Going into Grade 6
***Required Summer Reading
Fiction: Classic and Contemporary
David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.51/
Banner In The Sky
James Ramsey Ullma
Suggested Summer Reading List
Parents should always carefully review any title on the list for content suitability as well as readability and interest level before sharing the book with their child.
Fiction: Classic and Contemporary
The Railroad Children
Edith Nesbit
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.3/bookrid.424/
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montogomery
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookrid.78/
Rebacca of Sunnybook Farm
Kate Douglas Wiggin
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.3/bookrid.140/
Mystery Adventure
Land That Time Forgot
Edgar Rice Borroughs
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookrid.42/
Poetry
Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child’s Book of Poems
M. White and others
Nonfiction/Science
The Story of Sacajawa: Guide To Lewis and Clark
Della Rowland
Hellen Keller: Courage In The Dark
Johanna Hurwitz
The Way Things Work
David Macaulay
Going into Grade 7
***Required Summer Reading
Fiction: Classic and Contemporary
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.53/
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O’Deal
Suggested Summer Reading List
***Parents should always carefully review any title on the list for content suitability as well as readability and interest level before sharing the book with their child.
Fiction: Classic and Contemporary
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookrid.100/
Fables
Aesop’s Fables (Choose 4)
Aesop
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.3/bookid.310/
Mystery/Adventure
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.86
Poetry
Selections from You Come Too –
Robert Frost
Nonfiction: Science, Social Studies
My Life with the Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
Going into Grade 8
***Required Summer Reading
Fiction: Classic and Contemporary
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.32/
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
Suggested Summer Reading List
***Parents should always carefully review any title on the list for content suitability as well as readability and interest level before sharing the book with their child.
Fiction: Classic and Contemporary
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.23/
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
The True Confessions of Charlotte
Doyle
Avi
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookrid.100/
Short Stories
The Monkey’s Paw
W.W. Jacobs
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/bookid.206/sec./
Fables
Aesop’s Fables (Choose 4)
Aesop
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.3/bookid.310/
Mystery/Adventure
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.56
Poetry
Selections from You Come Too –
Robert Frost
Morning At The Window
T.S. Eliot
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/bookid.8/sec.17/
The Grass
Emily Dickenson
http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/bookid.1087/sec.67/
Nonfiction: Science, Social Studies, Mathematics
My Life with the Chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
Leonardo da Vinci: Artist, Inventor, and Scientist of the Renaissance
Francesca Romei
Going into Grade 9
***Required Summer Reading
Fiction: Classic and Contemporary
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
http://www.classicreader.com/booktoc.php/sid.1/bookid.52/
The Lion And The Jewel
Wole Soyinka
Suggested Summer Reading List
***Parents should always carefully review any title on the list for content suitability as well as readability and interest level before sharing the book with their child.
Fiction: Classic and Contemporary
The Pearl
John Steinbeck
Chinese Cinderella: the True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Adeline Mah
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Jules Verne
Mystery/Adventure
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Poetry
19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East
Naomi Shihab Nye
Chicago Poems
Carl Sandburg
Fog
http://www.bartleby.com/165/56.html
Docks
http://www.bartleby.com/165/125.html
Dreams in the Dusk
http://www.bartleby.com/165/124.html
Clark Street Bridge
http://www.bartleby.com/165/9.html
Nonfiction:
Dove
Robin Lee Graham
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
Series of Books