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Weston Christian Academy Elementary School Summer Reading List.

2013

First Grade

• Frog and Toad Series Lobel

• CliffordSeries Bridwell

• Curious GeorgeSeries Rey

• Amelia BedeliaSeries Parish • If You Give a Mouse a CookieSeries Numeroff

• My Best Friend Hutchins

• There Is a Bird on Your Head! Willems

• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Willems

• Emily’s First 100 Days of School Wells

• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Viorst • Henry and MudgeSeries Rylant • How I Became a Pirate Long

• Diary of a Worm Cronin

• Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse Henkes

• Owen Henkes

• Tacky the PenguinSeries Lester and Musinger

• Strega Nona de Paola

• Officer Buckle and Gloria Rathmann

• Skippyjon Jones Schachner

• A Bad Case of the Stripes Shannon

• Duck on a Bike Shannon

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Second Grade

Miss Nelson is Missing Allard Mr. Popper’s Penguins Atwaters

Brambly Hedge Series Barkle

Madeline Bemelmens

A Bear Called Paddington and others Bond

Squanto and Others Bulla

The Columbus Story Dalgleish Benjamin Franklin Dalgleish

The Bears on Hemlock Mountain Dalgleish

The Biggest Bear Draw

Matchlock Gun Edmonds

The Story About Ping Flack

Only One Woof and Others Harriott

B is for Betsy Haywood Benjamin West and His Cat Frimalkin Henry

Rabbit Hill Lawson Paul Revere’s Ride Longfellow

Rascal North

The Borrowers Norton

The Tales of Peter Rabbit and others Potter More Stories from Grandma’s Attic Richardson

Nate the Great and the Lost List Sharmot Five Little Peppers and How They Grew idney

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Caps for Sale Slobokin

Stuart Little White The Trumpet of the Swan White

New Coat for Anna Ziefert

Childhood of Famous Americans Series Various

Favorite Collections 1 & 2 VeritasPress

(www.veritaspress.com )

Aesop’s Fables

Grimm’s Fairy Tales:

One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes The Magic Mirror

The Enchanted Stag Hansel and Grethel

The Story of Aladdin, or The Wonderful Lamp

The Golden Goose

Other Classical Stories:

Cinderella Puss in Boots

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

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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 John as one of their reading selections. A separate book report is attached to review this book. They may choose one other book from this list to read and review.

Born Free Adamson

Jo's Boys, Little Men, Little Women Alcott

Sounder Armstrong

Miss Hickory Bailey

Peter Pan Barrie

The Wizard of Oz Baum

Spirit Flyer Series Bibee

Freckle Juice, Superfudge, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing Blume

Paddington Series Bond

Shoeshine Girl Bulla

The Little Princess, The Secret Garden Burnett

The Incredible Journey Burnford

The Midnight Fox Byars

The Family Under the Bridge Carlson

Pinocchio Collodi

James and the Giant Peach Dahl

Daniel Boone Daugherty

Helen Keller Davidson

The Wheel on the School DeJong

Hardy Boys Series Dixon

Twenty-One Balloons du Bois

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The Hundred Dresses, The Moffats Estes

Black Stallion Series Farley

The Cabin Faced West Fritz

Stone Fox Gardiner

Old Yeller Gipson

The Wind in the Willows Grahame

Misty of Chincoteague Henry

Sugar Creek Gang Series Hutchens

Nancy Drew Series Keene

Lassie Come Home Knight

Rabbit Hill Lawson

Number the Stars Lowry

Homer Price McCloskey

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH O'Brien

Island of the Blue Dolphins O'Dell

The Indian in the Cupboard Reid Banks

Call It Courage Sperry

American Girl Series Tripp

Charlotte's Web, Trumpet of the Swan White

Swiss Family Robinson Wyss

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Fifth Grade

Fifth grade students are required to read the Book of John as one of their reading selections. A separate book report is attached to review this book. They may choose one other book from this list to read and review.

Sounder Armstrong

Tuck Everlasting Babbitt

Turn Homeward, Hannalee Beatty

The Summer of the Swans Byars

Dear Mr. Henshaw Cleary

Robinson Crusoe Defoe

A Christmas Carol Dickens

Hitty: The First Hundred Years Field

Johnny Tremain Forbes

Blue Willow Gates

My Side of the Mountain George

A Father’s Promise Hess

The Phantom Tollbooth Juster

The Jungle Book Kipling

Big Red Kjelgaard

Carry On, Mr. Bowditch Latham

Call of the Wild London

White Fang London

Anne of Green Gables Series Montgomery

Rascal North

The Borrowers Norton

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh O'Brien

Bridge to Terabithia Paterson

Cooper Kids Adventure Series Peretti

Pollyanna Porter

The Yearling Rawlings

Where the Red Fern Grows Rawls

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Robinson

The Good Master Seredy

Miracles on Maple Hill Sorenson

The Bronze Bow Speare

Star of Light St. John

The Tanglewood Secret St. John

Freedom Train Sterling

Kidnapped Stevenson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Taylor

The Cay Taylor

Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates

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Name:

Book Title:

Author:

Book Report Card

Grade your book with an A through an F by circling the letter.

Did you enjoy reading the book? A B C D F

Did it have a beginning that grabbed you?

A B C D F

Did you like the characters? A B C D F

Did you like the way it ended? A B C D F

Would you recommend this book t0 your friends? Why or why not?

What was the best part?

What would you change if you had written it?

What would you want others to know about this book?

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Book Review of the Book of John

Name _______________

Date _______________

Grade entering in the fall ___________

1. Briefly describe your favorite story from the book of John.

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2. W

rite out three verses from this book that meant something to you.

Use a complete sentence to explain why the verses were chosen.

(Don't forget the Scripture reference!)

a. __________________________________________________

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Why did you choose this verse?

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b. __________________________________________________

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Why did you choose this verse?

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c. __________________________________________________

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Why did you choose this verse?

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3. What is the main idea of this book? Answer in a c

omplete sentence.

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Weston Christian Academy Middle School Summer Reading List.

2013

Instructions: select one book from LIST A and one book from LIST B from this reading list. After reading, complete a report sheet for each book (copy below) and turn in the report sheets to the Language Arts teacher for a grade. The reading must be completed and the report sheet must be turned in to the Language Arts teacher Monday, August 26, 2013. All report sheets must be turned in at the same

time. Students may read additional books from the list for extra credit. If doing so, fill out a report sheet for each additional book.

Not every book is recommended for every grade level. 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 with the student’s ability. Most of the books from List A are considered classical literature including several children’s classics. Books from List B are mostly Christian biographies.

If the student has read one of the books before, he/she must select a new book to be read this summer. List A – SELECT ONE BOOK

1. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Doyle 2. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

3. A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle 4. Animal Farm – George Orwell

5. Around the World in 80 Days – Jule Vernes 6. Ben Hur – Lew Wallace

7. Black Beauty – Anna Sewell

8. Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling 9. Cry the Beloved Country- Alan Paton

10. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde – Robert Louise Stevenson 11. Emma – Jane Austen

12. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury

13. Freedom Train – Dorothy Sterling 14. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift 15. Hamlet – William Shakespeare

16. Jacob Have I Loved – Katherine Paterson 17. Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stephenson 18. Kim – Rudyard Kipling

19. Le Morte d’Arthur (King Arthur & his knights) – Sir Thomas Malory 20. Les Miserables - Hugo, Victor

21. Little Men – Louisa May Alcott

22. Little House on the Praire – Laura Ingalls Wilder 23. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott

24. Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkein 25. Macbeth – William Shakespeare 26. My Friend Flicka – Mary O’Hara 27. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 28. Othello – William Shakespeare 29. Poems – Robert Frost

30. Pride & Prejudice – Jane Austen 31. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe

32. Roll of Thunder, Here My Cry! – Mildred Taylor 33. Story of My Life – Helen Keller

34. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain 35. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain

36. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson 37. The Best Short Stories of O. Henry – O. Henry

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39. The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis

40. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore 41. The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis 42. The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling

43. The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

44. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle 45. The Old Man & The Sea – Ernest Hemingway 46. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodges Burnett 47. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 48. The Magician’s Nephew – C.S. Lewis

49. The Pilgrim’s Progress (original) - John Bunyan 50. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane 51. The Robe – Lloyd Douglas

52. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson 53. The Wizard of Oz – Frank Baum

54. The Yearling – Marjorie Rawlings

55. Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls 56. War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells

LIST B - SELECT ONE BOOK

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David Livingstone, Foe of Darkness – Jeanette Eaton (life of the amazing American missionary to the Native American tribes who influenced millions before his early death in his 20’s)

Do Hard Things – Alex & Brett Harris (written by teens for teens dealing with teen complacency)

Edge of Eternity – Randy Alcorn (Mrs. Brown’s pick! A business executive who has fallen on hard time finds himself mysteriously transferred to another world)

Eric Liddell: Something Greater Than Gold – Janet & Geoff Benge ++ (An Olympic champion who makes a difficult choice to honor his Lord.)

Gifted Hands - Ben Carson (good choice for 6th grade and above – renown surgeon shares his story)

God’s Smuggler – Brother Andrew (older story of smuggling Bibles into a communist nation)

In His Steps – Charles Sheldon (Christian classics on following Jesus)

Know Why You Believe – Paul Little (best for 8th grade – a simple Christian classic on defending the faith)

Lessons from a Sheep Dog – Phillip Keller (true story of a man & a seemingly worthless dog illustrating God’s transformative power & love)

Lies Young Women Believe – Nancy Demoss & Dannah Gresh (good reviews from young women)

Not a Fan: What Does it Mean to Really Follow Jesus? – Kyle Idleman (good reviews from teens)

Morning Star of the Reformation – Andy Thomson (the life of John Wycliffe, a man who helped change the course of western history)

Running on Ice: The Overcoming Faith of Vonetta Flowers – Vonetta Flowers (Christian Olympic skater’s story)

The Cross and the Switchblade – Wilkerson (older story of a gang member who finds faith)

The Persecutor – Sergei Kourdakou * (biography of a former Communist KGB agent who persecuted Christians and then became a Christian himself)

The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis (Christian satirical classic where one senior demon shares with another techniques to move a person away from “the enemy” (God) )

Through Gates of Splendor – Elizabeth Elliott (a moving story of the martyrdom of five young men who take the Gospel to the Huaorani tribe in the Amazon region)

Through My Eyes – Tim Tebow (biography of UF great and now New England Patriot)

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Weston Christian Academy

Middle School Summer Reading Report

Your Name: __________________________________

Grade Level you will be attending in the fall (6th, 7th, 8th): ____________ Book Title: __________________________________________________ Author: _______________________________

Write a brief summary of the book (attach notebook paper if there is not enough room). Include the setting (where and when it took place). If a novel, explain the main conflict or problem and how the problem was or was not corrected. If non-fiction, explain how the main character overcame a major problem or situation in his/her life.

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Who is the main character and what made that person interesting?

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What did you enjoy about this book?

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Please check one of the boxes below:

 I completely read the book from cover to cover  I read most of the book

Signature: ________________________________________________________ Date: __________

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