Summer Reading
Students should be encouraged to read!
Grade the student is entering:
1st Grade- Abeka readers from kindergarten and sight word list
2nd Grade- Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
3rd Grade- Any book from the Magic Tree House series
Choose one:
4th Grade- My Teacher is an Alien by Bruce Coville, The Call of the Wild by Jack London
5th Grade- Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo, Number the Stars by Lois Lowery, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
6th Grade- Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Milaelsen
7th Grade- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, The River by Gary Paulsen, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
8th Grade- The Giver by Lois Lowry, When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle
9th Grade- White Fang by Jack London, We are Wolves by Katrina Nannestad, The Maze Runner by James Dashner
10th Grade- Scythe* by Neal Shusterman, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
11th Grade-
Honors American Literature-Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Unbroken* by Laura Hillenbrand
English III- Unbroken* by Laura Hillenbrand, Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, Educated *by Tara Westover
12th Grade-
Honors British Literature– Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Lord of the Flies by William Golding
English IV- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, American Dirt* by Jeanine Cummins
* Contains mature content and language of war