RECOMMENDED SUMMER READING
RECOMMENDED SUMMER READING
Students are encouraged to read over the summer to maintain and improve their reading skills. Students will receive extra credit grades next year based on their completion of the summer reading program. Below is the Summer Reading List. If your child is reading below grade level, please contact their teacher for alternative selections they may read. Books on this list are available for check-out from PACE West. Students may also choose to read other books. Parents will be required to submit verification that students did complete the summer reading.
Grade 3 Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher
Pub. Date
Hurwitz, Johanna
Any Title by this Author
Morrow Jr. Books
Varies
Osborne, Mary
P. "Magic Tree House" series
Random House
Varies
Lobel, Arnold
"Frog and Toad" series
Bradbury
Varies
Etra, Johathan
Aliens for Breakfast, etc. Random
Varies
*"Step Into
Reading" series Any title on an appropriate level Bantam Paperback Varies
Grade 4 Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher
Pub. Date
Adler, David
"Cam Jansen" series
Viking
Varies
Sobol, Donald
"Encyclopedia Brown" series T. Nelson
Varies
Cameron, Ann
"Julian Secret Agent" series Random House
Varies
Christopher,
Matt The Hit-away Kid,
The Lucky Baseball Bat or any other title by
this author
Warner, Gertrude
Camp Out Mystery
Albert Whitman & Co. Varies
Grade 5 Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher Pub. Date
Naylor, Phyllis
R. Any title by this author
Varies
Varies
Dahl, Roald
Any title by this author
Varies
Varies
Paulsen, Gary
"Culpepper Adventures" series or any title by this author Varies
Christopher,
Matt Spy on 3rd Base, Top Wing or any title by this author Varies
Grade 6 Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher Pub. Date
Paulson, Gary
Woodsong
Puffin
1991
Fox, Paula
Monkey Island
Orchard
1991
Graham, Kenneth
The Wind in the Willows
Harper & Row 1972
Stevenson, Robert
Kidnapped
Doubleday
1886
Grade 7 Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher Pub. Date
Haskins, Jim
One More River to Cross: The Stories of Twelve Black Americans Scholastic
1992
Stevenson, Robert
Treasure Island
Mass Market Paperback 1994
Wyss, Johann
Swiss Family Robinson
Bantam Classics
1992
Hahn, Mary
Time for Andrew: A Ghost Story Avon
1995
Grade 8 Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher Pub. Date
Paulsen, Gary
Hatchet
Bradbury
1987
Gilbreth, Frank
B.
& Ernestine
Carey Cheaper by the Dozen
Bantam Books 1984
London, Jack
White Fang
Puffin Classics 1986
Voight, Cynthia
Izzy, Willy Nilly
Atheneum
1986
Grade 9 Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher Pub. Date
Ende, Michael
The Neverending Story
Puffin
1993
King, Stephen
The Eyes of the Dragon
New American Library 1994
McCants, William
Anything Can Happen in High School (And it Usually Does)
Brownbeer Press
1994
Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Hobbit
Ballantine
1990
Grade 10 Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher Pub. Date
Cook, Robin
Mutation
Berkley Publishers 1996
Crichton, Michael
The Lost World
Ballantine
1996
Buck, Pearl
S.
The Good Earth
Pocket
1994
Voight, Cynthia
When She Hollers
Scholastic
1996
Grade 11 Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher Pub. Date
Dog, Mary Crow
Lakota Woman
Grove Weidenfeld 1990
Jackson, Bo
Bo Knows Bo The Autobiography of a Ballplayer
Doubleday
1990
Morrison, Toni
Beloved
Dutton
1993
Ellison, Ralph
The Invisible Man
African American Images 1996
Grade 12 Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher Pub. Date
Sparks, Beatrice
It Happened to Nancy
Avon
1994
King, Stephen
The Stand
New American Library 1991
Hillerman, Tony
Listening Woman
Harper Paperbacks 1978
Powell, Colin
My American Journey
Ballantine
1996
GED and Special Diploma Choose 2
Author
Title
Publisher Pub. Date
Crutcher, Chris
Ironman
Greenwillow
1995
Cormier, Robert
The Chocolate War
Panthean
1974
Steinbeck, John
Of Mice and Men
1973
London, Jack
Call of the Wild
MacMillan
1903
At all grade
levels, if your child is reading below grade level, contact the teacher
for appropriate reading materials for the summer.
