Corpus Christi School
Summer Reading Lists - Summer 2007
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Any books by |
Dr. Seuss |
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Any books by |
Stan & Jan Berenstain |
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Any books by |
Ezra Keats |
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Any books by |
Eric Carle |
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Any books by |
Maurice Sendak |
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Amelia Bedelia Series or any other book by |
Peggy Parish |
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Frog and Toad Series or any other book by |
Arnold Lobel |
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Little Bear Series or any other book by |
Else Holmelund Minarik |
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Miss Nelson Series or any other book by |
Harry Allard |
These are recommended to be read to or by the children. County libraries also have excellent suggested reading lists.
Students ENTERING 2nd Grade
Children should begin to choose CHAPTER books in second grade.
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Magic Schoolbus or Magic Treehouse Series |
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Amber Brown OR American Girl Books |
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Junie B. Jones OR Bailey School Kids Books |
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Baby-sitter Club OR Scholastic Books |
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Amelia Bedelia Books |
Peggy Parish |
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The Giving Tree |
Shel Silverstein |
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Green Eggs & Ham and any books by |
Dr. Seuss |
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Henry and Mudge or Horrible Harry books |
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Frog and Toad Series (any or all) |
Arnold Lobel |
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Flat Stanley Series |
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Harry Potter, The Littles or Arthur Books |
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Ramona Quimby & any other books by |
Beverly Cleary |
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Any books by |
Patricia Palocco, Cynthia Rylant, Max Lucado, or Tomie de Paolo |
Newbery and Caldecott Books are highly recommended; Chapter Books are highly recommended. These books are to be read by your child or to your child. Please check local libraries for additional summer reading lists.
| A Child's Book of Prayer in Art | Sister Wendy Beckett |
| The Miracles of Jesus | Tomie de Paola |
| Mary the Mother of Jesus | Tomie de Paola |
| Because of Winn-Dixie | Kate DiCamillo |
| The Whipping Boy | Sid Fleischman |
| Sarah, Plain and Tall | Patricia MacLachlan |
| The Bears on Hemlock Mountain | Alice Dalgliesh |
| The Courage of Sarah Noble | Alice Dalgliesh |
| Half Magic | Edward Eager |
| The Doll People | Ann M. Martini & Laura Godwin |
| The Littles | John Peterson |
| The BFG | Roald Dahl |
| Dear America | A Dear America Book |
| My Name is America | A Dear America Book |
| COFA - Childhood of Famous Americans Series | |
| Any book by | Beverly Cleary |
| Capital Mysteries | Ron Roy |
| The Nancy Drew Notebooks | Carolyn Keene |
| Stepping Stones Classic Series | |
| The Time Warp Trio | Jon Scieszka |
| Blast to the Past | Stacia Deutsch and Rhody Cohon |
| My Father's Dragon |
Ruth Stiles Gannett |
Students entering 4th Grade
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The Mouse and the Motorcycle |
Beverly Cleary |
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The Hundred Dresses |
Eleanor Estes |
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Frindle |
Richard Clements |
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Sideways Stories from Wayside School |
Louis Sachar |
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Ribsy |
Beverly Cleary |
| Any books from the Boxcar Children Series |
First book report will cover one of the books the student has chosen from this list.
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Sign of the Beaver |
Elizabeth George Speare |
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Then, choose three of the following: |
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The Glass Elevator |
Roald Dahl |
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Dogsong |
Gary Paulsen |
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Little House on the Prairie |
Laura Ingalls Wilder |
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The Hobbit |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Heidi |
Johanna Spyri |
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The Book of Three |
Lloyd Alexandria |
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Blue Willow |
Doris Gates |
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Prince Caspian |
C.S. Lewis |
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Island of the Dolphins |
Scott O'dell |
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Sarah Bishop |
Scott O'dell |
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Stone Fox |
John Gardiner |
Students ENTERING 6th Grade
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Soup on Ice |
Robert Newton Peck |
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Troubling a Star |
Madeline L'Engle |
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The Westing Game |
Ellen Raskin |
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The Book of Three |
Lloyd Alexander |
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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle |
Avi |
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Hatchet |
Gary Paulsen |
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The Witch of Blackbird Pond |
Elizabeth George Speare |
Suggested reading list for rising sixth graders.
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** Sounder |
William Armstrong |
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Jacob Have I Loved |
Katherine Patterson |
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Anne of Green Gables or others |
L.M. Montgomery |
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The Door in the Wall |
Marguerite deAngeli |
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Dragonsong |
Anne McCaffrey |
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Slave Dancer |
Paula Fox |
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The Call of the Wild |
Jack London |
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Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott |
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National Velvet |
Enid Bagnold |
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Summer of the Swans |
Betsy Byars |
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Holes |
Louis Sacher |
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The Serpent Never Sleeps |
Scott O'Dell |
| Crispin and the Cross of Lead | Avi |
** MUST be read for a test in September. Two other books from this list must also be read.
Students ENTERING 8th Grade
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Old Man and the Sea++ |
Ernest Hemingway |
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Hiroshima++ |
John Hersey |
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Year of the Impossible Goodbyes++ |
Sook Nyul Choi |
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A Raisin in the Sun++ |
Lorraine Hansberry |
| The Rocket Boys | Homer Hickam |
| Taming of the Shrew (Baron's Shakespeare Made Easy) | William Shakespeare |
| Poetry by | Robert Frost |
++First four books MUST be read. Students will be tested on all four books in the fall. The remaining books are recommended reading.