SAU #70: K-12 Reading
~ CLASS BOOKS AND STORIES ~

Bernice A. Ray School
Hanover: K-5 Elementary School

Marion Cross School
Norwich: K-6 Elementary School

Richmond Middle School
Dresden: 6-8 Middle School

Hanover High School
Dresden: 9-12 High School

The following lists show books or stories which are read or heard by many or all students at the different grade levels. Some are for small reading groups; others are full class books or stories. Aside from being of general interest, they should be used as a reference for any K-12 teachers who wish to add a new book or story to their curriculum. Teachers should send additions, deletions, or questions to RMS Coordinator.

HANOVER & NORWICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
Favorite Read-Aloud or Reading Group Books

Bernice A. Ray School

Marion Cross School

Second Grade

Second Grade

Child of the Silent Night
The Courage of Sarah Noble
A Cricket in Times Square
The Key to the Treasure

A Lion to Guard Us
The Trumpet of the Swan
Two in the Wilderness
Primary Read Aloud
Black Star, Bright Dawn
The Borrowers
The Cat Who Escaped From Steerage
Cricket in Times Square
Homer Price
The Hundred Dresses
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Trumpet of the Swans

Third Grade

Third Grade

Big Wave
Chocolate Fever

The Chocolate Touch
Class Clown
Danny the Champion of the World

The Flunking of Joshua T. Bates
Herbie Jones
Jennifer, Hectate...and Me, Elizabeth

Owls in the Family
Poppy
Sadako and a Thousand Paper Cranes
Abelís Island
Babe the Gallant Pig
Crow and Weasel
Dominic
Frightfulís Mountain
Half Magic
The Half-a-Moon Inn
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Little House on the Prairie
Matilda
My Side of the Mountain
On the Frontier with Mr. Audubon
The Real Thief
Sign of the Beaver
Sing Down the Moon
Song of the Trees
Streams to the River, River to the Sea
Stuart Little
The Witches

Fourth Grade

Fourth Grade

The Boggart
The Cry of the Crow
Harriet Tubman
Hook a Fish, Catch a Mountain
The Indian in the Cupboard
Letters from Rifka
Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo
Number the Stars
Sign of the Beaver
Sounder
There's an Owl in the Shower
Who Really Killed Cock Robin?
Because of Winn Dixie
Ella Enchanted
Green Mountain Hero
Jackie Robinson & the Wild Boar
Midnight Fox
Mrs. Frisbee & the Rats of Nihm
Poppy
Sadako & the Thousand Cranes
Secret Garden
Secret of Platform 13
Shiloh
Small Steps
Stone Fox
The 13 Clocks
Tuck Everlasting

Fifth Grade

Fifth Grade

Beowulf
The Book of Three
A Castle in the Attic
The Forestwife
The Giver
Incident at Hawk's Hill
The Lemming Condition
The Midwife's Apprentice
Riding Freedom
Skellig
Tales of Ancient Greece
True Confession of C.Doyle
Wreckers
Adventure at Hurricane Peak
Alice in Wonderland
The Blood and Thunder
The Blue Sword
Bridge to Terabithia
The Castle in the Attic
The Cay
Cousins in the Castle
Dragonwings
The Gammage Cup
The Great Brain
Ghost Canoe
Ida Early Comes Over the Mt

The Lampfish of Twill
Lilyís Crossing
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
A Long Way From Chicago
The Man Who Was Poe
Matilda Bone
My Daniel
The Odyssey
Once and Future King
Out of the Dust
The Owl Service
The Phantom Tollbooth
Sammy Keyes
Search for the Shadowman
The Westing Game
Weasel

Sixth Grade

Sixth Grade

Hanover Sixth Grade:
See Richmond School

Alien Secrets
Bad Girls
Bud, Not Buddy
The Dark Is Rising
The Dark Thirty
Dragonsong
The Ear The Eye and the Arm

Flip Flop Girl
The Folkkeeper
Gathering Blue
Green Futures of Tycho
High John
The Hounds of the Morrigan
Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
Letters From Rifka
Lizard Music
Maniac Magee
The Mermaid Summer
Moor Child
My Life Among the Aliens
Nothing but the Truth
Number The Stars
Pain of War
Points of View
So Far From The Bamboo Grove
The Shakespeare Stealer
A Stranger Came Ashore
Tangerine
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Under The Blood Red Sun
The View from Saturday
The White Mountains
A Wizard of Earthsea
A Wrinkle in Time
Upstairs Room
Year of Impossible Goodbyes

FRANCES C. RICHMOND MIDDLE SCHOOL
Summer & Independent Reading Lists

6th Grade * 7th Grade * 8th Grade


Grade

Class Books

Short

Stories

6TH

Independent Reading Contracts

"Nothing To Be Afraid Of"
"Party Games"
"Superstitions"
"Through the Tunnel"
"The Veldt"
"The Wish"

7TH

Animal Farm
The Giver
The Miracle Worker
Summer of My German Soldier
"Beware of the Dog"
"Charles"
"Eleven"
"Interlopers"
"Luke Baldwin's Vow"
"The Most Dangerous Game"
"A Mother in Mannville"
"The Necklace"
"To Build a Fire"
"Walter Mitty"

8TH

Night
Of Mice and Men
Romeo and Juliet
To Kill A Mockingbird
"A Christmas Memory"
"Feeding the Piranha"
"Flowers for Algernon"
"The Horla"
"The Love Letter"
"Manhood"
"Simple Arithmetic"
"The Sound of Thunder"
"The Stone Boy"
"The Stucco House"
"Sucker"
"The Things They Carried"

HANOVER HIGH SCHOOL
HHS Summer Reading List

English 9

English 9

English 9

Books
Anitgone
The Bean Trees
Black Boy
The Catcher in the Rye
Ethan Frome
Into the Wild
Macbeth
On the Beach
Our Town
The Prince and the Pauper
Books
A Raisin in the Sun
A Separate Peace
The Thread That Runs So True

Stories
"The Bet"
"The Blanket"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"Everyday Use"
"Haircut"
Stories
"In Another Country"
"The Lucid Eye in Silver Town"
"Marigolds"
"The New Kid"

"Rules of the Game"
"Snake Dance"

"The Sniper"
"Teenage Wasteland"
"War"
Creation Myths Packet

Comp I

Comp II

Science Fiction

Forrest Gump
Rainman
A Dog Named Skip
"Country of the Blind"
"80 Yard Run"
A Lesson Before Dying
A River Runs Through It
Ellen Foster
My Family and Other Animals
1984
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
I, Robot

Early American Literature

Later American Literature

Early English Literature

The American Experience Anthology
Billy Budd

The Crucible
Huckleberry Finn
Linda Brent, Life of a Slave Girl
The Narrative of Frederick Douglas
The Night Thoreau Spent in jail
The Scarlett Letter
The Way To Rainy Mountain

Poetry of Emily Dickinson
Poetry of Walt Whitman
Death of a Salesman
Fences
The Great Gatsby
My Antonia
The Piano Lesson (film)
The Snows of Kilimajaro
The Sun Also Rises
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Beowulf
Canterbury Tales
Everyman

Grendel
Morte D'Arthur

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Marlow & Raleigh - Lyrics
Medieval Ballads and Lyrics
Sonnets of Shakespeare & Spenser

Business Communications

World Religions

Contemporary American Culture
Merchant of Venice
Death of a Salesman
Siddhartha The Things They Carried
Maus 1

Short Story Masterpieces

Advanced Prose Writing

Shakespeare

Best Short Stories of the Modern Age
Short Story Masterpieces
Reading Fiction
The Story and Its Writer
An American Childhood
Desert Solitaire
Growing Up
Lost in Translation
The Spirit Catches You When You Fall Down
Telling Writing
As You Like It
Hamlet
Henry IV
Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sonnets