SUMMER READING LISTS
Lancaster Elementary School
Suggested Summer Reading List
2008-2009
One of our school’s primary goals is to promote reading by all of our students. We believe it is essential for reading to become or continue to be an important part of their lives. With this in mind, this year’s summer reading list consists of exciting, interesting books chosen to promote reading as an enjoyable activity.
You can check out http://www.scholastic.com/summerreading/for additional reading lists and activities.
Incoming Kindergarteners
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.
Alphabatics by Suse MacDonald
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Marin, Jr. and John Archambault
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
The Three Bears by Paul Galdone
Goodnight Gorilla by Peggy Rathman
Time for Bed by Mem Fox
If You Decide to Go to the Moon by Faith McNulty
Incoming First Graders
Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
Alphabet Mystery by Audrey Wood
Is Your Mama a Llama? by Steven Kellogg
When I Was Five by Arthur Howard
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by James Marshall
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Incoming Second Graders
The Doorbell Rang by Margaret Wise Brown
Click, Clack Moo by Doreen Cronin
If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Numeroff
Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Yound
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel
Amelia Bedelia series by Peggy Parish
The Umbrella by Jan Brett
Incoming Third Graders
McElligot’s Pool by Dr. Seuss
Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne
Horrible Harry series by Suzy Kline
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
Freckle Juice by Judy Blume
Incoming Fourth Graders
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day by Dr. Seuss
The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo
Detective LaRue by Mark Teague
The Miraculous Journey of Edwar Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key by Jack Gantos
Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clement
Holes by Louis Sachar
Incoming Fifth Graders
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi
Frindle by Andrew Clement
Freedom Train series by Dorothy Sterling
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
Charlottes’s Web by E.B. White
Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo
Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges |