Below are links to this year's required and recommended summer reading lists for K–8 students.

Entering Grade 8
    The eighth grade required readings are
    The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver (ISBN: 0061097314)
    The graphic novel version of The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds (ISBN: 0763642681)

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Entering Grade 7
    Requirements for boys entering Grade 7
    Requirements for girls entering Grade 7
 

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Entering Grade 6
    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (ISBN: 9780140384512)
    Grade 6 summer reading instructions

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Read-Alouds
    Suggested Family Read-Alouds (pdf)

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Entering Grade 5
    Wild Wings by Gill Lewis
    Letter to students entering Grade 5
    Massachusetts Children’s Book Award list (pdf)
    Recommended Reading List (pdf)

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Entering Grade 4
    Dumpling Days by Grace Lin
    Letter to students entering Grade 4
    Recommended Reading List (pdf)

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Entering Grade 3
    If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond by Robert Burleigh
    Recommended Reading List (pdf)

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Entering Grade 2
    A Quiet Place by Sarah Stewart
    Recommended Reading List (pdf)

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Entering Grade 1
   King Arthur’s Very Great Grandson by Kenneth Kraegel
   Recommended Reading List (pdf)

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Entering Kindergarten
    The Insomniacs by Karina Wolf
    Recommended Reading List (pdf)