Linden, New Jersey SUMMER READING LIST 2016
Suggested Summer Reading List Grade 2 Students who will enter Grade 2 in September are required to read one book and complete one project. (See accompanying projects) Upon returning to school in the fall, students will be assessed on this assignment, and the grade will be recorded for the first marking period. Adler Young Cam Jansen Series Allard Miss Nelson Series Borden The Day Eddie Met the Author Bourgeois Daly Franklin (Turtle) Series 380L Pinch & Dash Make Soup 330L Erickson Hank the Cowdog Series Holm Babymouse Series Lionni A Color of His Own Lipkind Finders Keepers 540L Lipkind Bedhead -Palatini 140L Lobel Frog And Toad Series Marshall George And Martha Minarik Little Bear Series Mosel The Funny Little Woman 570L National Geographics National Geographic Kids Books Numeroff If You Give Series Palatini Piggie Pie 420L Parish Amelia Bedelia Series Park Junie B. Jones Series Rylant Henry and Mudge Series 460L Sharmat Weeks Wiley Nate The Great Series 130L Mac & Cheese and the Perfect Plan 500L Fox and Crow Are Not Friends 390L
Suggested Summer Reading List Grade 3 Students who will enter Grade 3 in September are required to read one book and complete one project. (See accompanying projects) Upon returning to school in the fall, students will be assessed on this assignment, and the grade will be recorded for the first marking period. Aardema Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People s Ears 770L Adler Cam Jansen Series Adler Applegate Picture Book Biography of Series 630L The One and Only Ivan 570L Brown Flat Stanley Series 550L Brown Stone Soup 480L Cameron Stories Julian Tells Series 520L Christopher Hit-Away Kid 660L Cleary Ramona The Pest 850L Cleary Runaway Ralph 890L Conford Jenny Archer, Author Davies Surprising Sharks 710L Fenner Snowed in with Grandmother Silk Giff The Beast In Ms. Rooney s Room 340L Gwynne The King Who Rained 580L Howe Bunnicula Series 700L Jackson Cinder Edna Jones The Adventures of Bailey School Kids Series 600L Kline Horrible Harry Series Lionni Swimmy 640L McDonald Judy Moody Series 570L Pennypacker The Talented Clementine Roy A-Z Mysteries Series 510L Rylant Annie & Snowball Sachar Marvin Redpost: Is He A Girl? 300L Thurber Many Moons Watt Scaredy Squirrel Series 560L Williams A Chair For My Mother
Suggested Summer Reading List Grade 4 Students who will enter Grade 4 in September are required to read one book and complete one project. (See accompanying projects) Upon returning to school in the fall, students will be assessed on this assignment, and the grade will be recorded for the first marking period. Adler Babe & I 330L Adler The Picture Book of.. 760L Black Spiderwick Chronicles Series 570L Blume Superfudge Blume Tales Of A 4 th Grade Nothing 470L Christopher Matt Christopher Sports Series 640L Cleary Muggie Maggie Cleary Ramona Quimby Age 8 860L Danziger Amber Brown Goes Fourth Duffey Hey, New Kid! 420L Fritz And Then What Happened, Paul Revere 830L Gardiner Stone Fox Gutman The Genius Series Lionni The Biggest House in the World 760L Markle Great White Sharks 1000L Naylor Shiloh Nichols Animal Masterminds Pfeffer A Log s Life Pierce Big Nate Series Sachar Marvin Redpost Series 420L Sachar Wayside School Series 460L Scieszka Time Warp Trio Series 590L Snicket A Series Of Unfortunate Events Series 1010L Sobol Encyclopedia Brown Series Stanley Leonardo Da Vinci Steptoe Mufaro s Beautiful Daughter 720L Various authors American Girl Series Winkler Hank Zipzer Series 750L
Suggested Summer Reading List Grade 5 Students who will enter Grade 5 in September are required to read one book and complete one project. (See accompanying projects) Upon returning to school in the fall, students will be assessed on this assignment, and the grade will be recorded for the first marking period. Adler Armstrong Babbitt Blume Cleary Clements Coerr Creech Dahl Danziger DeClements Fardell Fritz Gwynne Kehret Lin Lowry Naylor Paterson Rockwell Rodgers Simon Smith Tarshis Various authors Various authors Various authors Warner Don t Talk to Me About the War Sounder Tuck Everlasting Fudge-A-Mania Dear Mr. Henshaw No Talking 820L Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes Love That Dog 1010L The Twits 750L The Cat Ate My Gymsuit Nothing s Fair in Fifth Grade The 7 Professors Of The Far North What s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? A Chocolate Moose for Dinner Earthquake Terror 690L Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 810L Anastasia Krupnik Series The Boys Start The War Jip: His Story 860L How To Eat Fried Worms Freaky Friday Volcanoes The War With Grandpa 640L I Survived Series Who Was Series 840L Dear America Series Royal Diary Series Boxcar Children Series
Summer Reading List Grade 6 - Required Students who will enter Grade 6 in September are required to read two books and complete two projects. (See accompanying sample projects). One of the books chosen must be from the list below; the other can be from the Grade 6-8 list. Upon returning to school in the fall, students will be assessed on their assignments, and grades will be recorded for the first marking period. Blackwood Byng Dahl Dahl Di Camillo Fradin Freedman Fritz Holm Holm Holt L Engle Martin Martin McGraw O.T. Nelson Parks Peck Sachar Spinelli Van Draanen Wolff Jinx Molly Moon Series Charlie And The Chocolate Factory 810L Charlie And The Great Glass Elevator 720L The Tale Of Despereaux 670L The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence! 1010L Voice That Challenged A Nation 1180L Will You Sign Here, John Hancock? 970L Our Only May Amelia 900L The Trouble with May Amelia Mister & Me 710L A Swiftly Tilting Planet 850L Belle Teal Corner Of The Universe Moorchild 940L The Girl Who Owned a City Rosa Parks: My Story 970L Brian s Winter My Life In Dog Years 1150L Long Way From Chicago 750L Holes 660L Maniac Magee 820L Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief 840L Make Lemonade
Grade 7 - Required Summer Reading List Students who will enter Grade 7 in September are required to read two books and complete two projects. (See accompanying sample projects). One of the books chosen must be from the list below; the other can be from the Grade 6-8 list. Upon returning to school in the fall, students will be assessed on their assignments, and grades will be recorded for the first marking period. Avi Avi Burnford Duncan Duncan Filipovic Giff Giff Greene Hamilton Henkes Koningsburg Martin Park Reiss Riordan Sleator Spinelli Spinelli Various authors Voigt Woods A Place Called Ugly 620L Wolf Rider 530L The Incredible Journey 1320L Locked In Time Stranger With My Face Zlata s Diary: A Child s Life In Sarajevo 640L Lily s Crossing 720L Pictures Of Hollis Woods 650L Summer Of My German Soldier M.C. Higgins The Great Olive s Ocean 680L View From Saturday 870L A Dog s Life Project Mulberry The Upstairs Room 380L The Lightning Thief Oddballs 1010L Space Station Seventh Grade Wringer Bluford High Series Sons From Afar The Red Rose Box 830L
Grade 8 - Required Summer Reading List Students who will enter Grade 8 in September are required to read two books and complete two projects. (See accompanying sample projects). One of the books chosen must be from the list below; the other can be from the Grade 6-8 list. Upon returning to school in the fall, students will be assessed on their assignments, and grades will be recorded for the first marking period. Avi Bauer Boyne Cooney Deaver Flake Funke Gipson Hill Lipsyte Murphy Na Nimmo Paolini Park Pullman Spinelli Taylor Woodson Woodson Yolen Crispin: The Cross Of Lead Hope Was Here 710L The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 1080L Whatever Happened To Janie? Say Goodnight, Gracie 580L Money Hungry Inkheart Old Yeller Harlem Stomp One Fat Summer 670L Blizzard Step From Heaven Charlie Bone Series Eragon 710L A Single Shard 920L Haymeadow 1010L The Monument 950L The Rifle Soldier s Heart The Golden Compass Series Loser The Well: David s Story 760L Hush 640L Locomotion Devil s Arithmetic 730L
Suggested Summer Reading List Grades 6-8 - Choice Students who will enter Grades 6-8 in September are required to read two books and complete two projects. (See accompanying sample projects). One of the books chosen must be from the grade level offering, the other can be from this list. Upon returning to school in the fall, students will be assessed on their assignments, and grades will be recorded for the first marking period. Avi Barrett Choi Collins Collins Cooney Cooney Cooney Cooney Cooper Cooper Cooper Cooper Cormier DeTrevino Dorris DuBois Farmer Fast Fletcher Hesse Johnson Jones Klause Konigsburg L Engle Le Guin Lenski Lester Lowry Lowry Lowry Lupica The Barn Lilies Of The Field Year Of Impossible Goodbyes 840L Catching Fire Mockingjay 800L Driver s Ed 670L Flight 116 Is Down 710L Janie Face to Face 660L Voice On The Radio The Boggart 1030L Dawn Of Fear 1000L Greenwitch Over Sea, Under Stone Beyond The Chocolate War 810L I, Juan De Pareja 1100L Morning Girl Twenty One Balloons Ear, The Eye, And The Arm April Morning 1050L Flight Of The Dragon Kyn 800L Phoenix Rising 610L Toning The Sweep 760L Castle In The Air The Silver Kiss Second Mrs. Giaconda 840L Many Waters Tales From Earthsea Strawberry Girl 650L To Be A Slave Gathering Blue 680L Messenger Son Million Dollar Throw 960L
Lupica Matas Myers Myers Nixon O Brien Paterson Peck Rawlings Salisbury Schmidt Schroeder Sebestyen Soto Spiegelman Spinelli Stevenson Uchida Voigt Voigt Voigt Whitmore Wrede Yep Zindel Travel Team 930L The Burning Time The Mouse Rap 720L Slam The Name Of The Game Was Murder 890L Z For Zachariah Lyddie 860L The Car Something For Joey 860L The Yearling Under The Blood-Red Sun 640L Lizzie Bright & The Buckminster Boy 1000L Six Million Paper Clips 870L Words By Heart 750L Fire In My Hands Maus There s A Girl In My Hammerlock Kidnapped Journey Home 890L Dicey s Song Homecoming On Fortune s Wheel Trapped Between the Lash and the Gun 630L Dealing With Dragons 830L Dragonwings 870L The Gadget
Grade 9-11 Students at this level will participate in the High School Big Read and read the Glass Castle by Jennette Wells.
Lexile Chart In order to help students and parents select the just right book for their child to enjoy their summer reading, we have provided you with the information below. Levels Grade Guided Reading DRA Lexile Grade 2 J&K 18 & 20 300-600 Grade 2-3 L&M 24 & 28 300-600 Grade 3 N 30 500-800 Grade 3-4 O&P 34 & 38 500-800 Grade 4 Q&R 40 600-900 Grade 4-5 S&T 40 & 50 800-1050 Grade 5 U 50 900-1099 Grade 5-6 V&W 50 & 60 900-1150 Grade 6 V&Y 60 1000-1199 Grade 7-8 Z 80 1050-1300+