St. Rose of Lima

Summer Reading List 2008

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Kindergarten is asked to read 6 books, fill in pizza toppings, add to Friendship Pizza, and return it to library class in September.

Kindergarten into Grade 1 Choose any books by these authors:

Alyssa Capucilli – Biscuit collection

Syd Hoff

Cynthia Rylant - Henry and Mudge collection

Dr. Seuss

Bernard Wiseman - Morris the Moose collection

Grades 1 - 4 are asked to read 3 books, fill in pizza toppings, add to Friendship Pizza, and return it to library class in September

Grade 1 into 2  Choose any books by these authors:

David Adler – Bones and Young Cam Jansen Mysteries

Arnold Lobel – Frog and Toad collection

Else Minarik - Little Bear collection

Mary Pope Osborne - Magic Tree House series

Peggy Parish

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat - Nate the Great collection

Grade 2 into 3

The Chalk Box Kid (Clyde Robert Bulla)

Shoeshine Girl (Clyde Robert Bulla)

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain (Alice Dalgliesh)

The Courage of Sarah Noble (Alice Dalgliesh)

The Girl With 500 Middle Names (Margaret Peterson Haddix)

Marvin Redpost collection (Louis Sachar)

Grade 3 into 4:

Friendship According to Humphrey ( Betty G. Birney)

Beverly Cleary (any book of your choice)

The Whipping Boy (Sid Fleischman)

Stone Fox (John Reynolds Gardiner)

The Year of Miss Agnes (Kirkpatrick Hill)

Dog Days (David Lubar)

Sarah, Plain and Tall (Patricia MacLachlan)

Grade 4 into 5:

Friendship According to Humphrey (Betty G. Birney)

The Summer of Riley (Eve Bunting)

Frindle (Andrew Clements)

Things Not Seen (Andrew Clements)

A Week in the Woods (Andrew Clements)

Devil’s Bridge (Cynthia DeFelice)

Dan Gutman (any Baseball Card Adventure book)

Doing Time Online (Jan Siebold)

Laura Ingalls Wilder (any book in the Little House series)

Grades 5 through 7 are asked to purchase & read two books. (Information about the report/project will be discussed by your language arts teacher in September)

Grade 5 into 6:

Bloomability (Sharon Creech)

Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe. (Bette Greene)

Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)

The Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O’Dell)

Grade 6 into 7:

Eager (Helen Fox)

Johnny Tremain  (Esther Forbes)

Lyddie (Katherine Paterson)

Twenty-One Balloons  (William Pene Du Bois)

Grade 7 into 8: 

(The incoming eighth grade class will be required to purchase and read two books from the following list for summer reading.  Information concerning reports will be discussed before the end of the year)

The Child of the Owl (Yep)

The Outsiders (Hinton)

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

The Call of the Wild  (London)