Book lists, parents’ letters, logs, and Nutmeg lists


Nutmeg Intermediate list 2012

Nutmeg Teen list 2012

If you need a copy of the Reading Log for Grades 4 – 6, click here.
If you need a copy of the Reading Log for Grades 7 – 9, click here.

Kindergarten Summer Reading Book:  Farfallina and Marcel, by Holly Keller

Kindergarten Suggestions for Summer Reading

Family Read Alouds Grades K-3

Letter to Kindergarten parents

MAG Summer Reading Book:  Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White

MAG Suggestions for Summer Reading

Family Read Alouds Grades K-3

Letter to MAG parents

Grade 3 Summer Reading Book:  The Twenty-One Balloons, by William Pene du Bois

Grade 3 Suggestions for Summer Reading

Family Read Alouds Grades K-3

Letter to Grade 3 parents

Grade 4 Summer Reading Book:  The Landry News, by Andrew Clements

Plus three more books of your choosing, for a total of four books.

Grade 4 Suggestions for Summer Reading

Read Aloud List Grades 4-6

Letter to Grade 4 parents

Grade 5 Summer Reading Book:  The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, by Avi

Plus three more books of your choosing, for a total of four books.

Grade 5 Suggestions for Summer Reading

Read Aloud List Grades 4-6

Letter to Grade 5 parents

Grade 6 Summer Reading Book:  First Light, by Rebecca Stead

Plus three more books of your choosing, for a total of four books.

Grade 6 Suggestions for Summer Reading

Read Aloud List Grades 4-6

Letter to grade 6 parents


Grade 7 Summer Reading Choices:

One of the following:

Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson

Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy, by Gary Schmidt

Locomotion, by Jacqueline Woodson

Plus three more books of your choosing, for a total of four books.

Grade 7 Suggestions for Summer Reading

Letter to grade 7 parents


Grade 8 Summer Reading Choices:

For English, choose one of the following:

Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie

The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton

For History, choose one of the following:

Kipling’s Choice, by Geert Spillebeen

Uprising, by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Claudette Colvin, by Phillip Hoose

Plus two more books of your choosing, for a total of four books.

Grades 8 and 9 Suggestions for Summer Reading

Letter to Grade 8 parents


Grade 9 Summer Reading choices:

For English, choose one of the following:

Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

In Zanesville, by Jo Ann Beard

How to Build a House, by Dana Reinhardt

Rocket Boys: A Memoir, by Homer Hickam

The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien

For History, choose one of the following:

American Born Chinese, by Gene Luan Yang

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller

Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers

Plus two more books of your choosing, for a total of four books.

Grades 8 and 9 Suggestions for Summer Reading

Letter to Grade 9 parents