Summer Reading List
2009
Kindergarten
Kindergarten Rocks
Animals At The Farm/Animales De
La Granja
Welcome To Kindergarten
What Do You See
The Night Before Kindergarten
How Many Fish
Biscuit Finds A Friend
Count Down To Clean Up
Big Egg
Circles
The Little Red Hen
Hand Rhymes
Clap Your Hands
Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed
Corduroy
Swimmy
We’re Going On A Bear Hunt
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Where Fireflies Dance
Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella
Katie Davis
Gardner
Anne Rockwell
Louise Gikow and George Ulrich
Natasha Wing and Julie Durrell
Caron Cohen and S.D. Schindler
Alyssa Saton Capucilli
Nancy E. Wallace
Molly Coxe
Dana M. Rau
Byron Barton
Marc Tolon Brown
Lorinda Cauley
Eileen Christelow
Don Freeman
Leo Lionni
Michael Rosen
Laura Joffe Numeroff
Lucha Corpi
Robert D. San Souci
1st Grade
Layla’s Head Scarf
First Grade Here I Come
Jackson and Bud’s Bumpy Ride:
America’s First Cross-Country Automobile Trip
The First Grade Friends: Lunch Box Surprise
There Is A Bird On Your Head
Benny’s Pennies
Cool Daddy Rat
Will Sheila Share?
The Pot That Juan Built
Old Black Fly
Rap A Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles, Think of That!
Can You See The Wind?
Little Dog Poems
Miriam Cohen and Ronald Himler
Nancy Carlson
Kitten’s First Full Moon
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest
The Hello, Goodbye Window
Arroz Con Leche: Popular Songs and Rhymes
From Latin America
Norma Jean, Jumping Bean
I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!
Bouki Dances The Kokioka: A Comical Tale
From Haiti
Kevin Henkes
Steven Jenkins
Norton Juster
Lulu Delacre
Elizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
Grace Maccarone and Betsy Lewin
Mo Willems
Bob Barner
Kristyn Carol
Elivia Savadier
Nancy Andrews-Goebel
Jim Aylesworth
Leo Dillon
Allan fowler
Kristine O’Connell George
Joanna Cole
Karen Beaumont
Diane Wolkstein
Summer Reading List
2009
2nd Grade
Keena Ford And The Second-Grqade Mix-Up
Diary Of A Worm
The Best Seat In Second Grade
Dinosaur Days
Herbie Jones Sails Into Second Grade
Max and Jax In Second Grade
Keena Ford And The Second-Grade Mix-Up
Diary Of A Spider
Best Best Friend
Owney, The Mail-Pouch Pooch
First The Egg
Bee-bimp bop!
Spinning Spiders
More Than Anything Else
Beautiful Blackbird
The Bat Boy and His Violin
Breakout At The Bug Lab
What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?
Baseball
Harvesting Hope: The Story Of Cesar Chavez
Amelia Bedelia
Touch The Poem
Melissa Thomson
Doreen Cronin
Katharine Kenah and Abby Carter
Joyce Milton and Richard Roe
Suzy Kline and Sami Sweeten
Jerdine Nolen and Karen Schmidt
Melissa Thomson
Doreen Cronin
Margaret C.Irvine
Mona Kerby
Laura V. Seeger
Linda S. Park
Melvin Berger
Marie Bradby
Ashley Bryan
Gavin Curtis
Ruth Horowitz
Steve Jenkins
Mike Jenkins
Kathleen Krull
Peggy Parish
Arnold Adoff
3rd Grade
The Mystery Of The Stolen Statue
Horrible Harry Moves Up To Third Grade
The Swamp Monster In The Third Grade
I Was A Third Grade Spy
Good Grief…Third Grade
Bug Safari
I Was A Third-Grade Science Project
Autumn Lings: Poems And Paintings
Planting The Trees of Kenya: The Story Of
Wongari Maathai
Skungdog
My Name Is Maria Isabel
Stanley, Flat Again!
Dandelions
The Stories Julian Tells
Our Wet World: Exploring Earth’s
Aquatic Ecosystem
The Gadget War
Hot Day On Abbott Avenue
Leonardo’s Horse
Rosa
Brother Anansi And The Cattle Ranch
Nathaniel Talking
George Stanley and Salvatore
Murdocca
Suzy Kline and Frank Remkewicz
Debbie Dadey
Mary Jane Auch
Colleen McKenna and Richard
Williams
Bob Barner
Mary Jane Auch
Douglas Florian
Clairet Nivota
Pierre Pratt
Alma floe
Jeff Brown
Eve Bunting
Ann Cameron
Sneed B. Collard III
Betsy Duffey
Karen English
Jean Fritz
Nikki Giovanni
James De Sauza
Eloise Greenfield
Summer Reading List
2009
4th Grade
The Lemonade War
Fourth Grade Rats
Buster Makes The Grade
William Shakespeare And The Globe
Raymond And Graham Rule The School
Keep Ms. Sugarman In The Fourth Grade
Spencer Hurley And The Aliens Book One;
The Abuction
My Fourth Grade Mess
Coolhead Luke: And Other Stories
Call Me Consuelo
The Search For Delicious
Safari
Frindle
A Fine, Fine School
The Tale Of Despereaux: Being The Story
Of A Mouse
The Fabled Fourth Graders Of Aesop
Elementary School
Yesterday I Had The Blues
The People Could Fly: The Picture Book
When Jessie Came Across The Sea
Just Like Josh Gibson
Jacqueline Davis
Jerri Spinelli
Marc Brown
Aliki
Mike Knudson, Steve Wilkinson and
Stacey Curtis
Elizabeth Levy and David
Henderson
Terry Locke and Robin Hucks
Cathy West Dubowski
Jennifer Lasker White and
Colin White
Ofelia D. Lachtman
Pete Hautman
Robert Bateman
Andrew Clements
Sharon Creech
Kaite DiCamillo
Candace Fleming
Jeron Frame
Virginia Hamilton
Amy Hest
Angela Johnson
5th Grade
The Biggest Klutz In Fifth Grade
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining
The Candy Corn Contest
Solo Girl
One Day In The Desert
Fiesta USA
Silent Music: A Story Of Baghdad
Trouble
Being Grown-Up Is Cool (Not!)
Whales On Stilts
Brenda Buckly’s Universe And Everything In It
On My Honor
Portraits Of African-American Heroes
When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, And
Tetrapods Stalked The Earth
Through My Eyes
Joyful Noise: Poems For Two Voices
Squarehead
Frankweiler
Rabbit Hill
Bill Wallace
Anne Mazer
Patricia Reilly Giff and Blanche Sims
Andrea Pinkney and Nneka Bennet
Jean Craighead George and
Fred Benner
George Acuna
James Rumford
Gary D. Schmidt
Karen McCombie
M.T. Anderson
Sundee Tucker Frazier
Marion Dane Bauer
Tonya Bolden
Hanna Bonner
Ruby Bridges
Paul Fleischman
Harriet Ziefert
Robert Lawson
Summer Reading List
2009
6th Grade
The Attack Of The Two-Inch Teacher
Found
Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies
Sixth Grade Mutants Meet The Slime
The Case Of Stolen Time-The
Misadventures Of Inspector Moustachio
Pushing The Limits
Beating The Odds
The Hidden Staircase
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Loser
Chicken Feather
Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, And Folk
Tales From Latin American
Angelfish
Because Of Winn-Dixie
Dive! My Adventures In The Deep Frontier
Heartbeat
Maniac Magee
Silent To The Bone
Sing Down The Moon
Wenny Has Wings
Whittington
Yolanda’s Genius
Bruce Coville and Tony Sansevero
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Eve Bunting and Aleta Jenks
Laura E. Williams
Wayne Madsen and Lisa Falzon
Melissa McDaniel
Mary Packard
Carolyn Keene
Gennifer Choldenko
Jerry Spinelli
Cowley Joy
Lulu Delacre
Lawrence Yep
Kate DiCamillo
Sylvia Earle
Sharon Creech
Jerry Spinelli
E.L. Konigsburg
Scott O’Dell
Janet Lee Carey
Alan Armstrong
Carol Fenner
7th Grade
Arthur And The Seventh-Inning Stretcher
Operating System Concepts
Click Here To Find Out How I Survived
Seventh Grade
Daphne’s Book
There Is A Girl In My Hammerlock
Castle
Among The Hidden
The Skin I’m In
Breaking Through
Adam Canfield Of The Flash
The Brook Without Words
The Broken Blade
Flush
Kira-Kira
Knots In My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography
Of A Kid
The Outcasts Of 19 Schuyler Place
Tangerine
The Tears Of The Salamander
Under The Royal Palms
Marc T. Brown and Stephen Krensky
Abraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer
and Greg Gagne
Denise Vega
Mary Downing Hahn
Jerry Spinelli
Garth Nix and Steve Rawlings
Margaret Peterson Haddix
Sharon G. Flake
Francisco Jimenez
Michael Winerip
Avi
William Durbin
Carl Hiaasen
Cynthia Kadohata
Jerry spinelli
E.L. Konigsburg
Edward Boor
Peter Dickinson
Alma Flor Ada
Summer Reading List
2009
8th Grade
Eighth Grade Bites
Mackenzie Blue
First Light
Born Too Short: The Confession Of An
Eighth-Grade Basket Case
Toby Wheeler: Eighth Grade Benchwarmer
Down River
Farewell To Manzanar
Ghost Canoe
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Cuba 15
The Face On The Milk Carton
Fever
Good Night, Maman
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy
Tales, and True Tales
The House Of The Scorpion
Maya Running
Mortal Engines
Truesight
Heather Brewer
Tina Wells
Rebecca Stead
Dan Elish
Thatcher Heldring
Will Hobbs
Jeanne W. Houston
Will Hobbs
Anilu Bernando
Nancy Osa
Caroline B. Cooney
Laurie H. Anderson
Norma F. Mazer
Virginia Hamilton
Nancy Farmer
Anjali Banerjee
Philip Reeve
David Stahler
9th Grade
The Class
Soul Enchilada
Ninth Grad Slays
Forged By Fire
One True Friend
Hero
Students On Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights,
Brown, And Me: A Memoir
Crash Boom Love
After The First Death
The Day They Came To Arrest The Book
Rash
The Gospel According To Larry
I, Juan De Pareja
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Mama Day
Maus
Nemesis
Tonight By The Sea
Francois Begaudeau and
Linda Asher
David Macinnis
Heather Brewer
Sharon M. Draper
Joyce Hansen
S.L. Rottman
John Stokew
Juan Felipe Herrera
Robert Cormier
Nat Hentoff
Pete Hautman
Janet Tashjian
Elizabeth Borten de Trevino
Maya Angelou
Gloria Naylor
Art Spigelman
Isaac Asimov
Frances Temple
Summer Reading List
2009
10th Grade
The Summoning
Lit Up
Celandine: Book 2 In The Touchstone Trilogy
Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress
All Q, No A: More Tales Of A 10th-Grade
The Circle of Friends: Book I…Lori
Social Climber
The Aguero Sisters
Hoops
The Chocolate War
Me And The Missing Dead
Bilko
Ellen Foster
Ender’s Game
A Gathering Of Old Men
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
It’s Not About The Bike
Monster
Obasan
Hit The Road
Kelley Armstrong
Clymel E. Thomas
Steve Augarde
Lee Woodruff and
Bob Woodruff
Laura Moser and
Lauren Mechling
L. Diane Wolfe
Beth Dunn
Cristina Garcia
Dean Myers
Robert Cormier
Jenny Valentine
Donald Woods
Kaye Gibbons
Orson Scott Card
Ernest Gaines
Douglas Adams
Julia Alvarez
Lance Armstrong
Walter Dean Meyers
Joy Kogawa
Carline B. Cooney
11th Grade
Betrayed
The Case of Stolen Time-The Misadventures
Of Inspector Moustachio
Dark Dude
The Hunger Games
Troll’s Eye View: A Book Of Villainous Tales
Babe Ruth And The Baseball Curse
The Bean Tree
Heroes
Shooter
Lessons Of The Game
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
The Bean Trees
Ceremony
The Color Of Water
In Cold Blood
Jubilee
Kindred
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Things They Carried
Woman Hollering Creek
P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Wayne Maden and Lisa Falzon
Oscar Hijuelos
Suzanne Collins
Ellen Datlow and Terri Winding
David A. Kelly and Tim Jessell
Barbara Kingsolver
Robert Cormier
Dean Myers
Diane Gonzalez Bertrand
Alex Haley
Barbara Kingsolver
Leslie Silko
James McBride
Truman Capote
Margaret Walker\
Octavia Butler
Kurt Vonnegut
Tim O’ Brien
Sandra Cisnero
Summer Reading List
2009
12th Grade
Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir In Books
The Book Thief
Looking For Alaska
Shift
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Marked House
Cuba 15
The Sledding Hill
Sunrise Over Fallujah
Jumping Off To Freedom
Beloved
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
The Handmaid’s Tale
Into Thin Air
The Joy Luck Club
The Poisonwood Bible
Sugar Cage
The Sun Also Rises
Tuesdays With Morrie
Azar Nafisi
Markus Zusak
John Green
Jennifer Bradbury
Sherman Alexie
P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Nancy Osa
Chris Crutcher
Walter Dean Myers
Anilu Bernando
Toni Morrison
Edwidge Danticat
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Margaret Atwood
John Krakauer
Amy Tan
Barbara Kingsolver
Connie Mae Fowler
Ernest Hemingway
Mitch Albom