Summer Reading 4th & 5th Grade

Rising fourth and fifth graders will track their reading with a Summer Reading Scrapbook. Students should create a scrapbook page of pictures, drawings, written reflections, and items or materials they find that relate to their summer reading choices. Students should read 20 minutes a day of self selected material! A recommended list is books is attached. Post pictures of your student reading with the #LKASummer hashtag to show off the time you spent reading.

The goal is for students to have a fascinating summer reading adventure by exploring their choice of novels, magazines, newspapers, how to and factual books, non-fiction, graphic novels, and comic books. Students may read out loud, listen to an audio book, or have the selection read to them. Summer Reading List

4th & 5th Grade

Holes by Louis Sachar Radiant Child, The Story of a Young Artist Jean Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe Having a little sister like four-year-old Ramona isn’t his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great- Jean-Michel Basquiat and his unique, collage-style always easy for Beezus Quimby. With a wild grandfather and has since followed generations of paintings rocketed to fame in the 1980s as a cultural imagination, disregard for order, and an appetite for Yelnatses. phenomenon unlike anything the art world had ever chaos, Ramona makes it hard for Beezus to be the seen. But before that, he was a little boy who saw art responsible older sister she knows she ought to be… Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli everywhere: in poetry books and museums, in games especially when Ramona threatens to ruin Beezus’s Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might have lived a and in the words that we speak, and in the pulsing birthday party. normal life if a freak accident hadn't made him an energy of New York City. orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt The Gruesome Guide to World Monsters by Judy and uncle for eight years, he decides to run--and not just The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden Sierra run away, but run. Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen Do you know why you should have baby teeth handy it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really when visiting the Midwest? Or why you should bring a Clementine (#1) by Sara Pennypacker cucumber with you when swimming in Japan? How When it comes to tackling third grade, Clementine is at isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry good are you at solving Russian riddles? From Boston to the top of her game-okay, so maybe not all the time. Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York Bejing, from Moscow to Mali, any place you visit has After her teacher announces that the third and fourth City―the Times Square subway station. its own terrifying tales of very real creatures. graders will be putting on a talent show, Clementine panics. The Boy Who Painted Dragons by Demi Bunny Vs. Monkey by Jamie Smart With splashes of color and dramatic detail, a boy named A team of scientists has sent a monkey into space! And The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling Ping decorates his home with paintings of dragons. good thing, too, because he's a mean, selfish, noisy, In this zany twist on the legend of King Midas and his While they seem to be a proclamation of his love for bullying little fur-bag. But... all does not go well with golden touch, a boy acquires a magical gift that turns dragons, they are actually an expression of his deepest the flight, and Monkey's spaceship barely clears the first everything his lips touch into chocolate! fear. hilltop before crash-landing in a peaceful forest.

The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Race the Wild: Rainforest Relay by Kristin Earhart 2030: A Day in the Life of Tomorrow’s Kids by Amy Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as When Russell entered the race, he knew it was going to Zuckerman and James Daly Ivan, this illustrated novel is told from the point of view be a wild ride. Especially the first race course! He'd 2030 is not only a peek at some cool future gadgets of Ivan himself. been studying up on the Amazon's animals and culture (talking dog collars, cars that drive themselves), but also forever. a thoughtful examination of how our lives might be The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman impacted as we adjust to environmental change. A Prince and a Pauper . . . Prince Brat and his whipping Crickwing by Janell Cannon boy inadvertently trade places after becoming involved Crickwing never set out to be a bully. All he wants is to A Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt with dangerous outlaws. create his art in peace. But it's not easy being different-- Ally has been smart enough to fool a lot of smart a cockroach with a cricked wing and a flair for sculpture people. Every time she lands in a new school, she is able James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl is a ready target for the bigger creatures in the forest. to hide her inability to read by creating clever yet You will never forget resourceful little James and his Crickwing just wants to even the score, and leafcutter disruptive distractions. She is afraid to ask for help; new family of magically overgrown insects—a ladybug, ants are so easy to pick on. . . .Big mistake. after all, how can you cure dumb? a spider, a grasshopper, a glowworm, a silkworm, and the chronic complainer, a centipede with a hundred gorgeous shoes. Summer Reading 4th & 5th Grade

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