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New 2006 CFC/United Way # 8725
2006 Commonwealth of VA Campaign (CVC) # 8039 |
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Corpus Christi School
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Summer Reading Lists
| 1st Grade | 5th Grade |
| 2nd Grade | 6th Grade |
| 3rd Grade | 7th Grade |
| 4th Grade | 8th Grade |
| Printable Summer Reading List | |
Students
ENTERING 1st Grade
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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.
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 |
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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 |
The first book report will cover one of the books the student has chosen from this list.
| Required/Mandatory Reading: | |
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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 |
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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 |
This is a 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.
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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.
