Reading List

First Grade

One or more Dr. Seuss books such as:  Hop on Pop, The Cat in the Hat, The Foot Book, Green Eggs and Ham, etc.

Second Grade

Henry and Mudge and the Forever Sea OR Henry and Mudge the First Book by Cynthia Rylant

Third Grade

The Chalkbox Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla

Niagara Falls, or Does It from the Hank Zipzer series by Henry Winkler

Fourth Grade

Our Strange New Land, Elizabeth's Diary, Jamestown, Virginia, 1609 (My America Book) by Patricia Hermes

The Starving Time, Elizabeth's Diary, Book Two, Jamestown, Virginia 1609 (My America Book) by Patricia Hermes

Plus one book of your child's choice from the "4th grade list" at the bottom of this page.

Fifth Grade

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

And one of the following books: 

Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Brink

Johnny Tremaine by Esther Forbes

The Phantom Toll Booth by Norton Juster

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison by Lois Lenski

The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot by Barry Devenberg

Shiloh by Phillis Reynolds Naylor

The Cay by Theodore Taylor 

Sixth Grade

Required:

The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'engle

Esperanza Rising by Pam Ryan

Recommended:

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

Ender's Game Series by Orson Card

The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper

The Tomb of Atuan Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula Leguin

The City of Ember by Jeane DeProwell 

Seventh Grade

Required:

My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier and Collier

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Wednesday Wars by Gary Schmidt

Recommended:

The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolan

Esperanza Rising by Pam Ryan

The Lost Years of Merlin series by T.A. Barron 

Eighth Grade

Required:

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 

The Outsiders by by S.E. Hinton

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare

The Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang 

Recommended:

Huck Finn by Mark Twain

1984 by George Orwell

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury