Summer 2012 Recommended Summer Reading for Students Entering Grade Five

Call it Courage by Armstrong Sperry Harry Potter (any books in the series) by J.K. Rowling Little House by Boston Bay by Melissa Wiley Maniac Magee OR Holes by Jerry Spinelli Old Yeller by Fred Gipson Phantom Tollbooth by Justin Norton The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo The Upstairs Room by Johanna Riess Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Choice of Sunshine State Young Reader Award Books. Note: 5th graders may read from the 6-8 titles if they wish. (See lists below.)

Sunshine State Young Reader’s Award Program 2012 – 2013 Grades 3- 5

Aliens on Vacation by Clete Barrett Smith AR 5.5 Attack of the Fluffy Bunnies by Andrea Beaty AR 5.7 Edgar Allan’s Official Crime Investigation Notebook by Mary Amato AR 4.7 The Familiars by Adam Epstein and Andrew Jacobson AR 5.0 The Fantastic Secret of Owen Jester by Barbara O’Connor AR 4.7 The Fast and the Furriest by Andy Behrens AR 5.0 Fortune’s Magic Farm by Suzanne Selfors AR 6.2 Guinea Dog by Patrick Jennings AR 3.7 Neil Armstrong is my Uncle and Other Lies Muscle Man McGinty Told Me by Nan Marino AR 4.3 President of the Whole Fifth Grade by Sherri Winston AR 5.8 The Books of Elsewhere: The Shadows by Jacqueline West AR 5.1 Sophie Simon Solves Them All by Lisa Graff AR 3.4 The Trouble with Chickens by Doreen Cronin AR 3.8 Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George AR 6.4 Turtle in Paradise by Jennifer Holm AR 4.1

Grades 6 – 8 90 Miles to Havana by Enrique Flores-Galbis AR 4.8 A Long Walk to Water : Based on a True Story by Linda Sue Park AR 5.0 Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading by Tommy Greenwald AR 5.4 Happenstance Found by P.W. Catanese AR 4.9 Hide and Seek by Katy Grant AR 4.5 How Lamar’s Bad Prank Won a Bubba-sized Trophy by Allen Crystal AR 3.4 Lost in the River of Grass by Ginny Rorby AR 4.4 My Fair Godmother by Janette Rallison AR 5.2 Saint Louis Armstrong Beach by Brenda Woods AR 4.1 The Dangerous Days of Daniel X by James Patterson AR 4.6 The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman AR 5.1 The Juvie Three by Gordon Korman AR 4.9 The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg by Rodman Philbrick AR 5.6 The Trouble with Half a Moon by Danette Vigilante AR 3.7 Wild Things by Clay Carmichael AR 5.3