Summer Reading List
2009
Kindergarten
Kindergarten RocksKatie Davis
Animals At The Farm/Animales De Gardner
La Granja
Welcome To KindergartenAnne Rockwell
What Do You SeeLouise Gikow and George Ulrich
The Night Before KindergartenNatasha Wing and Julie Durrell
How Many FishCaron Cohen and S.D. Schindler
Biscuit Finds A FriendAlyssa Saton Capucilli
Count Down To Clean Up Nancy E. Wallace
Big Egg Molly Coxe
CirclesDana M. Rau
The Little Red HenByron Barton
Hand RhymesMarc Tolon Brown
Clap Your HandsLorinda Cauley
Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The BedEileen Christelow
CorduroyDon Freeman
SwimmyLeo Lionni
We’re Going On A Bear HuntMichael Rosen
If You Give A Mouse A CookieLaura Joffe Numeroff
Where Fireflies DanceLucha Corpi
Cendrillon: A Caribbean CinderellaRobert D. San Souci
1st Grade
Layla’s Head ScarfMiriam Cohen and Ronald Himler
First Grade Here I ComeNancy Carlson
Jackson and Bud’s Bumpy Ride:
America’s First Cross-Country Automobile TripElizabeth Koehler-Pentacoff
The First Grade Friends: Lunch Box SurpriseGrace Maccarone and Betsy Lewin
There Is A Bird On Your HeadMo Willems
Benny’s PenniesBob Barner
Cool Daddy RatKristyn Carol
Will Sheila Share?Elivia Savadier
The Pot That Juan BuiltNancy Andrews-Goebel
Old Black FlyJim Aylesworth
Rap A Tap Tap: Here’s Bojangles, Think of That!Leo Dillon
Can You See The Wind?Allan fowler
Little Dog PoemsKristine O’Connell George
Kitten’s First Full MoonKevin Henkes
Biggest, Strongest, FastestSteven Jenkins
The Hello, Goodbye WindowNorton Juster
Arroz Con Leche: Popular Songs and RhymesLulu Delacre
From Latin America
Norma Jean, Jumping BeanJoanna Cole
I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More!Karen Beaumont
Bouki Dances The Kokioka: A Comical TaleDiane Wolkstein
From Haiti
Summer Reading List
2009
2nd Grade
Keena Ford And The Second-Grqade Mix-UpMelissa Thomson
Diary Of A WormDoreen Cronin
The Best Seat In Second GradeKatharine Kenah and Abby Carter
Dinosaur DaysJoyce Milton and Richard Roe
Herbie Jones Sails Into Second GradeSuzy Kline and Sami Sweeten
Max and Jax In Second GradeJerdine Nolen and Karen Schmidt
Keena Ford And The Second-Grade Mix-UpMelissa Thomson
Diary Of A SpiderDoreen Cronin
Best Best FriendMargaret C.Irvine
Owney, The Mail-Pouch PoochMona Kerby
First The EggLaura V. Seeger
Bee-bimp bop!Linda S. Park
Spinning SpidersMelvin Berger
More Than Anything ElseMarie Bradby
Beautiful BlackbirdAshley Bryan
The Bat Boy and His ViolinGavin Curtis
Breakout At The Bug LabRuth Horowitz
What Do You Do With A Tail Like This?Steve Jenkins
BaseballMike Jenkins
Harvesting Hope: The Story Of Cesar ChavezKathleen Krull
Amelia BedeliaPeggy Parish
Touch The PoemArnold Adoff
3rd Grade
The Mystery Of The Stolen StatueGeorge Stanley and Salvatore
Murdocca
Horrible Harry Moves Up To Third GradeSuzy Kline and Frank Remkewicz
The Swamp Monster In The Third GradeDebbie Dadey
I Was A Third Grade SpyMary Jane Auch
Good Grief…Third GradeColleen McKenna and Richard
Williams
Bug SafariBob Barner
I Was A Third-Grade Science ProjectMary Jane Auch
Autumn Lings: Poems And PaintingsDouglas Florian
Planting The Trees of Kenya: The Story OfClairet Nivota
Wongari Maathai
SkungdogPierre Pratt
My Name Is Maria IsabelAlma floe
Stanley, Flat Again!Jeff Brown
DandelionsEve Bunting
The Stories Julian TellsAnn Cameron
Our Wet World: Exploring Earth’sSneed B. Collard III
Aquatic Ecosystem
The Gadget WarBetsy Duffey
Hot Day On Abbott AvenueKaren English
Leonardo’s HorseJean Fritz
RosaNikki Giovanni
Brother Anansi And The Cattle RanchJames De Sauza
Nathaniel TalkingEloise Greenfield
Summer Reading List
2009
4th Grade
The Lemonade WarJacqueline Davis
Fourth Grade RatsJerri Spinelli
Buster Makes The GradeMarc Brown
William Shakespeare And The GlobeAliki
Raymond And Graham Rule The SchoolMike Knudson, Steve Wilkinson and
Stacey Curtis
Keep Ms. Sugarman In The Fourth GradeElizabeth Levy and David
Henderson
Spencer Hurley And The Aliens Book One;Terry Locke and Robin Hucks
The Abuction
My Fourth Grade MessCathy West Dubowski
Coolhead Luke: And Other StoriesJennifer Lasker White and
Colin White
Call Me ConsueloOfelia D. Lachtman
The Search For DeliciousPete Hautman
SafariRobert Bateman
FrindleAndrew Clements
A Fine, Fine SchoolSharon Creech
The Tale Of Despereaux: Being The Story Kaite DiCamillo
Of A Mouse
The Fabled Fourth Graders Of Aesop Candace Fleming
Elementary School
Yesterday I Had The BluesJeron Frame
The People Could Fly: The Picture BookVirginia Hamilton
When Jessie Came Across The SeaAmy Hest
Just Like Josh GibsonAngela Johnson
5th Grade
The Biggest Klutz In Fifth GradeBill Wallace
Every Cloud Has A Silver LiningAnne Mazer
The Candy Corn ContestPatricia Reilly Giff and Blanche Sims
Solo GirlAndrea Pinkney and Nneka Bennet
One Day In The DesertJean Craighead George and
Fred Benner
Fiesta USAGeorge Acuna
Silent Music: A Story Of BaghdadJames Rumford
TroubleGary D. Schmidt
Being Grown-Up Is Cool (Not!)Karen McCombie
Whales On StiltsM.T. Anderson
Brenda Buckly’s Universe And Everything In ItSundee Tucker Frazier
On My HonorMarion Dane Bauer
Portraits Of African-American HeroesTonya Bolden
When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, AndHanna Bonner
Tetrapods Stalked The Earth
Through My EyesRuby Bridges
Joyful Noise: Poems For Two VoicesPaul Fleischman
SquareheadHarriet Ziefert
Frankweiler
Rabbit HillRobert Lawson
Summer Reading List
2009
6th Grade
The Attack Of The Two-Inch TeacherBruce Coville and Tony Sansevero
FoundMargaret Peterson Haddix
Our Sixth-Grade Sugar BabiesEve Bunting and Aleta Jenks
Sixth Grade Mutants Meet The SlimeLaura E. Williams
The Case Of Stolen Time-TheWayne Madsen and Lisa Falzon
Misadventures Of Inspector Moustachio
Pushing The LimitsMelissa McDaniel
Beating The OddsMary Packard
The Hidden StaircaseCarolyn Keene
Al Capone Does My ShirtsGennifer Choldenko
LoserJerry Spinelli
Chicken FeatherCowley Joy
Golden Tales: Myths, Legends, And FolkLulu Delacre
Tales From Latin American
AngelfishLawrence Yep
Because Of Winn-DixieKate DiCamillo
Dive! My Adventures In The Deep FrontierSylvia Earle
HeartbeatSharon Creech
Maniac MageeJerry Spinelli
Silent To The BoneE.L. Konigsburg
Sing Down The MoonScott O’Dell
Wenny Has WingsJanet Lee Carey
WhittingtonAlan Armstrong
Yolanda’s GeniusCarol Fenner
7th Grade
Arthur And The Seventh-Inning StretcherMarc T. Brown and Stephen Krensky
Operating System ConceptsAbraham Silberschatz, Peter Baer
and Greg Gagne
Click Here To Find Out How I SurvivedDenise Vega
Seventh Grade
Daphne’s BookMary Downing Hahn
There Is A Girl In My HammerlockJerry Spinelli
CastleGarth Nix and Steve Rawlings
Among The HiddenMargaret Peterson Haddix
The Skin I’m InSharon G. Flake
Breaking ThroughFrancisco Jimenez
Adam Canfield Of The FlashMichael Winerip
The Brook Without WordsAvi
The Broken BladeWilliam Durbin
FlushCarl Hiaasen
Kira-KiraCynthia Kadohata
Knots In My Yo-Yo String: The AutobiographyJerry spinelli
Of A Kid
The Outcasts Of 19 Schuyler PlaceE.L. Konigsburg
TangerineEdward Boor
The Tears Of The SalamanderPeter Dickinson
Under The Royal PalmsAlma Flor Ada
Summer Reading List
2009
8th Grade
Eighth Grade BitesHeather Brewer
Mackenzie BlueTina Wells
First LightRebecca Stead
Born Too Short: The Confession Of AnDan Elish
Eighth-Grade Basket Case
Toby Wheeler: Eighth Grade BenchwarmerThatcher Heldring
Down RiverWill Hobbs
Farewell To ManzanarJeanne W. Houston
Ghost CanoeWill Hobbs
Loves Me, Loves Me NotAnilu Bernando
Cuba 15Nancy Osa
The Face On The Milk CartonCaroline B. Cooney
FeverLaurie H. Anderson
Good Night, MamanNorma F. Mazer
Her Stories: African American Folktales, FairyVirginia Hamilton
Tales, and True Tales
The House Of The ScorpionNancy Farmer
Maya RunningAnjali Banerjee
Mortal EnginesPhilip Reeve
TruesightDavid Stahler
9th Grade
The ClassFrancois Begaudeau and
Linda Asher
Soul EnchiladaDavid Macinnis
Ninth Grad SlaysHeather Brewer
Forged By FireSharon M. Draper
One True FriendJoyce Hansen
HeroS.L. Rottman
Students On Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights,John Stokew
Brown, And Me: A Memoir
Crash Boom LoveJuan Felipe Herrera
After The First DeathRobert Cormier
The Day They Came To Arrest The BookNat Hentoff
RashPete Hautman
The Gospel According To LarryJanet Tashjian
I, Juan De ParejaElizabeth Borten de Trevino
I Know Why The Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou
Mama DayGloria Naylor
MausArt Spigelman
NemesisIsaac Asimov
Tonight By The SeaFrances Temple
Summer Reading List
2009
10th Grade
The SummoningKelley Armstrong
Lit UpClymel E. Thomas
Celandine: Book 2 In The Touchstone TrilogySteve Augarde
Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in ProgressLee Woodruff and
Bob Woodruff
All Q, No A: More Tales Of A 10th-GradeLaura Moser and
Lauren Mechling
The Circle of Friends: Book I…LoriL. Diane Wolfe
Social ClimberBeth Dunn
The Aguero SistersCristina Garcia
HoopsDean Myers
The Chocolate WarRobert Cormier
Me And The Missing DeadJenny Valentine
BilkoDonald Woods
Ellen FosterKaye Gibbons
Ender’s GameOrson Scott Card
A Gathering Of Old MenErnest Gaines
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The GalaxyDouglas Adams
How The Garcia Girls Lost Their AccentsJulia Alvarez
It’s Not About The BikeLance Armstrong
MonsterWalter Dean Meyers
ObasanJoy Kogawa
Hit The RoadCarline B. Cooney
11th Grade
BetrayedP.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
The Case of Stolen Time-The MisadventuresWayne Maden and Lisa Falzon
Of Inspector Moustachio
Dark DudeOscar Hijuelos
The Hunger GamesSuzanne Collins
Troll’s Eye View: A Book Of Villainous TalesEllen Datlow and Terri Winding
Babe Ruth And The Baseball CurseDavid A. Kelly and Tim Jessell
The Bean TreeBarbara Kingsolver
HeroesRobert Cormier
ShooterDean Myers
Lessons Of The GameDiane Gonzalez Bertrand
The Autobiography Of Malcolm XAlex Haley
The Bean TreesBarbara Kingsolver
CeremonyLeslie Silko
The Color Of WaterJames McBride
In Cold BloodTruman Capote
JubileeMargaret Walker\
KindredOctavia Butler
Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut
The Things They CarriedTim O’ Brien
Woman Hollering CreekSandra Cisnero
Summer Reading List
2009
12th Grade
Reading Lolita In Tehran: A Memoir In BooksAzar Nafisi
The Book ThiefMarkus Zusak
Looking For AlaskaJohn Green
ShiftJennifer Bradbury
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time IndianSherman Alexie
Marked HouseP.C. Cast and Kristin Cast
Cuba 15Nancy Osa
The Sledding HillChris Crutcher
Sunrise Over FallujahWalter Dean Myers
Jumping Off To FreedomAnilu Bernando
BelovedToni Morrison
Breath, Eyes, MemoryEdwidge Danticat
Chronicle Of A Death ForetoldGabriel Garcia Marquez
The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Atwood
Into Thin AirJohn Krakauer
The Joy Luck ClubAmy Tan
The Poisonwood BibleBarbara Kingsolver
Sugar CageConnie Mae Fowler
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway
Tuesdays With MorrieMitch Albom