Fort Lee Public Schools
Summer Reading 2020
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
Dear Parents and Guardians,
All Fort Lee educators are committed to cultivating a passion for reading. According to the National Institute of Education (1988), “…the amount of reading done out of school is consistently related to gains in reading achievement.” Reading also enables us to expand our horizons and develop new ideas. As this academic year comes to a close, we encourage all students to read over the summer break. With the assistance of our school librarians, we’ve provided some recommendations here, but there are so many more wonderful books for students of all ages to explore. With your guidance, students can select anything they want to read (books, magazines, graphic novels, Ebooks, audio books, picture books, etc ), even if they do not appear on this list. We do understand that some books might be di cult for some students to read independently at this time. This is a perfect opportunity for you to read with your child, an experience we all loved and cherished ourselves in our childhood. What we ask is for students to read, read often, and read a lot!
Students who submit documentation of their summer reading will receive a certificate for their participation in the fall. Here’s how students can record their summer reading: 1. Join the Fort Lee Public Library’s “Summer with the Virtual Library” program.. Go to https://fortleelibrary.org/ for details about how to register. 2. Print and fill out the summer reading log provided in this packet. Students must return the completed reading log to their teacher by September 18th.
Summer reading is a valuable opportunity to demonstrate that reading is not just part of school, but it is a key contributor to lifelong learning. Have a safe, wonderful summer and HAPPY READING!
Sincerely,
Dian Bake an Michel Carlo K-12 Supervisors of Instruction
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
Kindergarten - First Grade
Fiction Books Popular Fiction Series Pete the Cat by Eric Litwin Charlie and Lola s eries by Lauren Child Rainbow Fish b y Marcus Pfister Fly Guy s eries b y Ted Arnold Pout Pout Fish by D eborah Diesen Piggie and Elephant s eries by Mo Willems Corduroy by Don Freeman Katie Woo by Fran Manushkin No David! By David Shannon Diary of a.. Worm, Spider, Fly by Doreen Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Robert Cronin Southey You Read to Me, I Read to You by Maryanne Strega Nona by Tomie DePaola Hoberman If You Give a Mouse A Cookie b y Laura Mercy Watson b y Kate Dicamillo Numero Flat Stanley Easy Reader b y Je Brown Are We There Yet? B y Dan Santat Penny by Kevin Henkes The Day the Crayons Quit b y Drew Daywalt Froggy by Jonathan London Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett Frog and Toad b y Anne Lobel Mac and Cheese by Sarah Weeks Amelia Bedelia b y Peggy Parish Henry and Mudge by Cynthia Rylant Olivia b y Ian Falconer Curious George b y William H. Macy I Spy Reader! by Jean Marzallo Poppleton b y Cynthia Rylant The Perfect Gift b y Paula Yoo Rafi and Rosi b y Lulu Delacre Rafi and Rosi C arnival by Lulu Delacre All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold Last Stop on Market Street b y Matt de la Pena Where Are You From b y Yamile Saied Mendez Strictly No Elephants b y Lisa Mantchev Over the Hills and Far Away a Treasury of Nursery Rhymes collected by Elizabeth Hammill Mommy’s Khimar b y Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
Popular Authors Nonfiction Books/Series Steven Kellogg Rookie Read About Science series Margery Cuyler Nature Up Close series by Elaine Pasco Robert Munsch Welcome Books s eries Eric Carle Let’s Read and Find Out Science series Dr. Seuss American Museum of Natural History Easy Mo Willems Reader series Jan Brett Animal Diaries Life Cycle series by Ellen Denise Fleming Lawrence Websites Animal Groups Categorical b y Brian Cleary ALA Great Websites for Kids @ We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga b y Traci Sorell http://gws.ala.org/
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
Second Grade - Third Grade
Fiction Books Popular Fiction Series 13 Story Treehouse b y Andy Gri ths Cam Jansen by David Adler Pain and the Great One by Judy Blume Geronimo Stilton by Elisabetta Dami Freckle Juice by Judy Blume Ivy & Bean b y Annie Barrows Cricket in Times Square by George Selden A to Z Mysteries b y Ron Roy Don’t Feed the Geckos by Karen English by Horrible Harry b y Suzie Klein Karen English Junie B. Jones by Barbara Park Friends of a Feather by Lauren Myracle by Ready Freddy by Abby Klein Lauren Myracle Rosco Riley Rules b y Katherine Applegate My New Team b y Ryan Howard and Krystle Howard by Ryan Howard Just Grace by Charise Harper Logan Pryce Makes a Mess by Grace Captain Awesome by Stan Kirby Gilmore by Grace Gilmore Lulu by Judith Viorst The Best Friend Battle by Lindsay Eyre Flat Stanley by Je Brown Stowaway by Erin Soderberg Clementine by Sarah Pennypacker Misty by Christine Dencer Katie Kazoo by Nancy Krulik Don’t Feed the Geckos by Karen English The Bad Guys In Mission Unpluckable b y Aaron Blabey My Father’s Dragon by Ruth The Carver Chronicles b y Karen English The Life of Ty b y Lauren Myracle Little Rhino by Ryan Howard Tales from the Maple Ridge by Grace Gilmore Sylvie Scruggs b y Lindsay Eyre Puppy Pirates b y Erin Soderberg Stanley & Me by Christine Dencer My Weird School b y Dan Gutman My Weirder School b y Dan Gutman Judy Moody & Stink by Megan McDonald Captain Awesome S tan Kirby The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammed Skin Like Mine by LaTashia M. Perry Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o We’re All Wonders b y R.J. Palacio Amazing Grace by Mary Ho man Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters b y John
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
Steptoe
Popular Authors Nonfiction Books/Series Roald Dahl This Is How We Do It b y M att Lamothe Tomie dePaola The Girl Who Thought in Pictures The Story Judy Blume of Temple Grandin b y Julia Finley Mosca Kevin Henkes Little Leaders Bold Women in History b y Dan Gutman Vashti Harrison Steve Jenkins Who Would Win by various authors Websites “The Picture Biography” series by David http://gws.ala.org/ Adler www.code.org Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn www.tynker.com Brooks b y Suzanne Slade Dream Builder: The Story of Architect Philip Freelon by Kelly Starling Lyons When You Look Up by Chloe Garcia Roberts Anything but Annie Ordinary Annie: The True Story of Adelaid Herman, Queen of Magic b y Mara Rockcli The Blobfish by Jessica Olien 26 Fairmont Avenue by Tomie Depaola “Let’s Read-and-Find-Out-Science” books by various authors (Harper Collins Publishers) So You Want to Grow a Pizza? b y Bridget Heos (“Grow Your Food” series) Say Something by Peter H. Reynolds
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
Fourth Grade - Fifth Grade
Fiction Books/Series Nonfiction Books/Series Me and Marvin Gardens b y Amy Sarig King Little Leaders Bold Women in History b y Sunny-Side Up b y Jennifer Holm Vashti Harrison Stella by Starlight by Sharon M. Draper Scholastic Question and Answer series by The Wild Robot b y Peter Brown Melvin and Gilda Berger Rollergirl by Victoria Jamieson Who Was…? b iography series by various El Deafo by Cece Bell authors Crenshaw b y Katherine Applegate Where is…? S eries by various authors I Funny b y James Patterson (Published by Penguin Random House) Pie by Sarah Weeks Animal Heroes:True Rescue Stories by Whatever After s eries b y Sarah Mlynowski Sandra Markle The Penderwicks s eries by Jeanne Birdsall Sports in Action series various authors Amulet Series b y Kazu Kibuishi The Dreamer b y Pam Munoz Ryan I Survived s eries b y Lauren Tarshis Harlem: A Poem by Walter Dean Myers The Babysitters Club s eries by Ann M. Let the Children March by Monica Martin Clark-Robinson Nancy Drew s eries by Carolyn Keene Ida B. Wells Let the Truth B. Told by Walter Alvin Ho s eries by Lenore Look Dean Myers Tom Angleberger Origami Yoda s eries by Tom Angleberger Popular Authors Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case b y Judy Blume Donald J. Sobol Beverly Cleary The Homework Machine by Dan Gutman J.K. Rowling Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell Louis Sachar Hank Zipzer series by Henry Winkler Jerry Spinelli Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban Drita, My Homegirl b y Jenny Lombard One Crazy Summer b y Rita Williams-Garcia Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin Rules by Cynthia Lord Wishtree b y Katherine Applegate
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
Sixth - Eighth Grades
Fiction Books Popular Series Terrifying Tales e dited by Jon Scieska Guys Read by Jon Scieska Walking Two Worlds by Joseph Bruchac Pathfinders b y Joseph Bruchac The Flinkwater Factor by Pete Hautman Flinkwater Chronicles by Pete Hautman The Boy Who Crashed to Earth by Judd Hilo by Judd Winick Winick Welcome to the Museum b y Jo Nelson Historium b y Jo Nelson Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Pax by Sarah Pennypacker Snicket The One and Only Ivan b y K atherine Dear America by various authors Applegate Warriors by Erin Hunter Esperanza Rising b y Pam Munoz Ryan The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis Out of My Mind b y Sharon Draper The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan Crossover b y Kwame Alexander Horrible Histories by T erry Deary, P eter The Benedict Society by T renton Lee Hepplewhite and Neil Tonge Stewart 39 Clues by Rick Riordan Brown Girl Dreaming b y Jacqueline Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Woodson Riordan Loser b y Jerry Spinelli Found b y Margaret Peterson Haddix Popular Authors Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech Brian Selznik The Crossover by Kwame Alexander Rene Telemegier I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Wendy Mass Changed Two Lives by Caitlin Alifrenka Patricia Polacco The Terrible Two b y Mac Barnett Mike Lupica The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin Kwame Alexander The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Roald Dahl Christ Colfer Jerry Spinelli Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell Shel Silverstein (Poetry) Better Nate than Never by Sheila Garrigue Jack Prelutsky (Poetry) The Eternal Spring of Mr. Ito b y Sheila
Garrigue Fish In A Tree by Lynda Hunt Nonfiction Books/Series Con Academy by Joe Schreiber I Will Always Write Back. How One Letter New Kid by Jerry Craft Changed Two Lives b y Caitlin Alifirenka Rain Reign b y Ann Martin “Scientists in the Field” Series (Published by Houghton Mi in)
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
The Skin I’m In by Sharon Flake “Hazardous Tales” Series (Nathan Hale) Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia “Stem Trailblazers” Series by Lerner Books McCall’ Misty Copeland Life In Motion: Young George by Alex Gino Readers Edition by Misty Copeland and Zeroes by S. Westerfeld, M. Lanagan and D. Brandy Colbert Biancotti Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Middle School, the Worst Years of My Life by Woodson James Patterson and Chris Tebbets The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by One Crazy Summer b y Rita Williams-Garcia William Kamkwamba Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes by Out of Left Field b y Ellen Klages Juan Felipe Herrera You Go First by Erin Entrada Kelly I Am Malala How One Girl Stood Up for The Parker Inheritance b y Varian Johnson Education and Changed the World b y The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin Malala Yousafzai, P atricia McCormick The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo LGBTQ+ Athletes Claim the Field: Striving for Cartaya Equality b y Kirstin Cronn-Mills My Corner of the Ring: The Middle Grade Memoir of a Girl Boxer and Future Olympian by Jesselyn Silva It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah The Thrifty Guide to Medieval Times: A Handbook for Time Travelers by Jonathan W. Stokes
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
Ninth-Twelfth Grades
Fiction Books Popular Authors Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo Victoria Aveyard The Young Elites by Mary Lu Kiera Cass The Story of Owen: Dragon Slayer by E.K Cassandra Clare Johnston John Green Piecing Me Together b y Renee Watson Jenny Han Heir of Fire b y Sarah J. Mass Sandra J. Maas The Testing b y Joel Charbonneau Ransom Riggs The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta Nicola Yoon The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski The Crossover by Alexander Kwame The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson Nonfiction Books The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls Jackaby by William Ritter Behind Rebel Lines, Seymour Reit Divergent by Veronica Roth Becoming, M ichelle Obama Vango Between Sky and Earth b y Timothee Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith, De Fombelle Gabrielle Douglas We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Changing Our Minds for the Better, Clive Lubar Thompson Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Stamped, J ason Reynolds and Ibram X. The Five People You Meet in Heaven b y Kendi Mitch Albom The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Gander, Newfoundland, Jim DeFede Brunt On the Come Up b y Angie Thomas Ready Player One by Ernest Cline Room by Emma Donoghue Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson Stay Gold b y Tobly McSmith Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
Family Read-Alouds for All Ages Here are some titles families can read together.
Fiction Great Illustrated Classics Published Charlotte’s Web b y E.B.White by Baronet Books Stuart Little by E.B. White Aesop’s Fables James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Heidi Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald The Call Of The Wild Dahl King Arthur and the Knights of the Round The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Table Burnett Frankenstein Harry Potter b y J.K. Rowling Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Wonder b y Raquel J. Palacio The Last of the Mohicans Hatchet by Gary Paulsen Captains Courageous Chronicles of Narnia by C.S Lewis Robin Hood Treasury of Egyptian Mythology by Donna Prince and the Pauper Jo Napoli Time Machine Treasury of Greek Mythology by Donna Jo Anne of Green Gables Napoli Peter Pan The Little House on the Prairie b y Laura Black Beauty Ingalls Wilder The Phantom of the Opera The Wonderful Wizard of Oz b y L. Frank The Jungle Book Baum The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles by Kate DiCamillo The Hunchback of Notre Dame
**A reading program is a joint responsibility between school and family. Parents might very reasonably disagree about what material constitutes suitable reading for children. The titles suggested are not Board of Education approved texts. They are works that are recommended by such organizations as the American Library Association, the New York Times, and the National Council for Teachers of English. They appear on many reading lists across the nation. Nevertheless, certain titles may contain subject matter that some parents may not want their children to read (whether Grimm’s Fairy Tales for young children or books with mature themes and graphic language for older students). Only parents can determine appropriate choices for their children. Check with teachers, local librarians, and book websites for reading levels and information about the various titles.**
Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020
K-12 Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading Log
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Fort Lee Public Schools Summer Reading 2020