Rising 2nd Graders:

Required:
Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney

Plus one book from the following list:
The Quiltmakers Journey by Jeff Brumbeau
Nature in the Neighborhood by Gordon Morrison
Second Grade Rules, Amber Brown by Paula Danziger
The Boy Who Drew Birds: Story of John James Audubon by Jacqueline Davies
First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg
Pictures from our Vacation by Lynne Perkins
My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits
The World that we Want by Kim Michelle Toft


Rising 3rd Graders:

Required:
The Journey: Stories of Migration by Cynthia Rylant

Plus one book from the following list:
Stuck on Earth by Marilyn Sadler
Now and Ben: The Modern Inventions of Ben Franklin by Gene Barretta
It can't be done, Nellie Bly! A Reporter's Race around the World by Nancy Butcher
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald Sobol
Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown and Scott Nash
Dear Peter Rabbit by Alma Flor Ada and Leslie Tryon
Science Verse by Jon Scieszka
Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Good Grief... Third Grade by Colleen McKenna


Rising 4th Graders:

Required:
North Carolina - Hello U.S.A. by Andrea Schulz
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Plus one book from the following list:
Frindle by Andrew Clements
North Carolina Native Americans by Carol Marsh
Wright Numbers by Carol Crane
After the Goat Man by Betsy Byars
The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly Cleary
History Makers Bios (biography of your choice)


Rising 5th Graders:

Required:
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Dear Children of the Earth: A Letter From Home by Schim Schimmel

Plus one book from the following list:
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
You Can Save the Planet by Jacquie Wines
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Aztec, Inca, Maya (DK Eyewitness Books) by Barry Clarke
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Landry News by Andrew Clements


Rising 6th Grade:

Required:
The Giver - Lois Lowry

Plus one book from the following list:
Catherine, Called Birdy - Karen Cushman
The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Robert C. O'Brien
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
Friedrich - Hans Peter Richter
Holes - Louis Sachar


Rising 7th Grade:

Required:
The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer

Plus one book from the following list:
Walk Two Moons - Sharon Creech
The Kite Rider - Geraldine McCaughrean
Scorpions - Walter Dean Myers
Habibi - Naomi Shihab Nye
A Single Shard - Linda Sue Park
Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah


Rising 8th Grade:

Required:
Nothing But the Truth - Avi

Plus one book from the following list:
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Code Talker - Joseph Bruchac
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Dicey's Song - Cynthia Voigt
The Pigman - Paul Zindel


Rising 9th Grade:

Required:
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
    (chapters 1, 2, and 3)


Rising 10th Grade:

Required:
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
    (chapters 3, 4, 6, 10, and 11)


Rising 11th Grade:

Required:
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest Gaines