2013 Summer Reader
Where you belong.Where All students at BCD are encouraged to read widely this summer. We want children to love reading, and summer is the ideal time to explore, enrich and grow.
The lists for Preschool and Lower School students, for whom summer reading is encouraged but not required, suggest appropriate books for their reading and/or listening pleasure.
All children entering Grades 3 through 9 are required [a] to read at least four books during the summer and [b] to be prepared to write reports on them in the fall. One Introduction particular book, which counts as one of the four, is required for each student in grades 4 through 8. Students entering Grade 9 are also required to read four books. However, in their case, two titles are required.
Last year’s lists have been reviewed and amended; some titles have been removed, while new ones have been added. In the past, the grouping of grades into sections– Grades 1 and 2, Grades 3 and 4, Grades 5 and 6, and Grades 7 and 8 worked well and will be continued this year. Grade 9 is a stand-alone list. In a few cases, several book titles appear on more than one list. Books which will (or may) be read in class in the coming year are not listed, as the English teachers do not wish them to be read in advance.
Once children have met requirements (if any), they need not stop reading! They may choose to read other books from their lists or, as long as the titles are appropriate, they may read books from other lists or books which do not appear on the BCD lists at all. The best indicator of your child’s reading level is a measurement called the “5 Finger Readability Test.” Ask your child to read a random page of at least 100 words. If there are more than five (5) words that are unfamiliar, perhaps another book would be more appropriate.
Award winning books are also good choices. Lists of Caldecott and Newbery titles (as well as other award winners) can be found at www.ala.org.
The Summer Reading Lists have been sent to The Bookstore in Lenox, The Bookloft in Great Barrington, the Chatham Bookstore, Barnes & Noble in Pittsfield, and all of the public libraries in the region. Most titles are readily available in any bookstore or library. Keep in mind that used bookstores are wonderful places to save money, recycle, and enjoy the luxury of an inexpensive hardcover copy!
BCD Summer Reader 1 Ahlberg, Allan Burton, Virginia Ehlert, Lois Hobon, Tana Each Peach Pear Plum The Little House Planting a Rainbow Of Colors and Things Katie and the Big Snow Growing Vegetable Soup And others Alexander, Martha Mike Mulligan and His Eating the Alphabet Nobody Asked Me If I Steam Shovel And others Hoff, Syd Wanted a Baby Sister Danny and the Dinosaur And others Carle, Eric Falconer, Ian Chester From Head to Toe Olivia And others Allard, Harry Very Hungry Caterpillar Olivia Saves the Circus Miss Nelson Is Missing The Very Quiet Cricket Johnson, Crockett And others And others Flack, Marjorie Harold and the Purple Crayon The Story About Pink And others Kindergarten Anderson, C.W. Carrick, Carol Billy and Blaze Patrick’s Dinosaurs Fox, Mem Keats, Ezra Jac & And others Hattie and the Fox Peter’s Chair Child, Lauren And others Whistle for Willie Barton, Byron I Want a Pet And others Machines at Work I Will Never Not Ever Eat Freeman, Donald Building a House a Tomato Corduroy Kellogg, Steven And others I am Extremely Absolutely A Pocket for Corduroy The Mysterious Tadpole Boiling Space Witch Prehistoric Pinkerton Bate, Lucy And others Dandelion And others Little Rabbit’s Loose Tooth And others Cole, Joanna Kessler, Leonard Preschool ! Bemelmans,Ludwig The Read-Aloud Treasury Hader, Berta Mr. Pine’s Purple House Madeline series The Magic School Bus series The Big Snow Stan the Hot Dog Man And others Bonsall, Crosby Cooney, Barbara Hall, Donald And I Mean It, Stanley Miss Rumphius Ox-Cart Man Kirk, David Who’s Afraid of the Dark And others Little Miss Spider's Tea Party Heide, Florence Parry And others Little Miss Spider's New Car Cronin, Doreen Maximillian Little Miss Spider: Sunny
Brett, Jan Click, Clack, Moo: Cows Patch School Henkes, Kevin Happy Birthday, Duck That Type Sheila Rae the Brave The Owl and the Pussy Cat And others Kraus, Rob Chester’s Way First Dog The Carrot Seed The Mitten de Brunhoff, Jean Owen The Happy Egg Julius, Baby of the World And others The Story of Babar A Hole Is to Dig And others
Brown, Margaret W. dePaola, Tomie Leaf, Munro Hoban, Lillian Goodnight Moon Strega Nona The Story of Ferdinand Arthur’s Hungry Bear Runaway Bunny The Knight and the Dragon Arthur’s Prize Reader Lester, Helen And others And others And others Tacky the Penguin
Bunting, Eve Eastman, P. D. And others Hoban, Russell Ghost’s Hour, Spook’s Hour Are You My Mother? Bedtime for Frances Fly Away Home Flap Your Wings Best Friends for Frances Wednesday Surprise And others Birthday for Frances And others And others
BCD Summer Reader 2 Lionni, Leo Munsch, Rober Rylant, Cynthia Viorst, Judith Swimmy Murmel, Murmel, Murmel Henry and Mudge series My Mother Says There Alexander and the Paper Bag Princess And others Aren’t Any Wind-up Mouse And others The Tenth Good Thing Fish Is Fish Schachner, Judy About Barney And others Muth, Jon J. Skippy jon Jones And others Zen Ties Skippy jon Jones in the Lobel, Arnold Zen Shorts Dog House Waber, Bernard Small Pig Stone Soup Skippy Jon Jones in Lyle the Crocodile series Lucille Mummy Trouble Mouse Tales Noble, Trinka And others Wells, Rosemary Frog and Toad series The Day Jimmy’s Boa Max and Ruby Kindergarten Ate the Wash Sendak, Mauric Noisy Nora Lowell, Susan And others Where the Wild Things Are McDuff Moves In & The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit Chicken Soup With Rice And others Numeroff, Laur And others Marshall, James If You Give a Mouse a Wiesner, David George and Martha series Cookie Seuss, Dr. The Three Pigs And others Cat in the Hat And others Mayer, Mercer Green Eggs and Ham There’s a Nightmare in Parish, Peggy Fox in Socks Wildsmith, Brian my Closet Amelia Bedelia series And others The Bremen Town Band Just for You The Owl and the And others Parr, Todd Silverstein, Shel Woodpecker
Preschool ! The Peace Book The Giving Tree And others McCloskey, Robert The Feel Good Book And others Blueberries for Sal And others Willems, Mo Make Way for Ducklings Simont, Marc Don’t Let the Pigeon One Morning in Maine Penn, Audrey The Stray Dog Drive the Bus And others The Kissing Hand Piggy and Elephant series A Pocket Full of Kisses Spier, Peter Knuffle Bunny McLerran, Alice Rain And others Roxaboxen Perkins, Al Dreams The Digging-est Dog Noah’s Ark Williams, Margery McPhail, David Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb People The Velveteen Rabbit The Bear’s Toothache And others Oh Were They Ever Happy! Fix-It Williams, Sue And others Polacco, Patricia Steig, William I Went Walking Thank You, Mr. Falker Dr. De Soto And others Milne, A. A. Thunder Cake Sylvester and the Magic Pebble The House at Pooh Corner And others Brave Irene Wiseman, Bernard Winnie the Pooh And others Morris and Boris stories And others Potter, Beatrix The Tale of Peter Rabbit Van Leeuwen, Jean Wood, Audrey Minarik, Else And others Tales of Amanda Pig Quick as a Cricket No Fighting, No Biting Tales of Oliver Pig The Napping House Little Bear series Rey, Margaret And others And others Curious George series Mosel, Arlene Tikki Tikki Tembo
BCD Summer Reader 3 Yolen, Jane and Teague, Mark How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? And others
Zoltow, Charlotte The Hating Book William’s Doll
Kindergarten Chapter Books
& Burgess, Thornton Old Mother West Wind
Gannett, Ruth Stiles My Father's Dragon And others
Kipling, Rudyard Just So Stories
Norton, Mary Preschool ! The Borrowers
Sharmat, Marjorie Nate the Great series
White, E. B. Charlotte's Web Stuart Little
Easy Reading Books
Bank Street Ready-to-Read Bob Books Dorling Kindersley Readers Early Step Into Reading I Can Read My First Hello Reader
BCD Summer Reader 4 2 Aardema, Verna Burgess, Thornton Coerr, Eleanor Hazen, Barbara Shook Misoso — Once Upon a Old Mother West Wind Sadako and the Thousand Tight Times
& Time Adventures of Danny Paper Cranes Tales from Africa Meadow Mouse Heide, Florence Parry Adventures of Jimmy Skunk Cole, Joanna Sleeping Ugly Adler, David And others The Magic School Bus series Cam Jansen series Henkes, Kevin Burton, Virginia Lee Cooney, Barbara Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse Alexander, Lloyd Mike Mulligan and His Steam Island Boy The Fortune Tellers Shovel Hattie and the Wild Wild Hoban, Russell Katie and the Big Snow Waves Best Friends for Frances Atwater, Richard The Little House And others Harvey's Hideout Mr. Popper's Penguins Nothing to Do Cameron, Ann Corbett, Scott And others
Grades Grades 1 Atwood, Margaret Julian, Secret Agent The Lemonade Trick Princess Prunella and And others Holabird, Katherine the Purple Peanut Dahl, Roald Angelina's Birthday Surprise Chew, Ruth James and the Giant Peach And others Baker, Olaf Summer Magic Fantastic Mr. Fox Where the Buffalos Begin A Witch in the House The Magic Finger Hope, Laura Lee And others The Enormous Crocodile Bobbsey Twins series Bemelmans, Ludwig Charlie and the Chocolate Madeline series Christopher, Matt Factory Hunter, Edith The Kid Who Hit Only And others Child of the Silent Night Berenstain Stan & Jan Homers Berenstain Bears Big Soccer Halfback de Brunhoff, Jean Johnson, Crockett Chapter Books Skateboard Tough Babar series Harold and the Purple And others Crayon ! Brett, Jan Dr. Seuss And others Trouble with Trolls Cleary, Beverly Butter Battle Book Beauty and the Beast Henry Huggins The Lorax Kellogg, Steven Comet's Nine Lives The Mouse and the Horton Hatches the Egg Sally Ann Thunder Ann And others Motorcycle And others Whirlwind Crockett Emily's Runaway Brown, Jeff Imagination Frost, Robert Kimmel, Eric Flat Stanley Lucky Chuck Swinger of Birches The Adventures of Ramona Hershel of Ostropol Brown, Marc Runaway Ralph Fritz, Jean Anansi and the Moss Arthur series And others What's the Big Idea, Ben Covered Rock Franklin? And others Budbill, David Clifton, Lucille And others Snowshoe Trek to Otter River Everett Anderson's Friend Krementz, Jill Bones on Black Spruce And others Giff, Patricia Reilly A Very Young Dancer Mountain The Candy Corn Contest A Very Young Skater Climo, Shirley And others And others Bulla, Clyde Robert The Egyptian Cinderella Chalk Box Kid The Korean Cinderella Gruelle, Johnny Ghost of Windy Hill The Irish Cinderlad Raggedy Ann series And others
BCD Summer Reader 5 2 Kipling, Rudyard McCloskey, Robert Rylant, Cynthia White, E. B. Just So Stories Make Way for Ducklings Henry and Mudge series Charlotte's Web
& Blueberries for Sal Stuart Little Kirk, David And others Sendak, Maurice Miss Spider's Tea Party Outside Over There Wilder, Laura Ingalls Miss Spider's Wedding McCully, Emily Arnold Where the Wild Things Are Little House in the Big Woods And others The Pirate Queen And others And others Mirette on the High Wire Kline, Suzy Ballot Box Battle Sharmat, Marjorie Williams, Margery Horrible Harry Series Popcorn at the Palace Weiman Nate the Great Series The Velveteen Rabbit Lawson, Robert Milne, A. A. Rabbit Hill Winnie-the-Pooh Silverstein, Shel Wisniewski, David Ben and Me The House at Pooh Corner Where the Sidewalk Ends Sundiata Grades Grades 1 The Tough Winter When We Were Very Young And others Lion King of Mali Mr. Revere and I Now We Are Six And others Simon, Seymour Yolen, Jane Ness, Evaline Our Solar System Sleeping Ugly Lear, Edward Sam, Bangs and Moonshine And others The Pelican Chorus Osborne, Mary Sobol, Donald LeGuin, Ursula Magic Tree House series Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Series Books A Ride on the Red Mare's Detective series
Back Parish, Peggy ABC Mysteries The Key to the Treasure Steig, William A to Z Mysteries Levy, Elizabeth Haunted House Sylvester and the Magic American Girl Something Queer at the Amelia Bedelia series Pebble Cam Jansen Ball Park Dr. De Soto ! DK Eyewitness The Schoolyard Mystery Peet, Bill Brave Irene Count Your Way Through And others Fly, Homer, Fly And others China, etc. The Wump World A Family in France, etc. Lobel, Arnold Stone, Rex Children of Mauritania, etc. Frog and Toad Are Friends Peterson, John Dinosaur Cove Mystery Series Magic Tree House And others The Littles series Nate the Great Stevenson, Robert Louis
Louie, Ai-Ling Prelutsky, Jack A Child’s Garden of Verses
Yeh-Shen, a Cinderella story New Kid on the Block from China For Laughing Out Loud Van Leeuwen, Jean Easy Reading Amanda Pig series The Dragons Are Singing Series MacDonald, Betty Tonight Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle And others Warner, Gertrude And others Chandler Bank Street Ready-to-Read Ransome, Arthur The Boxcar Children series Bob Books Marshall, James Fool of the World and the Dorling Kindersley Readers George and Martha Flying Ship Wells, Rosemary Step into Reading And others Max and Ruby series Rogaskey, Barbara McDuff Moves In Mayer, Marianna Rapunzel And others Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
BCD Summer Reader 6 4 Required Baum, L. Frank Chew, Ruth Corbett, Scott The Wizard of Oz Summer Magic The Lemonade Trick
& Reading And others A Witch in the House And others Dahl, Roald Grade 3 Berenstain Stan & Jan The BFG Four books of your Berenstain Bears Big Christopher, Matt Charlie and the choice at your Chapter Books The Kid Who Hit Only Chocolate Factory appropriate reading Homers Charlie and the Great level Birdsall, Jeanne Soccer Halfback Glass Elevator The Penderwicks Skateboard Tough James and the Giant Peach Grade 4 And others Fantastic Mr. Fox Pizza, Pigs and Poetry Blume, Judy The Enormous Crocodile by Jack Prelutsky, Tales of a Fourth Grade Cleary, Beverly And others Nothing Henry Huggins Grades Grades 3 Plus three other books Superfudge The Mouse and the Motorcycle Dalgliesh, Alice of your choice at your Freckle Juice Emily's Runaway Imagination The Courage of Sarah Noble appropriate reading And others Lucky Chuck level Ramona Danziger, Paula Bond, Michael Runaway Ralph Amber Brown Sees Red A Bear Called Paddington And others And others Recommended And others Clements, Andrew Davies, Jacqueline Reading Branley, Franklyn Frindle The Lemonade War The Sun: Our Nearest Star And others Aardema, Verna Mission to Mars de Brunhoff, Jean Misoso — Once Upon a The International Space Coatsworth, Babar series
Time Tales from Africa Station Elizabeth Jane And others The Cat Who Went To DiCamillo, Kate ! Adler, David Heaven The Tale of Despereaux Cam Jansen series Brett, Jan And others
Trouble with Trolls Coerr, Eleanor Dr. Seuss Alexander, Lloyd Beauty and the Beast Sadako and the Thousand Butter Battle Book The Fortune Tellers And others Paper Cranes The Lorax
Atwater, Richard Bulla, Clyde Robert Cohen, Barbara Horton Hatches the Egg Mr. Popper’s Penguins Chalk Box Kid Molly's Pilgrim And others Ghost of Windy Hill
Atwood, Margaret And others Cole, Joanna Erickson, John R. Princess Prunella and The Magic School Bus series Hank the Cowdog series
the Purple Peanut Burgess, Thornton Estes, Eleanor Old Mother West Wind Collodi, Carlo Ginger Pye Baker, Olaf Adventures of Danny Pinocchio
Where the Buffalos Begin Meadow Mouse Etra, Jonathan Adventures of Jimmy Skunk Cooney, Barbara Aliens for Breakfast Banks, Lynne Reid And others Island Boy Aliens for Lunch The Indian in the Hattie and the Wild Wild
Cupboard Cameron, Ann Waves And others Julian, Secret Agent And others And others
BCD Summer Reader 7 4 Fritz, Jean Jaffe, Nina L'Engle, Madeline Milne, A. A. What's the Big Idea, The Way Meat Loves Salt A Wrinkle in Time Winnie-the-Pooh
& Ben Franklin? While Standing on One Foot A Wind in the Door The House at Pooh Corner And others Swiftly Tilting Planet When We Were Very Young Kellogg, Steven And others Now We Are Six Frost, Robert Sally Ann Thunder Ann Swinger of Birches Whirlwind Crockett Lenski, Lois Norton, Mary Gannett, Ruth S. And others Strawberry Girl The Borrowers series My Father's Dragon Indian Captive: the Story Bed-knob and Broomstick And others Kerr, Judith of Mary Jemison When Hitler Stole Pink And others Parish, Peggy George, Jean Rabbit The Key to the Treasure Craighead Levy, Elizabeth Haunted House My Side of the Mountain Kindersley, Anabel Something Queer at the Amelia Bedelia series Grades Grades 3 The Missing 'Gator of Children Just Like Me Ball Park Gumbo Limbo The Schoolyard Mystery Paulsen, Gary Konigsburg, E. L. And others Hatchet Giff, Patricia Reilly From the Mixed-up Files of And others Polk Street School series Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Lindgren, Astrid Emily Arrow Promises And others Pippi Longstocking series Peterson, John to Do Better This Year The Littles series And others Korman, Gordon Lofting, Hugh Swindle The Story of Doctor Dolittle Prelutsky, Jack Gruelle, Johnny Doctor Dolittle's Return For Laughing Out Loud Raggedy Ann series Krementz, Jill The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle A Pizza the Size of the Sun A Very Young Dancer And others And others Gutman, Dan A Very Young Skater The Homework Machine And others MacDonald, Betty Ransome, Arthur ! Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series Fool of the World and Henry, Marguerite Kipling, Rudyard the Flying Ship Misty of Chincoteague Just So Stories Maclachlan, And others The Jungle Book Patricia Riordan, Rick Sarah, Plain and Tall The Lightening Thief Hope, Laura Lee Larrick, Nancy Skylark And others Bobbsey Twins series Piping Down the Valleys Wild Seven Kisses in a Row And others Robinson, Barbara Howe, James Lawson, Robert The Best Christmas Bunnicula Rabbit Hill Mathis, Sharon Pageant Ever Howliday Inn Ben and Me: an Astonishing Bell The Best School Year Ever And others Life of Benjamin Franklin Hundred-Penny Box Mr. Revere and I Rogaskey, Barbara Hunter, Edith And others Mayer, Marianna Rapunzel Child of the Silent Night Baba Yaga and Vasilisa LeGuin, Ursula the Brave Jacques, Brian A Ride on the Red Mare's Redwall series Back McCully, Emily Arnold The Bobbin Girl The Pirate Queen Ballot Box Battle And others
BCD Summer Reader 8 4 Rowland, Della Travers, Pamela L. Easy Reading The Story of Sacajawea — Mary Poppins
& Guide to Lewis and Clark Series Van Allsburg, Chris Sacher, Louis The Wreck of the Zephyr Bank Street Ready-to-Read Wayside School series [level 3 and above] Warner, Gertrude Dorling Kindersley Readers Schwartz, Alvin Chandler [level 3 and above] Scary Stories To Tell in The Boxcar Children series Step into Reading the Dark series [step 3 and above] White, E. B. Scieszka, Jon Charlotte's Web Time Warp Trio series Stuart Little
Grades Grades 3 Selznick, Brian Wilder, Laura The Inventions of Hugo Ingalls Cabret Little House in the Big Woods Little House on the Prairie Seredy, Kate And others The White Stag
Simon, Seymour Series Books Our Solar System
And others The 39 Clues
American Girl Sobol, Donald Magic Treehouse Encyclopedia Brown series Let’s Read and Find Out
Science ! Spinelli, Jerry Dell Yearling Maniac Magee DK Closer Look
Steig, William DK Eyewitness Abel's Island Count Your Way Through Dominic China, etc. A Family in France, etc. Steptoe, John Children in Morocco, etc. The Story of Jumping Mouse Stevie Folklore
Stevenson, Robert Andersen's Fairy Tales Louis Grimm's Fairy Tales A Child’s Garden of Robin Hood Verses King Arthur Paul Bunyan Taylor, Sydney Aesop's Fables All-of-a-Kind Family series
BCD Summer Reader 9 6 Required Alcott, Louisa May Blume, Judy Christopher, John Little Women Are You There, God? It's The White Mountains
& Reading Little Men Me, Margaret Pool of Fire Jo’s Boys Just as Long as We're City of Gold and Lead Grade 5 Eight Cousins Together The Prince in Waiting Rose in Bloom Here's to You, Rachel And others The Lightning Thief Robinson by Rick Riordan. Alexander, Lloy And others Christopher, Matt The High King Break for the Basket Plus three other books The Book of Three Boyne, John. Olympic Dream of your choice at your And others The Boy in the Striped Skateboard Tough appropriate reading Pajamas And others level Anderson, Dave The Story of Golf Brink, Carol R. Clark, Ann Grades Grades 5 Grade 6 The Story of Basketball Caddie Woodlawn Secret of the Andes And others The City of Ember Buck, Pearl Cleary, Beverly by Jeanne DuFrau Babbitt, Natalie The Big Wave Dear Mr. Henshaw If the first of this series Kneeknock Rise Strider has already been read, Goody Hall Bunting, Eve Ramona Forever please read the next Someone Is Hiding on And others novel in this four book Banks, Lynne Alcatraz Island series. You are The Indian in the Cupboard Clements, Andrew welcome to read all The Return of the Indian Burnett, Frances H. Frindle four novels. And others The Secret Garden And others The People of Sparks A Little Princess The Prophet of Barrie, James Cohen, Daniel Peter Pan Burnford, Sheila Witchcraft, Superstition and ! Yonwood The Diamond of The Incredible Journey Ghostly Magic Darkhold Barrow, T.A. Byars, Betsy Frauds, Hoaxes and Swindles The Merlin Effect The Summer of the Swans Real Ghosts Plus three other books Bauer, Marion The T.V. Kid Phantom Animals of your choice at your On My Honor After the Goat Man Restless Dead appropriate reading Blossom Family series And others level Bellairs, John Cracker Jackson The House with a Clock Collier, James in Its Walls Campbell, Joanna The Winter Hero And others A Horse of Her Own My Brother Sam Is Dead Recommended Star of Shadowbrook Farm Jump Ship to Freedom Reading Birdsall, Jeanne The Penderwicks Carroll, Lewis Conrad, Pam
Alice's Adventures in Prairie Songs Aiken, Joan Blos, Joan W. Wonderland The Wolves of A Gathering of Days Cooper, Susan Willoughby Chase Choi, Sook Nyul The Dark is Rising series Night Birds on The Year of Impossible Nantucket Goodbyes Coville, Bruce Black Hearts in Aliens—Tales to Warp Battersea Your Mind Arabel’s Raven And others A Touch of Chill
BCD Summer Reader 10 6 Creech, Sharon de Jong, Meindert Fitzgerald, John Gormley, Beatrice Walk Two Moons The House of Sixty Fathers The Great Brain Back to the Titanic!
& Absolutely Normal Chaos The Wheel on the School And others Fitzhugh, Louise Grahame, Kenneth Deuker, Carl Harriet the Spy The Wind in the Willows Cushman, Karen Heart of a Champion Catherine, Called Birdy Fletcher, Susan Greene, Constance The Midwife's DiCamillo, Kate Dragon's Milk A Girl Called Al Apprentice The Tale of Despereaux Flight of the Dragon Kyn I Know You, Al The Ballad of Lucy And others Philip Hall Likes Me, I Whipple Fox, Paula Reckon Maybe Dorris, Michael The Slave Dancer And others Dahl, Roald Guests The One-Eyed Cat Boy And others Gregory, Kristiana Grades Grades 5 The BFG [Big Friendly Giant] Dunning, Stephen Earthquake at Dawn Danny, The Champion of Reflections on a Gift of Fleischman, Sid the World Watermelon Pickle The Whipping Boy Gutman, Dan The Witches Ghost in the Noonday Sun The Homework Machine Mathilda Eager, Edward The Borning Room The Wonderful Story Magic or Not Haugaard, Eric of Henry Sugar Knights' Castle Frank, Anne The Samurai’s Tale Time Garden The Diary of a Young Girl Danziger, Paula Henry, Marguerite The Cat Ate My Eckert, Allan Fritz, Jean Misty of Chincoteague Gymsuit Incident at Hawk's Hill Homesick—My Own Story King of the Wind Everyone Else’s Parents Bully for You, Teddy Born to Trot Said Yes Enright, Elizabeth Roosevelt And others The Saturdays Harriet Beecher Stowe and ! And others The Four-Story Mistake the Beecher Preachers Hesse, Karen D’Aulaires’ Then There Were Five Brady A Time of Angels Norse Gods and Giants Thimble Summer You Want Women to Vote, Trolls Lizzie Stanton? Hoban, Russell And others Erdrich, Louise Stonewall The Mouse and His Child The Birchbark House Davies, Jacqueline And others George, Jean Howe, James The Lemonade War My Side of the Mountain Bunnicula Farley, Walter Julie of the Wolves The Celery Stalks at Midnight De Angeli, Marguerite The Black Stallion Julie Howladay Inn The Door in the Wall And others Julie’s Wolf Pack And others Fiddle-strings And others Field, Rachel Jacques, Brian De Clemens, Hitty, Her First Hundred Giff, Patricia Reilly Redwall series Barthe Years The Gift of the Pirate Queen Nothing’s Fair in Fifth Grade Calico Bush Love From the Fifth Jaffe, Nina And others Grade Celebrity The Uninvited Guest and Other Filipovic, Zlata Pictures of Hollis Woods Jewish Holiday Tales De Felice, Cynthia Zlata's Diary — A Child's And others Cold River Weasel Life in Sarajevo Gleitzman, Morris Two Weeks with the Queen
BCD Summer Reader 11 6 Juster, Norton Lasky, Kathryn Miles, Betty O'Hara, Mary The Phantom Tollbooth The Night Journey Maudie and Me and the My Friend Flicka
& Lawrence, Iain Dirty Book Thunderhead Kerr, Judith The Wreckers The Trouble with Thirteen Green Grass of Wyoming When Hitler Stole Pink And others Rabbit LeGuin, Ursula Paterson, The Wizard of Earthsea Moeri, Louise Katherine Key, Alexander Save Queen of Sheba Bridge to Terabitha The Forgotten Door L'Engle, Madeline Of Nightingales that Weep A Wrinkle in Time Montgomery, L. M. Sign of the Chrysanthemum Kincaid, Jamaica A Wind in the Door Anne of Green Gables series Lyddie Lucy And others Flip Flop Girl Morley, Walt Jip: His Story Kipling, Rudyard Levoy, Myron Kavik: the Wolf Dog Grades Grades 5 Just So Stories The Witch of Fourth Street Park, Linda Sue The Jungle Book Mowat, Farley A Single Shard All The Mowgli Stories Lewis, C.S. Owls in the Family Captains Courageous The Chronicles of Narnia Lost in the Barrens Paulsen, Gary Curse of the Viking Grave Soldier’s Heart Kjelgaard, Jim Lewis, Elizabeth The Transall Saga Big Red Young Fu of the Upper Nesbit, E. And others Outlaw Red Yangtze The Railway Children And others Peck, Robert Knight, Eric London, Jack Newton Lassie Come Home The Call of the Wild and Neville, Emily Soup Other Stories It's Like This, Cat Soup and Me Konigsburg, E. L. And others From the Mixed-Up Files Lord, Bette Bao Nixon, Joan Lowery ! of Mrs. Basil E. The Year of the Boar and The Other Side of Dark Prager, Arthur Frankweiler Jackie Robinson World War II Resistance North, Sterling Stories Korman, Gordon Lowry, Lois Rascal Swindle Anastasia Krupnik series The Wolfling Pyle, Howard Otto of the Silver Hand Jennifer, Hecate MacLachlan, Norton, Mary Merry Adventures of Macbeth, William McKinley, Patricia The Borrowers series Robin Hood and Me, Elizabeth Sarah, Plain and Tall Journey to an 800 Journey O'Brien, Robert Ransome, Arthur Number Skylark Mrs. Frisby and the Rats Swallows and Amazons The View from Baby of N.I.M.H. Saturday And others Raskin, Ellen And others O'Dell, Scott Figgs and Phantoms Magorian, Michelle The Island of the Blue Langton, Jane Goodnight, Mr. Tom Dolphins Rawls, Wilson The Fledgling McSwigan, Marie Sarah Bishop Where the Red Fern Grows Diamond in the Snow Treasure Zia Window Merrill, Jean The Serpent Never Sleeps Riordan, Rick The Swing in the Pushcart War Streams to the River, The Lightning Thief Summer-House River to the Sea and others And others
BCD Summer Reader 12 6 Roberts, Willo Singer, Isaac Stevenson, R. L. Winthrop, Elizabeth The View from the Cherry Tree Belshevis Treasure Island Castle in the Attic
& Zlateh the Goat and Robinson, Barbara Other Stories Stewart, Trenton Wojciechowska, The Best Christmas The Power of Light Lee Maia Pageant Ever The Mysterious Benedict Shadow of a Bull The Best School Year Ever Slobodkin, Louis Society The Space Ship under And others Wright, Betty Ren Rogers, Mary the Apple Tree Out of the Dark Freaky Friday The Space Ship Returns Stolz, Mary A Billion for Boris to the Apple Tree Noonday Friends Yep, Laurence Bully of Barkham Street Child of the Owl Rylant, Cynthia Smith, Betty Cider Days Thief of Hearts I Had Seen Castles A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Ferris Wheel Dragonwings Grades Grades 5 A Kindness Cat in the Mirror The Serpent’s Children Missing May Smith, Jane D. And others And others Mary By Myself Streatfeild, Noel Ballet Shoes Yolen, Jane San Souci, Robert Smith, Robert K. Circus Shoes Dragon's Blood Short and Shivery Chocolate Fever Skating Shoes The Gift of Sarah Barker And others Young Merlin trilogy Schwartz, Alvin Snyder, Zilpha Scary Stories To Tell in Keatley Sullivan, George the Dark series And All Between All About Basketball Black and Blue Magic And others Series Scieszka, Jon The Egypt Game The 39 Clues Time Warp Trio series Libby on Wednesday Taylor, Theodore The Bomb ! Selden, George Speare, Elizabeth The Cricket in Times George Thurber, James Square The Sign of the Beaver Fables for Our Time Tucker's Countryside The Witch of Blackbird Thirteen Clocks And others Pond Tolkien, J.R.R. . Selznick, Brian Sperry, Armstrong The Hobbit The Inventions of Hugo Call It Courage Cabret Spiegelman, Art Verne, Jules Maus I and II Twenty Thousand Seredy, Kate Leagues under the Sea The White Stag Spinelli, Jerry Around the World in Maniac Magee Eighty Days Sewell, Anna Space Station Seventh Grade Black Beauty Stargirl Voigt, Cynthia And others Homecoming Silverstein, Shel Dicey's Song Where the Sidewalk Ends Spyri, Johanna Bad Girls A Light in the Attic Heidi And others
Stamper, J. B. Walsh, Jill Paton Tales for the Midnight Hour The Green Book The Emperor's Winding Sheet
BCD Summer Reader 13 ! 8 Required Armstrong, William Buck, Pearl S. Crichton, Michael Sounder The Good Earth The Great Train Robbery
& Reading! And others The Andromeda Strain
Asimov, Isaac Jurassic Park Grade 7 Fantastic Voyage Bunting, Eve Sphere My Brother Sam is Dead Foundation series SOS Titanic Congo by James Lincoln Collier And others & Christopher Collier Avi Card, Orson Scott
The Man Who Was Poe Memory of Earth Crutcher, Chris Plus three other books Romeo and Juliet — Red Prophet The Crazy Horse Electric Game of your choice at your Together at Last Athletic Shorts appropriate reading True Confessions of Carter, Forrest Ironman level Charlotte Doyle The Education of Little Tree Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
And others And others Grades Grades 7 Grade 8 Cary, Lorene The Pearl Berlitz, Charles Black Ice Cushman, Karen by John Steinbeck The Bermuda Triangle Catherine, Called Birdy
Childress, Alice The Midwife's Apprentice Plus three other books Blinn, William A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But The Ballad of Lucy Whipple of your choice at your Brian’s Song a Sandwich appropriate reading Dahl, Roald level Bloor, Edward Christie, Agatha Tales of the Unexpected
Tangerine Murder on the Orient The Wonderful Story of Henry Recommended Express Sugar and Six Others Blume, Judy Reading And others Boy Tiger Eyes Deenie Christopher, John Dana, Richard Henry Adams, Douglas Just as Long as We’re The Prince in Waiting Two Years Before the ! Hitchhiker’s Guide to Together Sword of the Sprit Mast the Galaxy And others Beyond the Burning Lands Danziger, Paula Adams, Richard Borland, Hal Cleaver, V. And B. The Cat Ate My Gymsuit Watership Down When the Legends Die Where the Lilies Bloom The Pistachio Prescription And others There's a Bat in Bunk Five Aiken, Joan Bradbury, Ray Midnight Is a Place The Illustrated Man Cooper, Susan DeFoe, Daniel Touch of Chill Dandelion Wine The Dark Is Rising Robinson Crusoe The Grey King Alexander, Lloyd Braithwaite, E. R. The Boggart Deaver, Julie The Beggar Queen To Sir, With Love Reece The Remarkable Cormier, Robert Say Goodnight, Gracie Journey of Prince Jen Brooks, Terry The Chocolate War The Arkadians The Sword of Shannara Beyond the Chocolate War Dickens, Charles And others Elfstones of Shannara Fade Great Expectations Dickinson, Peter Anthony, Piers Brown, Dee Creech, Sharon A Bone From a Dry Sea A Spell for Chameleon Bury My Heart at Walk Two Moons Source of Magic Wounded Knee Absolutely Normal Chaos Doyle, A. Conan Bloomability Adventures of Sherlock And others Holmes
BCD Summer Reader 14 8 Eckert, Allen Hemingway, Ernest Knowles, John McCaffrey, Anne Incident at Hawk’s Hill A Farewell to Arms Peace Breaks Out Dragonsong series
& For Whom the Bell Tolls A Separate Peace Dragonriders of Pern Forbes, Esther And others Johnny Tremain Herriot, James Konigsburg, E. L. All Creatures Great and A Proud Taste for Scarlet McCullers, Carson Fox, Paula Small and Miniver The Member of the Wedding One-Eyed Cat All Things Bright and T-backs, T-shirts, Coat Beautiful and Suit McKinley, Robin Frank, Anne All Things Wise and The View from Saturday The Hero and the Crown Diary of a Young Girl Wonderful And others The Blue Sword The Outlaws of Sherwood Gallico, Paul Heyerdahl, Thor Larrick, Nancy, ed. The Snow Goose Kon Tiki Piping Down the Valleys Wild Meltzer, Milton Grades Grades 7 Room for Me and a Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? George, Jean C. Hinton, S. E. Mountain Lion Never to Forget Julie of the Wolves The Outsiders And others Julie And others Lawson, Don And others The United States in the Michener, James Houston, Jeanne Vietnam War Hawaii Gibson, William Farewell to Manzanar And others Centennial The Miracle Worker The Bridges of Toko-Ri Hunt, Irene LeGuin, Ursula And others Goodall, Jane Across Five Aprils A Wizard of Earthsea In the Shadow of Man Up a Road Slowly The Tombs of Atuan Miller, Arthur Solo The Farthest Shore Death of a Salesman Jacques, Brian The Crucible Gray, Elizabeth J. Redwall series Leitner, Isabella ! Adam of the Road Fragments of Isabella Mitchell, Margaret Johnston, Norma Gone With the Wind Green, H. The Keeping Days L'Engle, Madeleine I Never Promised You a And others Meet the Austins Montgomery, L. M. Rose Garden The Moon by Night Anne of Green Gables series Keillor, Garrison Camilla Greene, Bette Lake Wobegon Days Many Waters Mowat, Farley Summer of My German And others The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Soldier Keller, Helen A Whale for the Killing The Drowning of The Autobiography of London, Jack Never Cry Wolf Stephen Jones Helen Keller White Fang The People of The Deer
Gregory, Kristiana Kelly, Eric MacLean, Alistair Myers, Walter Dean Earthquake at Dawn Trumpeter of Krakow The Guns of Navarone Fallen Angels Where Eagles Dare Gunther, John Kendall, Carol Ice Station Zebra Nix, Garth Death Be Not Proud The Gammage Cup And others Sabriel
Hansberry, Lorraine Kennedy, John F. Mazer, Harry Nixon, Joan Lowery A Raisin in the Sun Profiles in Courage The War on Villa Street Shadow Maker Snowbound The Séance Hautzig, Esther Keyes, Daniel The Solid Gold Kid The Stalker The Endless Steppe Flowers for Algernon And others And others
BCD Summer Reader 15 8 Nordhoff and Hall Plum-Ucci, Carol Staples, Suzanne Voigt, Cynthia Mutiny on the Bounty The Body of Christopher Shabanu—Daughter of Homecoming
& Creed the Wind Dicey's Song O'Dell, Scott Haveli Building Blocks The Spanish Smile Poe, Edgar Allen Callende Papers Carlota Stories and poems Sutcliff, Rosemary Seventeen Against the Dealer The Hawk That Dare Tristan and Iseult And others Not Hunt by Day Potok, Chaim The Dragon Slayer Streams to the River, The Chosen The Silver Branch Washington, Booker T. River to the Sea The Promise Up from Slavery The Serpent Never Sleeps Taylor, Mildred Island of the Blue Pullman, Philip Let the Circle Be Unbroken Wells, H. G. Dolphins The Ruby in the Smoke Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry The War of the Worlds The King's Fifth Tiger in the Well Road to Memphis The Time Machine Grades Grades 7 His Dark Materials trilogy And others O'Hara, Mary Taylor, Theodore My Friend Flicka Pyle, Howard Timothy of the Cay Wilder, Thorton Thunderhead Men of Iron The Weirdo Our Town Green Grass of Wyoming The Bomb Ransome, Candice Wodehouse, P. G. Orczy, Baroness So Young To Die Thomas, Dylan The Code of the Woosters Scarlet Pimpernel A Child's Christmas in Wales Very Good, Jeeves Raskin, Ellen Fish Preferred Orwell, George The Westing Game Thurber, James And others 1984 The Thurber Carnival Rawlings, Marjorie Wouk, Herman Pasternak, Boris The Yearling Tolkien, J. R. The Caine Mutiny Dr. Zhivago The Hobbit ! Rinaldi, Ann The Lord of the Rings Wright, Richard Paterson, Katherine The Secret of Sarah Revere Trilogy of Middle Earth Black Boy Jacob Have I Loved Flip Flop Girl Rosen, Roger Tunis, John R. Yep, Laurence Lyddie Teenage Soldiers, Adult Wars The Kid from Tomkinsville Child of the Owl Of Nightingales That Weep And others Dragonwings Rylant, Cynthia Liar, Liar Paton, Alan A Kindness Twain, Mark Thief of Hearts Cry, The Beloved I Had Seen Castles The Prince and the Pauper Ribbons Country A Connecticut Yankee in Dragon’s Gate Too Late the Phalarope Serraillier, Ian King Arthur's Court Escape from Warsaw Zeinert, Karen Peck, Robert Newton Valens, E. G. The Amistad Slave Revolt A Day No Pigs Would Shaara, Michael The Other Side of the and American Abolition Die Killer Angels Mountain Zusak, Marcus
The Book Thief Pevsner, Stella Speare, Elizabeth Verne, Jules Sister of the Quints The Bronze Bow Journey to the Centre of And others Callico Captive the Earth Around the World in Eighty Days Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
BCD Summer Reader 16 Required Gaines, Ernest J. Delaney Sisters Lawrence, J. & Lee, R. A Lesson Before Dying Having Our Say Inherit the Wind Reading Greene, Graham Dineson, Isak Wilder, Thornton English The Quiet American Out of Africa Our Town Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Jimenez, Juan Ramon Griffin, John Zindel, Paul Platero and I Howard The Effect of Gamma Rays Black Like Me on Man in the Moon
Grade Grade 9 History The Things They McCullers, Carson Marigolds! Carried The Heart is a Lonely Herriot, James by Tim O'Brien Hunter All Creatures Great and Small McMurtry, Larry
Recommended The Last Picture Show Heyerdahl, Thor Kon-Tiki Reading Peck, Richard Houston, Jeann A Day No Pigs Would Die Farewell to Manzenar In addition to the two Potok, Chaim titles listed above, students The Promise Junger, Sebastian are encouraged to choose The Perfect Storm additional reading from Renault, Mary the lists which follow: The King Must Die Lord, Walter
A Night to Remember
Rostand, Edmond Fiction Cyrano De Bergerac Pipher, Mary
Reviving Ophelia Chute, Carolyn ! Trumbo, Dalton The Beans of Egypt, Johnny Got His Gun Postman, Neil Maine Amusing Ourselves to
Wilde, Oscar Death Cormier, Robert The Picture of Dorian The Chocolate War Gray Thomas, Lewis I Am the Cheese The Lives of a Cell
Wouk, Herman Crichton, Michael Marjorie Morningstar The Andromeda Strain Drama
DeSaint-Exupery Non-Fiction Gibson, William The Little Prince The Miracle Worker
Angelou, Maya Faulkner, I Know Why the Hansberry, William Caged Bird Sings Lorraine The Bear Raisin in the Sun
Baker, Russell Forester, C.S. Growing Up Kesselring, The African Queen Joseph
Carson, Rachel Arsenic and Old Lace
Silent Spring
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Berkshire Country Day School exists to inspire the individual promise of every student, that each may become an exemplary citizen of the world.
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