Listed below are the Summer Reading Books for students entering grades one through eight for the 2008-2009 school year. 

Entering Grade One

Test Book

              The Mixed Up Chameleon by Eric Carle

Book Report  - Choose one of the following

              Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes

              I Wanna Iguana by Kevin Kaufman Orloff

Entering Grade Two

Test Book

  Nate the Great Goes Undercover by Marjorie Sharmat

Book Report - Choose one of the following

  Challenge  any Magic Tree House book by Mary Pope Osborne

  Medium  Alexander and the Terrible,

       Horrible, No Good, Very

       Bad Day by Judith Viorst

  On Level  any Henry and Mudge book  by Cynthia Rylant

Entering Grade Three

Test Book

  George Washington’s Breakfast by Jean Fritz

Book Report - Choose one of the following

  Ramona Quimby, Age 8, by Beverly Cleary

  The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling

  Tut’s Mummy - Lost and Found by Judy Donnelly

Entering Grade Four

Test Book - Choose one of the following

  My Guy by Sarah Weeks

  The Ghost in Room 11 by Betty Ren Wright

Book Project - Choose one of the following

  The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

  Yang the Youngest and His Terrible Ear   by Lensey Namioka

  From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E.  Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg

Entering Grade Five

Test Book

  Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

Book Report - Choose one of the following

  Any Andrew Clement novel that you have not already read

  Holes by Louis Sacher

  The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney

Entering Grade Six

Required Reading

  Homesick, My Own Story by Jean France

Book Report (Choose One)

  The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  The Cay by Theodore Taylor

  Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

  My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Entering Grade Seven

Test Book

  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

       by Mildred D. Taylor

Book Report - Choose one of the following

  Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli 

  The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

  The Ear, the Eye and the Arm  by Nancy Farmer

  A Day No Pigs Would Die   by Robert Newton Peck

Entering Grade Eight

Test Book

  The War Between the Classes by Gloria Miklowitz

Book Report Options (Choose One)

  Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor

  The Pearl by John Steinbeck

  The Call of the Wild by Jack London

  Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther