Novels in the Classroom & Summer Reading Lists

HILLSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS HILLSDALE, NEW JERSEY

NOVELS IN THE CLASSROOM & SUMMER READING LISTS

**The following is an updated list of novels, which may be used at each grade level. It is subject to change based on the interest and need.**

REVISED September 2009

HILLSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOLS HILLSDALE, NEW JERSEY

NOVELS IN THE CLASSROOM

Kindergarten-Grade Two No novels are used – only trade books.

Grade Three Title Author A to Z Mysteries Ron Roy Cam Jansen Adler Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dahl Charlotte’s Web White Fantastic Mr. Fox Dahl Here We All Are DePaola Ivy and Bean Barrows & Blackall James and the Giant Peach Dahl Jigsaw Jones Mysteries Preller Little House on the Prairie Ingalls Magic Tree House Pope Osborne Ramona Forever Cleary Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Rawls Shiloh Naylor Stone Fox Gardiner Superfudge Blume The Million Dollar Shot Gutman The Promise Koller Two Times the Fun Cleary

Grade Four Title Author Enormous Egg Butterworth Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World Walter Misty of Chicoteague Henry Stone Fox Gardiner Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Blume The Mystery of the Hidden Painting Warner The Phantom Tollbooth Justen Yang Namisha

Also, the Leveled Books which are part of the reading series.

Grade Five Title Author A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle Al Capone Does My Shirts Choldenko Bridge to Terabithia Paterson Dear Mr. Henshaw Cleary Encyclopedia Brown Sobol Frindle Clements From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler Konigsburg Holes Sachar Hollis Woods Reilly Island of the Blue Dolphin O’Dell James and the Giant Peach Dahl Journey to America Levitin Lily’s Crossing Giff P.S. Longer Letter Later Danziger/Martin Phantom Tollbooth Justen Pinballs Byars Sarah Bishop O’Dell Sign of the Beaver Speare Sing Down the Moon O’Dell So B. It Cornelissen Stuart Little White The Great Brain Fitzgerald The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Lewis The Report Card Clements The Whipping Boy Fleischman The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Avi There is a Boy in the Girls Bathroom Sachar Thief Lord Funke Tuck Everlasting Babbitt Wanted…Mud Blossom Byers 74

Grade Five Summer Reading Title Author 20,000 Leagues under the Sea Verne Artemis Fowl Colfer Because of Winn Dixie DiCamilly Black Beauty Sewell Call of the Wild London Hardy Boys Series Dixon Island of the Blue Dolphins O’Dell Mr. Popper’s Penguin Atwater Nancy Drew Series Keene Night Journeys Avi Old Yeller Gipson Ramona (Quimby) Series Clearly Series of Unfortunate Events Snicket The Cay Taylor The Cricket in Time Square Selden The Keeping Room Meyers The Yearling Rawlings Thief Lord Funke Treasure Island Stevenson White Fang London Worth LaFaye

Grade Six Title Hatchet Paulsen J.T. Parks Maniac Magee Spinelli Number the Stars Lowry Pinballs Byars Searching for Candlestick Park Kehret Strider Cleary The Cay Taylor The Egypt Game Snyder The Tiger Rising DiCamillo Tuck Everlasting Babbitt Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls Zekmet, The Stone Carver Stolz

Grade Six Summer Reading Title Author A Traitor Among the Boys Naylor A Wrinkle in Time L’Engle Crash Spinelli Million Dollar Shot Gutman My Life in Dog Years Paulsen The Cat Ate My Gymsuit Danziger The Tale of Despereaux DiCamillo There’s a Girl in my Hammerlock Spinelli Turn Homeward Hannalee Beatty Walk Two Moons Creech

Grade Seven Title Author A Christmas Carol (play version) Dickens A View from Saturday Konigsburg A Year Down Yonder Peck And Then There Were None Christie April Morning Fast Freak the Mighty Philbrick Last of the Mohicans Cooper Loser Spinelli Lyddie Paterson No Promises in the Wind Hunt Path of the Pale Horse Fleischman The 23 rd Street Crusaders Carson The Contender Lipsyste The Westing Game Raskin Treasure Island Stevenson

Grade Seven Literature Circle Novels Title Author A Long Way From Chicago Peck Coraline Gaiman Messenger Lowry No More Dead Dogs Korman Olive’s Ocean Henkes The Schwa was Here Shusterman

Grade 7 Summer Reading Title Author

Among the Hidden Note: The sequels are listed also: Among the Imposters Haddix , Among the Betrayed, Among the Barons, Among the Brave, Among the Enemy, and Among the Free Chasing Vermeer Balliett Code Talker Bruchac Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini Fleischman Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator Allison Hidden Talents Lubar Inkheart Funke Life As We Knew It Pfeffer Skellig Almond The Lightning Thief Riorden The Other Side of Dark Nixon The Wednesday Wars Schmidt Things Hoped For Clements Things Not Seen Clements Travel Team Lupica Wanted Clooney

Grade Eight Title Author A Corner of the Universe Martin Dicey’s Song Voigt Face on the Milk Carton Cooney Farewell to Manzanar Wakatsuki/Houston Flipped VanDraanen Heroes Cormier High Heat Deuker Hoot Hiaasen Lord of the Flies Golding October Sky Hickman Roll of Thunder Taylor Rules of the Road Bauer Tangerine Bloor That was Then, This is Now Hinton The Acorn People Jones The House of the Scorpion Farmer The Outsiders Hinton Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush Spinelli Z for Zachariah O’Brien

Drama Study Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare The Diary of Anne Frank Goodrich & Hackett

The Pearl Steinbeck October Sky

Grade Eight Summer Reading Title Author A Northern Light Donelly Airborn Oppel Code Orange Cooney Define “Normal” Peters Dunk Lubar Gifts Le Guin Izzy, Willy, Nilly Voigt Silent to the Bone Konisburg The Rag and Bone Shop Cormier Thwonk Bauer