Annunciation Catholic School Summer Reading List 2016-2017 Students are required to read 2 books from the list of the grade they will be entering in the fall, the REQUIRED and

another book from the list. See Note Taking Form for directions on required Notes or Book Report. Going into Third grade: REQUIRED *** White Fur Flying by

Patricia MacLachlan Magic Tree House (any in series)

by Mary Pope Osborne A-Z Mysteries (any in series) by Ron Roy Easy Reader Biographies (any in

series) Ivy and Bean (any in series) by Annie Barrows The Hidden Stairs and the Magic

Carpet by Tony Abbott Dinosaur Cove (any in series) by

Rex Stone Bad Kitty (any in series) by Nick Bruel Going into Fourth grade: REQUIRED ***Trouble on the St.

John’s River by Jane R. Wood Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davis The World According to Humphrey by Betty G. Birney The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by

Judy Blume 39 Clues (any in series) by a collaboration of authors The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm Nonfiction: Who was, Who is, or

What is series (authors vary) So You Want to be President? by Judith St. George Owen & Mzee: The True Story of a

Remarkable Friendship by Isabella and Craig Hatkoff

Going into Fifth grade: REQUIRED *** Escaping the Giant

Wave by Peg Kehret Jackie & Me: A Baseball Card

Adventure by Dan Gutman Island of the Blue Dolphins by

Scott O’Dell The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan Stranded by Jeff Probst The Lion, the Witch & the

Wardrobe by CS Lewis Nonfiction: What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? by Jean Fritz If You Lived When There Was Slavery In America by Anne Kamma Who Was… (any in series) by a

collaboration of authors Going into Sixth grade: REQUIRED *** Turn Left at the

Cow by Lisa Bullard Stung by Bethany Wiggins Twerp by Mark Goldblatt The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare Number the Stars by Lois Lowry The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Speare The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E. L. Konigsburg Nonfiction: Julius Caesar: The Life of a Roman

General by Gary Jeffrey Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The

Making of a Champion by Russell Freedman Kids with Courage: True Stories

about Young People Making a Difference by Barbara Lewis

Going into Seventh grade: REQUIRED *** Wonder by R.J.

Palacio Kateri Tekakwitha: Mohawk

Maiden by Evelyn M. Brown The Hound of the Baskervilles By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Tesla’s Attic by Neal Shusterman

and Eric Elfman Found by Margaret Peterson

Haddix Deep, Dark and Dangerous by

Mary Downing Hahn The Big Field by Mike Lupica Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The River Between Us by Richard

Peck Counting by Sevens by Holly Goldberg Sloan Of Mice and Men by John

Steinbeck The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein Going into Eighth grade: REQUIRED *** A Long Walk to the

Water by Linda Sue Park

Great Expectations by Charles

Dickens

Saint John Bosco and Saint Dominic

Savio by Catherine Beebe

Runaway by Wendelin Van

Draanen

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

Legend by Marie Lu

Bystander by James Preller

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by

John Boyne

The Night Gardener by Jonathan

Auxier

The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

Treasure Island by Robert Louis

Stevenson

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by

Mark Twain