Required Reading Lists by Grade for 2009 - 2010
First Grade - all for summer
Six books by any of the following authors:
P.D. Eastman
Lois Elhert
Denise Fleming
Bill Martin
Peggy Parish (Amelia Bedelia series)
Cynthia Rylant (Henry & Mudge series)
Dr. Seuss (early readers)
2nd Grade - all for summer
Any book by Arnold Lobel
Five books by any of the following authors:
Syd Hoff
Leo Leonni
Stan and Jan Berenstain
Peggy Parrish
Jean Fritz
Bill Peet
Robert McCloskey
3rd Grade - all for summer
Three books by any of the following authors:
Beverly Cleary
William Steig
Cynthia Rylant
Tomie De Paola
Sid Fleischman (The Whipping Boy only)
Third grade book report format
4th Grade
Mr. Popper's Penguins (Atwater) - summer only
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Dahl)
Little House on the Prairie (Wilder)
The Diamond Champs (Christopher)
Ribsy (Cleary)
The Sign of the Beaver (Speare)
Stuart Little (White)
Fourth grade book report format
5th Grade
Summer of the Swans (Betsy Byars) - summer only
The Borrowers (Norton ) - suggested for summer
The Great Brain (Fitzgerald) - suggested for summer
Peppermints in the Parlor (Wallace) - suggested for summer
Number the Stars (Lois Lowery)
Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (Stephen Manes)
Island of the Blue Dolphins (Scott O'Dell)
Old Yeller (Fred Gipson)
Fifth grade book report format
6th Grade
The Pinballs (Betsy Byars) - summer only
Skinnybones (Park)
Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt
Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls)
Hatchet (Paulsen)
Sixth grade book report format
7th Grade
Cheaper by the Dozen (Frank Gilbreth and Ernestine G. Carey) - summer only
Call of the Wild (Jack London)
A Wrinkle In Time (Madeline L'Engle)
Johnny Tremain (Esther Forbes)
One novel will be added during the year.
Seventh Grade book report format
8th Grade
Ghost Canoe- Hobbs (summer only)
The Outsiders- S.E. Hinton (1st 9 weeks)
The Staircase- Ann Rinaldi (2nd 9 weeks)
Fehrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury (3rd 9 weeks)
The Westing Game- Ellin Raskin (4th 9 weeks)
Ghost Canoe is the summer book.
Eighth grade book report format
9th Grade
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway) - summer only
To Kill a Mocking Bird (Harper Lee)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
The Street Lawyer (John Grisham)
One novel*
*To be announced later and can be ordered through the teacher.
10th Grade
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) - summer only
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
And Then There Were None (A. Christie)
Honors Add:
Les Miserables (Hugo)*
*This book will be ordered through the teacher later in the year.
11th Grade
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) - summer only
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) - summer only
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
Honors Add:
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
12th Grade
Lord of the Flies (William Golding) - summer only
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) - summer only
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)*
*This book will be ordered through the teacher later in the year.
Honors Add:
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
She Stoops to Conquer (Oliver Goldsmith)
Return of the Native (Hardy)