Brighton Summer Reading Challenge 2014
It is Summer and Brighton students are invited to meet
the Brighton Summer Reading Challenge! To give it a try
follow these 5 easy steps:
1) Find your grade level list for 2014-2015
2) Read at least 5 books this summer including at least 3
from our list (these are to be new reads!)
3) Student fills out the chart with three sentences about
each book (form following)
4) Have a parent sign for each book
5) Bring the list back to school in by September 3rd
There are so many good books on these lists! Each list has a wide
range of interests and reading levels. They are meant to be read by
the students themselves (even though some would be such good
read-alouds!) Awards will be given to everyone who reads at least 5
books, a top reader in each grade level, and the top readers of the
summer. These will be presented at the September 5th Assembly.
Book Title
Author
Three sentences about the
book! What happens in the book? Who are
the characters? What did you think of the book?
Parent
Initials
First Grade Summer Challenge
Reading List
Barrows, Annie Ivy and Bean
Brown, Jeff Flat Stanley
Capucilli, Alyssa Biscuit (series)
Daywalt, Drew The Day the Crayons Quit
Dicamillo, Kate. Mercy Watson (series)
Henkes, Kevin Penny and her Marble
Huber, Raymond Flight of the Honeybee
Johnston, Tony The First Day of School
Lin, Grace Ling and Ting: Not Exactly the Same
Lobel, Arnold Frog and Toad (series)
Nelson, Kadir Nelson Mandela
Parish, Herman Amelia Bedelia’s First Day of
School
Park, Barbara Junie B., First Grade Toothless
Wonder
Park, Linda Sue Xander’s Panda Party
Shannon, David David Goes to School
Stein, David Ezra Interrupting Chicken
Wells, Robert What’s Faster Than a Speeding
Cheetah?
Voigt, Cynthia Homecoming
Willems, Mo We are in a Book!
Winter, Jeanette The Watcher: Jane Goodall’s
Life with the Chimps
Third Grade Summer Challenge
Reading List
Birdsall, Jeanne The Penderwicks (series)
Claybourne, Anna 100 Most Dangerous Things
on the Planet
Cleary, Beverly Ribsy
Clements, Andrew Frindle
George, Craighead Jean One Day in the Prairie
Howe, James Bunnicula series
Kehret, Peg Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of
Adopted Strays
Lee, Jenny Elvis and the Underdogs
Lindgren, Astrid Pippi Longstocking
MacDonald, Betty Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Mckernan, Victoria Shackleton’s Stowaway
Okimoto, Jean Davies Winston of Churchill: One
Bear’s Battle Against Global Warming
Pearce, Jacqueline Flood Warning
Robinson, Barbara The Best School Year Ever
Second Grade Summer Challenge
Reading List
Adler, David A. Cam Jansen (series)
Bean, Jonathan Building Our House
Berger, Melvin Germs Make Me Sick
Berne, Jennifer On a Beam of Light: A Story of
Albert Einstein
Cole, Joanna The Magic School Bus and the
Climate Change
Cowley, Joy Red-Eyed Tree Frog
George, Jean Craighead The Eagles are Back
Henkes, Kevin The Year of Billy Miller
Howe, James Pinky and Rex (series)
McDonald, Meg Judy Moody (series)
Neushwander, Cindy Sir Circumference and the
First Round Table
Pennypacker, Sara Clementine (series)
Salisbury, Graham Hero of Hawaii
Sauer, Tammi Chicken Dance
Sciescka, Jon Knights of the Kitchen Table
Schreiber, Ann Twister Trouble
Silverstein, Shel Runny Babbit
Steig, William Brave Irene
Teague, Mark The Field Beyond the Outfield
White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web
Rusch, Elizabeth Eruption! Volcanoes and the
Science of Saving Lives
Sachar, Louis Marvin Redpost (series)
Scieszka, Jon Summer Reading is Killing Me
Silverstein, Shel Where the Sidewalk Ends
Tang, Greg The Grapes of Math
Winter, Jeanette Wangari’s Tree’s of Peace, A
True Story of Africa
Fourth Grade Summer Challenge
Reading List
Blume, Judy Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Cinami, Carolyn A Black Hole is not a Hole
Clement, Andrew About Average
Dahl, Roald James and the Giant Peach
Erdrich, Louise Chickadee
Fleming, Candice The Fabled Fourth Graders of
Aesop Elementary School
Foley, Lizzie Remarkable
Grabenstein, Chris Escape from Mr.
Lemoncello’s Library
Hopkinson, Deborah Keep On!: The Story of
Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North
Pole
Fifth Grade Summer Challenge
Reading List
Angleberger, Tom The Strange Case of
Origami Yoda
Applegate, Katherine The One and Only Ivan
Brown, Don The Great American Dust Bowl
Creech, Sharon The Great Unexpected
Curtis, Christopher Paul The Mighty Miss
Malone
DiCamillo, Kate Flora and Ulysses: The
Illuminated Adventures
Erdrich, Louise The Birchbark House
Hobbs, Will Jackie’s Wild Seattle
Kerley, Barbara Walt Whitman: Words for
America
Konigsburg, E.L. From the Mixed-Up Files of
Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler
L’Engle, Madeline A Wrinkle in Time (series)
Meloy, Colin Wildwood (series)
Paulsen, Gary Notes from the Dog
Rappaport, Doreen Helen’s Big World: The
Life of Helen Keller
Scattergood, Augusta Glory Be
Selznick, Brian Wonderstruck
Stewart, Trenton The Mysterious Benedict
Society (series)
Turnage, Sheila Three Times Lucky
Urban, Linda The Center of Everything
Vawter, Vince The Paperboy
Hurwitz, Johanna Fourth Grade Fuss
Kehret, Peg Escaping the Giant Wave
Law, Ingrid Savvy and Scumble
Levine, Ellen Henry’s Freedom Box
Lin, Grace Dumpling Days
Morpurgo, Michael Warhorse
Mowatt, Farley Owls in the Family
Napoli, Donna Jo Treasury of Egyptian
Mythology
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Shiloh (series)
Pennypacker, Sara Summer of the Gypsy Moths
Selznik, Brian The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Middle School Summer Challenge
Reading List
Anderson, Laurie Halse Chains
Avi Sophie’s War
Bauer, Joan Almost Home
Blakemore, Mega The Water Castle
Choldenko, Gennifer Al Capone Does My
Shirts
Cushman, Karen Will Sparrow’s Road
DuPrau, Jeanne Book of Ember (series)
Freedman, Russell Abraham Lincoln and
Frederick Douglass
Hobbs, Will Take Me to the River
House, Silas and Vaswani, Neela Same Sun
Here
Kennedy, Caroline ed. Poems to Learn By
Heart
Lewis, John and Aydin, Andrew March: Book
One
Lowry, Lois The Giver (series)
McNeal, Tom Far Far Away
Meloy, Maile The Apothecary
Pope, Paul Battling Boy
Rubin, Susan Goldman Diego Rivera: An Artist
for the People
Sheinkin, Steve Bomb: the Race to Build-and
Steal-the World’s Most Dangerous
Weapon
Stevenson, Robert Louis Treasure Island
Wright, Barbara Crow