Summer Reading List

Below is a sample reading list (by grade entering) from Summer 2009.

2nd Grade:

Swimmy by Leo Leoni
The School Mouse by Dick King Smith
Can I Keep him? by Steven Kellogg
The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate the Wash by Tinka Hakes Noble
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky
Ramona Quimby by Beverly Cleary
Fudge-A-Mania by Judy Blume
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowery
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
American Girls series
Polk Street series

3rd Grade:

The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, A Message from Chief Seattle by Susan Jeffers
Charlotte's Web by E.B.White
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
Go Free or Die, A Story About Harriet Tubman by Jeri Ferris
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Poppy by Av
Poppy and Rye by Avi
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris
What Are You Figuring Now? A Story About Benjamin Bannekar by Jeri Ferris
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds
Little House on the Prairie (any in this series of books) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Any books in the Pony Pals series by Jeanne Betancourt or the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Bridg to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Who Put Hair in my Toothbrush? by Jerry Spinelli
The Junkyard Dog by Erica Tamer

4th Grade:

The Best School Year Ever by Barbara Robinson
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, A Message from Chief Seattle by Susan Jeffers
Charlotte's Web by E.B.White
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol
Go Free or Die, A Story About Harriet Tubman by Jeri Ferris
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Poppy by Avi
Poppy and Rye by Avi
Ramona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Walking the Road to Freedom by Jeri Ferris
What Are You Figuring Now? A Story About Benjamin Bannekar by Jeri Ferris
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds
Little House on the Prairie (any in this series of books) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Any books in the Pony Pals series by Jeanne Betancourt or the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate


5th Grade:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Cricket inTimes Square by George Selden
Earthquake Terror by Peg Kehret
Fuge-A-Mania by Judy Blume
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Jacob Two-Two meets the Hooded Fang by Mordecai Richler
The Mouse an the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
My Teacher is a Alien by Bruce Cobille
Nothing's Fair in Fifth Grade by Barth DeClements
A Share of Freedom by June Rae Wood
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Time for Andrew, A Ghost Story by Mary Downing Hahn
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Harriet the Spy by Phyllis Reynolds
Little House on the Prairie (any in this series of books) by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Any books in the Pony Pals series by Jeanne Betancourt or the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate


6th Grade:

Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Frindle by Andrew Clements
Holes by Louis Sachar
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao lord
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Matilda by Roald Dahl
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
The Warm Place by Nancy Farmer
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson
Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom by Virginia Hamilton
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
My Daniel by Pam Conrad
Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech

7th Grade:

Absolutely Normal Chaos by Sharon Creech
Belle Prater's Boy by Ruth White
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
The Complete Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis
The Egyptian Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven
The Island by Gary Paulsen
The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
Summer of My German Solider by Bette Greene
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Wish Giver, Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill Brittain
Words of Stone by Kevin Henkes
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning by Jack Canfield (ed.), Mark Victor Hansen (ed.), and Kimberly Kirberger(ed.)
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

8th Grade:

Beyond the Burning Time by Kathryn Lasky
Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning by Jack Canfield (ed.), Mark Victor Hansen (ed.), and Kimberly Kirberger (ed.)
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Man Who Was Poe by Avi
The Maze by Will Hobbs
Myst, The Book of Atrus by Rand Miller, Robyn Miller, David Wingrove
Night by Elie Wiesel
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse
Redwall by Brian Jacques
River Thunder by Will Hobbs
Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples
Where the Lilies Bloom by Vera Cleaver and Bill Cleaver
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
Ironman by Chris Crutcher
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Lone Wolf by Kristine L. Franklin
Lyddie by Katherine Paterson
The Pearl by John Steinbeck


Shreiner has a family atmosphere. It’s challenging without being too rigid. I like the diversity—it’s truly an international academy.

Heather Izurieta

1340 Terrell Mill Rd.
Marietta, GA 30067
Tel. 770-953-1340
FAX 770-953-1415
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