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This section contains the reading books recommended for each rising grade. Please note, some reading material is mandatory as indicated.
This link will give you a printable version of the entire reading list: Summer Reading List (1-8)
Click on the following links to read more about these topics:
| Book Series | Author |
| Any books by | Dr. Seuss |
| Any books by | Stan & Jan Berenstain |
| Any books by | Ezra Keats |
| Any books by | Eric Carle |
| Any books by | Maurice Sendak |
| Amelia Bedelia Series or any other book by | Peggy Parish |
| Frog and Toad Series or any other book by | Arnold Lobel |
| Little Bear Series or any other book by | Else Holmelund Minarik |
| 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. |
| Book Series | Author |
| Magic Schoolbus or Magic Treehouse Series | |
| Amber Brown OR American Girl Books | |
| Junie B. Jones OR Bailey School Kids Books | |
| Baby-sitter Club OR Scholastic Books | |
| Amelia Bedelia Books | Peggy Parish |
| The Giving Tree | Shel Silverstein |
| Green Eggs & Ham and any books by | Dr. Seuss |
| Henry and Mudge or Horrible Harry books | |
| Frog and Toad Series (any or all) | Arnold Lobel |
| Flat Stanley Series | |
| Harry Potter, The Littles or Arthur Books | |
| Ramona Quimby & any other books by | Beverly Cleary |
| Any books by | Patricia Palocco, Cynthia Rylant, Max Lucado, or Tomie de Paolo |
| Children should begin to choose CHAPTER books in second grade. 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. |
| Book Series | Author |
| 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 |
| Any of the Harry Potter Series | J.K. Rowling |
| Book Series | Author |
| The Mouse and the Motorcycle | Beverly Cleary |
| The Hundred Dresses | Eleanor Estes |
| Frindle | Richard Clements |
| Sideways Stories from Wayside School | Louis Sachar |
| Ribsy | Beverly Cleary |
| Any books from the Boxcar Children Series | |
Students must read THREE books from this list.
First book report will cover one of the books the student has chosen from the three books. |
| Book Series | Author |
| * Sign of the Beaver | Elizabeth George Speare |
| The Glass Elevator | Roald Dahl |
| Dogsong | Gary Paulsen |
| Little House on the Prairie | Laura Ingalls Wilder |
| The Hobbit | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Heidi | Johanna Spyri |
| The Book of Three | Lloyd Alexander |
| Blue Willow | Doris Gates |
| Prince Caspian | C.S. Lewis |
| Island of the Blue Dolphins | Scott O'Dell |
| Sarah Bishop | Scott O'Dell |
| Stone Fox | John Gardiner |
* MUST be read for September. Chapter quizzes will be given during the first two weeks of school.
Three other books from this list must be read. Information worksheets will be done on the three books chosen. |
| Book Series | Author |
| * Maniac Magee | Jerry Spinelli |
| Soup on Ice | Robert Newton Peck |
| Secret Garden | Frances Hogsdon Burnett |
| Troubling a Star | Madeline L'Engle |
| The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin |
| The Book of Three | Lloyd Alexander |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte | Doyle Avi |
| Hatchet | Gary Paulsen |
| * MUST be read for a test in September. Two other books from this list should also be read. |
| Book Series | Author |
| * Sounder | William Armstrong |
| Jacob Have I Loved | Katherine Patterson |
| Anne of Green Gables or others | L.M. Montgomery |
| The Door in the Wall | Marguerite deAngeli |
| Dragonsong | Anne McCaffrey |
| Slave Dancer | Paula Fox |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| National Velvet | Enid Bagnold |
| Holes | Louis Sacher |
| The Serpent Never Sleeps | Scott O'Dell |
| Shakespeare's Secret | Elsie Broach |
| 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. |
| Book Series | Author |
| * Old Man and the Sea | Ernest Hemingway |
| * Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| * The Red Pony | John Steinbeck |
| * Letters from Rifka | Karen Hesse |
| RECOMMENDED READING | |
| Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl | Anne Frank |
| Rosa Parks: My Story | Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London |
| Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, O Henry | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front (Advanced Readers) | Erich Remarque |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream (Advanced Readers) | William Shakespeare |
* Required Reading. Books MUST be read. Students will be tested on all required books.
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