Required Reading 2009-2010
Letters
To Parents:
1st Grade
2nd
Grade
3rd Grade
4th
Grade
5th Grade
6th
Grade
7th Grade
8th
Grade
9th-12th Grade
See below for book report format and study guides.
1st
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)
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)
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)
6th
Grade
The Pinballs (Betsy Byars) - summer only
Skinnybones (Park)
Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt
Where the Red Fern Grows (Rawls)
Hatchet (Paulsen)
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.
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. Students will complete a book report using the following 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.
9th Grade Summer Reading Requirements & Study Guide
10th
Grade
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) - summer only
The Count of Monte Cristo Study
Guide
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
Scarlett Letter Study Guide
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) -
summer only
The
Red Badge of Courage Study Guide
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
Wuthering
Heights Study Guide
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)