. Lewis
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Heidi - Johanna Spyri
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Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss
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Sounder - William Armstrong
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The Trumpet of the Swan - E.B. White
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Bunnicula - James Howe
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No Talking - Andrew Clements
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Lunch Money - Andrew Clements
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The Little House Series (except for "Little House on the Prairie") - Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Nancy Drew Series - Carolyn Keene
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Hardy Boys Series - Franklin Dixon
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5th Grade
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Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe​
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Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
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Carry on, Mr. Bowditch - Jean Lathan
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Turn Homeward, Hannalee - Patricia Beatty
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Caddie Woodlawn - Carol Brink
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The Summer of the Swans - Betsy Byars
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Dear Mr. Henshaw - Beverly Cleary
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The Wheel on the School - Meindert De Jong
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Thimble Summer - Elizabeth Enright
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Blue Willow - Doris Gates
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Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
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Two Mighty Rivers - Mari Hanes
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The House of Sixty Fathers - Meindert De Jong
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Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George
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Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell
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Tom's Midnight Garden - Philippa Pearce
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Summer of the Monkeys - Wilson Rawks
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Little Men - Louisa Alcott
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Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Burnett
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Journey from Peppermint Street - Meindert De Jong
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Hans Brinker - Mary Dodge
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The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
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The Tale of Despereaux - Kate DiCamillo
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The View from Saturday - E.L. Konisburg
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Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
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In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson - Bette Bao Lord
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Any book in the "I Survived" Series
6th - 8th Grade
Title | Author |
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Amos Fortune, Free Man | Yates, Elizabeth |
The Sword in the Stone | White, T.H. |
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Twain, Mark |
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers | Trapp, Maria Augusta |
The Hiding Place | Ten Boom, Corrie |
The Cay | Taylor, Theodore |
Treasure Island | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Calico Captive | Speare, Elizabeth George |
Summer of the Monkeys | Rawls, Wilson |
The Yearling | Rawlings, Marjorie |
A Day No Pigs Would Die | Peck, Robert |
The River Between Us | Peck, Richard |
Hatchet | Paulsen, Gary |
Animal Farm | Orwell, George |
Christy | Marshall, Catherine |
The Giver | Lowry, Lois |
The Call of the Wild | London, Jack |
White Fang | London, Jack |
Perelandra | Lewis, C.S. |
Out of the Silent Planet | Lewis, C.S. |
The Tinker's Daughter | Lawton, Wendy |
The Captive Princess | Lawton, Wendy |
The Jungle Book | Kipling, Rudyard |
Across Five Aprils | Hunt, Irene |
The Outsiders | Hinton, S.E. |
Dune | Frank, Herbert |
The Diary of a Young Girl | Frank, Anne |
Johnny Tremain | Forbes, Esther |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Dumas, Alexandre |
Sherlock Holmes | Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
Great Expectations | Dickens, Charles |
Robinson Crusoe | Defoe, Daniel |
The Red Badge of Courage | Crane, Stephen |
And Then There Were None | Christie, Agatha |
Tarzan | Burroughs, Edgar Rice |
The Martian Chronicles | Bradbury, Ray |
The Wizard of Oz | Baum, Frank L. |
Watership Down | Adams, Richards |
9th - 12th Grade
Title | Author |
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War of the Worlds | Wells, H.G. |
Aeneid | Virgil |
Around the World in Eighty Days | Verne, Jules |
The Prince and the Pauper | Twain, Mark |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan |
Dracula | Stoker, Bram |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Kidnapped | Stevenson, Robert Louis |
Of Mice and Men | Steinbeck, John |
The Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John |
The Tempest | Shakespeare, William |
The Taming of the Shrew | Shakespeare, William |
Othello | Shakespeare, William |
Much Ado About Nothing | Shakespeare, William |
Henry V | Shakespeare, William |
How Should We Then Live | Schaeffer, Francis |
Ivanhoe | Scott, Sir Walter |
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood | Pyle, Howard |
The Scarlet Pimpernel | Orczy, Emmuska |
Paradise Lost | Milton, John |
Moby Dick | Melville, Herman |
Le Morte D' Arthur | Malory, Thomas |
Phantastes | MacDonald, George |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Hugo, Victor |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor |
Lord of the Flies | Hugo, Victor |
The Three Musketeers | Dumas, Alexandre |
The Count of Monte Cristo | Dumas, Alexandre |
Oliver Twist | Dickens, Charles |
Nicholas Nickleby | Dickens, Charles |
A Tale of Two Cities | Dickens, Charles |
Murder on the Orient Express | Christie, Agatha |
The Awakening | Chopin, kate |
The Complete Father Brown | Chesterton, G.K. |
Don Quixote | Cervantes, Miguel |
My Antonia | Cather, Willa |
In Cold Blood | Capote, Truman |
Wuthering heights | Bronte, Emily |
Jane Eyre | Bronte, Charlotte |
The Song of Roland | Author Unknown |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | Author Unknown |
Persuasion | Austen, Jane |
Northanger Abbey | Austen, Jane |
Emma | Austen, Jane |
Inferno | Alighieri, Dante |