Victory Christian Academy Summer Reading List

Rising 1^st Grade

1. Owen & Mzee-A True Story of a Remarkable Friendship by Craig Hatkoff, Peter Greste, Isabella Hatkoff and Paula Kahumba (required reading)

2. Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss

3. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

4. Mouse Tales by Arnold Lobel

5. Frog and Toad All Year-Level 2 by Arnold Lobel

6. Stuart Little I Can Read by Susan Hill

7. Little Bear’s Friend by Else Holemund Minarik

8. Harry and the Lady Next Door by Gene Zion

Rising 2^nd Grade

1. Oh, the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss; January 1990; 56 pages (required reading)

2. Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne

3. Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller

4. Magic School Bus-Lost in the Solar System by Joanna Cole

5. Teammates by Tiki and Ronde Barber

Rising 3^rd Grade

1. Julian’s Glorious Summer by Ann Cameron (required reading)

2. A Pebble in Your Pocket by Thich Nhat Hanh

3. The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes

4. The Gift of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell

5. Mississippi Bridge by Mildred D. Taylor

6. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

7. The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting

Rising 4^th Grade

1. Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (required reading)

2. The Report Card by Andrew Clement

3. Lunch Money by Andrew Clement

4. Penny’s from Heaven by Jennifer Holm

5. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson

6. Tales of a 4^th Grade Nothing by Judy Blume

7. The Hardy Boys While the Clock Ticked by Franklin W. Dixon

8. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

9. Charlotte’s Webb by E. B. White

10. Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Taylor

Rising 5^th Grade

1. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens(required)

2. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis

3. Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis

4. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

5. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

6. Heidi by Johanna Spyri

7. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Wilder Ingalls

8. Swiss Family Robinson by Johan David Wyes

Rising 6^th Grade

1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

2. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

3. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

4. The Island by Gary Paulsen

5. Roll of Thunder, Hear by Cry by Mildred Taylor

6. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

7. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

8. Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse

Rising 7^th Grade

1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

2. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

3. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

4. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

5. Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

6. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen

7. River Thunder by Will Hobbs

8. Where the Lilies Bloom by Bill and Vera Cleaver

9. Nothing but the Truth, A Documentary Novel by Avi

Rising 8^th Grade

1. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

2. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

3. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

4. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

5. Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

6. Time Machine by H.G. Wells

7. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness E. Orczy

8. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

9. Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

10. Common Sense by Thomas Paine

11. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

12. The Call of the Wild by Jack London

13. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

14. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

15. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

16. The Chosen by Chaim Potok

17. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara

18. Lyddie by Katherine Paterson