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2025 Summer Reading List
Vanessa Ullmann


 

Rising 1st Grade Summer Reading Recommendation

Hameray Early Bird Readers

 

Rising 1st Graders should spend their summer reading with their grown up to continue to build early reading skills! We recommend the Joy Cowley Early Birds books, as they have comprehension questions on the back cover, along with student activity sheets online. Recommended Level: E+ moving up as appropriate.

https://www.hameraypublishing.com/pages/joy-cowley-early-birds-complete-set-book-list

 


 

Rising 2nd Grade Required Summer Reading (Select One)

Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DeCamillo

Oliver and Amanda Series by Jean Van Leeuwen

Oliver, Amanda, and Grandmother Pig

Mercy Watson to the Rescue by Kate DiCamillo: Worksheets & Activities




 

Rising 3rd Grade Required Summer Reading (Select One)

My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling


 

My Father's Dragon: The Bestselling Children Story

Rising 4th Grade Required Summer Reading (Select One)

Dive - Book 1: The Discovery by Gordon Korman

Wild Wave by Rodman Philbrick

 
 

*All Middle School Students (Grades 5-8) are required to read one 

teacher-selected book plus one choice book.

 

Rising 5th Grade Required Summer Reading

Heroes by Alan Gratz

 

Rising 6th Grade Required Summer Reading

Something Like Home by Andrea Beatriz Arango

 

Rising 7th Grade Required Summer Reading

One Wrong Step by Jennifer A. Nielsen