Summer Reading - Grades 4-9
Books recommended by PBDA Faculty and Required Summer 2011 Reading Books for 5 - 9.
Entering Grade 4
The Land Remembered, Student Edition Vol. 1 & 2 - Patrick D. Smith
Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
The Talking Earth - Jean Craighead George
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler- E.L Konigsburg
Strawberry Girl - Lois Lenski
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Holes - Louis Sachar
The Mysterious Benedict Society - Trenton Lee Stewart
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Abel’s Island - William Steig
Entering Grade 5
Required - The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 - Christopher Paul Curtis
(plus three books of the student's choosing)
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle
Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis
Number the Stars - Lois Lowry
Sounder - William H. Armstrong
The Magician’s Elephant - Kate DiCamillo
When You Reach Me - Rebecca Stead
Moon Over Manifest - Clare Vanderpool
Heart of a Samurai - Margi Preus
The Book of Three - Lloyd Alexander
The Acorn People - Ron Jones
Entering Grade 6
Required - Either - Black Ships Before Troy - Rosemary Sutcliffe OR
(Advanced) The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy - Padraic Colum
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
Abe Lincoln in Illinois - Robert E. Sherwood
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Johnny Tremain - Esther Forbes
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Pigman and Me - Paul Zindel
Knots in my Yo-Yo String - Jerry Spinelli
The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp - Rick Yancey
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
The King of Mulberry Street - Donna Jo Napoli
The Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
The Spiderwick Chronicles - Holly Black
Entering Grade 7
Required - Either - Fever 1793 - Laurie Halse Anderson OR
(Advanced) The Crucible - Arthur Miller
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor
The Cay - Theodore Taylor
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
Bucking the Sarge - Christopher Paul Curtis
The Egypt Game - Zilpha Keatley
The Black Pearl - Scott O’Dell
Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
The Serpent Never Sleeps - Scott O’Dell
Tree Castle Island - Jean Craighead George
The Clique - Lisi Harrison
Holiday Inn - James Howe
Good Night, Mr. Tom - Michelle Magorian
Nothing But The Truth - Avi
The Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer
Entering Grade 8
Required - Either - Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell OR
(Advanced) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Joanne Greenberg
The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds – Paul Zindel
The Physician – Noah Gordon
Shogun – James Clavell
We All Fall Down – Robert Cormier
The Chosen – Chaim Potok
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Foundation Trilogy – Isaac Asimov
Nick of Time – Ted Bell
Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1) – James Patterson
The Fire Within – Chris D’Lacey
The Wednesday Wars – Gary D. Schmidt
Among the Hidden – Margaret Peterson Haddix
Entering Grade 9
Required - Night - Elie Wiesel
Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling
Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
Animal Farm – George Orwell
The Red Pony – John Steinbeck
Ben Hur – Lew Wallace
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Remarque
Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louise Stevenson
Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Crossing the Wire – Will Hobbs