Pace Academy Lower School Summer Reading List – 2018 For Students Entering 3rd Grade Assignment: Each student should read, or hear read, at least five books. A record of books, read or heard, should be given to your homeroom teacher during the first week of school. Consider the books on this list as suggestions for summer reading. Students may read any age appropriate book, even if it is not on the list. A blank Summer Reading Record can be printed from the L.S. Library Web site. The 2018 Caldecott Medal winner: Wolf in the Snow Written and Illustrated by: Matthew Cordell Find information about Caldecott Medal winners and Caldecott Honor books on: The Caldecott Medal Home Page Web Sites for Book Lovers: American Library Association’s Great Web Sites for Kids American Library Association’s Notable Books for Children Association for Library Service to Children Awards Esme Raji Codell: Author of How to Get Your Child to Love Reading The Georgia Children’s Book Awards Home Page James Patterson’s READKIDDOREAD.com Jon Scieszka’s GUYSREAD.com Jim Trelease: Author of The Read-a-Loud Handbook Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System Cobb County Public Library Dekalb County Library Explains why there are no feathers on a vulture's head, which bird is the deep-diving champ, what makes an owl's wings perfectly silent in flight, and much more. These lists and all links may also be found on Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the the Lower School Library Web page. Ballott Box Bandy, Michael S. Picture Books Based on the true story of one family's struggle for voting rights in the civil rights–era South, Jon Agee’s Palindromania this moving tale shines an emotional spotlight Agee, Jon on a dark facet of U.S. history. A collection of palindromes, words or phrases that read the same forward and backward, illustrated in comic strips. Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth There's a Wolf at the Door to Life Alley, Zoe B. Bang, Molly As his plans are spoiled over and over again, Colorful illustrations and text introduces the wolf keeps trying to find his dinner, in this young readers to the importance of sunlight to retelling of five well-known stories and fables. grow plants, which humans and animals Me, All Alone, At the End of the World depend on to survive. Anderson, M. T. Rules of the House A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at the Barnett, Mac End of the World until Mr. Constantine Ian always follows the rules and his sister, Shimmer, "Professional Visionary," builds an Jenny, never does but when she angers some inn and an amusement park, demanding that monsters while breaking all the rules of their tourists come and have fun without end! vacation house in the woods, Ian first runs Trombone Shorty away, then realizes there should be a rule about Andrews, Troy protecting your sister from being eaten by Hailing from the Treme neighborhood in New monsters. Orleans, Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews got The Day-Glo Brothers: The True Story of his nickname by wielding a trombone twice as Bob and Joe Switzer’s Bright Ideas and long as he was high. A prodigy, he was leading Brand New Colors his own band by age six, and today this Barton, Chris Grammy-nominated artist headlines the Illustrations and easy-to-follow text describe legendary New Orleans Jazz Fest. Andrews has how brothers Bob and Joe Switzer invented created a lively picture book autobiography fluorescent paint and colors; and explains how about how he followed his dream of becoming fluorescence works. a musician, despite the odds, until he reached The Greatest Game Ever Played: international stardom. A Football Story Thunder Birds: Bildner, Phil Nature’s Flying Predators When their beloved baseball team, the New Arnosky, Jim York Giants, moves to California, Sam and Pop switch their loyalties to the other New York !3 Giants and attend their championship game turning into one of the most important with the Baltimore Colts. reference books of all time. Papa is a Poet: A Story About Robert Frost Deep in the Sahara Bober, Natalie Cunnane, Kelly When Robert Frost was a child, his family An Arab girl of the Sahara who wants to wear thought he would grow up to be a baseball a malafa, the veiled dress worn by her mother player. Instead, he became a poet. His life on a and older sister, learns that the garment farm in New Hampshire inspired him to write represents beauty, mystery, tradition, "poetry that talked," and today he is famous for belonging, and faith. his vivid descriptions of the rural life he loved 14 Cows for America so much. There was a time, though, when Frost Deedy, Carmen Agra had to struggle to get his poetry published. Presents an illustrated tale of a gift of fourteen Told from the point of view of Lesley, Robert cows given by the Maasai people of Kenya to Frost's oldest daughter, this is the story of how the U.S. as a gesture of comfort and friendship a lover of language found his voice. in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Locomotive Floca, Brian It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America's Let it Begin Here!: April 19, 1775, the Day brand-new transcontinental railroad. These pages come alive with the details of the trip the American Revolution Began and the sounds, speed, and strength of the Brown, Don mighty locomotives; the work that keeps them Presents an account of the American moving; and the thrill of travel from plains to Revolution, a fictional hero named Flinty mountain to ocean. Whittemore, who fought the British valiantly and lived to tell the story. Instructions Soar, Elinor! Gaiman, Neil This is a beautifully illustrated edition of Neil Brown, Tami Lewis Gaiman's poem "Instructions," which guides Elinor Smith, who first flew in a "flying the reader through a magical realm. machine" when she was six, earns her aviation license at the age of sixteen in 1928, and when Ice Bears male pilots and newspapermen mock her Guiberson, Brenda Z. abilities, she performs the daring maneuver of A mother polar bear gives birth to two cubs flying under all four of New York City's East inside her snow den, and when the weather River bridges. warms she teaches them how to behave, hunt, and survive life in the arctic. The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus Bryant, Jennifer Sharing the Seasons: A Book of Poems Peter Mark Roget took his love for words and Hopkins, Lee Bennett (Selected by) turned it to organizing ideas and finding This is a delightful collection of poems and exactly the right word to express just what he illustrations about, and depicting, the changing thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually of the seasons. !4 A Foot in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing Khan, Hena and Shout Yasmeen has a wonderful time celebrating the Janeczko, Paul B. (Selected by) Muslim holy month of Ramadan with her Collects over three-dozen illustrated rhyming family and friends. poems, with tongue twisters and bilingual We Found a Hat pieces, drawn from contemporary and classic Klassen, Jon literary sources and anonymous authors. Hold on to your hats for the conclusion of the Animals by the Numbers: A Book of celebrated hat trilogy (I Want My Hat Back, Infographics 2011, and This Is Not My Hat, 2012) by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen, who gives his Jenkins, Steve Do all the insects in the world weigh more than deadpan finale a surprising new twist. all the humans? Which animal can survive What to do about Alice?: How Alice both boiling water and the vacuum of space? Roosevelt Broke the Rules, Charmed the Which animal sleeps more, a python or a bat? World, and Drove Her Father Teddy Crazy! Which animal is more dangerous: a shark or a Kerley, Barbara hippopotamus? In "Animals by Numbers," The title says it all! Steve Jenkins answers these questions and Henry’s Freedom Box many more. Facts, figures, and comparisons Levine, Ellen are explained with colorful, easy-to- A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a understand infographics and illustrations Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to Just a Second: freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate A Different Way to Look at Time from Richmond to Philadelphia. Jenkins, Steve The Busy Life of Ernestine Buckmeister Describes a series of events in the natural Lodding, Linda world to provide an exploration of how people Ernestine Buckmeister's over-achieving parents think about time. have every bit of her days filled with lessons Billy’s Booger: A Memoir and activities, but she just wants some time to Joyce, William play. Billy's wild imagination gets him into trouble Crow Call at school, but a creative writing contest could Lowry, Lois be the perfect opportunity for him to shine. Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger A Song About Myself who is her father, just returned from the war, Keats, John when he goes hunting for crows in Illustrated by Chris Rashcka Pennsylvania farmland. Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka brings John Castle: How it Works Keats's words to whimsical life in the poet's Macaulay, David only work written for children. Any in the How it Works series Every part of the castle has a function. Walls He was a naughty boy, keep the enemy out. Towers protect the lord A naughty boy was he, and the soldiers. From the moat and portcullis He would not stop at home, to the great hall and dungeon, see how a castle He could not quiet be.