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BROCKTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
2009 Required Summer Reading
Entering grades 1– 8

PARENT INFORMATION

The Brockton Christian School faculty has worked together to produce a required summer reading list for all students entering grades 1 - 8. Books should be available in your local library. Reading Lists and Response Forms will be available at the school office during office hours, the Brockton Public Library, the West Bridgewater Public Library, and also available at the BCS website.

Each student should read the books, and complete a Reading Response for each book read. (Students in grades 7 and 8 need to memorize a poem as well.) Students should bring the completed forms to school on the first day of school on August 27, 2009. Students will be graded on the required reading activity.

It is our goal that students will continue to build on skills learned during the school year, and will prepare for the coming year by continuing to read, read, read!

| | Click here | to view a print ready Summer Reading Brochure!

ENTERING GRADE ONE

Students should read three of the following books from three different series:

Any from the Arthur chapter books

by Marc Brown

Any from the Frog and Toad series

by Arnold Lobel

Any from the Amelia Bedelia series

by Peggy Parish

Or... Students should have three books read to them over the summer.

ENTERING GRADE TWO

Students should read three of the following books from three different series:

Any from the Arthur chapter books

by Marc Brown

Any from the Frog and Toad series

by Arnold Lobel

Any from the Magic Tree House series

by Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca

Any from the Polk Street School series

by Patricia Reilly Giff and Blanche Sims

Any from the Amelia Bedelia series

by Peggy Parish

ENTERING GRADE THREE

1. Choose one book from a series

Any from Boxcar Children series

by Gertrude Warner

Any from Magic Tree House series

by Marp Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca

Any from the Judy Moody series

   by Megan Mcdonald

2. Choose two books from the list below:

   Mr. Popper’s Penguins, by Richard Atwater

   Bunnicula, by James Howe and Alan Daniel

   Stuart Little, by E. B. White

   Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days, by Stephen Manes

ENTERING GRADE FOUR

Students should read the following books:

1. Skylark, by Patricia MacLauchlan (Students will need to bring a copy of this book to school the first day)

2. Biography of a Chrisian Leader or MIssionary

(There are several good series of these books. Check your library or a Christian Bookstore (Heritage House in Brockton). Books by these authors would be

appropriate:

Trailblazer books by Dave and Neta Johnson
Missionary series by Janet and Geoff Benge
Today’s Heroes series

ENTERING GRADE FIVE

Students should read the following books:

1. The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Spear (Students will need to bring a copy of this book to school on the first day)

2. Historical Fiction – Any book from the "Dear America" series

ENTERING GRADE SIX

1. Crispin, by Avi (Students will need to bring a copy of this to school on the first day)

2. Summer of the Swans, but Betsy Byers

ENTERING GRADE SEVEN

1. All students must read any Biography that is 200 pages or more

2. Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry

3. Students should memorize the poem, "The Road Not Taken," by Robert Frost

ENTERING GRADE EIGHT

1. All students must read any Biography that is 250 pages or more

2. The Giver by Lois Lowry

3. Students should memorize the powel, "The Concord Hymn," by Ralph Waldo Emerson

BROCKTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 2009 Required Summer Reading Entering grades 1– 8