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. works as an enemy army tries to storm the Night of the Moon walls. !5 My Name is Bilal who followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mobin-Udin, Asma words of peaceful protest and dared to sit at When Bilal and his sister transfer to a school the "whites only" Woolworth's lunch counter. where they are the only Muslims, they must Brian Pinkney embraces a new artistic style, learn how to fit in while staying true to their creating expressive paintings filled with beliefs and heritage. emotion that mirror the hope, strength, and determination that fueled the dreams of not Heart and Soul: The Story of America and only these four young men, but also countless African Americans others. Nelson, Kadir Told through the unique point of view and intimate voice of a one-hundred-year-old African-American female narrator, this inspiring book demonstrates that in gaining their freedom and equal rights, African Americans helped our country achieve its promise of liberty and justice-the true heart Tucky Jo and Little Heart and soul of our nation. Polacco, Patricia Bad News for Outlaws: the Remarkable Life A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux who helps him remember what he is fighting An illustrated biography of Bass Reeves, a for as he helps her and others of her village former slave who was recruited as a deputy avoid starvation, and many years later she United States marshal, based on his ability to returns his kindness. communicate with the Native Americans in the Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys area that was to become Oklahoma. Raczka, Bob A Nation’s Hope: A collection of haiku poetry for boys that The Story of Boxing Legend Joe Louis features poems about tree-climbing, kite-flying, Pena, Matt de la and other related topics. This is a beautifully illustrated introduction to Lady Liberty: A Biography the life and accomplishments of professional Rappaport, Doreen boxer Joe Louis. Presents an illustrated biography of the Statue Frank and Lucky Get Schooled of Liberty, describing who designed it and Perkins, Lynne Rae why, and how it came to become a symbol of A boy and his dog learn about each other, go to the United States. school to learn more, and then explore the The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds world around them as they study science, of Kandinsky's Abstract Art geography and even foreign languages Rosenstock, Barb together. In this exuberant celebration of creativity, Barb Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood up by Rosenstock and Mary GrandPré tell the Sitting Down fascinating story of Vasily Kandinsky, one of Pinkney, Andrea Davis the very first painters of abstract art. Andrea Davis Pinkney uses poetic, powerful Throughout his life, Kandinsky experienced prose to tell the story of these four young men, colors as sounds, and sounds as colors--and !6 bold, groundbreaking works burst forth from In search of writing ideas, an author takes a his noisy paint box. walk with his dog around the neighborhood. Battle Bunny “This book will reward readers receptive to the Scieszka, Jon notion that the world speaks to those who Alex, whose birthday it is, hijacks a story about listen.” Horn Book Guide starred (Spring 2017) Birthday Bunny on his special day and turns it Henry Aaron’s Dream into a battle between a supervillain and his Tavares, Matt enemies in the forest--who, in the original A biography of Henry Aaron's young life--from story, are simply planning a surprise party. his sandlot days through his time in the Negro Coretta Scott Leagues to the day he played his first spring Shange, Ntozake training game for the Braves. An illustrated biography of Coretta Scott King, Freedom in Congo Square describing her childhood in the segregated Weatherford, Carole Boston South, her marriage to Martin Luther King, Jr., This poetic, nonfiction story about a little- and her civil rights work. known piece of African American history Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature’s Survivors captures a human's capacity to find hope and Sidman, Joyce joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates Collects poems that examine survival in how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly nature, and includes information about a freedom's heart. number of plants and animals. Art & Max Destination: Mars Wiesner, David Simon, Seymour Max wants to be an artist like Arthur, but his Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon first attempt at using a paintbrush sends the explores the Red Planet through fascinating two friends on a whirlwind trip through facts and amazing full-color photographs. various media with unexpected consequences. Mirror, Mirror: A Book of Reversible Verse Mr. Wuffles Singer, Marilyn Wiesner, David A collection of short poems which, when Mr. Wuffles ignores all of his cat toys but one, which turns out to be a spaceship piloted by small reversed, provide new perspectives on the green aliens. When Mr. Wuffles plays rough with fairy tale characters they feature. the little ship, the aliens must venture into the cat's Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First territory to make emergency repairs. Computer Programmer Stanley, Diane A hundred years before the dawn of the digital age, Ada Lovelace envisioned the computer- The Thank You Book driven world we know today. And in demonstrating how the machine would be Willems, Mo In this last book of the series, Piggie is determined coded, she wrote the first computer program. to thank everyone she knows, but Gerald thinks she She would go down in history as Ada will forget someone… someone important. Lovelace, the first computer programmer. Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Ideas Are All Around Voting Rights Act of 1965 Stead, Philip C. Winter, Jonah

!7 As an elderly woman, Lillian recalls that her great- Any in the series great-grandparents were sold as slaves in front of a Barrows, Annie courthouse where only rich white men were allowed Bean wasn't interested in making friends with to vote, then the long fight that led to her right--and Ivy, the new girl across the street, until she determination--to cast her ballot since the Voting Rights Act gave every American the right to vote. plays a trick on her sister and needs a place to hide out. Malcolm at Midnight Beck, W. H. Chapter Books When Malcolm the rat arrives as the pet at McKenna School, he revels in the attention. He also meets the Midnight Academy, a secret What Color Is My World?: The Lost History society of classroom pets that keeps the nutters of African-American Inventors (kids) safe. There's just one problem…rats have Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem a terrible reputation! So when the Academy's While twins Ella and Herbie help Mr. Midal iguana leader is kidnapped, Malcolm must work on their new home, he tells them about prove his innocence—and that even rats can be such inventors as Granville Woods, Dr. Henry good guys. T. Sampson, and James West, giving them a Pain and the Great One new view of their heritage as African- Any in the series Americans. Blume, Judy The True Blue Scouts of Sugarman Swamp When an eight-year-old girl and her six-year- Appelt, Kathi old brother take turns describing each other, Raccoon brothers Bingo and J'miah are the it's no surprise that "The Pain" and "The Great newest recruits of the Official Sugar Man One" are the nicknames that emerge. As this Swamp Scouts. The opportunity to serve the duo debates whom Mom and Dad love most, Sugar Man is an honor, and also a big their competition becomes increasingly responsibility, since the rest of the swamp humorous—because when it comes to family critters rely heavily on the intel of these affection, there's no such thing as win or lose. hardworking Scouts. A Bear Called Paddington Crenshaw Bond, Michael Applegate, Katherine Life is never the same for the Brown family This is the story of a homeless boy, his family after they bring adventurous Paddington Bear and his imaginary friend that proves in into their home. unexpected ways that friends matter, whether She’s All That!: A Look-It-Up Guide to the real or imaginary. Goddesses of Mythology Ragweed From the Mythlopedia series Prequel to the Poppy the Series Bryant, Megan E. Avi Looks at what Greek goddesses would be like Poppy, a deer mouse, urges her family to move if they lived in modern times, featuring next to a field of corn big enough to feed them profiles, headshots, family trees, and other all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has information. other ideas. Bad Kitty Gets a Bath Ivy + Bean Bruel, Nick !8 Takes a humorous look at the normal way cats participating in class, starts a book club, solely bathe, why it is inappropriate for humans to to have a place to read, and discovers that real bathe that way, and the challenges of trying to life, although messy, can be as exciting as the give a cat a real bath with soap and water. stories in his favorite books. Includes fun facts, glossary, and other The Somewhat True Adventures of Sammy information. Shine Cole, Henry When Sammy Shine's plane takes off The Year of the Book unexpectedly, he ends up in a whole new Any in the series world; no longer does he live in comfort in his Cheng, Andrea shoebox in Hank's room. Now he's lost in the Follows a young Chinese American girl, as she woods, with no way to get home and a navigates relationships with family, friends, dangerous new enemy. Fortunately, a group of and her fourth-grade classroom, and finds a new friends, including a mouse, an injured true best friend. crow, a newt, and a shrew, will help him find and repair his plane so he can try to get back Clarice Bean, Utterly Me home. Any in the chapter book series Child, Lauren Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher It's not easy to concentrate at school when mysterious things are happening all around Coville, Bruce you. In fact, Clarice Bean is starting to feel just Small for his age but artistically talented, like her favorite heroine: Ruby Redfort, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly schoolgirl detective. Clarice and her utterly buys a dragon's egg. best friend, Betty Moody, are planning to ace How to Train Your Dragon their book project about Ruby and win the Cowell, Cressida class prize, until Betty disappears into thin air, Chronicles the adventures and misadventures and horrible teacher Mrs. Wilberton teams of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as Clarice up with the naughtiest boy in school. he tries to pass the important initiation test of Will her new partner ruin everything? Will his Viking clan by catching and training a Betty ever come back? And what on earth dragon. happened to the silver trophy everyone's Granny Torrelli Makes Soup hoping to win? Creech, Sharon Baseball Flyhawk With the help of her wise old grandmother, Matt Christopher Sports Library twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out Christopher, Matt some problems in her relationship with her Chico, a native of Puerto Rico and an excellent best friend, Bailey, the boy next door. swimmer, joins the Royals baseball team but Amber Brown is Not a Crayon has trouble making friends with String, the 1st in the series most popular member of the team. Danziger, Paula The Loser’s Club The year she is in the third grade is a sad time Clements, Andrew for Amber because her best friend Justin is Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in getting ready to move to a distant state. trouble for reading instead of listening and The Lemonade War !9 Davies, Jacqueline personality causes Phineas to wonder if they Evan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very have any chance of winning. differently to the news that they will be in the Who Was Rachel Carson? same class for fourth grade and, as the end of Any in the Who Was…? series summer approaches, they battle it out through Fabiny, Sarah lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical biologist and conservationist whose book Silent calculations and tips for running a successful Spring and other writings are credited with lemonade stand. advancing the global environmental Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated movement. Adventures The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop DiCamillo, Kate Elementary School A girl named Flora and a squirrel named Flemming, Candace Ulysses, whose life was saved by Flora after he An unlikely teacher takes over the disorderly was involved in an incident with a vacuum fourth-grade class of Aesop Elementary School cleaner, team up to use Ulysses' superpowers with surprising results. to conquer villains and protect the weak. Sophie Simon Solves Them All The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Graff, Lisa DiCamillo, Kate Third-grader Sophie Simon ignores her Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy parents' concerns over her lack of friends and rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated continues to focus on getting a graphing from the little girl who adores him and travels calculator so that she can study calculus on the across the country, acquiring new owners and bus to school. listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories. The 13-Story Treehouse Treehouse Series, Book 1 Griffiths, Andy Andy and Terry live in a treehouse. But it's not The Field Guide just any old treehouse, it's the most amazing The Spiderwick Chronilcles, Book 1 treehouse in the world! This treehouse has DiTerlizza, Tony thirteen stories, a bowling alley, a see-through After finding a mysterious, handmade field swimming pool, a secret underground guide in the attic of the ramshackle old laboratory, and a marshmallow machine that mansion they've just moved into, Jared; his follows you around and automatically shoots twin brother, Simon; and their older sister, marshmallows into your mouth whenever you Mallory, discover that there's a magical and are hungry. Life would be perfect for Andy and maybe dangerous world existing parallel to Terry if it weren’t for the fact that they have to our own—the world of faerie. write their next book… due tomorrow! Phineas L. MacGuire—Erupts! Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel! Any in the series Grimes, Nikki Dowell, Frances Spunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire her old neighborhood, but when she befriends is forced to team up with the new boy in class a boy named Free, another new student at on a science fair project, but the boy's quirky school, she finally starts to feel at home. !10 Coach Hyatt is a Riot boy really be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally Gutman, Dan found the secret to eternal youth? Any in the My Weird School Daze series A.J. believes his new peewee football coach is Mr. and Mrs. Bunny: Detectives crazy after she demands the team does push- Extraordinaire ups in the mud and tells them to lift up a car, Bunny (Horvath, Polly) but when she wants to put girls on the team, Middle-schooler Madeline's hippy parents A.J. thinks the coach is going too far. have been kidnapped from Hornby Island, The Get Rich Quick Club Canada, by foxes and Madeline, upon Gutman, Dan discovering that she can understand animal Summer vacation in their small Maine town languages, hires two rabbit detectives to find does not look too promising until twelve-year- them. old Gina and four of her friends make a pact to Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery become millionaires before school starts in Howe, Deborah September. Though scoffed at by Harold the dog, Chester Zita, the Spacegirl: Far From Home the cat tries to warn his human family that Book 1 their foundling baby bunny must be a vampire. Hatke, Ben Almost Super Zita rushes to the rescue after her best friend is Jensen, Marion abducted by an alien doomsday cult, and, Two brothers in a family of superheroes are before long, finds herself hailed as an forced to reexamine everything they knew intergalactic hero. about being super when the powers they Sun and Spoon receive are total duds and their enemy is revealed to be just like they are. Henkes, Kevin It had been only two months since Spoon Jenius: The Amazing Guinea Pig Gilmore's grandmother died, but already he King-Smith, Dick was worried that he would forget her. That's Eight-year-old Judy tries to convince her why he needed something of Gram's - parents and classmates that her brilliant guinea something special that had belonged to her, pig can do all the tricks that she says it can. something to remember her by. Dying to Meet You Babymouse: Queen of the World #1 43 Old Cemetery Road, Book 1 Any in the series Klise, Kate Holm, Jennifer L. In this story told mostly through letters, An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets of the world, but will settle for an invitation to more than he bargained for when he rents a the most popular girl's slumber party. quiet place to write for the summer. The Fourteenth Goldfish The Boy Who Invented TV: The Story of Holm, Jennifer L. Philo Farnsworth Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. Krull, Kathleen She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best Presents a picture-book biography of Philo friend. She even misses her dearly departed Farnsworth, who created the world's first goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows television image in 1928. up. He's bossy. He's cranky. Could this pimply !11 Volcano: The Eruption and Healing of Mount James Madison, when they celebrate St. Helens Presidents' Day at school. Lauber, Patricia The New Kid at School An account of how and why Mount St. Helens Dragon Slayers’ Academy, Book 1 erupted in May 1980 and the destruction it McMullan, Kate caused, and a discussion of the return of life to Wiglaf is off to Dragon Slayers' Academy and in for that area. a first day of school he will never forget. Elvis and the Underdogs The Adventures of Sir Lancelot, the Great Lee, Jenny Knight’s Tales, Book 1 All of his life Benji, now ten, has been sickly and he Morris, Gerald has long been targeted by the school bully, but after Many years ago, the storytellers say, the great King a seizure Benji gets a therapy dog that is not only Arthur brought justice to England with the help of big enough to protect him, it can also talk. his gallant Knights of the Round Table. Of these The Year of the Dog worthy knights, there was never one so fearless, so Lin, Grace chivalrous, so honorable, so…shiny as the dashing Sir Lancelot, who was quite good at defending the Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for helpless and protecting the weak, just as long as anything, a young Taiwanese American girl he'd had his afternoon nap. Behold the very exciting sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese and very funny adventures of Lancelot the Great, as Year of the Dog, those of making best friends only acclaimed Arthurian author Gerald Morris can and finding oneself, to her own life. tell them. Alvin Ho: Allergic to Camping, Hiking, and Other Natural Disasters Sequel The Trouble with Ants Look, Lenore The Nora Notebooks, Book 1 Alvin makes a new friend and learns that he Mills, Claudia can be brave despite his fear of everything Science-obsessed fourth grader Nora wants to be when his father takes him camping, hoping to like her scientist family and publish a professional instill a love of nature like that of their research paper on her favorite subject: her ant farm! hometown hero, Henry David Thoreau. Season of the Sandstorms The Doll People Any in the Magic Tree House series Martin, Ann M. Osborne, Mary Pope A family of porcelain dolls that has lived in the Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie same house for one hundred years is taken travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission to help aback when a new family of plastic dolls the Caliph disseminate wisdom to the world. arrives and doesn't follow The Doll Code of The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester Honor. O’Connor, Barbara Stink, the Incredible Shrinking Kid An amazing secret has tumbled off a freight st 1 in the Stink series train into Carter, Georgia, and Owen Jester is McDonald, Megan the only person who knows about it. If he can The shortest kid in the second grade, James simply manage to evade his grandfather's Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about snappish housekeeper, organize his two best the shortest president of the United States, friends, and keep his nosy neighbor, Viola, at bay, he just might be in for the summer of a !12 lifetime. With her trademark wit and easy the electrical sparks. By the time he was a charm, Barbara O'Connor spins a fantastic teenager, he had made a vow: Someday I will fable of friends, enemies, and superbly slimy turn the power of Niagara Falls into electricity. bullfrogs. Here is the story of the ambitious young man Waylon: One Awesome Thing who brought life-changing ideas to America, Pennypacker, Sara despite the obstructive efforts of his hero- Waylon has lots of ideas for making life more turned-rival, Thomas Edison. awesome through science, like teleportation, Sideways Stories from the Wayside School human gills, and attracting cupcakes by Sachar, Louis controlling gravity. But it's impossible for him This book contains humorous episodes from to concentrate on his inventions when he's the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside experiencing his own personal Big Bang. School, which was accidentally built sideways Nuts to You with one classroom on each story. Perkins, Lynn Rae Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? After surviving being carried off by a hawk, a Sachar, Louis young squirrel resolves to find his way home, Red-haired Marvin is convinced that the reason as his best friends begin their search for him. he looks different from the rest of his family is Big Nate: In a Class by Himself that he is really the lost prince of Shampoon. Pierce, Lincoln Sidekicks Any in the series Santat, Dan Supremely confident middle school student Captain Amazing tries to hire a new sidekick Nate Wright manages to make getting when he feels he is getting too old to be a detention from every one of his teachers in the reliable superhero, but his pets have different same day seem like an achievement. ideas. My Dog May Be a Genius: Poems Top 25 Soccer Skills, Tips, and Tricks Prelutsky, Jack Savage, Jeff A collection of poems by children's poet Discusses soccer skills, with techniques for laureate Jack Prelutsky that celebrate the joys controlling the ball, passing, shooting, and of childhood and the wackier side of life. defending, and provides tips and tricks for young players from the pros. Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor Mesmerized: How Ben Franklin Solved a Scieszka, Jon In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child Mystery that Baffled All of France, genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot Rockcliff, Mara that can learn on its own, and after an accident Discover how Benjamin Franklin's scientific brings wisecracking Klink and overly method challenged a certain Dr. Mesmer's expressive Klank to life, they set about helping mysterious powers in a whimsical look at a Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor. true moment in history. Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit up Heroes and Villians the World Scieszka, Jon (Edited by) Rusch, Elizabeth Guys Read Library of Great Reading When a Serbian boy named Nikola Tesla was three, he stroked his cat and was enchanted by !13 Heroes and Villains, the seventh volume in Jon Fone meets a young girl named Thorn. The Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great chapters in this book were originally published Reading, is chock-full of adventure featuring in the comic book Bone. an array of characters—with and without capes. The Night Fairy Schlitz, Laura Amy The Adventures of Nanny Piggins When Flory the night fairy's wings are Spratt, R.A. accidentally broken and she cannot fly, she has Nanny Piggins answers stingy Mr. Green's ad to learn to do everything differently. for a nanny and takes on his three children, The Houdini Box filling their days with fun, adventure, sweets, Selznick, Brian and love. A chance encounter with Harry Houdini leaves Shake, Rattle & Turn That Noise Down!: a small boy in possession of a mysterious box-- How Elvis Changed Music, Me, and Mom one that might hold the secrets to the greatest Stamaty, Mark Alan magic tricks ever performed. Mark Stamaty recounts how the music of Elvis The Invention of Hugo Cabret: Presley changed his life and how his mother A Novel in Words and Pictures did not appreciate his love for rock and roll Selznick, Brian until his performance at a Boy Scout talent When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living show helps her see Mark's passion for music. and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris Adventures in Cartooning train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy Sturm, James seller and his goddaughter, his undercover life Uses a story about a magical elf who helps a and his biggest secret are jeopardized. princess learn how to draw a comic to present Henry Knox: Bookseller, Soldier, Patriot techniques for and advice about drawing Silvey, Anita comics. Illustrations and text describe bookseller The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 Henry Knox's experiences during the The I Survived series American Revolution, detailing his plan to Tarshis, Lauren bring heavy artillery from Boston to aid Fort Ten-year-old George Calder's life changes Ticonderoga and its success. forever as he, his little sister, Phoebe, and their Appleblossom the Possum Aunt Daisy set out across the ocean on the Sloan, Holly Goldberg "Titanic" in 1912. A young possum strikes out on her own and Justin Case: School, Drool, and Other winds up trapped in a human house before her Disasters brothers can rescue her. Vail, Rachel Bone. 1, Out from Boneville Justin is very nervous about starting third Smith, Jeff grade and must make the best of things when Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are he does not get the teacher he wanted, his best run out of their home, Boneville, and become friend is in another class, and his favorite separated in the wilds, but better fortune stuffed animal disappears. begins when the three cousins reunite at a Dragonbreath farmstead in a deep forested valley, where !14 Any in the series Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from Vernon, Ursula being shunned to everyone's best friend when Danny Dragonbreath is the only mythical his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese creature at a school filled with reptiles and into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a amphibians. He can't breathe fire like normal popular television talent show, but he soon dragon. The school bully keeps stealing his learns the perils of being a celebrity--and lunch. Now, Danny has to rewrite his report having a neighbor girl as his manager. about the ocean and use, ahem, actual research. Hilo: The Boy Who crashed to Earth His loyal but nerdy best friend Wendell Book 1 suggests the library. But Danny has a way Winick, Judd better plan. When a mysterious boy falls from the sky, friends D.J. and Gina must discover the secrets of his identity and help him save the world. Secret Coders Yang, Gene Luen Book one of the series Curveball Welcome to Stately Academy, a school that is Winning Season series just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and Wallace, Rich Seventh-grade baseball player Eddie Ventura puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. listens to the sports announcer's voice in his Using their wits and their growing prowess head and gets into trouble when he writes a with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are series of articles for the school paper. going to solve the mystery of Stately Academy no matter what it takes! Only Emma Warner, Sally 1st in the series Third-grader Emma's peaceful life as an only child is disrupted when she has to temporarily Bobby Vs. Girls (Accidentally) share her tidy bedroom with four-year-old Yee, Lisa Anthony Scarpetto. Bobby inadvertently gets into a fight with his best friend Holly, and their disagreement Honey develops into a “boys versus girls” war Weeks, Sarah involving their whole fourth-grade class. Melody has lived in Royal, Indiana, for as long as she can remember. It's been just her and her Trash Mountain father, and she's been okay with that. But then Yolen, Jane she overhears him calling someone Honey -- Nutley is a young red squirrel who finds and suddenly it feels like everyone in Royal himself alone after his parents are killed. He has a secret. It's up to Melody and her best flees his familiar tree for the shelter of the local friend, Nick, to piece together the clues and landfill, where he must take on the powerful discover why Honey is being hidden. grays. Oggie Cooder

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!15 A list of classic books begins on the next ~Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron page. ~Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths ~Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman ~Aunt Flossie's Hats (and Crab Cakes ~Later) by Elizabeth Howard ~Snowflake Bentley by Jaqueline Martin ~A Million Fish…More or Less by Patricia McKissack ~MIrandy and Brother Wind by Patricia McKissack ~Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki ~ Skinnybones, by Barbara Park ~The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter ~The New Kid on the Block: Poems by Jack Prelutsky ~Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport ~Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky by Faith Ringgold ~ How to Eat Fried Worms, by Thomas Rockwell ~Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say ~The Frog Prince, Continued, by Jon Scieszka Below is a selection of books that have stood the ~Math Curse by Jon Scieszka test of time, having been published at least twenty ~The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by years ago. The books are listed alphabetically, by John Scieszka author. ~Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Picture Books Sendak ~Miss Nelson is Missing by Harry Allard ~The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein !16 ~Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and ~James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl ~Drawings of Shel Silverstein ~Matilda by Roald Dahl ~CDC? by William Steig ~Half Magic by Edward Eager ~Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William ~The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes Steig ~The Moffats by Eleanor Estes ~Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Chapter Books, continued: Steptoe ~My Father's Dragon by Chrisman Gannett ~ Garden of the Abdul Gasazi ~Stone Fox by John R. Gardiner by Chris Van Allsburg ~The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth ~Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg Grahame ~The Wretched Stone by Chris Van Allsburg ~Babe: the Gallant Pig by Dick King-Smith ~Free Fall by David Wiesner ~Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling ~Rumpelstiltskin by Paul O. Zelinskky ~Rabbit Hill by Robert Lawson

~ A Tiger Called Thomas, by Charlotte ~The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Zolotow Lofting ~In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Chapter Books Robinson by Bette Lord ~Aesop's Fables by Aesop (Illustrated by Jerry ~Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry Pinkney) ~ Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty Bard ~Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis MacDonald Carroll ~Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia ~Henry Huggins by Beverly Cleary MacLachlan ~The Mouse and the Motorcycle by Beverly ~Misty of Chincoteague by Henry Cleary Marguerite ~Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary ~The Borrowers by Mary Norton Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by ~ Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective, by Eleanor Coerr Donald J. Sobol ~ The Courage of Sarah Noble, by Alice ~Abel's Island by William Steig Dalgliesh ~The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler ~The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl Warner !17 ~Charlotte's Web by E. B. White ~Stuart Little by E. B. White ~Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

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