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Summer Reading:
First Grade: The Perfect Nest ~ by: Catherine Friend
Second Grade: Horton Hatches an Egg ~ by: Dr. Seuss
Third Grade: My Father's Dragon ~ by: Ruth Gannett
Fourth Grade: Sideways Stories from Wayside School
~ by: Louis Sachar
Abby Takes a Stand (Scraps of Time)
~ by: Patricia McKissack
Fifth Grade:: Choose one and one from the
MCBA nominee list below
Billy the Fish ~ by: Charlie James
or
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
~by: Lynne Jonell
Sixth Grade: Choose one and one from the
MCBA nominee list below
How to Steal a Dog ~ by: Barbara O'Conner
or
Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper
~ by: Michael Reisman
Seventh Grade: Read all of the following and
one of your choosing
Blood on the River: Jamestown 1607
~ by: Elisa Lynn Carbone
Fever 1763 ~ by: Laurie Halse Anderson
The Giver ~ by: Lois Lowry
The Twenty-One Balloons
~ by: William Pene du Bois
Eighth Grade: Read the two required and
one from each of the groups
Required:
He Will Go Fearless ~
by: Laurie Lawlor
Touching Spirit Bear ~
by: Ben Mikaelsen
Group One:
Bull Run ~ by: Paul Fleischman
Behind Rebel Lines:
The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds ~ by: Seymour Reit
Group Two:
Little Women ~ by: Louisa May Alcott
The Call of the Wild ~ by: Jack London
Massachusetts
Children's Book Award for 2009-2010
The
Castle Corona by Sharon Creech
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
The London Eye Mystery by Sioghan Dowd
Spy Mice: Goldwhiskers by Heather Vogel Frederick
Barack Obama: Our 44th President by Beatrice Gormley
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson
Billy the Fish by Charlie James
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
Swindle by Gordon Korman
Rules by Cynthia Lord
The Big Field by Mike Lupica
Abby Takes a Stand by Pat McKissack
Out of Patience by Brian Meehl
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem by Jack Prelutsky
Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper by Michael Reisman
Paint the Wind by Pam Muñoz Ryan
My Haunted House (Araminta Spookie #1) by Angie Sage
Listen! by Stephanie Tolan
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies
The London Eye Mystery by Sioghan Dowd
Spy Mice: Goldwhiskers by Heather Vogel Frederick
Barack Obama: Our 44th President by Beatrice Gormley
Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Horns & Wrinkles by Joseph Helgerson
Billy the Fish by Charlie James
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
Swindle by Gordon Korman
Rules by Cynthia Lord
The Big Field by Mike Lupica
Abby Takes a Stand by Pat McKissack
Out of Patience by Brian Meehl
How to Steal a Dog by Barbara O'Connor
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry: How to Write a Poem by Jack Prelutsky
Simon Bloom, the Gravity Keeper by Michael Reisman
Paint the Wind by Pam Muñoz Ryan
My Haunted House (Araminta Spookie #1) by Angie Sage
Listen! by Stephanie Tolan