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2022 Summer Reading List

Elementary 

Grade 3 The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling 

Grade 4 The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies 

Grade 5 Frindle by Andrew Clements 

Middle School

Grade 6 Choose either 

Wonder by R.J. Palacio 

OR

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

Incoming sixth graders have a choice for summer reading:

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper (choice for all levels)

Eleven-year-old Melody is not like most people. She can’t walk. She can’t talk. She can’t write. All because she has cerebral palsy. But she also has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She’s the smartest kid in her whole school, but NO ONE knows it. Most people—her teachers, her doctors, her classmates—dismiss her as mentally challenged because she can’t tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by her disability. And she’s determined to let everyone know it...somehow.

Wonder by R. J. Palacio (choice for all levels)

August Pullman was born with a facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.