2024

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Princeton Charter School Summer Reading

Dear Princeton Charter School Student:

Congratulations!! You have completed another year of challenge and discovery at Princeton Charter!
As you relax and possibly travel over these next months, take your imagination with you. Summer is a perfect
time to dive into great books. Reading gives us somewhere to go even when we have to stay where we are.

For this year’s English summer reading assignment, your teachers are encouraging you to read at least three
books and to respond to each book using the Reading Bingo Boards. Our hope is to have you read as much as
you can this summer, traveling the world from your own backyard and bedroom!

You may choose books from the library (click here for PPL’s summer reading program), a bookstore, and/or the
attached Teacher-Treasured Reading List - a list of books we love that we think you might love as well!

Books may be selected at your grade level, below, or above with parental approval.

You are to read at least three books and respond on paper, in a journal, or on a Google document to the Reading
Bingo questions below. There are two charts: Fiction Reading Bingo and Non Fiction Reading Bingo, but you
may read any kind of approved book as long as you’re reading.

When you return to PCS in September, you will be asked to share your summer reading with your English
teacher. This will be your first important grade of the year in ELA.

Happy Reading!
 Fiction Bingo!
Complete and cross off a box for each book you read. You will complete ONE box
for each book for a total of three books - fiction or nonfiction - your choice. That
means you will complete THREE DIFFERENT RESPONSES TOTAL FROM EITHER
THE FICTION OR NONFICTION BINGO BOARD.

Write your responses in complete sentences. You may write on a separate piece
of paper or in a Google document. Include the title and author of the book, and
make sure to include the number of the response you choose. Each response
should be a half page for 3-5th graders but longer for 6-8th graders. Make sure
to include your name.

2. List five questions 3. What kind of a 4. What does the main

1. Describe the main person is the main character want? (or
you would like to ask
character? List three what is their
setting of the book in the author. List five
traits and evidence motivation?) What
five strong sentences. interesting facts
from the book. What problems/obstacles got
Include a picture or a about this author. in the way? What does
famous person would
collage of the setting. (You will need to do this tell you about what
play this character in
some research here) kind of a person this is?
a movie and why?

6. List five words from 8. List five big life

the book that are new 7. How does the main issues the author
5. What is the main to you OR purposeful character change touched on in this
and precise, used to from the beginning of book. Choose one
problem/conflict?
make the story more the story to the end? and tell what you
How was it interesting. Explain why Use text evidence to think the author is
solved/resolved? each word stood out to support your trying to tell you
you and/or why it was thinking. about it. Include text
important to the story. evidence. (Theme)

10. What is the theme

or big idea of the
story? Why did the 12. Retell 4-5 main
9. What does this author write it? What 11. What specific events of your
lesson did you learn? favorite chapter.
story make you think genre is this novel?
What school Include illustrations
about? appropriate song How do you know?
comic book/graphic
exemplifies the theme novel style.
in your book? Explain
all using text evidence.

15. How has this

14. Choose a secondary book changed your
13. Visualize your character from the book.
way of living in and
16. Choose a part of
favorite scene from What kind of a person are the book where you
they? List three traits and seeing the world?
the book in a short felt a strong emotion.
evidence from the book. What are five things
paragraph Tell what happened
How does this secondary you might do
describing your character help, teach, or in the book, how you
differently in your life
mental movie. Include get in the way of the main felt, and why you felt
character? Cite specific now that you have
a drawing or collage. the way you did.
text evidence. read this book?
 Nonfiction Bingo!

Complete and cross off a box for each book you read. You will complete ONE box for each
book for a total of three books - fiction or nonfiction - your choice. That means you will
complete THREE DIFFERENT RESPONSES TOTAL FROM EITHER THE FICTION OR NONFICTION
BINGO BOARD.

Write your responses in complete sentences. You may write on a separate piece of paper or in
a Google document. Include the title and author of the book, and make sure to include the
number of the response you choose. Each response should be a half page for 3-5th graders
but longer for 6-8th graders. Make sure to include your name.

3. List 3 text 4. Who is the

1. List 5 questions you 2. Where do you think
FEATURES that you audience for this text?
would like to ask the the author got the
noticed. Explain how Who would find it
author. Why is this information for this
each one helped you interesting and why?
person an expert on text? What are their
better understand the Who would NOT enjoy
the topic of your book? sources?
topic. reading this and why?

6. List five words from 8. What did the

5. What does this the book that are new 7. What personal author think I already
book make you think to you. Give their knew?
connections do you ● I did not know
about? Wonder definitions. Include a
have to this topic? ● I was confused ...
about? sketch or illustration
● The author thought
for each word. I knew …

11. How has this book

9. Name 1 text 10. What surprised changed your way of
living and being in this
12. How do you think
structure that you me?
● I was shocked … world? What are five the author feels about
noticed in a section of
● I never thought … things you might do this topic? How do you
the text. Take brief differently in your life
● It is hard to believe know?
notes on this section. that ... now that you have read
this book?

13. What challenged, 16. Choose a part of

15. List five words that
changed, confirmed 14. Write a short the book where you
what I already knew? are specific to this
summary of the text felt a strong emotion.
● At first I thought,
topic. Give their
using the text Tell how you felt, what
but now… definitions. Include a
structure to guide your made you feel this way
● I had to rethink … sketch or illustration
●
writing. and why you felt this
I was right/wrong for each word.
about … way.
 Teacher-Treasured Reading Lists
● The Miraculous Journey…e, Flora and Ulysses, The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
● Love That Dog and Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech
● Dyamonde Daniel: Rich by Nikki Grimes
● Out of Wonder by Kwame Alexander
● George’s Secret Key to the Universe by Stephen & Lucy Hawking
● Wonder by R.J. Palacio
● Front Desk by Kelly Yang
● Toys Go Out, Toy Dance Party and Toys Come Home by Emily Jenkins
3rd Grade ● Gooseberry Park, Missing May, and The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant
Mrs, Miles’ Picks ● Where I Live by Eileen Spinelli
● Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
● Stink by Megan McDonald
● Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
● Nuts to You by Lynn Rae Perkins
● Frindle and No Talking by Andrew Clements
● Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
● A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park

Series:
Authors:
● Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan ● Kate DiCamillo
● 39 Clues
● Cynthia Rylant
● The Fourth Stall by Chris Rylander
● Patricia Polacco
● The Magic Tree House
● Andrew Clements
● Geronimo Stilton
● Ralph Fletcher
● Who Was… What Was…
● Kelly Yang
● Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner

● A Boy Called BAT by Elana K. Arnold

● Book Uncle and Me by Uma Krishnaswami
● Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
● Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
● Melissa (previously published as George) by Alex Gino
● Prairie Lotus by Linda Sue Park
● Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Yee
● Ways to Make Sunshine by Renée Watson
● Wish by Barbara O’Connor
● Love Sugar Magic:A Mixture of Mischief by Anna Meriano
● The Menagerie by Tui T. Sutherland & Kari Sutherland
● How Oscar Indigo Broke the Universe… by David Teague
4th Grade
Series: Authors:
Mrs. Trenholm’s
● The Land of Stories by Chris Colfer ● Beverly Cleary
Picks ● Anna Banana by Anica Mrose Rissi ● Judy Blume
● Mysterious Benedict Society by T.L. Stewart ● Kate DiCamillo
● Goddess Girls by J. Holub and S. Williams ● E.B. White
● Pages & Co.:The Bookwanderers by Anna James
● Dragon Slayers Academy by Kate McMullan
● Pacy Lin by Grace Lin
 ● The Best at It by Maulik Pancholy
● Chew on This by Eric Schlosser & Charles Wilson
● The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
● The Deep and Dark Blue by Niki Smith
● Dry by Jarrod Shusterman & Neal Shusterman
● From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks
● Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii / I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis, et al.
● The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
● A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée
● How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle
● Nic Blake and the Remarkables by Angie Thomas
● The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani
● Other Words for Home by Jasmine Warga
● The Pants Project by Cat Clarke
● Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe by Carlos Hernandez
5th Grade ● Stamped: Racism, Anti-racism & You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Ms. Auletta’s Picks ● Stargazing by Jen Wang
● Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia
● This Was Our Pact by Ryan Andrews

Series: Authors:
● Harry Potter by JK Rowling ● Grace Lin
● Keeper of the Lost Cities by Sharon Messenger ● Jacqueline Woodson
● Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale ● Jason Reynolds
● Land of Stories by Chris Colfer ● Jean Craighead George
● Any of the Rick Riordan Presents books

● The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

● Booked by Alexander Kwame
● Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve
Sheinkin
● Hidden Figures (Young Readers' Edition) by Margo Lee Shetterly
● Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters by
Annie Choi
6th Grade ● Diary Of A Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-American Girl Travels To The Land Of Trendy
Mr. Keogh’s Picks Fashion, Talking Toilets And Maid Cafes by Christine Mari Inzer
● Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams
● House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
● Everlasting Nora by Marie Miranda Cruz
● That Bird Has My Wings by Jarvis Jay Masters
● Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi
Series:
● The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
● Maximum Ride #1 - The Angel Experiment by James Patterson
● Tales from Alcatraz #1 - Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko
 ● 1984 by George Orwell
● Dove by William Graham
● For Whom the Bell Tolls by William Hemingway
● Freakonomics by Stephen R. Dubner
● Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
● Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
● Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson
● My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Seventh Grade:
● Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mr. Myer’s Picks
● Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
● That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton
● The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin
● The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Series:
● Dragon Riders of Pern by Anne McCaffrey
● The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

● Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

● Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
● Emma by Jane Austen
● Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
● Holes by Louis Sachar
● Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai
● Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
● Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
● Lord of the Flies by William Golding
● Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
● The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
● The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
● The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka
● The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
● The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
8th Grade
● The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Ms. Miller’s Picks
● The Odyssey by Homer
● The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
● Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
● Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Series:
● Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
● Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
● The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
 ● Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
● The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis
● The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
● Bud Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
● A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
● Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
● Earthquake! By Kathleen V Kudlinski & Ronald Himler
● Eleanor by Barbara Cooney
● Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
● Pictures of Hollis Woods byPatricia Reilly Giff
● My Life in Dog Years by Gary Paulsen & Ruth Wright Paulsen
● Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School by Louis Sachar
● A Boy Called Slow by Joseph Bruchac and Rocco Baviera
● Extreme Animals by Neal Layton & Nicola Davies
● Black Holes by Dana Meachen Rau
● Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. Taylor
● Malala: A Hero for All by Shana Corey & Elizabeth Sayles
● The Girl Who Owned a City by O.T. Nelson
● Bat 6 Virginia Wolff
● The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
● When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
● The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
● The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Series:
Mrs. W’s picks ● The Gone Series by Michael Grant
● Percy Jackson by Rick Riordin
● Hank Zipzer by Henry Winkler
● I Survived by (varied authors)
● Who was (varied authors)
● You Wouldn’t Want to Live Without (varied authors)

Additional books listed in links below; most are available at the public library:
● Level S fiction https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/level-s
● Level T fiction https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/level-t
● Level U fiction https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/level-u
● Level V fiction https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/level-v
● Level W fiction https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/level-w
● Level X fiction https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/level-x
● Level Y fiction https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/level-y
● Level Z fiction: https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/level-z
● Fiction and Nonfiction Levels V-Z
https://www.ofcs.net/docs/Leveled%20Book%20List%20V-Z.pdf