Andover Public Schools
Suggested Summer Reading List
2013
Summer Reading list compiled by:
Nancy Snow, Library Teacher – Bancroft Elementary
Gerri Fegan, Library Teacher – High Plain Elementary
Lisa Cremin, Library Teacher – Sanborn Elementary
Elyse Caruso, Library Teacher – Shawsheen Elementary
Julianne Toomey-Kautz, Library Teacher – South Elementary
Jamie Phillips, Library Teacher – West Elementary
Shelley Coughlin, Digital Learning Specialist – West Middle School
Barbara Murray, Digital Learning Specialist – Doherty Middle School
John Berube, Librarian – Andover High School
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Andover Public Schools Summer Reading List 2013
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Entering Kindergarten
Baker, Keith
LMNO Peas
Bloom, Suzanne
What About Bear?
DeGroat, Diane
Gilbert and the Lost Tooth
Edwards, Pamela Duncan
While the World is Sleeping
Elliott, David and Meade, Holly
In the Wild
Hall, Michael
Perfect Square
Henkes, Kevin
Owen
Klassen, Jon
This Is Not My Hat and
I Want My Hat Back
Menchin, Scott
Taking a Bath with the Dog and
Other Things That Make Me Happy
Miller, Connie Rose
Happy Is… (A+ Books: Know Your
Emotions)
Pinkwater, Daniel
Bear’s Picture
Posada, Mia
Guess What is Growing Inside this
Egg
Raschka, Chris
A Ball For Daisy
Rosenthal, Amy Krouse
Duck! Rabbit!
Scillian, Devin & Bowers, Tim
Memoirs of a Goldfish
Seeger, Laura Vaccaro
The Hidden Alphabet
Stead, Philip C.
A Sick Day for Amos McGee
Stein, David Ezra
Interrupting Chicken
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Tullet, Herve
Press Here
Willems, Mo
Can I Play, Too? and
Duckling Gets a Cookie
Yolen, Jane
How Do Dinosaurs Go To School?
Entering Grade 1
Barnett, Mac
Extra Yarn
Barton, Chris
Shark vs. Train
Berger, Carin
Forever Friends
Bottner, Barbara
Miss Brooks Loves Books! (and I
Don’t)
Calmenson, Stephanie
May I Pet Your Dog?
dePaola, Tomie
Strega Nona’s Harvest
Fleming, Candace
Clever Jack Takes the Cake
Fore, S.J.
Read to Tiger
French, Vivian
Yucky Worms
Hale, Christy
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of
Building
Henkes, Kevin
My Garden
Hills, Tad
How Rocket Learned to Read
Lobel, Arnold
Frog and Toad Together
McCarthy, Megan
Pop!: The Invention of Bubble Gum
Muth, Jon J.
Zen Ties
Nolan, Janet
The Firehouse Light
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O’Connor, Jane
Fancy Nancy: Aspiring Artist
Peterson, Cris
Seed, Soil, Sun
Sidman, Joyce
Swirl By Swirl: Spirals in Nature
Wells, Rosemary
Emily’s First Hundred Days of School
Wiesner, David
Art and Max
Willems, Mo
Knuffle Bunny Free: An Unexpected
Diversion
Entering Grade Two
Adler, David
Cam Jansen and the Green School
Mystery
Arnold, Tedd
There’s a Fly in My Soup
Bears, Alex
The Jungle Grapevine
Belle, Cece
Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover
Brendler, Carol
Winnie Finn, Worm Farmer
DiCamillo, Kate
Bink and Gollie: Two for One
Ferris, Jeri Chase
Noah Webster & His Words
Graham, Bob
How to Heal a Broken Wing
Greene, Stephanie
Owen Foote, Second Grade Strongman
Holm, Jennifer L.
Squish #1: Super Amoeba
Hopkinson, Deborah
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek: A Tall Thin
Tale
Krosoczka, Jarrett
Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians
Larson, Kirby and Mary Nethery
Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane
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Katrina
Lin, Grace
Ling & Ting: Not Exactly the Same
Munro, Roxie
Hatch
Palatini, Margie
Lousy Rotten Stinkin’ Grapes
Potter, Alicia
Mrs. Harkness and the Panda
Raczka, Bob
Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys
Sklansky, Amy E.
Out of this World: Poems and Facts About
Space
Vernick, Audrey
Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an
Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team
Watt, Melanie
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
Zimelman, Nathan
How the Second Grade Got $8,205.50 to
Visit the Statue of Liberty
Entering Grade Three
Bauer, Marion Dane
The Golden Ghost
Blume, Judy
The Pain and the Great One: Going,
Going, Gone
Christopher, Matt
The Dog That Called the Pitch
Cleary, Beverly
Muggie Maggie
Dahl, Roald
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Davies, Jacqueline
Tricking the Tallyman
Fleischman, Paul
The Matchbox Diary
Jenkins, Emily
Toys Go Out: Being the Adventures of a
Knowledgeable Stingray, a Toughy Little
Buffalo, and Someone Called Plastic
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Jenkins, Steve
Bones
Klimo, Kate
The Dragon in the Sock Drawer
Kline, Suzy
Horrible Harry on the Ropes
Lyons, Kelly Starling
Ellen’s Broom
MacLachlan, Patricia
Waiting for the Magic
Markle, Sandra
The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs: A
Scientific Mystery
McDonald, Megan
Stink: The Ultimate Thumb-Wrestling
Smackdown
Neuschwander, Cindy
Sir Cumference and All the King’s Tens:
A Math Adventure
Pennypacker, Sara
Clementine and the Spring Trip
Polacco, Patricia
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother
Rylant, Cynthia
Mr. Putter and Tabby Ring the Bell
Sciezska, Jon
Wushu Were Here (Time Warp Trio series)
Spinelli, Jerry
Third Grade Angels
Stout, Glenn
Soldier Athletes: Good Sports
Tarshis, Lauren
(I Survived) The Sinking of the Titanic
Winter, Jonah
Here comes the Garbage Barge!
Entering Grade Four
Averbeck, Jim
The Market Bowl
Avi
Poppy and Ereth
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Barrows, Anne
The Magic Half
Cammuso, Frank
The Dodgeball Chronicles (Knights of the
Lunch Table, No. 1)
Clements, Andrew
Lost and Found
Coy, John
Strong to the Hoop
Creech, Sharon
Hate That Cat
Fitzmaurice, Kathryn
The Year the Swallows Came Early
Funke, Cornelia
Dragon Rider
Gutman, Dan
Roberto & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure
Holm, Jennifer L.
Turtle in Paradise
Ibbotson, Eva
Which Witch?
Lasky, Kathryn
The Capture (Guardians of Ga'hoole, Book
1)
Lewis, C.S.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(Narnia Chronicles)
Lin, Grace
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
Lord, Cynthia
Touch Blue
Martin, Ann M.
The Doll People
Mass, Wendy
Eleven Birthdays
Namioka, Lensey
Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Year
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Shiloh
Schlitz, Laura Amy
The Night Fairy
Silverstein, Shel
A Light in the Attic
Sis, Peter
Train of States
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Thirnmesh, Catherine
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of
Ingenious Inventions
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Shredderman: Secret Identity
Weitzman, David
Pharaoh’s Boat
Weston, Robert Paul
Zorgmazoo
Entering Grade Five
Alexander, William
Goblin Secrets
Applegate, Katherine
The One and Only Ivan
Carman, Patrick
Floors
DeCristofano, Carolyn Cinami
A Black Hole Is Not a Hole
DiTerlizzi, Tony
The Search for WondLa
Dowell, Frances O’Roark
The Second Life of Abigail Walker
Hahn, Mary Downing
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
Hiaasen, Carl
Chomp
Horowitz, Anthony
Stormbreaker
Ibbotson, Eva
One Dog and His Boy
Flanagan, John
Brotherband Chronicles: The Outcasts
Janeczko, Paul B.
Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes,
Ciphers, and Secret Writing
Lupica, Mike
Heat
Nytra, David
The Secret of the Stone Frog: A Toon
graphic novel
Pennypacker, Sara
Summer of the Gypsy Moths
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Pinkney, Andrea Davis
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who
Changed America
Polacco, Patricia
Bully
Scieszka, Jon
Knucklehead
Snicket, Lemony
Who Could That Be at This Hour?
Stead, Rebecca
Liar and Spy
Vanderpool, Clare
Moon Over Manifest
Williams-Garcia, Rita
One Crazy Summer
Entering Grade Six
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The Secret Garden
Child, Noah
Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja
Dokey, Cameron
Sunlight and Shadow
Gantos, Jack
Dead End in Norvelt
Hartman, Rachel
Seraphina
Hickam, Homer
Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)
Hopkinson, Deborah
Titanic: Voices from Disaster
John, Anthony
Five Flavors of Dumb
Juster, Norton
The Phantom Tollbooth
Lambert, Joseph
Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller
(graphic novel)
Murakami, Takashi
Stargazing Dog (graphic novel)
Napoli, Donna Jo
Alligator Bayou
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Sheinkin, Steve
Bomb: The Race to Build- and Steal- the
World’s Most Dangerous Weapon
Sheth, Kashmira
Boys Without Names
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kidnapped
Thompson, Holly
Orchards
Entering Grade Seven
Card, Orson Scott
Ender’s Game
Coats, J. Anderson
The Wicked and the Just
Hicks, Faith Erin
Friends with Boys
Hughes, Dean
Soldier Boys
Kade, Stacey
The Rules: Project Paper Doll
Lockhart, E.
The Disreputable History of Frankie LandauBanks
Lowry, Lois
Son (The Giver #4)
McKinley, Robin
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story Beauty and
the Beast
Meloy, Maile
The Apothecary
Morris, Willie
My Dog Skip
Murphy, Jim and Alison Blank
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the
Never-Ending Search for a Cure
Sepetys, Ruta
Between Shades of Gray
Smith, Jennifer
This is What Happy Looks Like
Sones, Sonya
One of those Hideous Books Where the
Mother Dies
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Twain, Mark
The Prince and the Pauper
Warren, Andrea
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of
London
Yancey, Rick
The 5th Wave
Yolen, Jane
The Devil’s Arithmetic
Entering Grade Eight
Avi
Nothing But the Truth
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell
They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth
of an American Terrorist Group
Clare, Cassandra
Mortal Instruments series
Collins, Suzanne
The Hunger Games
Dessen, Sarah
What Happened to Goodbye
Forman, Gayle
Just One Day
Goldman, William
The Princess Bride
Harden, Blaine
Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s
Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to
Freedom in the West
Helligman, Deborah
Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of
Faith
Hesse, Karen
Witness
McCormick, Patricia
Never Fall Down
McGuigan, Mary Ann
Morning in a Different Place
Miller, Lauren
Parallel
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Quick, Matthew
Boy21
Ridley, R.W.
The Takers (The Oz Chronicles)
Roth, Veronica
Divergent
Stiefvater, Maggie
The Raven Boys: Raven Cycle
Stiefvater, Maggie
The Scorpio Races
Twain, Mark
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court
Young, Moira
Blood Red Road (Dust Lands series)
Entering High School
Fiction
Baggott, Julianna
Pure
Bendis, Brian Michael
Spider-Man (graphic novel)
Bray, Libba
The Diviners
Buzo, Laura
Love and Other Perishable Items
Chen, Justina
North of Beautiful
Cline, Ernest
Ready Player One
Erdrich, Louise
The Round House
Green, John
The Fault in Our Stars
Lane, Andrew
Black Ice and Rebel Fire
Leveen, Tom
Zero
Mieville, China
Railsea
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Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
No Crystal Stair
Rowell, Rainbow
Eleanor & Park
Sedgwick, Marcus
Midwinter Blood
Semple, Maria
Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Sloan, Robin
Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Walker, Karen Thompson
The Age of Miracles
Wein, Elizabeth
Code Name Verity
Non-Fiction
Ballard, Chris
One Shot at Forever
Blumenthal, Karen
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different
Dickey, R.A.
Throwing Strikes
O’Reilly, Bill
Killing Kennedy
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