Summer Reading Lists 2011
| AUTHOR | TITLE |
GRADE GOING INTO |
CLASS | NOTES |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin Goes to School or any from the series | 1 | choose three | |
| Brown, Marc | Arthur's Mystery Envelope or any from the series | 1 | choose three | |
| McCloskey, Robert | Blueberries for Sal | 1 | choose three | |
| Numeroff, Laura | If you Give a Mouse a Cookie or other from the series | 1 | choose three | |
| O'Connor, Jane | Fancy Nancy | 1 | choose three | |
| Williams, Vera B. | Chair For My Mother, A | 1 | choose three | |
| Baglio, Ben | Animal Ark (Series) | 2 | choose three | |
| Bemelmans, Ludwig | Madeline (series) | 2 | choose three | |
| Berenstain, Jan and Stan | Berenstain Bears (chapter book series) | 2 | choose three | |
| Blume, Judy | Freckle Juice | 2 | choose three | |
| Bourgeois, Paulette | Franklin series | 2 | choose three | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Serendipity (Series) | 2 | choose three | |
| Cosgrove, Stephen | Stepping Stone (Series) | 2 | choose three | |
| Rey, H.A. | Curious George (series) | 2 | choose three | |
| Wells, Rosemary | Shy Charles | 2 | choose three | |
| Alder, David | Cam Jansen (series) | 3 | choose three | |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona the Pest | 3 | choose three | |
| Conford, Ellen | Job For Jenny Archer, A | 3 | choose three | |
| Kline, Suzy | Horrible Harry and the Green Slime | 3 | choose three | |
| McKenna, Colleen O. | Good Grief…Third Grade | 3 | choose three | |
| Scieszka, Jon | Summer Reading is Killing Me! | 3 | choose three | |
| Steig, William | Amazing Bone | 3 | choose three | |
| Bauer, Marion Dane | On My Honor | 4 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| White, E.B. | Charlotte's Web | 4 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Bloom, Judy | Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing | 4 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Secret Garden, The | 4 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Erickson, John | Hank the Cowdog (Series) | 4 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Knight, Eric | Lassie Come Home | 4 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Green Gables | 4 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds | Shiloh | 4 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Park, Barbara | Skinnybones | 4 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Library Card, The | 5 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Butterworth, Oliver | Enormous Egg, The | 5 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Cleary, Beverly | Ramona's World | 5 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Keene, Carolyn | Nancy Drew Mystery (series) | 5 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| O'Dell, Scott | Sarah Bishop | 5 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Paulsen, Gary | Tucket's Ride | 5 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Reit, Seymour | Guns for General Washington | 5 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Curtis, Christopher Paul | Bud, Not Buddy | 6 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Salisbury, Graham | Under the Blood Stain Sun | 6 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Sewell, Anna | Black Beauty | 6 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Clements, Andrew | Week in the Woods, A | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| DeAngeli, Marguerite | Door in the Wall, The | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Ellis, Deborah | Breadwinner, The | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Hamilton, Virginia | Cousins | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Namioka, Lensey | Ties That Bind, Ties That Break | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| O'Grady, Scott | Basher Five-Two | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Rang, William | It Began with a Parachute | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Sleator, William | Duplicate, The | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Twain, Mark | Pollyanna | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Whelan, Gloria | Homeless Bird | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| White, Ryan | Ryan White: My Own Story | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Williams, Laura | Behind the Bedroom Wall | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Yates, Elizabeth | Amos Fortune | 6 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Heroes of Faith Series | 7 | Amy Carmichael, George W. Carver, Jim Elliot, Charles Finney, Eric Liddell, Samuel Morris, Corrie Ten Boom, Mother Teresa, Sojourner Truth, John Wesley, William Wilberforce | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Alcott, Louisa May | Little Women | 7 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Grimes, Nikki | Jasmin's Notebook | 7 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Hinton, S.E. | Outsiders, The | 7 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Tolkein, J.R.R. | Sir Gawain and the Greek Knight | 7 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| D'Aularie | D'Aularie'sBook of Greek Myths | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Giblin, James | Life and Dream of Adolf Hitler | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Holt, Kimberly Willis | When Zachary Beaver Came to Town | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Kielburger, Craig | Free the Children | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Krull, Kathleen | Leonardo Da Vinci | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Lewis, C.S. | Out of the Silent Planet | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Montgomery, L.M. | Anne of Green Gables | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Slam! | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Roosevelt, Theodore | Hero Tales | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Twain, Mark | Prince and the Pauper, The | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Wiggin, Kate | Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Woodson, Jacqueline | Locomotion | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Wyss, Johann | Swiss Family Robinson | 7 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Heros of Faith Series | 8 | Amy Carmichael, George W. Carver, Jim Elliot, Charles Finney, Eric Liddell, Samuel Morris, Corrie Ten Boom, Mother Teresa, Sojourner Truth, John Wesley, William Wilberforce | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Beals, Melba | Warriors Don't Cry | 8 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Burnford, Sheila | Incredible Journey, The | 8 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Cormier, Robert | I am The Cheese | 8 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Doyle, Sir Arthur C. | Sherlock Holmes | 8 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Lee, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | 8 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Paulsen, Gary | My Life in Dog Years | 8 | MANDATORY | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more |
| Armstrong, Lance | It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Blais, Madeline | In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Deuker, Carl | On the Devil's Court | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Frank, Anne | Diary of Anne Frank | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Jenkins, Jerry | Left Behind Series (either group) | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Krakauer, Jon | Into Thin Air | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| London, Jack | Call of the Wild | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| London, Jack | White Fang | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Myers, Walter Dean | Fallen Angels | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Patterson, Katherine | Jacob Have I Loved | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Spinelli, Jerry | Milkweed | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Stevenson, Robert L. | Child's Garden of Verses | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Tolkein, J.R.R. | Hobbit, The | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Verne, Jules | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | 8 | Choose 1 mandatory plus 2 more | |
| Bridwell, Norman | Clifford the Big Red Dog or any from series | K | choose three | |
| Carle, Eric | Very Hungry Caterpillar | K | choose three | |
| Freeman, Don | Corduroy | K | choose three | |
| Penn, Audrey | Kissing Hand, The | K | choose three | |
| Pfister, Marcus | Rainbow Fish, The | K | choose three | |
| Seuss, Dr. | Cat in the Hat, The | K | choose three |
From the Camden County Library website
http://www.camdencountylibrary.org