SUMMER READING LIST

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Elementary School
Each student is to read at least 2 books. One of the books that your child will be read is connected to our theme of dogs.
Letter to Families

Pre-School:
	Too Many Dogs by Lori Haskins
	Free choice from Caldecott or Newberry Award winner and honor books
Pre-Kindergarten:
	Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
	Free choice from Caldecott or Newberry Award winner and honor books
Primary Class (K-1):
	Doggone Dogs! by Karen Beaumont
	Free choice from Caldecott or Newberry Award winner and honor books
2nd Grade:
	The Stray Dog by Marc Simont
	Free choice from Caldecott or Newberry Award winner and honor books
3rd Grade:
	A Dog on His Own by Mary Jane Auch
	Free choice from Caldecott or Newberry Award winner and honor books
4th Grade:
	Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilio
	Free choice from Caldecott or Newberry Award winner and honor books
	See project assignment
5th Grade:
	Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
	Free choice from Caldecott or Newberry Award winner and honor books
	See project assignment

Junior High School

6th and 7th Grade:
	Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World…One Child at a Time (Young Reader’s Edition) by Greg Mortenson
	Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
8th Grade:
	Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World…One Child at a Time (Young Reader’s Edition) by Greg Mortenson
	Durango Street  by Frank Bonham
Assignment for 6th, 7th and 8th Grades

High School
Please note: You will be quizzed on these books the first week of school. Books will be available at the Public Library on St. John. You may also purchase them at Dockside Bookstore at Havensight, St. Thomas, and at Paypaya Café at the Marketplace, or you may purchase them through Amazon.
(Please make sure you complete your assignments for the books for History and Senior English.)

All school (9th through 12th grade):
	Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Journey to Change the World…One Child at a Time   (Young Reader’s Edition) by Greg Mortenson
	Feed by M.T. Anderson Assignment: There will be a quiz on both of these books the first day of school.
9th Grade:
	In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alavarez.  (for Caribbean History) Assignment
10th Grade:
	Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian (for Modern World History) Assignment
11th Grade :
	The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (for US History) Assignment
12th Grade:
	Hardball by Chris Matthews  (for Government) Assignment
	The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (for English) Assignment