Entering Kindergarten
Required
Summer Reading
List
“ Reading is a wonderful summer activity ”
Students are to pick 2 books from the list below
To read or read with a parent
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
By: Micheal Rosen
ISBN# 978-0689-853-494
Harold and the Purple Crayon
By: Cricket Johnson
ISBN# 978-0064-430-227
A House for Hermit Crab
By: Eric Carle
ISBN# 978-0689-848-940
Fish is Fish
By: Leo Leonni
ISBN# 978-0394-827-995
The Napping House
By: Audrey Wood
ISBN# 978-0152-026-325
The Kissing Hand
By: Audrey Penn
ISBN# 978-1933-718-002
Sister Mary’s
suggestion to
to read with your child
(HC)
** All summer reading directions will be posted on the school website **
Entering
1st Grade
Required
Summer
Reading
List
“ Reading is a wonderful summer activity ”
Students are required to read 2 Books from the list below
The Listening Walk
By: Paul Showers
ISBN# 978-0064-433-228
A Picture Book of George Washington
By: David Adler
ISBN# 978-0823-408-009
Dollars and Sense
By: Jan and Stan Berenstain
ISBN# 978-0375-811-241
How Big Were the Dinosaurs?
By: Bernard Most
ISBN# 978-0152-008-529
Dairy of a Worm
By: Doreen Cronin
** All summer reading directions will be posted on the school website **
Entering 2nd Grade
Required
Summer Reading
List
“ Reading is a wonderful summer activity “
Mandatory Reading Books
It is required that you read these 2 Books
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Johnny Appleseed – A Tall Tale
By: Steven Kellogg
ISBN# 978-0688-140-250
(Social Studies)
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Freckle Juice
By: Judy Blume
ISBN# 978-0440-428-138
Other Suggested Reading Books
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Elevator Magic
By: Stuart J. Murphy
(Math)
ISBN# 978-0064-467-094
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Oh Say Can You Say What’s the Weather Today
By: Tish Rabe
(Science)
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Nate the Great
By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
(Fiction)
ISBN# 978-0440-461-265
** All summer reading directions will be posted on the school website **
Entering 3 rd Grade Required Summer Reading List
“ Reading is a wonderful summer activity “
Mandatory reading Books:
these 2 Books
It is required that you read
- The Chocolate Touch
By: Patrick Catling
(Fantasy)
ISBN# 978-0688-161-330
- Clementine (Fiction)
By: Sara Pennypacker
ISBN# 978-0786-838-837
Other suggested reading selections:
- All the Places to Love
(Descriptive)
By: Patricia MacLachlan
- I Was a Third Grade Science Project
(Science)
By: Mary Jane Auch
ISBN# 978-0440-416-067
- Freckle Juice
(Fiction)
By: Judy Blume
ISBN# 978-0440-428-138
** All summer reading directions will be posted on the school website **
Entering 4th Grade Required Summer Reading
List
“ Reading is a wonderful summer activity “
Students are required to read two books from the list below
Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens:
A Math Adventure
By: Cindy Neuschwander
ISBN# 978-1570-917-288
(math)
Shadows on the Sea
By: Joan Haitt Harlow
ISBN# 978-0689-849-275
(historical fiction)
Extreme Animals: Toughest Creatures on Earth
By: Nicola Davies
ISBN# 978-0763-641- 276
(science)
Neil Armstrong: One Giant Leap for Mankind
By: Tara Dixon-Engel & Mike Johnson
ISBN# 978-1402-744-969
(Sterling Biographies Series)
Rags and Riches:
Kids in the Time of Charles Dickens
By: Mary Pope Osborn
ISBN# 978-0375-860-102
(social studies)
** All summer reading directions will be posted on the school website **
Entering
5th Grade
Required Summer
Reading List
“ Reading is a wonderful summer activity “
Students are to read two books from the list below
George Washington’s Socks
By: Elvira Woodruff
ISBN# 978-0590-440-363
Dear Mr. Henshaw
By: Beverly Cleary
ISBN# 978-0380-709-588
Standing in the Light:
Dairy of Catherine Carey Logan
(Dear America Series)
By: Mary Pope Osborn
ISBN# 978-0545-266-871
James and the Giant Peach
By: Roald Dahl
ISBN# 978-0142-410-363
Benjamin Franklin
(DK Biography Series)
By: Stephen Krensky
ISBN# 978-0756-635-282
Boy: Tales of Childhood
By: Roald Dahl
ISBN# 978-0142-413-814
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All summer reading directions will be posted on the school website **
Entering 6th Grade Required Summer Reading List
“ Reading is a wonderful summer activity “
Students are required to read two books
Chasing Vermeer
By: Blue Balliett
Will be the one book all 6th graders need to read
ISBN# 978-0439-372-978
It is required you pick one other book from below
Rules
By: Cynthia Lord
ISBN# 978-0439-443-838
Walking the Bible
By: Bruce Feiler
* Sister Mary’s suggestion
** All summer reading directions will be posted on the school website **
Entering 6th Grade
Other Suggested Books:
The Big Field
Heat
By: Mike Lupica
By: Mike Lupica
39 Clues: Maze of Bones
39 Clues series
By: Rick Riordan
By: Rick Riordan
My Letter of the World and other poems
By: Emily Dickinson
The Light in the Attic
By: Shel Silverman
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Bronte’s Book Club
By: Shel Silverman
By: Kristina Gregory
The Crossroads By: Chris Grabenstein
Duel ! Burr and Hamilton’s Deadly War of Words
By: Dennis Brindell Fradin
The Diamond of Darkhold
The Wright 3
By: Blue Balliett
My 100 Adventures
By: Polly Horvath
Lincoln: A Photobiography
Tuck Everything
By: Jeanne DuPrau
By: Russell Freedman
By: Natalie Babbitt
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
By: C.S. Lewis
Chronicles of Narnia series
The Phantom Tollbooth
Physics: Why Matter Matters
Knots in My Yo-yo String
By: C.S. Lewis
By: Norton Juster
By: Dan Green
By: Jerry Spinelli
Entering 7th Grade Required Summer Reading List
“ Reading is a wonderful summer activity “
It is required that you read this book
Faerie Wars
By: Herbie Brennan
ISBN# 978-1582-349-435
You will also need to pick one other book from below
Prince Caspian
By: C.S. Lewis
ISBN# 978-0064-405-003
* Sister Mary’s suggestion
Kira Kira
By: Cynthia Kadohata
ISBN# 978-0689-856-402
** All summer reading directions will be posted on the school website **
Entering 8th Grade
Required
Summer
Reading
List
“ Reading is a wonderful summer activity “
Students are required to read two books from the list below
Life As We Knew It
By: Susan Beth Pfeffer
ISBN# 978-0152-061-548
Joshua: A Parable for Today
By: Joseph F. Girzone
ISBN# 978-0684-813-462
* Sister Mary’s suggestion
Don’t Call Me Ishmael
By: Michael Bauer
ISBN# 978-0061-348-341
** All summer reading directions will be posted on the school website **