OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS SCHOOL
REQUIRED SUMMER READING LIST, 2015-2016
(Students are to read the books for the grade level the student will be entering in August.)
Kdg:
Please read the following four titles:
Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
The Night Before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing
Animals on Board by Stuart J. Murphy
The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper
Grade 1:
Please read two of the following three titles and the mandatory selection:
Animals Around the World by Wade Cooper
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Mandatory reading: First Grade, Here I Come! by Nancy Carlson
Grade 2:
Please read two of the following three titles and the mandatory selection:
Poppleton Everyday by Cynthia Rylant
Henry and Mudge and the Happy Cat by Cynthia Rylant
Butterflies by Karen Shapiro
Mandatory reading: What Makes Day and Night by Franklyn M. Branley
Grade 3:
Please read the following three titles:
Who Was Helen Keller? by Gare Thompson
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
Bronco Charlie and the Pony Express by MarleneTarg Brill
Grade 4:
Please read the following three titles:
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
I Survived: The San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 by Lauren Tarshis
The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
Grade 5:
Please read the following three titles:
Boy by Roald Dahl
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Immigrant Kids by Russell Freedman
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Grade 6:
Please read the following three titles:
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Wonder by A. J. Palacio
Grade 7:
Please read the following three titles:
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
Grade 8:
Please read the following three titles:
The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Houston
Check the following websites for availability to purchase the summer reading titles:
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Scholastic Store Online.
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OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS SCHOOL
SUMMER READING PROGRAM RECORD
(This form must be completed and returned to the classroom teacher the first day of school in August.)
STUDENT NAME: ______________________________________________________
BOOK TITLE: ________________________________________________________
AUTHOR: ____________________________________________________________
DATE COMPLETED:_____________________________________________________
PARENT SIGNATURE:___________________________________________________
STUDENT NAME: ______________________________________________________
BOOK TITLE: ________________________________________________________
AUTHOR: ____________________________________________________________
DATE COMPLETED: ____________________________________________________
PARENT SIGNATURE: __________________________________________________
STUDENT NAME:_______________________________________________________
BOOK TITLE:_________________________________________________________
AUTHOR:_____________________________________________________________
DATE COMPLETED: ____________________________________________________
PARENT SIGNATURE:___________________________________________________
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