Immaculate Conception School
2009 Summer Reading List
2009 Summer Reading List
Mandatory – Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth
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Rainbow Fish by Pfister
Baby Beluga by Raffi
Will I Have a Friend? By Miriam Cohen
Corduroy by Don Freeman
K
Mandatory – Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
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Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Franklin Goes to School by P. Bourgeois
Leo, the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Grade 1
Mandatory – The Napping House by Don and Audrey Wood
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Animals Definitely Should Not Wear Clothing by Judi Barrett
If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Felicia Bond
Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen
Mama Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joose
Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathman
Mandatory – Amelia’s Road by Linda Jacobs Altman
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Good Driving Amelia Bedelia by Herman Parish
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon by Paula Danziger
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
Never Spit on Your Shoes by Denys Cazet
Fanny’s Dream by Mark & Caralyn Buehner
B is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood
How Much is a Million? by David Schwartz
Silver Pony by Lynd Ward
Guess Who My Favorite Person Is? by Byrd Baylor
Attaboy, Sam! by Lois Lowry
Grade 3
Mandatory – Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
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Muggie Maggie by Beverly Cleary
Nasty Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting
How to Be Cool in the 3rd Grade by Betsy Duffey
Stone Fox by John R. Gardner
The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit by Paula Danziger
The Twits by Roald Dahl
The Most Amazing Dinosaur by J. Stevenson
Series - ** may not read two books from the same series
Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park
Hardy Boys by Franklin Dixon
Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene
Matt Christopher
Grade 4
Mandatory - The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
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Beverly Cleary (any book by Beverly Cleary)
Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Scieszka
Grade 5
Mandatory – Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
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Heartlight by T.A. Barron
River Rats by Caroline Stevermer
The Place of Lions by Eric Campbell
Matt Christopher (any in the series)
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Nancy Drew (any in the series)
Hardy Boys (any in the series)
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Going Through the Gate by Janet Anderson
Bobby Baseball by Robert Kimmel Smith
The Barn by Avi
Moon and I by Betsy Byars
On the Far Side of the Mountain by J. C. George
My Daniel by Pam Conrad
Redwall by Brian Jacque
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck
Popcorn Days and Buttermilk Nights by Gary Paulsen
Dear Mom, You’re Ruining My Life by Jean V. Leeuwen
Mandatory – The Giver by Lois Lowry
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Over Sea, Under Stone by Susan Cooper
Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
The Black Pearl by Scott O’Dell
Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Penderwicks by Anne Birdsall
Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks
The Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick
Dragon Song by Anne McCaffrey
The Watsons go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
Sixth Grade Glommers, Norks, and Me by Lisa Papademetriou
The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Konigsburg
Grade 7
Mandatory – Rules by Cynthia Lord
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My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
The Cay by Theodore Taylor
Night Without Stars by James Howe
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
Silent to the Bone by E.L. Konigsburg
Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins
Maniac McGee by Jerry Spinelli
Worth by A. LaFaye
To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Dovey Coe by Frances O’Roark Dowell
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
Witch Child by Celia Rees
A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Confessions of a Closet Catholic by Sarah Littman
Bearstone by Will Hobbs
Grade 8
Mandatory – The Hobbit by J.R. R. Tolkien
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Dean Duffy by Randy Powell
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
Running Out of Time by Margaret Haddix
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
California Blue by David Klass
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Farewell to Manzanar by Jean W. Houston and James D. Houston