Summer Reading
Tabs
Elementary School
RCSD will not have a required Summer Reading this summer due to the COVID-19 challenges everyone has encountered. The RCSD Elementary Curriculum Department STRONGLY encourages ALL Elementary School students to continue reading during the months of June and July.
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Entering Kindergarten |
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Frog and Toad are Friends |
Arnold Lobel |
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The Boy Who Loved Words |
Roni Schotter |
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Goodnight Moon |
Margaret Wise Brown |
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There is a Bird on Your Head! |
Mo Willems |
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Pete the Cat: Pete at the Beach |
James Dean |
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Biscuit Goes Camping |
Alyssa Satin Capucilli |
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Corduroy |
Don Freeman |
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Entering First Grade |
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? |
Bill Martin |
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie |
Laura Joffe Numeroff |
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Grow Up, David! |
David Shannon |
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I Love Rocks |
Cari Meister |
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The Day the Crayons Quit |
Drew Daywalt |
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Swimmy |
Leo Lionni |
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If You Take a Mouse to School |
Laura Numeroff |
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Entering Second Grade |
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Encyclopedia Brown |
Donald J. Sobal |
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Cam Jansen series |
David A. Adler |
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Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book Series) |
Peggy Parish |
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Flat Stanley |
Jeff Brown |
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Second Grade Rules |
Abby Klein |
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Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy, Junie B. Jones Series #12 |
Barbara Park |
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Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse |
Kevin Henkes |
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Entering Second Grade |
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Encyclopedia Brown |
Donald J. Sobal |
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Cam Jansen series |
David A. Adler |
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Amelia Bedelia (I Can Read Book Series) |
Peggy Parish |
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Flat Stanley |
Jeff Brown |
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Second Grade Rules |
Abby Klein |
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Junie B. Jones Smells Something Fishy, Junie B. Jones Series #12 |
Barbara Park |
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Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse |
Kevin Henkes |
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Entering Third Grade |
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Amos and Boris |
William Steig |
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Judy Blume books (Fudge, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing) |
Judy Blume |
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Judy Moody series |
Megan McDonald |
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A to Z Mysteries |
Ron Roy |
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The Chocolate Touch |
Patrick Skene Catling |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Roald Dahl |
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Third Grade Angels |
Jerry Spinelli |
| Entering Fourth Grade | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events books |
Lemony Snicket |
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Because of Winn-Dixie |
Kate DiCamillo |
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Clementine |
Sara Pennypacker |
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Tiger Rising |
Kate DiCamillo |
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Cricket in Times Square |
George Selden |
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I Survived (Series) |
Lauren Tarshis |
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The Indian in the Cupboard |
Lynne Reid Banks |
| Entering Fifth Grade | |
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The Sign of the Beaver |
Elizabeth George Speare |
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Frindle |
Andrew Clements |
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Hatchet |
Gary Paulsen |
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The Secret Garden |
Frances Hodgson Burnett |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins |
Scott O'Dell |
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Harriet the Spy |
Louise Fitzhugh |
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Summer of the Swans |
Betsey Byars |
| Entering Sixth Grade | |
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Bridge to Terabithia |
Katherine Paterson |
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Maniac Magee |
Jerry Spinelli |
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Wringer |
Jerry Spinelli |
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Wonder |
R. J. Palacio |
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Smile |
Raina Telgemeier |
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Ella Enchanted |
Gail Carson Levine |
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Hoot |
Carl Hiaasen |
Middle School - Upcoming 6th - 8th Grade
Suggested Summer Reading for Middle School Students
(Upcoming 6th Grade @ BMS, FMS, & NWRMS - 8th Grade)
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
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Brown Girl Dreaming |
Jacqueline Woodson |
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I Am Malala (Young Reader’s Edition) |
Malala Yousafzai |
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The Boys Who Challenged Hitler |
Philip M. Hoose |
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An Ember in the Ashes |
Sabaa Tahir |
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Alice in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
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Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie |
Jordan Sonnenblick |
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Gathering Blue |
Lois Lowry |
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Wonder |
R.J. Palacio |
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The Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins |
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes |
Suzanne Collins |
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A Snicker of Magic |
Natalie Loyd |
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Milkweed |
Jerry Spinelli |
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Artemis Fowl |
Eoin Colfer |
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The Maze of Bones |
Rick Riordan |
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I Funny: A Middle School Story |
James Patterson |
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QB1 |
Mike Lupica |
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Story of Thieves |
James Riley |
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Restart |
Gordon Korman |
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The Thing About Jellyfish |
Ali Benjamin |
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The Fill In Boyfriend |
Kasie West |
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The Selection |
Kiera Cass |
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The Crossover |
Kwame Alexander |
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Legend |
Marie Lu |
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Cinder |
Marissa Meyer |
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If You’re Reading This |
Trent Reedy |
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Unstoppable |
Tim Green |
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Ender’s Game |
Orson Scott Card |
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Some Place More Than Others |
Renee Watson |
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The Girl in the Blue Coat |
Monica Hesse |
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The Looking Glass Wars |
Frank Beddor |
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Double Identity |
Margaret Peterson Haddix |
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The Red Badge of Courage |
Stephen Crane |
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Soldier's Heart |
Gary Paulsen |
High School - Upcoming 9th - 12 Grade
Suggested 2021 Summer Reading for High School Students
(Upcoming 9th Grade - 12th Grade)
| TITLE | AUTHOR |
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Stargirl |
Jerry Spinelli |
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Cold Sassy Tree |
Olive Ann Burns |
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All Over but the Shoutin’ |
Rick Bragg |
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The Mysterious Island |
Jules Verne |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
Jules Verne |
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Becoming |
Michelle Obama |
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A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
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Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
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The Book Thief |
Markus Zusak |
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Same Kind of Different as Me |
Denver Moore/Ron Hall |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
Rebecca Skloot |
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Scythe |
Neal Schusterman |
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Tattooist of Auschwitz |
Heather Morris |
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Hillbilly Elegy |
J.D. Vance |
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The Other Wes Moore |
Wes Moore |
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
Mitch Albom |
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The Last Lecture |
Jeffrey Zaslow/Randy Pausch |
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The 5th Wave |
Rick Yancey |
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One of Us is Lying |
Karen McManus |
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The Selection |
Kiera Cass |
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes |
Suzanne Collins |
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Make Your Bed: Little Things that Can Change your Life and Maybe the World |
Admiral William H. McRaven |
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The Jordan Rules |
Sam Smith |
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The Blood of Emmett Till |
Timothy Tyson |
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World War Z |
Max Brooks |
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The Muse of Nightmares |
Laini Taylor |
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Red Rising |
Pierce Brown |
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The History of the World in Six Glasses |
Tom Standage |
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1776 |
Tom McCollough |