Summer Reading Lists

Students entering First Grade

Summer 2023
 

Below is a list of books for students entering first grade. 

Required reading: 

The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes 

Suggestions for reading:

Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty (any in series)

Mr. Putter and Tabby (any in series) by Cynthia Rylant

Bink and Gollie (any in series) by Kate DiCamillo

The Book Hog by Greg Pizzoli 

Captain Awesome Takes Flight by Stan Kirby

Charlie and Mouse by Laurel Snyder

Chick and Brain: Smell My Foot! by CeCe Bell

Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall

I Am Enough by Grace Byers

Let's Go for a Drive by Mo Willems (any in series)

The Little Guys by Vera Brosnol

Meet Yasmin by Saadia Faruqi

Mercy Watson (any in series) by Kate DiCamillo

My Papi has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

Penny and Her Song by Kevin Henkes (any in series)

The Princess and the Warrior: A Tale of Two Volcanoes by Duncan Tonatiuh

Snow Pony and the Seven Miniature Ponies by Christian Trimmer

Sydney and Taylor by Jacqueline Davies

We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom

Students Entering Second Grade

Summer 2023

Below is a list of books for students entering second grade. 

Required reading:

The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes 

Suggestions for reading:

Ada Lace series by Emily Calandrelli

Beasts of Olympus (series) by Lucy Coats

Big Foot and Little Foot by Ellen Potter (any in series)

Could you? Would You? By Trudy White

Dragons in a Bag (series) by Zetta Elliot

Eugenia Lincoln and the Unexpected Package by Kate DiCamillo

Here's Hank (series) by Henry Winkler

Gator Gumbo by Candace Fleming

Giant Squid by Candace Fleming

Going Down Home With Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons

Inspector Flytrap by Tom Angleberger

Megabat is a Fraidybat by Anna Humphrey

My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish by Mo O’Hara

My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

Our Friend Hedgehog: The Story of Us by Lauren Castilla

Owl Diary series by Rebecca Elliot

Princess in Black by Shannon Hale (any in series)

Starla Jean by Elana Arnold

Who Would Win?: Killer Whale vs. Great White Shark by Jerry Pallotta

The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander

 

Students Entering Third Grade

Summer 2023

Below is a list of books for students entering third grade. 

Required reading:

The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes 


Suggested reading:

Beasts of Olympus (series) by Lucy Coats

Beep and Bop: Too Much Space by Jonathan Roth

Best Friends by Shannon Hale

A Computer Called Katherine by Suzanne Slade

Confessions of a Dork Lord by Marta Altes

Daring Dozen: The Twelve Who Walked on the Moon by Suzanne Slade

Dreamers by Yuyi Morales

Frank Einstein by Jon Scieszka (any in series)

Heidi Heckelbeck and the Magic Puppy by Wanda Coven (any in series)

Life According to Og the Frog by Betty Birney

Mango and Bambang: The Not-a-Pig by Polly Faber

Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar

Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake

Summer According to Humphrey by Betty Birney

Trouble Next Door: The Carver Chronicles by Karen English (any in series)

Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson

What Was the Ice Age by Nico Medina (any in series)

Unicorn Rescue Society by Adam Gidwitz

 

Students Entering Fourth Grade

Summer 2023

Below is a list of books for students entering fourth grade. 

Required reading:

The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes 

Suggested reading:

Click by Kayla Miller

The Doughnut Fix by Jesse Janowitz

Confessions of a Dork Lork by Marta Altes

El Deafo by Cece Bell

Knights vs. the End (of Everything) by Matt Phelan

Matilda by Roald Dahl

Muck and Magic by Michael Morpurgo

The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon

Skunk and Badger by Amy Timberlake

Stay Curious: A Brief History of Stephen Hawking by Kathleen Krull

Sunny Side Up by Jennifer Holm

Super Slugger by Cal Ripken Jr.

Timmy Failure by Stephan Pastis (any in series)

Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson

 

 

Students Entering Fifth Grade

Summer 2023

Below is a list of books for students entering fifth grade. 

Required reading:

Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

Suggested reading:

Anne of Green Gables: a graphic novel by Mariah Marsden

Benchwarmers by John Feinstein

Belly Up (any in series) by Stuart Gibbs

City Spies by James Ponti

City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

Clean Getaway by Nic Stone

Flash: Hocus Pocus by Barry Lyga

Hideout by Watt Key

The House in Poplar Woods by K.E. Ormsbee

Jason and the Argonauts by Robert Byrd

Maya and the Rising Dark by Rena Barron

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim

Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II sinking of the “Children’s Ship” by Deborah Heiligman

The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes

When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller

Students Entering Sixth Grade
Summer 2023

Below is a list of books for students entering sixth grade. 

Required reading:  

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie by Rebecca Stead

Suggestions for reading:

Anne of Green Gables: a graphic novel by Mariah Marsden

Bouncing Back by Scott Ostler

Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story by Sandra Neil Wallace

Clear Getaway by Nic Stone

Efren DIvided by Ernesto cisneros

Front Desk by Kelly Yang

Millionaires for a Month by Stacy McAnulty

The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty

New Kid by Jerry Craft

Queen of the Sea by Dylan Meconis

Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh

Thirteens by Kate Alice Marshall

Triple Threat by Mike Lupica

 

 

Students Entering Seventh Grade
Summer 2023

Below is a list of books for students entering seventh grade. 

Required reading: 

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Parks   

Suggestions for reading: 

After the Shot Drops by Randy Ribay
Black Brother, Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman
The Canyon's Edge by Dusti Bowling
The Compound by S.A. Bodeen
Counting By 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
Miracle’s Boys by Jaqueline Woodson
My Life in the Fish Tank by Barbara Dee
Not if I Save You First by Ally Carter
Peak by Roland Smith
Shadows on the Sea by Joan Hiatt Harlow
Terror at Bottle Creek by Watt Key
Tight by Torrey Maldonado
Truce by Jim Murphy
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
Village of Scoundrels by Margi Preus
Wink by Rob Harrell
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao

Students Entering Eighth Grade
Summer 2023
 

Below is a list of books for students entering eighth grade. 

Required reading:  

Ground Zero by Alan Gratz

Suggested reading:

Almost American Girl : An Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha

The Benefits of Being an Octopus by Ann Boden

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

The Companion by Katie Alender

Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone

Eighty Dollar Champion by Elizabeth Letts

Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri

Free Lunch by Rex Ogle

Game Changer by Tommy Greenwald

The Impossible First by Colin O'Brady

The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani

Poisoned by Jennifer Donnelly

Resistance by Jennifer Nielsen

Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue by Marc Aronson

Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs