SUMMER READING 2012

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

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