Christ Community School 2018 Required Summer Reading List

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1 Christ Community School 2018 Required Summer Reading List Students entering grades one through six are required to read two books over the summer. Grades 4-6 will read a designated book from the Bible as one of the books. Choose books from the attached list assigned to the grade level you will be entering in the fall. Complete a Book Report (also attached) for each book and turn both in to your teacher for a grade. The mandatory reading must be completed and the book reports must be turned in to your teacher by Friday, August 17, All book reports must be turned in at the same time. Students are encouraged to read additional books from the list. Not every book is recommended for every child. It is the parent s responsibility to review the book for suitability of content for the student as well as to gauge the book s reading level. If the student has read one of the books before, he/she must select a new book to be read this summer.

2 Elementary School Summer Reading List First Grade Frog and Toad Series Clifford Series Curious George Series Amelia Bedelia Series If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Series My Best Friend There Is a Bird on Your Head! Don t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Emily s First 100 Days of School Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Henry and Mudge Series How I Became a Pirate Diary of a Worm Lilly s Purple Plastic Purse Owen Tacky the Penguin Series Strega Nona Officer Buckle and Gloria Skippyjon Jones A Bad Case of the Stripes Duck on a Bike A Treasury of Mother Goose Lobel Bridwell Rey Parish Numeroff Hutchins Willems Willems Wells Viorst Rylant Long Cronin Henkes Henkes Lester and Musinger de Paola Rathmann Schachner Shannon Shannon Yeatman

3 Wiser Words: Family Storie That Bring the Proverbs to Life The Jesus Storybook Bible: Every Story Whispers His Name The Tale of Peter Rabbit Little Pilgrim s Progress The Three Billy Goats Gruff Leithart Lloyd-Jones Potter Taylor Asbjornsen Scholastic My First Readers Second Grade Miss Nelson is Missing Brambly Hedge Series Madeline A Bear Called Paddington and others Squanto and Others The Columbus Story Benjamin Franklin The Bears on Hemlock Mountain The Biggest Bear Matchlock Gun The Story About Ping Only One Woof and Others B is for Betsy Benjamin West and His Cat Frimalkin Rabbit Hill Paul Revere s Ride Rascal The Borrowers Allard Barkle Bemelmens Bond Bulla Dalgleish Dalgleish Dalgleish Draw Edmonds Flack Harriott Haywood Henry Lawson Longfellow North Norton

4 The Tales of Peter Rabbit and others More Stories from Grandma s Attic Nate the Great and the Lost List Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Caps for Sale Stuart Little The Velveteen Rabbit The Three Bears The Emperor s New Clothes The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe The Ugly Duckling When We Were Very Young (Winnie-the Pooh) The King without a Shadow Potter Richardson Sharmot Sidney Slobokin White Williams Galdone Anderson C.S. Lewis Pinkney A.A. Milne R.C. Sproul Childhood of Famous Americans Series Various Favorite Collections 1 & 2 Veritas Press ( ) Aesop s Fables Grimm s Fairy Tales: One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes The Magic Mirror The Enchanted Stag Hansel and Gretel The Story of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp The Golden Goose Other Classical Stories: Cinderella Puss in Boots

5 Jack and the Bean Stalk Little Red Riding Hood The Three Bears The Princess on the Pea The Ugly Duckling The Light Princess Beauty and the Beast Third and Fourth Grades Third grade students must choose two books from this list to read and review. Fourth grade students are required to read the Book of Colossians and one book below as one of their reading selections. A separate book report is attached to review the Book of Colossians. Born Free Jo's Boys, Little Men, Little Women Sounder Miss Hickory Peter Pan The Wizard of Oz Spirit Flyer Series Freckle Juice Shoeshine Girl The Little Princess The Incredible Journey The Midnight Fox The Family Under the Bridge Adamson Alcott Armstrong Bailey Barrie Baum Bibee Blume Bulla Burnett Burnford Byars Carlson

6 Helen Keller The Wheel on the School Hardy Boys Series Twenty-One Balloons The Matchlock Gun The Hundred Dresses, The Moffats Black Stallion Series The Cabin Faced West Old Yeller The Wind in the Willows Sugar Creek Gang Series Nancy Drew Series Lassie Come Home Rabbit Hill Homer Price Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH The Indian in the Cupboard Call It Courage American Girl Series Trumpet of the Swan Swiss Family Robinson Little House on the Prairie In Grandma s Attic The Bobbsey Twins The Horse and His Boy Great and Small Davidson DeJong Dixon du Bois Edmonds Estes Farley Fritz Gipson Grahame Hutchens Keene Knight Lawson McCloskey O'Brien Banks Sperry Tripp White Wyss Wilder Richardson Hope Lewis Herriot

7 Gulliver s Stories Benjamin Franklin Just So Stories The Secret Garden A Wrinkle in Time Alice in Wonderland Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table Dolch Aulaire Kipling Burnett L Engle Carroll Vernes Green James Herriot s Treasury for Children: Warm and Joyful Tales by the Author of All Creatures Fifth and Sixth Grades Fifth grade students are required to read the Book of Philippians and one book below as one of their reading selections. A separate book report is attached to review the Book of Philippians. Sixth grade students are required to read the Book of Galatians and one book below as one of their reading selections. A separate book report is attached to review the Book of Galatians. Tuck Everlasting Turn Homeward, Hannalee The Summer of the Swans Dear Mr. Henshaw A Christmas Carol Hitty: The First Hundred Years Blue Willow My Side of the Mountain A Father s Promise Babbitt Beatty Byars Cleary Dickens Field Gates George Hess

8 Call of the Wild White Fang Rascal The Borrowers Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Bridge to Terabithia Cooper Kids Adventure Series Pollyanna The Yearling Where the Red Fern Grows The Best Christmas Pageant Ever The Good Master Miracles on Maple Hill Star of Light The Tanglewood Secret Freedom Train Kidnapped Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry The Cay Amos Fortune, Free Man Old Yeller Anne of Green Gables The Hobbit The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Island of the Blue Dolphins Pollyanna London London North Norton O'Brien Paterson Peretti Porter Rawlings Rawls Robinson Seredy Sorenson St. John St. John Sterling Stevenson Taylor Taylor Yates Fred Gibson Montgomery Tolkien Lewis O Dell Porter

9 The Swiss Family Robinson The Wind in the Willows Robinson Crusoe Treasure Island Around the World in Eighty Days Journey to the Center of the Earth Wyss Grahame Defoe Stevenson Vernes Vernes

10 Christ Community School Book Report for Students Entering 1 st -3 rd Grade Please complete your book report for each book on the activity sheet on the next page. For each box on the activity sheet, write your responses in complete sentences. You may also include pictures and/or color/decorate each activity sheet. Genre: Fiction (Realistic Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, etc.) Characters: Write a sentence listing the characters in your book. Setting: Write a sentence describing where and when the story took place. Summary: Write a brief summary of your book, including beginning, middle, and ending. Problem: Write a sentence describing the problem in your book. Solution: Write a sentence describing the solution for the problem in your book.

11 Title: Author: Rating: Genre: Characters: Summary: Setting: Problem: Solution: Name: Date:

12 Christ Community School Book Report for Students Entering 4 th - 6 th Grade Name: Date: Book Title: Author: Write 3 paragraphs summarizing your book. Paragraph 1 (3-5 sentences) Introduce your book, including the setting and main characters. Paragraph 2 (5 sentences) Summarize your book including beginning, problem, solution, and ending.

13 Paragraph 3 (3-5 sentences) Conclusion: Write your opinion of the book. This can include what you liked, your favorite part, what you would change, what you learned from this book, etc.

14 Book Review for Colossians 4 th Grade ONLY Name Date Grade entering in the fall 1. Briefly describe why you think Colossians was written. (Please use complete sentences.) 2. Write out three verses from this book that meant something to you. Use a complete sentence to explain why you chose each verse. (Don't forget to include the Scripture reference.) Verse 1: Why did you choose this verse?

15 Verse 2: Why did you choose this verse? Verse 3: Why did you choose this verse? 3. What is the main idea of Colossians? (Please answer in complete sentences.)

16 Book Review for Philippians 5 th Grade Only Name Date Grade entering in the fall 1. Briefly describe why you think Philippians was written. (Please use complete sentences.) 3. Write out three verses from this book that meant something to you. Use a complete sentence to explain why you chose each verse. (Don't forget to include the Scripture reference.) Verse 1: Why did you choose this verse?

17 Verse 2: Why did you choose this verse? Verse 3: Why did you choose this verse? 4. What is the main idea of Philippians? (Please answer in complete sentences.)

18 Book Review for Galatians 6 th Grade Only Name Date Grade entering in the fall 1. Briefly describe why you think Galatians was written. (Please use complete sentences.) 4. Write out three verses from this book that meant something to you. Use a complete sentence to explain why you chose each verse. (Don't forget to include the Scripture reference.) Verse 1: Why did you choose this verse?

19 Verse 2: Why did you choose this verse? Verse 3: Why did you choose this verse? 5. What is the main idea of Galatians? (Please answer in complete sentences.)