Tyler Street Christian Academy by Virginia Hamilton Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate D. Wiggin by Jules Verne

In addition to the required summer reading, Ride the West Wind by Barbara Chamber West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein the following is a list of suggested reading The Sea Wolf by Jack London Wolf Rider by Avi material for your student. It is a proven fact that The Secret Garden by Francis Burnett Yo Soy Joaquin by Rodolfo Gonzales reading comprehension increases and Secret of The Andes by Ann Nolan Clark achievement test and SAT scores improve the Sixth Grade Can Really Kill You by Barthe DeClements HIGH SCHOOL – 11th and 12th GRADE more a student reads. This list, created using a Song of The Trees and other titles by Mildred Taylor Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton number of different sources, is comprised of Sounder by William H. Armstrong Catch 22 by Joseph Heller appropriate grade level material and various Christy by Catherine Marshall interest areas. Have a wonderful summer and Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars enjoy a good book! Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court A Taste of Blackberries by Doris Buchanan Smith by Mark Twain The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas The Death of a Cruz by Carlos Fuentes Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt Gifted Hands by Ben Carson th th MIDDLE SCHOOL – 6 - 8 GRADE The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald African Myths and Legends by Kathleen Arnott Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Anne of Green Gables and other titles White Stag by Kate Seredy Heart of Aztlan by Rudolfo Anaya by Lucy M. Montgomery Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson Words By Heart by Ouida Sebestyen House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Black Beauty by Anna Sewell A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy The Black Stallion by Walter Farley The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Burning Questions of Bingo Brown by Betsy Byars Young Black Storytellers by Walter Dean Myers Living Up the Street by Gary Soto Call it Courage and other titles by Armstrong Sperry 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis Earth by Earth Works Group Native Son by Richard Wright The Crossing by Gary Paulsen Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede HIGH SCHOOL – 9th and 10th GRADE by Clifton Taulbert Dear America Series by various authors 1984 by George Orwell Ordinary People by Judith Light Egypt Game by Zilpah Keatley Snyder Among the Volcanos by Omar S. Castanida Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott Are You in the House Alone? By Richard Peck The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas Escalente: The Best Teacher in America by Jay Matthews Baseball in April by Gary Soto Roots by Alex Haley The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender Runner by Cynthia Voight Hispanic Personalities by Gary Wohl and Carmen Ruibal Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Selections by Maya Angelou The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien The Contender by Robert Tipsyte Stand and Deliver by Edwards Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Farewell to Manzanar by J.W. Houston The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas The Incredible Worlds of Wally McDoogle series War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk by Bill Myers The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Barton de Trevino We Are Chicano by Rose Blue The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Little Women by Louisa May Alcott King of the Wind & other titles Lupita Manana by Patricia Beatty Winds of War by Herman Wouk by Marguerite Henry Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Works by Allan Poe The King’s Fifth and other titles by Scott O’Dell Orphans of the Sky by Robert Heinlein Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Kitchen Chemistry by Robert Gardner Paul Robeson: The Life and Times of a Free Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Black Man by Virginia Hamilton Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli 6/10/15 Mexican Folk Tales, by Anthony John Campos, Editor Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry Somewhere in the Darkness by Walter Dean Myers My Side of the Mountain by Jean George That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton Number the Stars by Lois Lowry The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales