MaST Community Charter School
Elementary School Summer Reading List (SY 13-14)
Incoming First Graders—Please refer to the summer reading packet for special instructions associated with this reading list.
Incoming First Graders will read one book of their choice from the following list of suggested authors to complete for the provided assignment. If your child has an interest in any books/authors not listed, that is fine too. Although the project requires only reading one book, it is important that your child continues to read throughout the summer to keep themselves fresh for the upcoming school year.
Suggested Authors:
Tomie DePaola
Pat Hutchins
Bill Martin
James Marshall
Gail Gibbons – great author of non-fiction books
Patricia Polacco
Eric Carle
Laura Joffe Numeroff – If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series
Jonathan London – The Froggy series
Peggy Parish – Amelia Bedelia series
Chapter Books:
Junie B. Jones series by Barbara Park
Flat Stanley series by Jeff Brown
Fly Guy series by Todd Arnold
MaST Community Charter School
Elementary School Summer Reading List (SY 13-14)
Incoming Second Graders—Please refer to the summer reading packet for special instructions associated with this reading list.
Incoming Second Graders will read twodifferent books from the following list:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss
Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
If You Give A Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat by Patricia Reilly Giff
Henry and Mudge and the Happy Cat by Cynthia Rylant
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
Clifford (any one of the series of books) by Norman Bridwell
Abiyoyo by Pete Seeger
Franklin (any one of the series of books) by Paulette Bourgeois
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judie Barrett
Horrible Harry by Suzy Kline
MaST Community Charter School
Elementary School Summer Reading List (SY 13-14)
Incoming Third Graders—Please refer to the summer reading packet for special instructions associated with this reading list.
Incoming Third Graders are required to read three books from the following list:
Lillian Hoban Books
Arthur Books
Amelia Bedelia Books
David Adler Picture Book Biography Series
The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptoe
Magic School Bus Series
Bailey Street School Series
The Frog and Toad Series
Sayonara, Mrs. Kackleman by Maira Kalman
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter
Five Notable Inventors by Wade Hudson
Five Great Explorers by Wade Hudson
Box Car Children Series
Sideways Stories From Wayside School Series
Beverly Cleary Books
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
MaST Community Charter School
Elementary School Summer Reading List (SY 13-14)
Incoming Fourth Graders—Please refer to the summer reading packet for special instructions associated with this reading list.
Incoming Fourth Graders are required to read a total of two books from the following list of book titles or series titles:
Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary
The Story of Rudy Bridges, by Robert Coles
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Day by Pamela S. Turner
Bernie Magruder and the Haunted Hotel by Phyllis Reynold
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
Anthony’s Big Surprise: NEATE, Vol. 3 by Wade Hudson
The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
or
List of Series:
- Judy Moody by Megan McDonald
- Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler
- Who Was ______: series of nonfiction biography: published by Grosset & Dunlap
- Melvin Beederman Superhero Books by Greg Trine