Summer Reading

Students who are entering grades 3-8 have summer reading assignments, which include one required reading plus one additional title from the list below. All of these books will be available to purchase through the Carden Bookshop in the library.

For your convenience, a list of summer reading titles for all grades is listed below. All titles will be available to purchase through the bookshop at Carden. Please call the office information on hours.

Upper Prep

REQUIRED: Tornado (Betsy Byars)

Plus Choose ONE: A Mouse Called Wolf (Dick King-Smith), The Great Cake Mystery (Alexander McCall Smith), The Sword in the Tree (Clyde Robert Bulla)

Upper Prep Book Report Form

A Form

REQUIRED: My Father's Dragon (Ruth Gannett)

Plus Choose ONE: Mr. Popper's Penguins (Florence and Richard Atwater), Twenty and Ten (Claire Huchet Bishop), The Mystery of the Missing Lion (Alexander McCall Smith), Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

A Form Book Report Form

B Form

REQUIRED: Mr. Tucket (Gary Paulsen)

Plus Choose ONE: The Castle in the Attic (Elizabeth Winthrop), Caddie Woodlawn (Carol Brink), The Black Stallion (Walter Farley), The Sign of the Beaver (Elizabeth George Speare)

B Form Summer Reading Report Form

C Form

REQUIRED: Number the Stars (Lois Lowry)

Plus Choose ONE: Homer Price (Robert McCloskey), A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett), The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett), Call of the Wild (Jack London), Twenty-One Balloons (William Pene duBois)

C Form Summer Reading Report Form

D Form

REQUIRED: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis)

Plus Choose ONE: Elephant Run (Roland Smith), The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Elizabeth George Speare), Banner in the Sky (James Ullman), Soldier Dog (Sam Angus), The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkein)

D Form Summer Reading Report Form

E Form

REQUIRED: On the Wings of Heroes (Richard Peck)

Plus Choose ONE: Savvy (Ingrid Law), Shackleton's Stowaway (Victoria McKernan), Streams to the River, River to the Sea (Scott O'Dell), Shakespeare Stealer (Gary Blackwood), A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)

E Form Summer Reading Report Form

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