St. Francis Academy

Please find below (inside this post) the list of books for your Summer Reading. Please take note of the mandatory and optional reading.

PRE-K

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by: Eric Carle
• Oh, The Places You’ll Go! by: Dr. Seuss
• Little Pea by: Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too! by: Mo Willems

KINDERGARTEN

• A Frog Thing by Eric Drachman
• The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
• Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
• David Goes to School by David Shannon
• Wild About Books by Judy Sierra
• How I became a Pirate by Melinda Long & David Shannon
• There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems

GRADE 1

Mandatory:

• If You Take a Mouse to School by Felicia Bond
• Mr. Seahorse by Eric Carle
• Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae
• Too Many Toys by David Shannon

Optional:

• Any Biscuit Books by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
• Any Henry and Mudge Books by Cynthia Ryland

GRADE 2

• Stagecoach Sal by Deborah Hopkinson
• Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson
• Eve of the Emperor Penguins by Mary Pope Osborne
• Dodsworth in New York by Lim Egan
• The Zack Files by Dan Greenburg
• Princess Hyacinth by Florence Parry Heide

GRADE 3
Mandatory:

• Emmaline and the Bunny by Katherine Hannigan
• Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things by Lenore Look
• Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
• Flat Stanley: The Mount Rushmore Calamity by Jeff Brown
• Socks by Beverly Cleary
• 7 X 9 = Trouble by Claudia Mills

Optional:

• Any other books you would like

GRADE 4
Mandatory:

• The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean by Alexander McCall Smith
• Moxy Maxwell Does Not Love Stuart Little by Peggy Gifford
• How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
• Malted Falcon: From the Tattered Casebook of Chet Gecko by Bruce Hale
• Being Teddy Roosevelt by Claudia Mills

Optional:

• Any Chet Gecko Series
• Any Harriet Bean Series
• Any Moxy Maxwell Series
• Any How to Train Your Dragon Series

GRADE 5
Mandatory:

• Hoot by Carl Hiaansin (September)
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
• Lincoln and His Boys by Rosemary Wells
• Ida B … and her Plans to Maximize Fun, Avoid Disaster, and (Possibly) Save the World by Katherine Hannigan
• Jeremy Hatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville

Optional:

• The Hoboken Chicken Emergency by Daniel Pinkwater
• The Monster’s Ring by Bruce Coville
• Juliet Dove, Queen of Love by Bruce Coville
• Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls by Meg Cabot
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

GRADE 6
Mandatory:

• Granny Torelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick
• Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
• Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements
• Flush by Carl Hiaasin

Optional:

• Looking for Bobowicz by Daniel Pinkwater
• Any Andrew Clements book
• Mother Daughter Book Club Series
• The Lightening Thief Series
• Rules by Cynthia Lord
• Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
• Dan Gutman Baseball Series
• Theodosia and the Staff of Osiris by R. L. La Fevers
• Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos by R. L. Fevers
• Peter and the Starcatcher by Dave Barry
• The Seer of Shadows by Avi

GRADE 7
Mandatory:

• The Red Blazer Girls: The Ring of Rocamadour by Michael D. Beil
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer by P. Figg
• The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan or Faith, Hope, and Ivy June by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Optional:

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
• The Red Blazer Girls: The Vanishing Violin by Michael D. Beil
• The Gods of Manhattan by Scott Mebus
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• The Mother – Daughter Book Club by Heather Vogel Frederick
• Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
• The Teacher’s Funeral by Richard Peck
• A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck

GRADE 8
Mandatory:

• Nation by Terry Pratchett
• When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
• Charles and Emma: The Darwins Leap of Faith by Deborah Heligman
• The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan or Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury

Optional:

• The Case of the Missing Marquess by Nancy Springer
• A Long Way to Chicago by Richard Peek
• Distant Waves by Suzanne Weyn
• Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James Swanson
• The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh
• The Gods of Manhattan by Scott Mebus
• Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
• The Wee Free People by Terry Pratchett
• The Luxe Novels by Anna Godberson