2021 Summer Reading
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Rising 4th Grade Required Book Charlotte's Web - E. B. White In this endearing story, a little girl and Charlotte, a beautiful gray spider, struggle to save their friend Wilbur, an affectionate but bashful pig, from being butchered. |
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Rising 5th Grade Required Book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien When Timothy, the youngest of a family of field mice, becomes ill, his mother, Mrs. Frisby, enlists the help of the Rats of NIMH to move their home from the path of the farmer's plow. |
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Rising 6th Grade Required Book The Magician's Nephew - C. S. Lewis In this beginning to the Narnia series, two friends are hurled into another world where they encounter an evil sorceress and witness the creation of the Land of Narnia as it is sung into being by the Great Lion, Aslan. |
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Rising 7th Grade Required Book The Twenty-One Balloons - William Pene du Bois Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. However, he lands on Krakatoa and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions. |
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Rising 8th Grade Required Book Black Beauty - Anna Sewell The story of Black Beauty, a horse with a heart of unyielding courage, is told by the magnificent horse himself, from his peaceful days on a country squire's estate to his harsh fate as a London cab horse. |
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Rising 9th Grade Required Book The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle Has the Baskerville family fallen victim to a family curse? A terrifying specter in the shape of a hound was said to have hunted an ancestor across the moors, and recent events suggest that the hound has returned. |
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Rising 10th Grade Required Book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass In this 1845 autobiography, Douglass provides graphic descriptions and a deeply personal account of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave in Maryland, as well as a record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. |
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Rising 11th Grade Required Book Silas Marner - George Eliot A gentle linen weaver is accused of a horrible crime. Exiling himself, he becomes a recluse, only to find redemption in his love for an abandoned child who mysteriously appears one day in his isolated cottage. |
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Rising 12th Grade Required Book
1984 - George Orwell Winston Smith rewrites history to satisfy the Party, but with each lie he writes, he grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. As he starts to think for himself, he can't escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching. |
