Seven Rivers Christian School Summer Reading 2018

Dear Parents and Students,

Knowing how important reading is to overall academic success, SRCS has designed a Summer Reading Program

to engage our students in meaningful and enjoyable reading that strengthens their reading skills and broadens

their base of knowledge.

Like any other skill, reading requires practice, and such practice is necessary if students are to increase fluency,

expand vocabulary, and deepen comprehension. The books on the Summer Reading list have been chosen

because they are time-tested works of literature that have something of lasting significance to offer to those

who read them. A love of great books will only be cultivated by exposure to great books.

Our Summer Reading Program represents a required reading assignment, and a parent's role in supporting the

program is invaluable. Please note the following guidelines of the program:

Students will read books from the list supplied for the grade level they are entering.

Books are not to be "read" via SparkNotes, Wikipedia, or any other alternative to the real thing.

The books should be completed before the school year begins.

Rising 1st - 3rd grade students will read ten books from a list of selections.

Rising 4th - 12th grade students will be required to read two books. One of the books is an assigned

reading selection that the entire class will read. If there is a choice, please choose the unabridged

version of your assigned reading selection. The other book will be a student selection chosen from the

list of books for their grade level. An assessment will be required for each selection read, but we have

tried not to ruin the pleasure of reading by creating elaborate assignments. Please refer to the student's

grade level list for details. These assessments will be graded and included in the student's Language Arts

or English grade for the first grading period.

All required book selections, and most of the student-choice ones, are available for purchase through

Amazon.com or from other booksellers, and many of the books will be available in the public library.

If you have any questions about the Summer Reading Program, please let us know.

Sincerely,

SRCS Administration

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce

Required Book: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien Once you have finished reading your required book, please complete the attached assignment. You may mail or bring the assignment back to SRCS during the summer or turn it in to your teacher on the first day of school. Additionally, select one book to read from the attached list as your student-choice book. You will take an AR test on this book no later than the third day of the first week back at school. We encourage you to notice the specified reading level of each book and choose a selection you can read independently. In the space provided below, please write your name and the title and author of your chosen book. Student-Choice Book: (student name)________________________ (book title)________________________________ (author)_______________

2018 Summer Reading Rising 5th Grade

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Summer Reading Assessment 1. Book Title: __________________________________________

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2. Describe the story’s setting.

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3. List the major or most important characters, and write two sentences to explain who they are.

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4. Explain the major problem or conflict in the story (3-5 sentences).

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5. Explain the resolution or how this problem was solved (3-5 sentences).

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6. Explain what lesson about life you learned from a character or events that happened in the story (4-5 sentences). Cite at least one piece of evidence from the story to support your answer.

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7. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Use two strong and specific reasons to explain why you would or would not recommend the book (4-5 sentences).

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Student Choice List Rising 4th - 6th Grades

Adams. Richard Watership Down (6.2) Aldrich, Bess Streeter A Lantern in Her Hand (6.4) Anderson, Max Elliot Newspaper Caper (4.0) (any series title) Atwater, Richard Mr. Popper’s Penguins (5.6) Avi Captain Grey (5.8) Poppy (4.5) Babbit, Natalie Tuck Everlasting (5.0) Bagnold, Enid National Velvet (5.5) Bailey, Carolyn Miss Hickory (5.9) Banks, Lynne Reid The Indian in the Cupboard (4.6) The Return of the Indian (4.6) The Key to the Indian (4.8) The Mystery of the Cupboard (4.9) The Secret of the Indian (5.2) Tiger, Tiger (5.4) Barrett, Marvin Meet Thomas Jefferson (3.5) Baum, Frank L. The Wizard of Oz (7.0) Beatty, Patricia Turn Homeward, Hannalee (4.9) Bibee, John Spirit Flyer series Bishop, Claire Hutchet Twenty and Ten (4.0) Blos, Joan A Gathering of Days (6.7) Blume, Judy Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (3.3) Superfudge (3.4) Brink, Carol Baby Island (6.0) Caddie Woodlawn (6.0) Brock, Betty No Flying in the House (4.5) Bruchac, Joseph The Arrow Over the Door (5.2) Buff, Mary The Apple and the Arrow (4.8) Bulla, Clyde A Lion to Guard Us (2.9) Burnett, Frances H. Little Princess (6.0) The Secret Garden (6.3) Burnford, Sheila The Incredible Journey (7.6) Butterworth, Oliver The Enormous Egg (5.0) Byars, Betsy The Midnight Fox (4.9) The Summer of the Swans (4.9) The Moon and I (5.2) Keeper of the Doves (4.0) Carlson, Natalie Savage The Family Under the Bridge (4.7) Carroll, Lewis Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (7.4) Cary, Barbara Meet Abraham Lincoln (3.7) Catling, Patrick The Chocolate Touch (4.7) Cleary, Beverly Ramona Quimby (any series title) (5.6) The Mouse and the Motorcycle (5.1) (any series title) Socks (5.2) Ellen Tebbits (4.9) Ribsy (any series title) (5.0) Dear Mr. Henshaw (4.9) Cleaver, Vera Where the Lilies Bloom (5.2) Clements, Andrew Frindle (5.4) Collodi, Carlo Pinocchio (5.3) Cornelissen, Cornelia Soft Rain: Cherokee Trail of Tears (4.3) Cousins, Margaret The Boy in the Alamo Curtis, Christopher Paul Bud, Not Buddy (5.0) Dahl, Roald Fantastic Mr. Fox (4.1) James and the Giant Peach (4.8) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (4.8) D'Aulaire, Ingri Abraham Lincoln (5.2) de Angeli, Marguerite Thee, Hannah (4.8)

The Door in the Wall (6.2) DeJong, Meindert The Wheel on the School (4.7) Hurry Home, Candy (5.0) The House of Sixty Fathers (5.5) DiCamillo, Kate Because of Winn Dixie (3.9) The Tiger Rising (4.0) The Tale of Despereaux (4.7) The Magician's Elephant (5.0) Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (4.4) Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol (6.7) Dixon, Franklin Hardy Boys (any original series title (5.2) Eckert, Allan Incident at Hawk’s Hill (7.2) Edmonds, Walter D. The Matchlock Gun (5.1) Enright, Elizabeth Thimble Summer (5.7) The Saturdays (5.5) The Four-Story Mistake (5.7) Gone-Away Lake (5.3) Return to Gone-Away Lake (5.8) Estes, Eleanor The Moffats (5.2) The Middle Moffat (4.6) Rufus M. (5.2) The Alley (5.4) Pinky Pye (5.9) Ginger Pye (6.0) Farley, Walter Man O' War (5.8) Black Stallion series (except first title) (5.5) Ferris, Jean Once Upon a Marigold (5.7) Field, Rachel Hitty: Her First Hundred Years (7.1) Fisher, Dorothy Canfield Understood Betsy (5.9) Fitzgerald, John D. The Great Brain (any series title) (5.2) Fitzhugh, Louis Harriet the Spy (4.5) Fleischman, Sid The 13th Floor: A Ghost Story (4.4) By the Great Horn Spoon (5.1) Jim Ugly (4.3) The Dream Stealer (3.8) Fritz, Jean Homesick: My Own Story (5.1) Brady (5.6) The Cabin Faced West (5.1) Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (5.3) Shh! We're Writing the Constitution (7.1) What's the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? (5.5) Gannett, Ruth My Father’s Dragon (5.6) Gates, Doris Blue Willow (6.5) George, Jean Craighead My Side of the Mountain (5.2) Julie of the Wolves (5.8) Giff, Patricia Reilly Lily’s Crossing (4.6) Gilbreth, Frank Cheaper by the Dozen (6.0) Gipson, Fred Old Yeller (5.0) Goudge, Elizabeth The Little White Horse (6.8) Grahame, Kenneth The Reluctant Dragon (6.5) Gray, Elizabeth Janet Adam of the Road (6.5) Gregory, Kristiana Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile (6.2) Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine (5.7) Guthridge, Sue Thomas Edison: Young Inventor (4.1) Harlow, Joan Thunder from the Sea (4.2) Haywood, Carolyn "B" is for Betsy (4.3) (any series title) Henry, Marguerite Benjamin West & His Cat Grimalkin (5.3) Justin Morgan Had a Horse (5.8) Hiaasen, Carl Hoot (5.2)

Holling, Holling C. Paddle-to-the-Sea (5.4) Hutchens, Paul Sugar Creek Gang (5.5) (any series title) Juster, Norton The Phantom Tollbooth (6.7) Kaye, M.M. The Ordinary Princess (6.4) Keene, Carolyn Nancy Drew (any original series title) (5.1) King-Smith, Dick A Mouse Called Wolf (5.3) The Water Horse (5.4) Kipling, Rudyard Just So Stories (6.4) Kjelgaard, Jim Big Red (5.6) Stormy (6.9) Knight, Eric Lassie Come Home (5.4) Konigsburg, E.L. Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. … Frankweiler (4.7) Lasky, Kathryn Mary, Queen of Scots (6.0) Elizabeth I: Red Rose…Tudor (5.5) Marie Antoinette (6.2) Latham, Jean Carry On, Mr. Bowditch (4.1) Lawson, Peter Rabbit Hill (6.4) Lawson, Robert Ben and Me (6.9) Lenski, Lois Prairie School (4.0) Indian Captive (5.4) Strawberry Girl (4.8) Levine, Gail Carson The Two Princesses of Bamarre (4.5) Lewis, C.S. Chronicles of Narnia (any series title) (5.8) Lin, Grace Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (5.5) Lindgren, Astrid (Any Pippi series title except first) (5.0) The Tomten (3.9) Ronia, the Robber's Daughter (5.6) Lord, Bette Bao In the Year of the Boar… (4.6) Lowry, Lois Number the Stars (4.5) Macaulay, David Angelo (4.4) MacDonald, George The Princess and the Goblin (6.1) The Golden Key (5.3) MacLachlan, Patricia The Facts and Fictions of Minna Pratt (5.7) Matas, Carol The War Within (5.1) McCloskey, Robert Homer Price (6.6) McSwigan, Marie Snow Treasure (5.3) Morey, Walt Gentle Ben (4.8) Mowat, Farley Lost in the Barrens (6.6) The Dog Who Wouldn't Be (7.9) Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds Shiloh (4.4) Norton, Mary The Borrowers (5.3) O'Brien, Robert C. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (5.1) O'Dell, Scott Island of the Blue Dolphins (5.4) Sing Down the Moon (4.9) The Black Pearl (5.4) O’Hara, Mary My Friend Flicka (6.0) Paterson, Katherine Bridge to Terabithia (4.6) Parzival: Quest of the Grail Knight (6.0) Peck, Richard A Year Down Yonder (4.5) A Long Way from Chicago (5.0) Here Lies the Librarian (5.1) Peck, Robert Newton Soup (4.4) Peretti, Frank Cooper Kids series (5.9) Pittman, Helena Clare A Grain of Rice (4.9) Porter, Eleanor Pollyanna (5.2) Raskin, Ellen The Westing Game (5.3) Rawls, Wilson Summer of the Monkeys (4.8) Where the Red Fern Grows (4.9) Reynolds, Quentin The Wright Brothers: Pioneers… (4.9) Robertson, Keith Henry Reed, Inc. (5.5) Robinson, Barbara The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (5.1) Rylant, Cynthia Missing May (5.3)

Sachar, Louis Holes (4.6) Sandburg, Carl Abe Lincoln Grows Up (7.6) Sauer, Julia The Light at Tern Rock (4.8) Schanzer, Rosalyn How We Crossed the West (6.0) Selden, George The Cricket in Times Square (4.9) Seredy, Kate The Good Master (4.4) The Singing Tree (5.0) Shemin, Margaretha The Little Riders (5.4) Shephard, Esther Paul Bunyan (5.7) Shura, Mary Francis Gentle Annie: Civil War Nurse (5.2) Skurzynski, Gloria The Minstrel in the Tower (4.2) Smith, Doris Buchanan A Taste of Blackberries (4.0) Sobol, Donald Encyclopedia Brown (any series title) (4.2) Sorensen, Virginia Miracles on Maple Hill (4.9) Speare, Elizabeth George The Bronze Bow (5.0) The Witch of Blackbird Pond (5.7) The Sign of the Beaver (4.9) Calico Captive (6.0) Sperry, Armstrong Call It Courage (6.2) Spyri, Johanna Heidi – unabridged (8.2) St. John, Patricia The Tanglewoods’ Secret (5.3) Treasures of the Snow (5.6) Star of Light (5.9) Stanley, Diane Bard of Avon: Story of Shakespeare (6.2) Good Queen Bess (6.6) Joan of Arc (6.9) Charles Dickens: The Man Who… (6.3) Leonardo da Vinci (6.8) Michelangelo (7.3) Steele, William The Buffalo Knife (5.1) The Perilous Road (4.7) Steig, William Abel's Island (5.9) Stevenson, Augusta Daniel Boone: Young Hunter…(3.7) Paul Revere: Boston Patriot (3.9) Stewart, George The Pioneers Go West (5.5) Stewart, Trenton Lee The Mysterious Benedict Society series (6.0) Streatfeild, Noel Ballet Shoes and series (5.7) Sullivan, George Paul Revere (5.6) Taylor, Mildred Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (5.7) Taylor, Sydney All-of-a-Kind Family (4.9) Taylor, Theodore The Cay (5.3) Tingle, Tim Crossing Bok Chitto (4.4) Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit (6.6) Trafton, Jennifer The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic (6.2) Travers, P.L. Mary Poppins (6.1) Tripp, Valerie American Girl series (4.2) Uchida, Yoshiko A Jar of Dreams (5.0) Ullman, James Ramsey Banner in the Sky (5.1) Warner, Gertrude C. The Boxcar Children (any series title) (3.9) Waugh, Sylvia The Mennyms (5.4) West, Jerry The Happy Hollisters (4.3) Whelan, Gloria Listening for Lions (5.7) White, E.B. Charlotte's Web (4.4) The Trumpet of the Swan (4.9) Stuart Little (6.0) Wilder, Laura Ingalls any Laura Ingalls Wilder title Wiles, Deborah Each Little Bird That Sings (4.5) Wilson, N. D. 100 Cupboards (4.2) Yates, Elizabeth Amos Fortune, Free Man (6.5) Yelchin, Eugene Breaking Stalin's Nose (4.6) Yep, Laurence The Magic Paintbrush (3.8) Zolotow, Charlotte The Storm Book (5.0)