Community Partnerships Birmingham City Schools & Birmingham Public Library

Summer Reading List Grades PreK-5

2013

Renee Blalock, Director, Birmingham Public Library

Janine Langston, Birmingham Public Library Youth Services

Dimple J. Martin, Ph.D., Program Specialist, Reading/LA, K-5, Birmingham City Schools

Rosalyn Childress, Ed.D., Director, Elementary Instruction, Birmingham City Schools

Craig Witherspoon, Ed.D., Superintendent, Birmingham City Schools

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Reading during the summer helps children maintain and

expand the reading skills developed during the past school

year. Read lots of books aloud to your child and be sure to

choose books that your child wants to read. The library is a

great place to read and we encourage you to take your child

to the library and get him/her accustomed to the rules and

checking out books.

Happy Reading!

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Summer Reading List 2013

Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten

Title Author Genre

A to Z, Do You Ever Feel

Like Me?

Bonnie Hausman and

Sandi Fellman

Non – Fiction

Shades of Black

Sandra Pinkey

Non - Fiction

Little Bill Series

Bill Cosby

Fiction

Jamal’s Busy Day

Wade Hudson

Fiction

Barack Obama: Child of

Hope

Nikki Grimes

Non – Fiction

Animal’s Should Definitely

Not Wear Clothing

Judi Barrett

Fiction

Ten Red Apples

Pat Hutchins

Fiction

Arthur’s Off to School

Mark Brown

Fiction

My Five Senses

Aliki

Non – Fiction

Chicka, Chicka, 1,2,3

Bill Martin

Fiction

Color

Ruth Heller

Non – Fiction

Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse

Kevin Henkes

Fiction

Mama, Do You Love Me?

Barbara Joosse

Fiction

Weather Words and What

They Mean

Gail Gibbons

Non – Fiction

Knuffle Bunny

Mo Willems

Fiction

No David

David Shannon

Fiction

My Very First Mother Goose

Iona Opie

Non – Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013 Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten (continued)

Title Author Genre

Come and Play: Children of

Our World Having Fun

Ayana Lowe and Julie Collins

Poetry

Color

Ruth Heller

Non – Fiction

The Story of Martin Luther

King Jr.

Johnny Ray Moore

Non – Fiction

Alphabet Adventure

Audrey Wood

Non – Fiction (Picture)

Bark George

Jules Feiffer

Fiction (Picture & Bookflix)

Bats at the Library

Brian Liles

Fiction (Picture)

Bear Snores On

Karma Wilson

Fiction (Picture & Bookflix)

Book, Book, Book

Deborah Bruss

Fiction (Picture)

Brown Bear Brown Bear

What Do You See?

Bill Martin

Fiction (Picture)

Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom

Bill Martin

Fiction (Picture & Bookflix)

Click, Clack, Moo: Cows

That Type

Doreen Cronin

Fiction (Picture & Bookflix)

Corduroy

Don Freeman

Fiction (Picture)

Curious George

H. A. Rey

Fiction (Picture)

The Dot

Peter Reynolds

Fiction (Picture)

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Summer Reading List 2013 Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten (continued)

Title Author Genre Duck and Goose Tad Hills Fiction (Picture)

Froggy Goes to School

Jonathan London

Fiction (Picture)

How Do Dinosaurs Say Good

Night?

Jane Yolen

Fiction (Picture & Bookflix)

I Can Read With My Eyes

Shut

Dr. Seuss

Fiction (Reader)

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Laura Numeroff

Fiction (Picture)

In the Small, Small Pond

Denise Fleming

Fiction (Picture & Bookflix)

It Looked Like Spilt Milk

Charles Green Shaw

Fiction ( Picture)

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

Simms Taback

Fiction (Picture & Bookflix)

Leo the Late Bloomer

Robert Kraus

Fiction (Picture)

The Lion and the Mouse

Jerry Pinkney

Fable (Non-fiction)

Little Beauty

Anthony Browne

Fiction (Picture)

The Little Engine That Could

Watty Piper

Fiction (Picture)

Lola at the Library

Anna McQuinn

Fiction (Picture)

Look Out Kindergarten, Here

I Come

Nancy Carlson

Fiction (Picture)

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready

for Kindergarten

Joseph Slate

Fiction (Picture)

Mouse Shapes

Ellen Stoll Walsh

Fiction (Picture)

The Napping House

Audrey Wood

Fiction (Picture)

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Summer Reading List 2013 Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten (continued)

Title Author Genre Off to School Baby Duck Amy Hest Fiction (Picture)

Officer Buckle and Gloria

Peggy Rathmann

Fiction (Picture)

Planting a Rainbow

Lois Ehlert

Fiction (Picture & Bookflix)

The Pout Pout Fish

Deborah Diesen

Fiction (Picture)

Raising Dragons

Jerdine Nolen

Fiction (Picture)

The Runaway Bunny

Margaret Wise Brown

Fiction (Picture)

The Snowy Day

Ezra Jack Keats

Fiction (Picture & Bookflix)

The Story of Ferdinand

Muno Leaf

Fiction (Picture)

There’s an Alligator Under

My Bed

Mercer Mayer

Fiction (Picture)

A Visitor for Bear

Bonny Becker

Fiction (Picture)

Wemberly Worried

Kevin Henkes

Fiction (Picture)

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Summer Reading List 2013

First Grade

Title Author Genre About the Ocean Sindy McKay Non – Fiction

Possum Magic

Mem Fox

Fiction

Shelia Rae, the Brave

Kevin Henkes

Fiction

Flossie and the Fox

Patricia McKissack

Fiction

Amazing Whales!

Sarah Thomson

Non – Fiction

Did Dinosaurs Have Feathers?

Kathleen Zoehfeld

Non – Fiction

Abuela

Arthur Dorros

Fiction

Library Mouse

Daniel Kirk

Fiction

A Chair for My Mother

Vera Williams

Fiction

Chicken Soup With Rice

Maurice Sendak

Non - Fiction

Rain, Rain, Rain Forest

Guiberson, Brenda

Non – Fiction

Really Big Cats

Allan Fowler

Non – Fiction

What Do You Do With A Tail

Like This?

Steve Jenkins

Non – Fiction

Officer Buckle and Gloria

Peggy Rathman

Fiction

Pinkalicious

Victoria Kann

Fiction

The Cow Who Clucked

Denise Fleming

Fiction

What’s Inside Insects:

Sonia Whillock

Non – Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

First Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre

Almost Late to School: And

More School Poems

Carol Diggory Shield

Poetry

Diary of a Worm

Doreen Cronin

Fiction

D. W. the Big Boss

Marc Brown

Fiction

Anansi and the Moss-Covered

Rock

Eric Kimmel

Non-Fiction

Are You My Mother?

P. D. Eastman

Fiction

Arthur’s Nose

Marc Tolon Brown

Fiction

The Berenstain Bears Series

Jan and Stan Berenstain

Fiction

Biscuit

Alyssa Satin Capucilli

Fiction

Bubble-Gum Radar

Rosemary Wells

Fiction

Bugs!

Patricia and Fredrick

McKissack

Fiction

Buster Hunts for Dinosaurs

Marc Brown

Fiction

Caps for Sale

Esphyr Slobodkina

Fiction

Cassie’s Word Quilt

Faith Ringgold

Fiction

Daddy Calls Me Man

Angela Johnson

Fiction

Duke Ellington: The Piano

Prince and His Orchestra

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Non-Fiction

Elephants Cannot Dance!

Mo Willems

Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013 First Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre

Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm

Jerdine Nolen Fiction

Henny Penny

Paul Galdone

Non-Fiction

Hi, Fly Guy!

Tedd Arnold

Fiction

I Like Things

Margaret Hillert

Fiction

In The Tall, Tall Grass

Denise Fleming

Fiction

Just Saving My Money

Mercer Mayer

Fiction

Max Found Two Sticks

Brian Pinkney

Fiction

Mike Mulligan and His Steam

Shovel

Lee Burton

Fiction

Morris and Boris at the Circus

Bernard Wiseman

Fiction

My Five Senses

Aliki

Non – Fiction

Nate the Great

Marjorie Sharma

Fiction

Rap a Tap Tap

Leon Dillon

Fiction

Shortcut

Donald Crews

Fiction

Sleeping Cutie

Andrea Davis Pinkney

Fiction

Stan the Hot Dog Man

Ethel and Leonard Kessler

Fiction

Ten Apples Up On Top!

Theo LeSieg (Dr. Seuss)

Fiction

The Very Busy Spider

Eric Carle

Fiction

Where The Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

Fiction

Where’s Spot?

Eric Hill

Fiction

Working Cotton

Sherley Anne Williams

Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013 Second Grade

Title Author Genre Amelia Bedelia (series) Peggy Parish Fiction

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in

People’s Ears

Verna Aardema

Folktale

Stellaluna

Janell Cannon

Fiction

Eating Fractions

Bruce McMillan

Non – Fiction

Recycle Every Day

Nancy Wallace

Non – Fiction

Planet Earth

Peter Murray

Non – Fiction

Oh the Things You Can Do

That Are Good for You!: All

About Staying Healthy

Tish Rabe

Non – Fiction

Tar Beach

Faith Ringgold

Fiction

Flat Stanley

Jeff Brown

Fiction

The Relatives Came

Cynthia Rylant

Fiction

Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters

John Steptoe

Folktale

Amazing Grace

Mary Hoffman

Fiction

Little Sister is Not My Name

Sharon Draper

Fiction

Actual Size

Steve Jenkins

Non – Fiction

A Pizza the Size of the Sun

Jack Prelutsky

Poetry

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Summer Reading List 2013 Second Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre George Washington’s Teeth Chandra Camora

Non – Fiction

Bigfoot Cinderella

Tony Johnston

Fiction

It’s Disgusting And We Ate

It!: True Food Facts From

Around the World and

Throughout History

James Solheim

Non – Fiction

Sneakers the Seaside Cat

Margaret Wise Brown

Fiction

My Librarian is A Camel:

How Books Are Brought to

Children Around the World

Margriet Ruurs

Non – Fiction

26 Fairmount Avenue

Tomie DePaola

Non-Fiction

Abe Lincoln’s Hat

Martha Brenner

Non-Fiction

Almost Zero: A Dyamonde

Daniel Book

Nikki Grimes

Fiction

Amy Hodge Podge: Happy

Birthday to Me

Kim Wayans

Fiction

Arthur Lost in the museum

Marc Brown

Fiction

Beautiful Blackbird

Ashley Bryan

Non-Fiction

Cloudy with A Chance of

Meatballs

Judi Barrett

Fiction

Coming on Home Soon

Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013 Second Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre Dewey: There’s a Cat in the

Library!

Vicki Myron Non-Fiction

The Drinking Gourd: A Story

of the Underground Railroad

F. N. Monjo

Fiction

The Dumb Bunnies

Dav Pilkey

Fiction

First Family

Deborah Hopkinson

Non-Fiction

Friends Forever

Sally Grindley

Fiction

Frog and Toad Are Friends

Arnold Lobel

Fiction

Fox in Socks

Dr. Seuss

Fiction

The High-Rise Private Eyes:

The Case of the Baffled Bear

Cynthia Rylant

Fiction

How to Train With a T. Rex

and Win 8 Gold Medals

Michael Phelps

Non-Fiction

It’s Justin Time, Amber

Brown

Paula Danziger

Fiction

Library Dragon

Carmen Deedy

Fiction

Make Way for Dyamonde

Daniel

Nikki Grimes

Fiction

Minnie and Moo: The Case of

the Missing Jelly Donut

Denys Cazet

Fiction

Mr. Putter and Tabby Make a

Wish

Cynthia Rylant

Fiction

Nate the Great

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013 Second Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre One Giant Leap Robert Burleigh Non-Fiction

Pecan Pie Baby

Jacqueline Woodson

Fiction

Piggy’s Pancake Parlor

David McPhail

Fiction

Sassy: The Dazzle Disaster

Dinner Party

Sharon Draper

Fiction

Sassy: The Silver Secret

Sharon Draper

Fiction

Smoky Nights

Eve Bunting

Fiction

Stories Julian Tells

Ann Cameron

Fiction

Sweet Clara and the Freedom

Quilt

Deborah Hopkinson

Fiction

Time of Wonder

Robert McCloskey

Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Third Grade

Title Author Genre Where Birds Nest in the City Barbara Bash Nonfiction

Insectiopedia Douglas Florian Poetry

Skinny Bones Barbara Park Fiction

Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet,

Slave

Laban Carrick Hill

Biography

Bridges Are to Cross Philemon Sturges Nonfiction

Thee Moon Seems to Change Franklyn Branley Nonfiction

The Great Good Thing Roderick Townley Fairy Tales

A Sick Day For Amos

MeGhee

Phillip C. Stead

Fiction

Black is Brown is Tan Arnold Adoff Poetry

Interrupting Chicken David Ezra Stein Fiction

Chuck Close Up Close Jan & Jordan Greenberg Biography

Jimi Sounds Like a Rainbow Javaka Steptoe Fiction

If the World Were A Village:

A Book About World People

David J. Smith

Nonfiction

Grandma’s Gift Eric Velasquez Fiction

Dear Primo: Letter to My

Cousin

Dunson Tonatiuh

Fiction

Gathering Sparks Howard Schwartz Fiction

A Hippopotamus”t: And Other

Animal Poems

J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry

A Harvest of Color Melanie Eclare Nonfiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Third Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre Animals in Motion: How

Animals Swim, Jump, Slither

and Glide

Pamela Hickman

Nonfiction

Anna, Grandpa, and The Big

Storm

Carla Stevens

Fiction

A Drop of Water Walter Wick Nonfiction

Chocolate Fever Robert Smith Fiction

I Was A Third Grade Science

Project

Mary J. Auch

Fiction

My Man Blue Nikki Grimes Nonfiction

The Jump at the Sun Treasury Hyperion Books Anthology

The Problems with Chicken Bruce McMillian Fiction

Wait Till The Moon Is Full Margaret Wise Brown Fiction

The Little Island Margaret Wise Brown Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Third Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre Abby Takes a Stand Patricia McKissack Fiction

Abe Lincoln at Last! Mary Pope Osbonrne Fiction

Abiyoyo Pete Seger Fiction

Amazing Grace Mary Hoffman Fiction

Amber Brown is Not a Crayon Paula Danzinger Fiction

Amelia's Notebook Marissa Moss Fiction

As Far as I Can See: Meg's

Prairie Diary

Kate McMullan Fiction

Big Moon Tortilla Joy Cowley Fiction

Chocolate Touch Patrick Catling Fiction

Bunnicula (series) James Howe Fiction

Charlotte's Web E.B. White Fiction

Clementine (series) Sara Pennypacker Fiction

Courage of Sarah Noble Alice Dalgleish Fiction

Dragon Slayers Academy Kate McMullan Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Third Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre Eggs Jerry Spinelli Fiction

Encyclopedia Brown (series) Donald Sobol Fiction

Friend or Fiend? Judy Blume Fiction

Fudge-A-Mania b Judy Blume Fiction

Get Rich Quick Club Dan Gutman Fiction

Grandfather’s Journey Allen Say Fiction

Henry and Beezuz Beverly Cleary Fiction

Henry and Rigsby Beverly Cleary Fiction

Horrible Harry (series) Suzy Kline Fiction

Judy Moody, Girl Detective Megan McDonald Fiction

Magic School Bus (series) Joanna Cole Non Fiction

Marvin Redpost (series) Louis Sacher Fiction

Math Curse John Scieszka Non Fiction

Odd Boy Out Don Brown Non Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Third Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre The Other Side Jacqueline Woodson Fiction

Runny Babbit Shel Silverstein Non Fiction

Sarah, Plain and Tall Patricia MacLachlan Fiction

Shoeshine Girl Clyde Bulla Fiction

So You Want to Be President? Judith St. George Non Fiction

Spiderwick Chronicles Holly Black Fiction

Squids Will Be Squids John Scieszka Fiction

Summer Reading is Killing

Me

Jon Scieszka Fiction

The Broken Bike Boy and the

Queen of 33rd Street

Sharon Flake Fiction

The Littles (series) John Peterson Fiction

The Miraculous Journey of

Edward Tulane

Kate DiCamillo Fiction

Through My Eyes Ruby Bridges Non Fiction

Tonight on the Titanic Mary Pope Osborne Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Fourth Grade

Title Author Genre Turtles in Paradise Jennifer Holm Fiction

Moon Over Manifest Clare Vanderpool Mystery

Turtle In Paradise Jennifer L. Holm Fiction

One Crazy Summer Rita Williams Garcia Fiction

Ninth Ward Jewel Parker Rhodes Fiction

Solomon Snow and the Silver

Spoon

Kaye Umansky

Fiction

Birthday Room Kevin Henekes Fiction

The Wild Soccer Bunch Joachin Masannech Fiction

Dark Emperor and other

Poems of the Night

Joyce Sidman

Poetry

Hereville: How Murka Got

Her Sword

Barry Deutsch

Fiction

Backyard Detective: Critters

Up Close

Nic Bishop

Non-Fiction

The History of Jazz Sandy Asirvatham Biography

How Basketball Works Kelite Thomas Non-Fiction

The White Giraffe Lauren St. John Fiction

Strawberry Girl Lois Lenski Fiction

Magic Pickle Scott Morse Fiction

Our National Treasures Kate Tropie Non-Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Fourth Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre Knights of the Lunch Table Frank Cammuso Fiction

Ghost Sitter Peni R. Griffin Fiction

Beating the Drum Alison Brownlie Non-Fiction

Snow Treasure Marie McSwigan Fiction

The Song Shoots Out of My

Mouth

Jamie Adoff

Poetry

Pink and Say Patricia Polacco Non-Fiction

Knock at a Star: X J &Dorothy Kennedy Poetry

Miracles on Maple Hill Virginia Sorensen Fiction

Hurricane Force; In the Path

of America’s Deadliest Storms

Joseph B. Treaster

Non-Fiction

We Were There, Too! Young

People in U.S. History

Phillip Hoose Biography

Giants of the Land, Sea and

Air, Past and Present

David Peters Non-Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Fourth Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre Babe: The Gallant Pig Dick King-Smith Fiction

Back Home Gloria Jean Pinkney Fiction

César: sí, se puede! = yes, we

can!

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand Non Fiction

Charlie and the Chocolate

Factory

Roald Dahl Fiction

Dad, Jackie, and Me Myron Uhlberg Fiction

The Dark Stairs: a Herculeah

Jones Mystery

Betsy Byars Fiction

Diary of a Wimpy Kid series Jeff Kinney Fiction

Elijah of Buxton Christopher Paul Curtis Fiction

Ella Enchanted Gail Carson Levine Fiction

Fly High!: the story of Bessie

Coleman

Louise Borden and Mary Kay

Kroeger

Non Fiction

From the Mixed-Up Files of

Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

E.L. Konigsburg Fiction

The Grapes of Math: Mind

Stretching Math Riddles

Greg Tang Non Fiction

The House of Dies Drear) Virginia Hamilton Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Fourth Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes Fiction

The Mouse and the

Motorcycle

Beverly Cleary Fiction

Mr. Popper’s Penguins Richard and Florence Atwater Fiction

Mrs. Frisby and the rats of

NIMH

Robert C. O’Brien Fiction

Nim’s Island Wendy Orr Fiction

Poppy Avi Fiction

Shiloh Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Fiction

Tales of a Fourth Grade

Nothing

Judy Blume Fiction

When Marian Sang: The True

Recital of Marian Anderson:

the Voice of a Century

Pam Muñoz Ryan Non Fiction

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls Fiction

Wingwalker

Rosemary Wells Fiction

Ziggy and the Black

Dinosaurs series

Sharon M. Draper Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Fifth Grade

Title Author Genre Alice in-between Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Fiction

Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbitt Fiction

The Black Stallion Walter Farley Fiction

Blues Journey Walter Dean Myers Non-Fiction

The Cay The Cay by Theodore Taylor

(Fiction)

Fiction

The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau Fiction

Fire from the Rock Sharon M. Draper Fiction

Frindle Andrew Clements Fiction

Glitter Girls and the Great

Fake Out

Meg Cabot Fiction

Granny Torrelli makes Soup Sharon Creech Fiction

Here Lies the Librarian Richard Peck Fiction

The Journal of Biddy Owens:

the Negro League

Walter Dean Myers Fiction

Many Thousand Gone:

African Americans from

Slavery to Freedom

Virginia Hamilton Non Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Fifth Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre A Negro League Scrapbook Carole Boston Weatherford Non-Fiction

Number the Stars Lois Lowry Fiction

Peter and the Starcatchers David Berry Fiction

Redwall Brian Jacques Fiction

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Mildred D. Taylor Fiction

Scorpia Rising Anthony Horowitz Fiction

Sounder William Howard Armstrong Fiction

The Tale of Despereaux Kate DiCamillo

Fiction

The Thief Lord Cornelia Funke Fiction

Toussaint L'Ouverture : the

Fight for Haiti's

Walter Dean Myers Non Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Fifth Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre January’s Sparrow Scott O’Dell Fiction

Departure Time Truus Matti Fiction

Throne of Fire

( The Kane Chronicles)

Rick Rioradan

Myth

Dead End in Novelt Jack Gantos Historical Fiction

Inside Out and Back Again Thanhha Lai Fiction

Chains Laurie Halse Anderson Fiction

Words of Stones Kevin Henkes Fiction

The Trouble with Half Moon Danette Vigilante Fiction

Saint Louis Armstrong Beach Brenda Woods Fiction

Heart of a Samurai Margi Preus Fiction

Dark Emperor and other

Poems of the Night

Joyce Sidman

Poetry

The Dreamer Pam Munoz Fiction

The Wild Soccer Bunch Joachim Masannech Fiction

Hatchet Gray Paulsen Fiction

Backyard Detective: Critters

Up Close

Nic Bishop

Non-Fiction

The Blue Dolphin Song Lauren St. John Non-Fiction

Paddle to the Sea Holling C Hollings Fiction

The Moffats Eleanor Estes Fiction

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Summer Reading List 2013

Fifth Grade (continued)

Title Author Genre The Red Pyramid Rick Riordan Folk Tales and Myth

Our National Treasures Kate Tropie Non-Fiction

Dragon Slippers Jessia Day George Fiction

Beating the Drum Alison Brownlie Non-Fiction

Miracles on Maple Hill Virginia Sorensen Fiction

Ginger Pye Eleanor Estes Fiction

A Long Walk to Water Linda Sue Parks Fiction

The Song Shoots Out of My

Mouth

Jamie Adoff

Poetry

Number of Stars Lois Lowey Fiction

Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O’Dell Fiction

Knock at a Star: X J &Dorothy Kennedy Poetry

Volcanoes Seymour Simon Non-Fiction

Hurricane Force; In the Path

of America’s Deadliest Storms

Joseph B. Treaster

Non-Fiction

Natural Disasters Claire Watts Non-Fiction