Kindergarten

• Biscuit Books

• Books by Dr. Seuss

• Books by Laura Numeroff

• Books by Eric Carle

• Books by Max Lucado

• Books by Mo Willems

• National Geographic Kids

First Grade

• Books by Dr. Seuss

• Books by Eric Carle

• Books by Laura Numeroff

• Books by Mo Willems

• Fly Guy Books by Tedd Arnold

• Biscuit books by Alyssa Capucilli

• Hello Reader Leveled Readers

• Henry & Mudge books by Cynthia Rylant

Third Grade

• Dive: Book One: The Discovery by Gordon Kordman

• I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 by Lauren Tarshis

• Magic Treehouse Titanic Fact Tracker by Will and Mary Pope Osborne

• My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

THIRD GRADE SUMMER READING PROJECT

Fourth Grade

• The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman

• How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

• Smile by Raina Telgemeier

FOURTH GRADE SUMMER READING PROJECT

Fifth Grade

• Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston

• Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko

• Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech

• Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1) by Deborah Wiles

• Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

• Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade by Barthe DeClements

• Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

• Smile by Raina Telgemeier

• Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

• The View From Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

• The Watson’s Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

• The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

FIFTH GRADE SUMMER READING PROJECT

Sixth Grade

· Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech

· Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

· Front Desk by Kelly Yang

· The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaimn

· I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan

· The Island by Gary Paulsen

· Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption by Katie J. Davis

· Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool

· My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen

· The New Kid by Jerry Craft

· Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo

· See You In The Cosmos by Jack Cheng

· Schooled by Gorman Korman

· Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

· The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

· Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

· Wringer by Jerry Spinelli

SIXTH GRADE SUMMER READING PROJECT

Seventh Grade

• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

• Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson

• Cinder by Marissa Meyer

• The Crossover by Kwane Alexander

• Eragon by Christopher Paolini

• Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

• Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool

• Nothing but The Truth by Avi

• One Came Home by Amy Timberlake

• Peak by Roland Smith

• The Pigman by Paul Zindel

• The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

• Tangerine by Edward Bloor

• Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen

• When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt

SEVENTH GRADE SUMMER READING PROJECT

Eighth Grade

1. Each student is required to read I Am Malala (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai and take general notes about the story on loose leaf paper. Know details about the who, what, when, where and why. I Am Malala will be discussed in-depth during the first weeks of school.

2. Read ONE additional book from the lists below.

Fiction

• The Eighth Day by Dianne Salerni

• Ghost by Jason Reynolds

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

• Homeless Bird by Gloria Whelan

• A Separate Peace by John Knowles

• The Maze Runner by James Dashner

• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle

Nonfiction

• The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Lincoln’s Graverobbers by Steve Sheinkin

• Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson by Barry Denenberg

• Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different by Karen Blumenthal

EIGHTH GRADE SUMMER READING PROJECT