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Sylvan Recommended Reading List:
Summer Reading Recommendations

Elementary School

Kindergarten: Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Krause
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Grade 1: Anansi the Spider by Gerald McDermott
Cork and Fuzz by Dori Chaconas
Grade 2: The Principal's New Clothes by Stephanie Calmenson
Henry and Mudge by Sucie Stevenson and Cynthia Rylant
Grade 3: 10-Step Guide to Living With Your Monster by Laura Numeroff
Aladdin: The Magical Tale of a Boy and his Wonderful Lamp by Rosalind Kerven
Grade 4: Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
If You Lived 100 Years Ago by Ann McGovern
Grade 5: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh

Middle School

Grade 6: Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley and Keith Ward
Grade 7: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Grade 8: Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

High School

Grade 9: The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or, on the Segregation of the Queen by Laurie R. King
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Grade 10: Around the World in Eight Days by Jules Verne
Series of Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket
Grade 11: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Grade 12: Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and Pat Rogers
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

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