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