Summer Reading List 2010

Recommended/Required Reading

Suggestions for Parents

The New Read Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease

How to Get Your Child to Love Reading by Esme Raji Codell

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children’s Book by Anita Silvey

Recommended reading for Elementary School students who will be in the following grades in September 2010:

2^nd Grade

Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel

Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant

Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osbourne

3^rd Grade

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

2^nd/3^rd Grade Laura Cushman Academy

The Henry and Mudge Series by Cynthia Rylant

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

Audiobook: Diary of a Spider by Doreen Cronin

4^th Grade

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

 Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

 The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks

4^th Grade Laura Cushman Academy

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Clearly

Audiobook: Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner (read by Phyllis Newman)

5^th Grade and 6^th Grade

The Breaker Boys by Pat Hughes

The Borning Room by Paul Fleischman

Dateline: Troy by Paul Fleischman

Going Through the Gate by Janet S. Anderson

Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson

5^th/6^th Grade Laura Cushman Academy

Amelia’s Itchy-Twitchy Lovey-Dovey Summer at Camp Mosquito by Marissa Moss

The Curse of the Bologna Sandwich: Melvin Beederman Superhero by Greg Trine

Audiobook-The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry (read by Arte Johnson)

Middle School (All 7^th and 8^th Graders)

The first three are required:

Code Orange by Caroline Cooney

The Cay by Theodore Taylor

Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan 

The students may choose between the following two for their fourth book:

Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

or

Tangerine by Edward Bloor