Summer Reading List - 5 th Grade GACS expects for all students to read during the summer. This suggested list for summer reading is not exclusive but attempts to provide choices for various reading abilities and interests. Students entering fifth grade should read 4 books minimum during the summer. One of the books should be for the book club. Sign up for 5th grade book club on the GACS Media Center home page under in the spotlight. One of the four books read must be a non-fiction book. Keep a list of the books read with the names and authors on the form below. Parents should sign the completed list and turn it into the teacher in the fall. GO SPARTANS! Suggested Reading List Alcott Bagnold Barry Bosch Clements Colfer Collodi Creech Curtis Draper Farley Freedman Funke Gipson Haddix Little Men or Little Women National Velvet Peter and the Star Catchers Name of this Book is Secret A week in the Woods Artemes Fowl The Adventures of Pinocchio Bloomability Elijah of Buxton Out of My Mind The Black Stallion Eleanor Roosevelt Inkheart Old Yeller Found Juster Lewis Lofting Luster Mass Mull Napoli Neville O Brien O Rielly Palacio Porter Rawling Sachar The Phantom Toothbrush Narnia Series Voyages of Doctor The Phantom Tollbooth 11 Birthdays Fableheaven Stones in the Water It s Like This Cat Mrs. Frisby & Rats of Nimh Lincoln s Last Days Wonder Pollyanna The Yearling Holes Saint-Exupery The Little Prince The Georgia Children s Book Award Winners Sauer Frog Magic Selznick Wonderstruck Shelton Blinders Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events Speare Witch of Blackbird Pond Spinelli Maniac McGee Spyri Heidi Tolkien Hobbit Turner The Theif Wallace The Sparrow in the Scullery Winthrop Castle in the Attic Wright Christina s Ghost Yates Amos Fortune, Free Man Newberry Medal Award Books Applegate The One and Only Ivan Bones O Neill Adv. In Color Hailstones & Halibut Davis Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Bloomsbury Gaiman Gantos The Graveyard Book Dead End I Norvelt Greenwald My Life in Pink and Green Stead When You Reach Me It s Raining Pigs and Noodles Holm Turtle in Paradise Vanderpool Moon Over Manifest
Summer Reading List - 4 th Grade So that you will be prepared for our adventures next year, we would like you to read a few books this summer. Each rising 4th grader is expected to read 5 books before school begins in August. This suggested list for summer reading is not exclusive but attempts to provide choices for various reading abilities and interest. Two websites for other suggestions are www.childrenscrownaward.org/crown/htm for the Christian Librarian Award list and www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html for a list of Newberry winners. Keep a list of the books read on the form below to be turned in during the first week of school. A parent should sign the form for it to be accepted. Don t wait! Start as soon as you can! We hope you enjoy reading and we look forward to a great 4th grade year! Go Spartans! Suggested Reading List Applegate The One and Only Ivan Armstrong Sounder Avi Poppy Beatty Who Comes with Canons? Blume Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing Bond A Bear Called Paddington Brink Caddie Woodlawn Buckley The Fairy Tale Detectives Burgess Old Mother Burnett The Secret Garden Burnford The Incredible Journey Byers The Pinballs Cleary Romano Quimby, Age 8 Coville My Teacher Friend My Brains Dahl Charlie & the Chocolate Factory Dalgliesh The Courage of Srah Nooble Davidson Helen Keller s Teacher Davies The Lemonade Wars Estes The Hundred Dresses Farley The Black Stallion Fitzgerald The Great Brain Fox The Slave Dancer Freedman Lincoln: A Photobiography Funke Inkheart Gardiner Stone Fox George My Side of the Mountain Gidwitz A Tale dark and Grimm Gilson Thirteen Ways to Sink a Sub Haddix Among the Imposters Hahn Stepping on the Cracks Henry Misty of Chincoteague Hesse Sable Hoffman Starring Grace Horvath An Occasional Cow Howe The Celery Stalks at Midnight Hunter Fire and Ice (Warriors) Key The Forgotten Door Korman Swindle Lingren Pippi Longstocking Lowry Number the Stars Mass 11 Birthdays Fleischman Bull Run The Georgia Children s Book Award Winners Norton The Borrowers O Dell Island of the Blue Dolphins Park Skinnybones Peck Soup Prelutsk Something Big has Been Here Reeder Shades of Grey Riordon Maze of Bones Risby The Country Christmas Robinson The Best School Year Ever Rockwell How to Eat Fried Worms Salten Bambi Schur Samantha s Surprise Smith The War With Grandpa Snicket The Bad Beginning Speare The Sign of the Beaver Spinelli Maniac Magee Tripp Meet Molly Ursa Breadcrumb VanAllsburg Jumanji Wilder On the Banks of Plum Creek Morey Gentle Ben Newberry Medal Award Books Bones O Neill Adv. In Color Hailstones & Halibut Davis Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Bloomsbury Applegate Gaiman The One and Only Ivan The Graveyard Book Greenwald My Life in Pink and Green Gantos Dead End I Norvelt It s Raining Pigs and Noodles Holm Turtle in Paradise Stead When You Reach Me Vanderpool Moon Over Manifest
Summer Reading List - 3 rd Grade encouraged to participate in this process by reading aloud. This suggested list for summer reading is not exclusive but attempts to provide choices for various reading abilities and interests. Children need guidance in selecting the right books. Students entering 3rd Grade should read seven (7) books during the summer. The book title and author s name should be signed by a parent and submitted to the teacher during the first week of the school year. The Georgia Children s Book Award Winners Nominees Caldecott Medal Award Books Allard Cleary Miss Nelson is Missing Ramona the Pest Ackerman Bunting Song and Dance Man Smoky Night Poetry for Children Hopkinson Sweet Clare and the Freedom Quilt Goble The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses A Light in the Attic Kellogg Pinkerton Behave! McCully Mirette on the High Wire Martin The Rough Face Girl Provensen The Glorious Flight Polacco Thunder Cake Rathmann Officer Buckle and Gloria Porter Pink and Say Smith A Taste of Blackberries Read Any Books by These s Verna Aardema Jan Brett Eve Bunting Virginia Lea Burton Matt Christopher Beverly Cleary Alice Dalgliesh Tommie DePaola Wanda Gag William Joyce Ezra Jack Keats Steven Kellogg Leo Lionni Patricia MacLachlan A.A. Milne Evaline Ness Patricia Polacco Judith Viorst E.B. White Laura Ingalls Wilder Jane Yolen Charlotte Zolotow Bonus Box! List any extra books you may have read!
Summer Reading List - 2 nd Grade encouraged to participate in this process by reading aloud. This suggested list for summer reading is not exclusive but attempts to provide choices for various reading abilities and interests. Children need guidance in selecting the right books. Students entering 2nd Grade should read ten (10) books during the summer. The book title and author s name should be signed by a parent and submitted to the teacher during the first week of the school year. The Georgia Children s Book Award Winners Nominees Caldecott Medal Award Books Allard Aylesworth Miss Nelson is Missing Old Black Fly Bemelmans Burton Madeline s Rescue The Little House Poetry for Children Barret Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Keats The Snowy Day A Light in the Attic McDonald Meddaugh Polacco Robertus The Great Pumpkin Switch Martha Speaks Thunder Cake The Dog Who Had Kittens Ness Rathmann Sendak Steig Van Allsurg Sam, Bangs & Moonshine Officer Buckle and Gloria Where the Wild Things Are Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Polar Express Read Any Books by These s David Adler Ludwig Bemelmans Stan and Jan Berenstain Jan Bret Marc Brown Margaret Wise Brown Matt Christopher Beverly Cleary Laurent DeBrunhoff Judy Delton Tomie DePaola P.D. Eastman Patricia Giff Lillian Hoban Syd Hoff Edith Hurd Johanna Hurwitz Steven Kellogg Arnold Lobel James Marshall Mercer Mayer Robert McCloskey Else Minarik Peggy Parish Bill Peet Patricia Polacco Margaret Rey Cynthia Rylant Dr. Suess Valerie Tripp Chris Van Allsburg Charlotte Zolotow Bonus Box! List any extra books you may have read!
Summer Reading List - 1 st Grade encouraged to participate in this process by reading aloud. Students entering 1st Grade should read (or have read to them) at least ten (10) books during the summer. Specific titles are not required for the first graders. However, parents are encouraged to help their child select quality literature for their summer reading. Two web sites are listed as resources to help you find excellent books: Caldecott Award Winners and Honors books may be found at www.ala.org Search Under: Caldecott books Christian Librarian Award Winners may be found at www.childrenscrownaward.org/crown.htm Please List the title and author for all books read this summer on the form below. Parents, please sign this form and send it with your child on the first day of school. Thank You! Bonus Box! List any extra books you may have read!