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Lower School Summer Reading List

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Mrs. D's Picks are books with the (*). Receive credit for two books when you read one of Mrs. D's Picks.
Kindergarten
Astronauts Are Sleeping – Natalie Standiford
Chicken Sisters – Laura Joffe Nomeroff
Chicka Chicka ABC – Bill Martin
The Leaf Man- William Joyce
Market Day – Eve Bunting
Mouse Mess – Linnea Asplind Riley
Martin’s Big Words – Doreen Rappaport*
My Many Colored Days – Dr. Seuss*
Little Red Hen – Paul Gladstone*


1st
Alexander and The Terrible Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day – Judith Voight
The Bears Picnic – Stan Berenstein
Caps for Sale – Esphyr Slobodkin
Franklin Rides A Bike – Paulette Bourgeois
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie – Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Velveteen Rabbit – Margery Williams*
Sing to the Stars – Mary Brigid Barrett*
Goin’ Someplace Special – Patricia McKissack*


2nd
The Adventures Of Taxi Dog – Debra Barracca
Chicken Soup with Rice – Maurice Sendak
The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
Is Your Mama A Llama? – Deborah Guarino
Magic Tree House Series - Mary Pope Osborne
The Great Kapok Tree A Tale of the Amazon Rain forest – Lynne Cherry
Flat Stanley – Jeff Brown
The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett*
The Courage of Sarah Noble – Alice Dalgliesh*
Braves Dog Ever – Natalie Standiford*


3rd
The Best Year Ever – Barbara Robinson
The BFG – Roald Dahl
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, A Message From Chief Seattle – Susan Jeffers
Encyclopedia Brown Series – Donald Sobol
Go Free Or Die, A Story About Harriet Tubman – Jeri Ferris
How To Eat Fried Worms – Thomas Rockwell
Jeri Ferris
Judy Blume
Sounder – William H. Armstrong*
Charlottes Web – E.B. White*
George The Drummer – Nathaniel Benchley*
 

 4th
Claudia and Phantom Phone Calls (Baby sitters Club) – Ann Martin
The Cricket in Times Square – George Selden
Earthquake Terror – Peg Kehret
Fudge –a- Mania – Judy Blume
The Indian in The Cupboard – Lynne Reid Banks
Jacob Two-Two Meets The Hooded Fang – Mordecai Richler
The Mouse And The Motorcycle – Beverly Cleary
The Trumpet of The Swan – E.B. White*
Freedom To Dream – Cynthia Blair*
National Velvet – Enid Begnold*

5th
Chasing Redbird – Sharon Creech
Dear Mr. Henshaw – Beverly Cleary
Frindle – Andrew Clements
From the Mixed – Up files Of Mr. Basil E. Frankweiler – E.L. Konigsburg
Holes – Loius Sacher
In The Year Of The Boar And Jackie Robinson - Betty Bo Lord
Anne Frank, The Diary Of A Young Girl – Anne Frank*
The Long Winter – Laura Ingalles Wilder*
Heidi – Joanna Spyri*
Anne of Green Gables – L. M. Montgomery*
The Old Man and The Sea – Ernest Hemingway*
We Beat The Street – The Three Doctors*


Bible books for Lower School k-5
Ruth
Esther
Jonah

 

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