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
Fifth Grade
From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
And one of the following books:
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Sixth Grade
World History: The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo
English: Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Red Scarf Girl by Jiang Ji-Li
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
Seventh Grade
U.S. History: My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier and Collier
Students will also need to purchase a copy of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and a copy of Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt that will be used as a supplement during the school year, but is not summer reading.
English: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
*Recommended: The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo
Eighth Grade
Government: Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
English: The Outsiders by by S.E. Hinton
The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo
The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare
* Recommended: A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Gifts by Ursula LeGuin
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury