
SUMMER 2008 READING LIST

Grade 2	Required: Henry and Mudge and the Great Grandpas by Cynthia Rylant Choice of Two: The Tale of Three Trees by Angela Elwell Hunt Clams All Year by Maryann Cocca-Leffler Luke's Way of Looking by Nadia Wheatley & Matt Ottley My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston Cam Jansen and the Barking Treasury Mystery by David A. Adler

Grade 3	Required: Two books from any of the following: Cam Jansen series by David Adler The Polk Street School series by Patricia Reilly Giff The Horrible Harry series by Suzy Kline The Ramona Quimbly series by Beverly Cleary

Grade 4	Two books from the following list: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia McLachlan The Chalk Box Kid by Clyde Robert Bulla Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo Rascal by Sterling North

Grade 5	Required: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

Grade 6	Required: Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis Choice of one from the following: The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg What Could Go Wrong by Willo Davis Roberts The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene DuBois The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

Grade 7	Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell Choice of one of the following: When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Wills Holt The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton Holes by Louis Sachar Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

Grade 8	Required: Two books from the following list: True Notebooks by Mark Salzman Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Go and Come Back by Joan Abelove The Good Times are Killing Me by Lynda Barry Hope was Here by Joan Bauer The Good Earth by Pearl Buck The Call of the Wild by Jack London Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver Kim by Rudyard Kipling