St. John’s 2012 Summer Reading List
The following books
are required reading for students going into the following grades:
Kindergarten Summer
Reading List
These can be read to
the child
Required:
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph
Slate
The Night before Kindergarten by Natasha Wing
Optional:
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John
Archambault
Astronauts
Are Sleeping by Natalie Standiford
The
Chicken Sisters by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The
Leaf Men by William Joyce
Mouse
Mess by Linnea Asplind Riley
My
Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Prairie
Primer A to Z by Caroline Stutson
Zin!
Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss,
Visiting
the Art Museum by Laurene Krasny Brown
Sheep
in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
The
Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller
Prairie
Primer A to Z by Caroline Stutson
1st Grade Reading List
Required:
Big Words for Little People by Jamie Lee Curtis
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
Optional:
Lily’s Plastic Purple Purse by Kevin Henkes
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst,
The Bears' Picnic by
Stan Berenstain
Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban
Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys, and Their Monkey
Business
by Esphyr Slobodkina
by Esphyr Slobodkina
Franklin Rides a Bike
by Paulette Bourgeois
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe
Numeroff
Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia
by Peggy Parish
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka
2nd Grade Reading List
Required:
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
The Hello, Goodbye Window by Norton Juster and Chris
Raschka
Optional:
The Secret Knowledge of Grown Ups by David Wisniewski
Flat Stanley (any in the series) by Jeff Brown
Summer Bridge Workbook 1-2 to keep up skills through
the summer)
Detective LaRue: Letters from the Investigation
by Mark Teague
The Adventures of Taxi Dog by Debra Barracca
The Great Kapok Tree A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry
Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino
Martha Blah Blah by Susan Meddaugh
Stellaluna by Janell
Cannon
Any Magic Treehouse Books.
Zelda and Ivy by Laura McGee Kvasnosky
3rd Grade Reading List
Required:
Charlottes Web by E.B. White
The Magic School Bus: Space Explorers by Joanna Cole
Optional:
Stone Soup by Jon Muth
The Best School Year Ever
by Barbara Robinson
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, A Message from Chief Seattle by Susan Jeffers
Go Free or Die, A Story About Harriet Tubman by Jeri Ferris
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Miss Nelson Is Missing! by Harry Allard
Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater
Poppy by Avi
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris
4th Grade Summer Reading
List
Required:
FICTION: choose
one
Stone Fox- Gardiner
Follow My Leader- James B. Garfield
NON-FICTION:
choose one
Naya Nuki (Shoshoni girl who ran) - Kenneth Thomasma
Ameenah (Zuni boy
runs the race of his life)- Kenneth Thomasma
Optional:
Matt Christopher – any of his sports books
(non-fiction)
Dennis – NUBS: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine, and a
Miracle (non-fiction)
Gregory – Cabin Creek Mysteries: Clue at the Botton of
the Lake or Blizzard on Blue
Mountain
Hachiko Waits by Leslea Newman (Historical Fiction)
Crooked Kind of Perfect by Linda Urban
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
George’s Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl
The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Fudge-a-Mania by Judy Blume
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
The Original Adventures of Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson
5th Grade Summer Reading
List
Required:
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Optional:
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Esperanza Rising by Pam Munzo Ryan
Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Holes by Louis Sachar
The Warm Place by
Nancy Farmer
The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg
Shiloh by Phyllis
Reynolds Naylor
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
My Daniel by Pam
Conrad
Matilda by Roald Dahl
From the Mixed
Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
6th Grade Summer Reading
List
Required:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Special
Directions:
You will need the study guide posted on the website AND the
novel for the first two to three weeks of class. If you are using a
library book, please make arrangements to have the book in class for at least
the first three weeks of school. school.saintjohns.net
Pick two, no
report due:
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Whittingtin by Armstrong, Alan
The Adventures of Odysseus by Hugh Lupton
The Shakespeare Stealer
by Blackwood
Nory Ryan’s Song by Giff
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
Belle Prater's Boy
by Ruth White
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Egypt Game by
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
7th Grade Summer Reading
List
Required:
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Special
Directions:
You will need the study guide posted on the website AND the
novel for the first two to three weeks of class. If you are using a
library book, please make arrangements to have the book in class for at least
the first three weeks of school. school.saintjohns.net
Pick two, no
report due:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt
The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
Night by Elie Wiesel
Nothing but the Truth, A Documentary Novel by Avi
Of Mice and Men by
John Steinbeck
Redwall by Brian Jacques
Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver
Touching
Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen
Stargirl
by Jerry Spinelli
Call
it Courage by Armstrong Sperry
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Tracker
by Gary Paulsen
Walk
Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Flipped by Wendelin van Draanen
A Single Shard by
Linda Sue Park
The Clay Marble
by Minfong Ho
House of Dries
Drear by Virginia Hamilton
8th Grade Summer Reading
List
Required:
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers
Special
Directions:
You will need the study guide posted on the website AND the
novel for the first two to three weeks of class. If you are using a
library book, please make arrangements to have the book in class for at least
the first three weeks of school. school.saintjohns.net
Pick two, no
report due:
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The
Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
Red
Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The
Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul
Sunrise
Over Fallujah by Walter D. Myers
War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Man in the Iron Mask by
Dumas
The Fantastic Voyage by Asimov
The Friendly Persuasion by West
Memory by Mahy
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by
Gaines
Summer of My German Soldier by Greene
Watership Down by Adams
Summer of the Monkeys by
Rawls
Born Free by Adamson
Go Up for Glory by Russell
All Creatures Great and Small by
Herriot
The Mousetrap by Christie
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Peck
The Once and Future King by
White
Waiting for Rain by Gordon
Ellen Foster by Gibbons
