St Michael's Academy Grades K - 5 2011 Springfield MA Summer Reading List

Students Entering Kindergarten

Annie and the Wild Animals By Jan Brett

Will I Have a Friend? By Miriam Cohen

Eating the Alphabet By Lois Ehlers

Mama Don't Allow By Thacker Hurd

Peter's Chair By Ezra Jack Keats

Ira Sleeps Over By Bernard Waber

The Three Pigs By David Wiesner

The Surprise Garden By Zoe Hall

Olivia By Ian Falconer

The Very Hungry Caterpillar By Eric Carle

The Napping House By Audrey Wood

The Story of Babar the Little Elephant By Jean De Brunhoff

Daisy and the Egg By Jane Simmons

The Colors of Us By Karen Katz

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, & The Big Hungry Bear By Don & Audrey Wood

Ten Black Dots By Donald Crews

Go, Dog, Go! By P.D.Eastman

Green Eggs & Ham By Dr. Seuss

Biscuit series by Alyssa Satin Capucilli

Clifford the Big Red Dog books

Goggles by Ezra Jack Keats

So Happy! by Kevin Henkes

Wild About Books by Judy Sierra

Mr Putter and Tabby Series by Cynthia Rylant

Students Entering Grade 2

Mandatory -- Caps For Sale By Esphyr Slobodkina

Diary of a Worm By Doreen Cronin

Any Laura Numeroff books

Junie B. Jones series By Barbara Park

Nate the Great series By Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Arthur books By Marc Brown

Amelia Bedelia By Peggy Parish

Beatrice Doesn't Want To By Laura Numeroff

Miss Nelson is Missing! By Harry Allard

Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole By Jane Yolen

Trouble with Trolls By Jan Brett

Students Entering Grade 3

Mandatory -- Amelia's Road By Linda Jacobs Altman

Fantastic Mr. Fox By Roald Dahl

The Chalk Box Kid By Clyde Robert Bulla

It's Great to be Eight By Beverly Cleary (CWMARS)

Stuart Little By E.B. White

American Tall Tales By Mary Pope Osborne

Cam Jansen (series) By David Adler

Hero of the Third Grade By Alice de La Croix (C/WMARS)

The Storm By Cynthia Rylant

Muggie Maggie By Beverly Cleary

Tale of Despereaux By Kate de Camilla

The Dog That Called The Pitch By Matt Christopher

The Dog That Pitched a No-Hitter By Matt Christopher

Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog By Pamela Turner

The Cabin Faced West By Jean Fritz

The Chocolate Touch By Patrick Catling

Go Free or Die: A Story About Harriet Tubman By Jeri Ferris

The Keeping Quilt By Patricia Polacco

A to Z Mysteries By Ron Roy

Students Entering Grade 4

Mandatory -- Chocolate Fever By Robert Kimmel Smith

Freckle Juice By Judy Blume

Matt Christopher (any book in series)

Charlotte's Web By E.B. White

Nasty Stinky Sneakers By Eve Bunting

The Magic Finger By Roald Dahl

Nancy Drew (any in series)

The Hardy Boys (any in series)

Class Clown By Joanna Hurwitz

DogBoy by Christopher Russell (CWMARS)

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

Baby Mouse by Jennifer Holm

Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs by Sharon M Draper

Any age appropriate biography

Students Entering Grade 5 - (Please purchase the mandatory book and bring on the first day of school )

Mandatory – No Talking by Andrew Clements Smith

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

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

Escaping the Giant Wave By Peg Kehret

Lightning Thief Series by Rick Riordan

39 Clues series

Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

Heat by Mike Lupica

The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kessler

Honus & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure by Dan Gutman

Chet Gecko Mysteries Series by Bruce Hale

Replay by Sharon Creech

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