Weston Christian Academy Elementary School Summer Reading List. 2013

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1 Weston Christian Academy Elementary School Summer Reading List First Grade Frog and Toad Series Clifford Series Curious George Series Amelia Bedelia Series If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Series My Best Friend There Is a Bird on Your Head! Don t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Emily s First 100 Days of School Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Henry and Mudge Series How I Became a Pirate Diary of a Worm Lilly s Purple Plastic Purse Owen Tacky the Penguin Series Strega Nona Officer Buckle and Gloria Skippyjon Jones A Bad Case of the Stripes Duck on a Bike Lobel Bridwell Rey Parish Numeroff Hutchins Willems Willems Wells Viorst Rylant Long Cronin Henkes Henkes Lester and Musinger de Paola Rathmann Schachner Shannon Shannon Scholastic My First Readers

2 Second Grade Miss Nelson is Missing Mr. Popper s Penguins Brambly Hedge Series Madeline A Bear Called Paddington and others Squanto and Others The Columbus Story Benjamin Franklin The Bears on Hemlock Mountain The Biggest Bear Matchlock Gun The Story About Ping Only One Woof and Others B is for Betsy Benjamin West and His Cat Frimalkin Rabbit Hill Paul Revere s Ride Rascal The Borrowers The Tales of Peter Rabbit and others More Stories from Grandma s Attic Nate the Great and the Lost List Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Allard Atwaters Barkle Bemelmens Bond Bulla Dalgleish Dalgleish Dalgleish Draw Edmonds Flack Harriott Haywood Henry Lawson Longfellow North Norton Potter Richardson Sharmot idney

3 Caps for Sale Stuart Little The Trumpet of the Swan New Coat for Anna Slobokin White White Ziefert Childhood of Famous Americans Series Various Favorite Collections 1 & 2 Veritas Press ( ) Aesop s Fables Grimm s Fairy Tales: One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes The Magic Mirror The Enchanted Stag Hansel and Grethel The Story of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp The Golden Goose Other Classical Stories: Cinderella Puss in Boots Jack and the Bean Stalk Little Red Riding Hood The Three Bears The Princess on the Pea The Ugly Duckling The Light Princess Beauty and the Beast

4 Third and Fourth Grades Third grade students must choose two books from this list to read and review. Fourth grade students are required to read the Book of John as one of their reading selections. A separate book report is attached to review this book. They may choose one other book from this list to read and review. Born Free Jo's Boys, Little Men, Little Women Sounder Miss Hickory Peter Pan The Wizard of Oz Spirit Flyer Series Freckle Juice, Superfudge, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Paddington Series Shoeshine Girl The Little Princess, The Secret Garden The Incredible Journey The Midnight Fox The Family Under the Bridge Pinocchio James and the Giant Peach Daniel Boone Helen Keller The Wheel on the School Hardy Boys Series Twenty-One Balloons The Matchlock Gun Adamson Alcott Armstrong Bailey Barrie Baum Bibee Blume Bond Bulla Burnett Burnford Byars Carlson Collodi Dahl Daugherty Davidson DeJong Dixon du Bois Edmonds

5 The Hundred Dresses, The Moffats Black Stallion Series The Cabin Faced West Stone Fox Old Yeller The Wind in the Willows Misty of Chincoteague Sugar Creek Gang Series Nancy Drew Series Lassie Come Home Rabbit Hill Number the Stars Homer Price Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH Island of the Blue Dolphins The Indian in the Cupboard Call It Courage American Girl Series Charlotte's Web, Trumpet of the Swan Swiss Family Robinson Estes Farley Fritz Gardiner Gipson Grahame Henry Hutchens Keene Knight Lawson Lowry McCloskey O'Brien O'Dell Reid Banks Sperry Tripp White Wyss ACSI Literature Survey

6 Fifth Grade Fifth grade students are required to read the Book of John as one of their reading selections. A separate book report is attached to review this book. They may choose one other book from this list to read and review. Sounder Tuck Everlasting Turn Homeward, Hannalee The Summer of the Swans Dear Mr. Henshaw Robinson Crusoe A Christmas Carol Hitty: The First Hundred Years Johnny Tremain Blue Willow My Side of the Mountain A Father s Promise The Phantom Tollbooth The Jungle Book Big Red Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Call of the Wild White Fang Anne of Green Gables Series Rascal The Borrowers Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Bridge to Terabithia Cooper Kids Adventure Series Pollyanna The Yearling Where the Red Fern Grows The Best Christmas Pageant Ever The Good Master Miracles on Maple Hill The Bronze Bow Star of Light The Tanglewood Secret Freedom Train Kidnapped Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry The Cay Amos Fortune, Free Man Armstrong Babbitt Beatty Byars Cleary Defoe Dickens Field Forbes Gates George Hess Juster Kipling Kjelgaard Latham London London Montgomery North Norton O'Brien Paterson Peretti Porter Rawlings Rawls Robinson Seredy Sorenson Speare St. John St. John Sterling Stevenson Taylor Taylor Yates ACSI Literature Survey

7 Name: Book Title: Author: Book Report Card Grade your book with an A through an F by circling the letter. Did you enjoy reading the book? A B C D F Did it have a beginning that grabbed you? A B C D F Did you like the characters? A B C D F Did you like the way it ended? A B C D F Would you recommend this book t0 your friends? Why or why not? What was the best part? What would you change if you had written it? What would you want others to know about this book? layers-of-learning.com 2010

8 Book Review of the Book of John Name Date Grade entering in the fall 1. Briefly describe your favorite story from the book of John. _ 2. Write out three verses from this book that meant something to you. Use a complete sentence to explain why the verses were chosen. (Don't forget the Scripture reference!) a. Why did you choose this verse? b.

9 Why did you choose this verse? c. Why did you choose this verse? 3. What is the main idea of this book? Answer in a complete sentence. _

10 Weston Christian Academy Middle School Summer Reading List Instructions: select one book from LIST A and one book from LIST B from this reading list. After reading, complete a report sheet for each book (copy below) and turn in the report sheets to the Language Arts teacher for a grade. The reading must be completed and the report sheet must be turned in to the Language Arts teacher Monday, August 26, All report sheets must be turned in at the same time. Students may read additional books from the list for extra credit. If doing so, fill out a report sheet for each additional book. Not every book is recommended for every grade level. It is the parent s responsibility to review the book for suitability of content for the student as well as to gauge the book s reading level with the student s ability. Most of the books from List A are considered classical literature including several children s classics. Books from List B are mostly Christian biographies. If the student has read one of the books before, he/she must select a new book to be read this summer. List A SELECT ONE BOOK 1. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Doyle 2. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 3. A Wrinkle in Time Madeline L Engle 4. Animal Farm George Orwell 5. Around the World in 80 Days Jule Vernes 6. Ben Hur Lew Wallace 7. Black Beauty Anna Sewell 8. Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 9. Cry the Beloved Country- Alan Paton 10. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Robert Louise Stevenson 11. Emma Jane Austen 12. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 13. Freedom Train Dorothy Sterling 14. Gulliver s Travels Jonathan Swift 15. Hamlet William Shakespeare 16. Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Paterson 17. Kidnapped Robert Louis Stephenson 18. Kim Rudyard Kipling 19. Le Morte d Arthur (King Arthur & his knights) Sir Thomas Malory 20. Les Miserables - Hugo, Victor 21. Little Men Louisa May Alcott 22. Little House on the Praire Laura Ingalls Wilder 23. Little Women Louisa May Alcott 24. Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkein 25. Macbeth William Shakespeare 26. My Friend Flicka Mary O Hara 27. Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 28. Othello William Shakespeare 29. Poems Robert Frost 30. Pride & Prejudice Jane Austen 31. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe 32. Roll of Thunder, Here My Cry! Mildred Taylor 33. Story of My Life Helen Keller 34. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 35. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain 36. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson 37. The Best Short Stories of O. Henry O. Henry 38. The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank

11 39. The Last Battle C.S. Lewis 40. The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore 41. The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis 42. The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 43. The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien 44. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 45. The Old Man & The Sea Ernest Hemingway 46. The Secret Garden Frances Hodges Burnett 47. The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas 48. The Magician s Nephew C.S. Lewis 49. The Pilgrim s Progress (original) - John Bunyan 50. The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 51. The Robe Lloyd Douglas 52. Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 53. The Wizard of Oz Frank Baum 54. The Yearling Marjorie Rawlings 55. Where the Red Fern Grows Wilson Rawls 56. War of the Worlds H.G. Wells LIST B - SELECT ONE BOOK. David Livingstone, Foe of Darkness Jeanette Eaton (life of the amazing American missionary to the Native American tribes who influenced millions before his early death in his 20 s) Do Hard Things Alex & Brett Harris (written by teens for teens dealing with teen complacency) Edge of Eternity Randy Alcorn (Mrs. Brown s pick! A business executive who has fallen on hard time finds himself mysteriously transferred to another world) Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold Janet & Geoff Benge ++ (An Olympic champion who makes a difficult choice to honor his Lord.) Gifted Hands - Ben Carson (good choice for 6 th grade and above renown surgeon shares his story) God s Smuggler Brother Andrew (older story of smuggling Bibles into a communist nation) In His Steps Charles Sheldon (Christian classics on following Jesus) Know Why You Believe Paul Little (best for 8 th grade a simple Christian classic on defending the faith) Lessons from a Sheep Dog Phillip Keller (true story of a man & a seemingly worthless dog illustrating God s transformative power & love) Lies Young Women Believe Nancy Demoss & Dannah Gresh (good reviews from young women) Not a Fan: What Does it Mean to Really Follow Jesus? Kyle Idleman (good reviews from teens) Morning Star of the Reformation Andy Thomson (the life of John Wycliffe, a man who helped change the course of western history) Running on Ice: The Overcoming Faith of Vonetta Flowers Vonetta Flowers (Christian Olympic skater s story) The Cross and the Switchblade Wilkerson (older story of a gang member who finds faith) The Persecutor Sergei Kourdakou * (biography of a former Communist KGB agent who persecuted Christians and then became a Christian himself) The Screwtape Letters C.S. Lewis (Christian satirical classic where one senior demon shares with another techniques to move a person away from the enemy (God) ) Through Gates of Splendor Elizabeth Elliott (a moving story of the martyrdom of five young men who take the Gospel to the Huaorani tribe in the Amazon region) Through My Eyes Tim Tebow (biography of UF great and now New England Patriot) Uncommon Tony Dungy (New York bestselling author and Super Bowl coach shares his story)

12 *8 th Grade only ++ Any book from the series Christian Heroes Then and Now may be read.

13 Weston Christian Academy Middle School Summer Reading Report Your Name: Grade Level you will be attending in the fall (6 th, 7 th, 8 th ): Book Title: Author: Write a brief summary of the book (attach notebook paper if there is not enough room). Include the setting (where and when it took place). If a novel, explain the main conflict or problem and how the problem was or was not corrected. If non-fiction, explain how the main character overcame a major problem or situation in his/her life.

14 Who is the main character and what made that person interesting? What did you enjoy about this book? Please check one of the boxes below: I completely read the book from cover to cover I read most of the book Signature: Date:

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