Honors Reading Lists 2023-2024
The Honors Reading Program is an optional program offered to students at Perimeter School in grades 1-8. Students who choose to participate read books from a list of living books for their grade level, keep track of the titles they read, and are given recognition at the end of the school year if they read the number of books that qualifies them for “gold” or “silver” (this number varies by grade level). Click here to learn more about the heart behind this program.
Instructions for the 2023-2024 School Year:
Grades 1-2
Use this form to select books and track your student’s progress. Sign the completed form and turn it in to the Media Specialist by the first Monday in May for credit on Honors Day.
At least one book must be a family read aloud. The family read aloud may be a choice book*.
Note: New titles are added throughout the school year, so there will be books that you will not find on this list that do count for your student. Please write these titles in the blank spaces provided at the end of the list.
Note: The only books we accept from the American Girl series are published by The Pleasant Company: Felicity, Samantha, Molly, Kirsten, Addy, Josefina, Kaya, and Kit.
* A choice book is one that is on grade level or above and approved by a parent but is not necessarily on a current list. Perhaps it is a new publication or one that you as a family are recommending for consideration to the program.
Grades 3-5
Download this form to track your student’s progress. Sign the completed form and turn it in to the Media Specialist by the first Monday in May for credit on Honors Day.
You can access the lists for grades 3-5 through Destiny Discover. This site requires a username and password. If you do not have a username and password, please contact Barbara Beach. Click here to access instructions for using Destiny Discover.
Destiny Discover will have the most up-to-date lists as we add books throughout the year. You will be able to find descriptions of titles and place holds on those that you would like to check out.
Check the curriculum overview for grade level books that will be read as required reading and can not be counted.
Grades 3-5 are allowed up to two choice books* for silver and up to three choice books* for gold. At least one book must be a family read aloud. The family read aloud may be an additional choice book*.
* A choice book is one that is on grade level and approved by a parent but is not necessarily on a current list. Perhaps it is a new publication or one that you as a family are recommending for consideration to the lists.
Grades 6-8
Download the genre form or the traditional form to track your student’s progress. Sign the completed form and turn it in to the Media Specialist by the first Monday in May for credit on Honors Day.
You can access the lists for grades 6-8 through Destiny Discover. This site requires a username and password. If you do not have a username and password, please contact Barbara Beach. Click here to access instructions for using Destiny Discover.
Destiny Discover will have the most up-to-date lists as we add books throughout the year. You will be able to find descriptions of titles and place holds on those that you would like to check out.
Check the curriculum overview for grade level books that will be read as required reading and can not be counted.
Middle school students may read titles from any of the grade 6-8 lists as long as they do not count them more than once over their three years in middle school (and keep to a maximum of three books from the same author and three books from the same series per year). For example, eighth grade students may read and count titles from the sixth or seventh grade lists if they have not listed them in a previous year. However, please keep in mind that we assign titles in middle school to different grade levels based more on content than reading level.
Additionally, please note that there is a genre form and a traditional form. The genre form allows students to read books by genre. If a book meeting the genre criteria is not on our middle school lists, it can still count for your student (and does not count as a choice book*) if it is approved by a parent and on middle school grade level. The traditional form allows students to read books from the middle school lists.
For both forms, middle school students are allowed two choice books* for silver and three choice books* for gold. At least one book must be a family read aloud. The family read aloud may be an additional choice book*.
* A choice book is one that is on grade level and approved by a parent but is not necessarily on a current list. Perhaps it is a new publication or one that you as a family are recommending for consideration to the lists. For middle school students, this will be a book that is approved by a parent (or is on a middle school list) that does not fit any of the genre categories (or is in the same genre category as a book that has already been read).