Holy Cross SchoolSummer Reading List: 2008Grades 1 - 8
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Students Entering Grade 1
Mandatory - Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth
Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Will I Have a Friend? By Miriam Cohen
Corduroy by Don Freeman
The Little Mouse, the Ripe Red Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood
Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews
Go, Dog, Go! By P.D. Eastman
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
Franklin Goes to School by Paulette Bourgeois
Leo, the Late Bloomer by Robert Kraus
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Students Entering Grade 2
Mandatory - Caps for Sale by Esphr Slobodkina
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish (any book in series)
Beatrice Doesn't Want To by Laura Numeroff
Freak Out! Animals Beyond Your Wildest Imagination by Ginjer L. Clarke
Miss Nelson Has a Field Day by Harry Allard
Stone Soup by Marcia Brown
What Happened to the Dinosaurs? By Franklyn M. Branley
Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton
Students Entering Grade 3
Mandatory - Amelia's Road by Linda Jacobs Altman
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
B is for Betsy by Carolyn Haywood
Fanny's Dream by Caralyn and Mark Buehner
Never Spit on Your Shoes by Denys Cazet
Silver Pony by Lynd Ward
Good Driving, Amelia Bedelia by Herman Parish
Amber Brown is Not a Crayon by Paula Danziger
Attaboy Sam by Lois Lowry
How Much is a Million by David M. Schwartz
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
Guess Who My Favorite Person Is? By Byrd Baylor
Students Entering Grade 4
Mandatory - Chocolate Fever by Robert Kimmel Smith
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
The Big Bazoohley by Peter Carey
Class Clown by Joanna Hurwitz
The Most Amazing Dinosaur by James Stevenson
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (any book in series)
Matt Christopher (any in sports series)
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Wide-Awake Princess by Katherine Paterson
Nasty Stinky Sneakers by Eve Bunting
Bobby Baseball by Robert Kimmel Smith
Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda (any book in series)
The Hardy Boys (any book in series)
The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl
Throwing Smoke by Bruce Brooks
Nancy Drew (any book in series)
Jenius by Dick King-Smith
Sudents Entering Grade 5
Mandatory - The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
Any book by Beverly Cleary
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Summer Reading is Killing Me by Jon Scieszka
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Escaping the Giant Wave by Peg Kehret
The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Students Entering Grade 6
Mandatory - Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder
The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars
The Cat Who Went to Heaven by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
On the Far Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff
Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'Dell
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Any sequel to Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Students Entering Grade 7
Mandatory - The Giver by Lois Lowry
Crispin: the Cross of Lead by Avi
Squashed by Joan Bauer
The Pinballs by Betsy Byars
The Skin I'm In by Sharon G. Flake
Hoot by Carl Hiassen
Dragonsong by Anne McCaffrey
The Black Pearl by Scott O'Dell
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voight
Students Entering Grade 8
Mandatory - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Dean Duffy by Randy Powell
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Hoops by Walter Dean Myers
California Blue by David Klass
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