Monday, May 25, 2009
Summer Reading
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Grades 3-5 Reading List
Summer Reading List -- Intermediate
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by Jan Slepian
ISBN: 039923747X
Book Description:
Four preteen outcasts, two of them handicapped, learn lessons in courage and perseverance when they join forces to build a boat. A Book of Coupons
by Susie Morgenstern
ISBN: 0670899704
Book Description: The last thing students expect when they go back to school is for their new teacher to be old! And then he gives them a goofy present – a book of coupons: one coupon for skipping school for a day; one coupon for not listening in class; one coupon for singing at the top of your lungs whenever you like. The list goes on!
Bug Muldoon: The Garden of Fear
by Paul Shipton
ISBN: 067089687X
Book Description: Something strange is going on in the garden and Bug Muldoon, beetle private investigator, tries to figure out how the ants and the wasps are involved.
Callahan Cousins: Summer Begins
by Elizabeth Doyle Carey
ISBN: 0316736902
Book Description: This exciting, new book introduces four engaging Callahan cousins. The girls find plenty of lessons and adventures while spending the summer with their grandmother on Gull Island. Find teaching activities to extend the book.
Camp Confidential: Jenna's Dilemma
by Melissa J. Morgan
ISBN: 0448437384
Book Description: Jenna is determined to make camp fun this year, in spite of her parents' separation and the company of her twin brother and older sister. Find teaching activities to extend the book.
Camp Confidential: Natalie's Secret
by Melissa J. Morgan
ISBN: 0448437376
Book Description: Natalie Goode goes from life in the city to Camp Lakeview, where the secret she's been keeping might get in the way of new friendships. Find teaching activities to extend the book.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
ISBN: 0394810112
Book Description: Finding a Golden Ticket allows Charlie to fulfill his dearest wish – to have a specially conducted tour of Willie Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Chuck Close Up Close
by Jan Greenberg
ISBN: 0789426587
Book Description: A biography of the revisionist artist who achieved prominence in the late 1960s for enormous, photographically realistic, black-and-white portraits of himself and his friends.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
by Jeff Kinney
Book Description: Inspire middle-school students with this fun, online reading experience. New daily entries, full of the fictitious Greg Heffley's life mishaps and musings, will carry you through the year. Find teaching activities to extend the book.
The Demon in the Teahouse
by Dorothy Hoobler
ISBN: 0399234993
Book Description: A teen poses as a teahouse attendant to learn who is responsible for a series of fires in Japan.
First Painter
by Kathryn Lasky
ISBN: 0789425785
Book Description: First Painter is a powerful, eerily beautiful book about self-expression and who the "first" painter might have been.
F Is for Freedom
by Roni Schotter
ISBN: 0789426412
Book Description: When ten-year-old Manda interrupts a midnight delivery, she discovers her parents' involvement in the Underground Railroad and makes her own contribution to a fugitive slave's freedom.
The Fling
by Julian F. Thompson
ISBN: 0140375031
Book Description: When three high-school friends are invited to live briefly with a wealthy neighbor, their lives are changed by their relationships with a mysterious "gardener."
Frank O. Gehry: Outside In
by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan
ISBN: 0789426773
Book Description: Illustrated with color photographs of architect Gehry and his works, this thin volume is packed with details about his life, his creative process, and the planning and construction of his buildings.
Freddy the Detective
by Walter R. Brooks
ISBN: 087951809X
Book Description: Freddy the pig does some detective work in order to solve the mystery of a missing toy train.
Getting Used to the Dark: 26 Night Poems
by Susan Marie
ISBN: 0789424681
Book Description: The mysteries, surprises, and delights of the night are celebrated here in evocative style and variety. The poems are ideal for reading aloud and for encouraging children to see into the dark newly for themselves – perhaps in poems of their own making.
The Ghost Sitter
by Peni R. Griffin
ISBN: 0525466762
Book Description: Charlotte is looking forward to a great summer in her new home, despite her many baby-sitting duties. Gradually Charlotte realizes her all-too-normal house is haunted by the ghost of a girl who doesn't – or won't – realize that she's dead.
A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
ISBN: 0531095398
Book Description: After the death of her mother, Nhamo is left a slave in her small African village. Upon learning that by her 12th birthday she must marry a cruel man with three other wives, Nhamo desperately decides to run away.
The House of Wisdom
by Florence Parry Heide
ISBN: 0789425629
Book Description: Ishaq, the son of the chief translator to the Caliph of ancient Baghdad, travels the world in search of precious books and manuscripts and brings them back to the great library known as the House of Wisdom.
The Iron Ring
by Lloyd Alexander
ISBN: 0525455973
Book Description: Tamar, the young king of Sundari, loses everything in a dice game – his kingdom, his riches, and even the right to call his life his own. To make good on his debt, he sets out on a journey that leads him into a world of magic, where animals can talk, the foolish are surprisingly wise, and danger awaits.
Island of the Aunts
by Eva Ibbotson
ISBN: 0525464840
Book Description: As they get older, several sisters decide that they must kidnap children and bring them to their secluded island home to help with the work of caring for an assortment of unusual sea creatures.
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
ISBN: 0679980903
Book Description: Wonderful adventures abound after James escapes from his fearful aunts by rolling away inside a giant peach.
Letters from Rifka
by Karen Hesse
ISBN: 0805019642
Book Description: In letters to her cousin, a young Jewish girl chronicles her family's flight from Russia in 1919 and her own experiences when she must be left in Belgium temporarily when the others emigrate to America.
Lucy Dove
by Janice Del Negro
ISBN: 0789425149
Book Description: While sewing the laird's trews by moonlight in a haunted churchyard in return for a sackful of gold, an aging seamstress outwits a terrible monster.
My Side of the Mountain
by Jean Craighead George
ISBN: 0525463461
Book Description: Young Sam Gribley leaves New York City and spends a year living by himself in a remote area of the Catskill Mountains.
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog
by Gennifer Choldenko
ISBN: 0399235914
Book Description: Antonia takes refuge in lies as her seemingly perfect siblings distance themselves from her.
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
by Eleanor Coerr, Ronald Himler
ISBN: 0399205209
Book Description: Hospitalized with leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold 1,000 paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
The Secret of Platform 13
by Eva Ibbotson
ISBN: 0525459294
Book Description: Odge Gribble, a young hag, accompanies an old wizard, a gentle fey, and a giant ogre on their mission through a magical tunnel from their Island to London to rescue their King and Queen's son who had been stolen as an infant.
Stucksville
by Sheila Greenwald
ISBN: 0789426757
Book Description: While working on a project for a contest at school, fourth grader Emerald comes to appreciate her family's very small, cramped New York City apartment.
Summer of the Swans
by Betsy Byars
ISBN: 0670681903
Book Description: A teenage girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally handicapped brother gets lost.
Summer Reading Is Killing Me
by Jon Scieszka
ISBN: 0670880418
Book Description: At the beginning of summer vacation Joe, Sam, and Fred find themselves trapped inside their summer reading list, involved in a battle between good and evil characters from well-known children's books.
Sun and Spoon
by Kevin Henkes
ISBN: 0688152325
Book Description: After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.
The Thief
by Megan Whalen Turner
ISBN: 0140388346
Book Description: Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes in the adventure that takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
To Ride the Gods' Own Stallion
by Diane Lee Wilson
ISBN: 0789468026
Book Description: After being taken as a slave to Nineveh, 13-year-old Soulai finds his life intertwined with that of the son of King Ashurbanipal and a magnificent stallion, and he gets a chance to prove to himself and others that he is not a coward.
The Twenty-One Balloons
by William Paene Du Bois
ISBN: 0140320970
Book Description: Prof. William Waterman Sherman was found adrift in the Atlantic clinging to the debris of 21 balloons and all of America was rocked with curiosity.
by Ellen Raskin
ISBN: 0140386645
Book Description:
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
Grades 6-8 Reading List
Summer Reading List -- Middle
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by Cherie Bennett
ISBN: 0399233296
Book Description:
After suffering a concussion while on a class trip to a Holocaust exhibit, Nicole finds herself living the life of a Jewish teenager in Paris during the Nazi occupation. The Blue Sword
by Robin McKinley
ISBN: 0688009387
Book Description: Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.
Callahan Cousins: Summer Begins
by Elizabeth Doyle Carey
ISBN: 0316736902
Book Description: Celebrate family ties, loyalty, and the wisdom of children. Follow four preteen girls who are having the adventure of a lifetime while spending the summer with their grandmother on Gull Island. Take a look at Callahan Cousins: Summer Begins Activities.
Camp Confidential: Jenna's Dilemma
by Melissa J. Morgan
ISBN: 0448437384
Book Description: Jenna is determined to make camp fun this year, in spite of her parents' separation and the company of her twin brother and older sister. Find teaching activities to extend the book.
Camp Confidential: Natalie's Secret
by Melissa J. Morgan
ISBN: 0448437376
Book Description: Natalie Goode goes from life in the city to Camp Lakeview, where the secret she's been keeping might get in the way of new friendships. Find teaching activities to extend the book.
Dancing in Cadillac Light
by Kimberly Willis Holt
ISBN: 0399234020
Book Description: In 1968, 11-year-old Jaynell's life in the town of Moon, TX, is enlivened when her eccentric Grandpap comes to live with her family.
A Diamond in the Dust
by Carla Joinson
ISBN: 0803725116
Book Description: Despite her mother's objections and the love of an older classmate, 16-year-old Katy is determined to find a better life for herself beyond her family's poverty and sorrow in the Illinois coal mining town where they live.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
by Jeff Kinney
Book Description: Inspire middle-school students with this fun, online reading experience. New daily entries, full of the fictitious Greg Heffley's life mishaps and musings, will carry you through the year. Find teaching activities to extend the book.
Empress of Elsewhere
by Theresa Nelson
ISBN: 0789424983
Book Description: There are many mysteries behind the grandiose exterior of Grandmother Monroe's mansion, to which Jimmy and his younger sister, Mary Al, have been cajoled to baby-sit a capuchin monkey that keeps escaping – which is more than J.D. can do.
Fire Bringer
by David Clement-Davies
ISBN: 0525464921
Book Description: Enjoy the retelling of the Paiute legend about the Coyote helping an Indian boy bring fire to his tribe.
Getting Near to Baby
by Audrey Couloumbis
ISBN: 039923389X
Book Description: Although 13-year-old Willa Jo and her Aunt Patty seem to be constantly at odds, staying with her and Uncle Hob helps Willa Jo and her younger sister come to terms with the death of their family's baby.
A Girl Named Disaster
by Nancy Farmer
ISBN: 0531095398
Book Description: After the death of her mother, Nhamo is left a virtual slave in her small African village. Upon learning that before her 12th birthday she must marry a cruel man with three other wives, Nhamo desperately decides to run away.
The Hermit Thrush Sings
by Susan Butler
ISBN: 0789424894
Book Description: After a natural disaster has all but destroyed the earth, the orphaned and "defective" Leora, while searching for her sister, defies the oppressive laws of the land and joins a band of rebels trying to overthrow the government.
Hope Was Here
by Joan Bauer
ISBN: 0399231420
Book Description: When 16-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, WI, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
Jake's Orphan
by Peggy Brooke
ISBN: 0789426285
Book Description: When taken from an orphanage to work on a farm in North Dakota in 1926, 12-year-old Tree searches for a home not only for himself but also for his irrepressible younger brother.
by Nancy Springer
ISBN: 0399234519
Book Description:
In a war-torn England where her half-brother Arthur will eventually become king, the young Morgan le Fay comes to realize that she has magic powers and links to the faerie world.