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St. Mary School
32A Carrol Avenue
Williamstown, NJ
08094
(856) 629-6190
Fax (856) 728-1437
REQUIRED AND SUGGESTED SUMMER READING LIST 2011-2012
Books for students entering
SECOND GRADE:
Choose one based on child’s reading
level:
Suggested:
Easy – Buster:
The Very Shy Dog by Lisze Bechtold; On
Level –
Any A-Z Mystery Book by Ron Roy;
Challenge – Diary of a Wimpy Kid
by Jeff Kinney
Books for students entering
THIRD GRADE:
Required:
Magic Treehouse #22 “Revolutionary War on
Wednesday” by Mary Pope Osborne
Suggested:
Magic Treehouse
#23 “Twister on Tuesday” by Mary Pope Osborne
Books for students entering
FOURTH GRADE:
Required:
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by
Judy Blume
Suggested: The Cricket in
Times Square by George Seldon
Books for students entering
FIFTH GRADE:
Required:
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
by Kate DiCamillo
Suggested:
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor;
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Books for students entering
SIXTH GRADE:
Required:
Loser by Jerry Spinelli
Suggested:
Hatchett by Gary Paulsen;
Sixth Grade Name Game by Gordon Korman;
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Books for students entering
SEVENTH GRADE:
Required:
Crash by Jerry Spinelli and
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Suggested:
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes;
The Story of Harriet Tubman – Freedom Train
by Dorothy Sterling; Star Girl by Jerry
Spinelli
Books for students entering
EIGHTH GRADE:
Required:
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper
Lee; The Cay
by Theodore Taylor
Suggested:
Wednesday Wars
by Gary D. Schmidt;
The Westing
Game by Ellen Raskin;
Speak
by Laurie Anderson
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