Incoming First Graders Please Refer to the Summer Reading Packet for Special Instructions

Incoming First Graders

Suggested Authors: Tomie DePaola Pat Hutchins Bill Martin James Marshall Gail Gibbons – great author of non-fiction books Patricia Polacco Eric Carle Dr. Suess Ezra Jack Keats Jan Brett Arnold Lobel Leo Lionni Laura Joffe Numeroff – If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series Jonathan London – The Froggy series Peggy Parish – Amelia Bedelia series

Chapter Books: Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park Flat Stanley series by Jeff Brown Fly Guy series by Todd Arnold

Incoming Second Graders

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw If You Give A Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat by Patricia Reilly Giff Henry and Mudge and the Happy Cat by Cynthia Rylant Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema Clifford (any one of the series of books) by Norman Bridwell Abiyoyo by Pete Seeger Franklin (any one of the series of books) by Paulette Bourgeois Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judie Barrett Horrible Harry by Suzy Kline Incoming Third Graders

Magic Tree House Books Amelia Bedelia Books Magic School Bus Series Bailey Street School Series Box Car Children Series Beverly Cleary Books Sideways Stories From Wayside School Series David Adler Picture Book Biography Series The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptoe Sayonara, Mrs. Kackleman by Maira Kalman Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter Five Notable Inventors by Wade Hudson Five Great Explorers by Wade Hudson The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

Incoming Fourth Graders

Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary The Story of Rudy Bridges, by Robert Coles Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Day by Pamela S. Turner Bernie Magruder and the Haunted Hotel by Phyllis Reynold Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman Anthony’s Big Surprise: NEATE, Vol. 3 by Wade Hudson The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls or

List of Series:  Judy Moody by Megan McDonald  Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler  Who Was ______: series of nonfiction biography: published by Grosset & Dunlap  Melvin Beederman Superhero Books by Greg Trine Incoming Fifth Graders

Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech A House called Awful End by Philip Ardagh Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan Belle Teal by Ann Martin Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Fudge-A-Mania by Judy Blume Island of Blue Dophins by Scott O’Dell Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Joe Gantos Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzburg My Brother Sam is Dead by Collier and Collier Orphan Journey Home by L.Ketchum and H. Firt The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop The Janitor’s Boy by Andrew Clements The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare Any of The 39 Clues series (This series is written by various authors.)

Incoming Sixth Graders

Required Reading: Number the Stars

All is Well by Kristen Embry Litchman The Trojan Horse by Emily Little A Picture of Freedom by Patricia C. McKissack Loser by Jerry Spinneli Behind the Bedroom Wall by Laura E. Williams All About Sam by Lois Lowry Kevin Corbett Eats Flies by Patricia Hermes Emily’s Runaway Imagination by Beverly Cleary Middle School Blues by Lou Kassem The Man in the Ceiling by Jules Feiffer Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson Half Magic by Edward Eager Woodsong by Gary Paulsen The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi Bo and Mzzzz Mad by Sid Fleishman Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Rascal by Sterling North Sounder by William H. Armstrong