Summer Reading

One World, Many Stories, All Ages Welcome! This year we are very pleased to share that Massachusetts become the 49th state to join the Collaborative Summer Library Program. Founded in 1987, the CSLP is a grassroots consortium of states working together to provide public libraries with high-quality, low-cost summer reading program materials with a unified theme. And this year's theme just may be the best one to date!

One World, Many Stories! provides us with the opportunities to explore the world right from our library. With passports ready for all who register, we will "visit" seven continents in seven weeks! Exciting reading opportunities, outstanding performers, and a variety of activities for all ages will combine to open our hearts and our minds to the world around us.

Sponsored by the Eldredge Public Library, the Friends of the EPL, the Massachusetts Regional Library Systems, the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, and the Boston Bruins, One World, Many Stories!, promises to be a fun-filled, thoughtful summer of activities and events for children, teens and families of all ages! The goals are many: to celebrate recreational reading, to build upon and reinforce the skills acquired during the school year, to foster a life-long love of books, reading, and libraries, to recognize the vital role the public library plays in communities throughout Massachusetts - and to share the summer days with you and your family! One World, Many Stories! highlights the extraordinary ability of books and libraries to transport us to new and exciting places and to explore topics both fresh and familiar, real or imagined... and all you need is a library card!

Chatham Public Schools' Summer Reading List

Grade Five Summer Reading - Chatham Middle School

Select a minimum of three books to read during the summer. Choose books that will interest you! Please be ready to share information about your summer reading with your fifth grade class in the fall.

Please put in writing: title, author, illustrator, favorite passage

Grade Six Summer Reading - Chatham Middle School

Select a minimum of three books:

a biography of your choice, a collection of poetry of your choice, and one book chosen from the list below:

Missing May by Cynthia Rylant

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

The Summer of the Swans by Betsy Byars

A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck

A View from Saturday by E.L. Konigsburg

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Loser by Jerry Spinelli

The Art of Keeping Cool by Janet Taylor Lisle

What a Great Idea! Inventions that Changed the World by Stephen M. Tomacek

You may wish to read these with a friend, a parent, or even form a book club. Take notes on each book you read. Your notes should reflect your thoughts, questions, and observations. These notes are to be handed to your teacher the first week of school. In addition, during the first weeks of school, there will be an assessment activity based upon your summer reading. We invite and encourage you to read more than that which is required.