Snowden School Suggested Summer Reading List 2010-2011 KK - Suggested Summer Reading List Fourth Grade – Suggested Summer Reading List The Haunting of Derek Stone: The Bayou Dogs, Tony Abbott Frog & Toad Book Collection Franklin Book Collection Eric Carle Book Collection Arthur Book Collection Marc Brown Book Collection Henry & Mudge Book Collection Dr. Suess Book Collection Amelia Bedelia Book Collection Magic Tree House Book Collection Skeleton Creek, Patrick Carman Elijah of Buxton, Christopher Paul Curtis The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming, Laurie David & Cambria Gordon Frindle, Andrew Clements Captain Underpants Series, Dave Pilkey The Best School Year Ever, Barbara Robinson Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, Jeff Kinney Joey Pizza Swallowed a Key, Jack Gantos The 39 Clues: The Sword Thief, Peter Lerangis Charlie Bone and the Shadow (Children of the Red King Series #7), Jenny Nimmo First Grade – Suggested Summer Reading List Fifth Grade – Suggested Summer Reading List Dear Parents, Each upcoming Snowden 5th grader should read at least two books over the summer. The public library has a list of books that are on Snowden’s Reading Renaissance Program. A suggested list is below. Please help your child select books that are on the appropriate reading level. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery The BFG by Roald Dahl Blubber by Judy Blume The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling The Courage of Sarah Noble by Alice Dalgliesh The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkein Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson Jacob Two-Two by Mordecai Richler Little Men by Louisa May Alcott Old Yeller by Fred Gipson Rifles for Watie by Harold Keith Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor Road to Memphis by Mildred Taylor Stuart Little by E.B. White Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver Frog & Toad Book Collection Franklin Book Collection Eric Carle Book Collection Arthur Book Collection Marc Brown Book Collection Henry & Mudge Book Collection Dr. Suess Book Collection Amelia Bedelia Book Collection Magic Tree House Book Collection Second Grade Suggested Summer Reading List for 2nd Grade Please read any books from these authors this summer: Marc Brown Peggy Parish Rex Stone Margaret Hillard Dan Gutman Mary Pope Osborne Patricia Pollaco Suzie Kline Ezra Jack Keats Paula Danzinger Arnold Lobel Beverly Cleary Marjorie Weiman Sharmat and Marc Simont Primary CLUE (KK-3rd Grade) Reading List Entering KK & 1st grade – books by Chris Van Allsburg Entering 2nd grade - Page Master by David Kirshner Entering 3rd grade - Hoot by Carl Hiaasen Intermediate CLUE (4th and 5th Grades) Supply List Third Grade 3rd 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Suggested Summer Reading List for Grade The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling – 3.0 reading level Ramona the Brave by Beverly Cleary – 3.0 reading level The Flying Flea, Callie, and Me by Bill/Carol Wallace – 3.5 reading level The Littles Go to School by John Peterson – 3.5 reading level Otherwise Known as Sheila The Great by Judy Blume – 3.5 reading level Encyclopedia Brown Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol – 3.6 reading level I, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger – 3.7 reading level Scrambled Eggs Super by Dr. Seuss – 3.7 reading level The Lucky Stone by Lucille Clifton – 3.8 reading level Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith – 4.5 reading level Entering 4th grade - Poppy by Avi Entering 5th grade – Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster ***Math Summer Assignment - Stanford math passwords are valid all summer! Read & Calculate daily!!!!!! ***Study Island is available all summer!!!!!!!!! Snowden School Summer Reading List 2009-2010 Sixth Grade Traditional Students please select four books from list below. Optional Students please select five books from the list below, including at least one with an asterisk. Zack by Bell William Are you There God? It’s me , Margaret by Judy Blume Don’t Look Behind you by Lois Duncan The Borning Room by Paul Fleischman My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Fish by S.E. Hinton When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt Acorn People by Ron Jones *The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell Canyons by Gary Paulsen My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen Westing Game by Ellen Raskin *Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson *Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Sixth Grade CLUE Seventh Grade Gifted Hands by Ben Car Son Loser by Jerry Spinelli Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper Twisted Summer by Wilo Davis Roberts Seventh Grade CLUE Eighth Grade Nothing but the Truth by Avi House on Mango Street by Cisneros The Chocolate War by Cormier Flowers of Algernon by Keyes Harriet Tubman by Petry Amy by Mildred Taylor The Pearl by Steinbeck Any Margaret Haddix book Any S. E. Hinton book Any Walter Dean Myers book Eighth Grade CLUE Required reading that will be tested: The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin One book in the Lightning Thief series, Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan Suggested Summer Reading: Zack by Bell William Are you There God? It’s me , Margaret by Judy Blume Don’t Look Behind you by Lois Duncan The Borning Room by Paul Fleischman My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Fish by S.E. Hinton When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt Acorn People by Ron Jones *The Best Little Girl in the World by Steven Levenkron One Fat Summer by Robert Lipsyte Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell Canyons by Gary Paulsen My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen Westing Game by Ellen Raskin *Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson *Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Required reading that will be tested: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (unabridged) by Mark Twain And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Suggested Summer Reading: Gifted Hands by Ben Car Son Loser by Jerry Spinelli Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake Required reading that will be tested: Gifted Hands by Ben Carson Flowers for Algernon (A l g e r n o n) by Daniel Keyes Suggested Summer Reading: Nothing but the Truth by Avi House on Mango Street by Cisneros The Chocolate War by Cormier Flowers of Algernon by Keyes Harriet Tubman by Petry Amy by Mildred Taylor The Pearl by Steinbeck Any Margaret Haddix book Any S. E. Hinton book Any Walter Dean Myers book ***Math Summer Assignment - Stanford math passwords are valid all summer! Read & Calculate daily!!!!!! ***STUDY ISLAND is available all summer!!!!!!!