Scraps of Time (series) ...... McKissack Contemporary Fiction Faith, Hope, and Ivy June...... Naylor Biography Tia Lola (series)...... Alvarez Keeping Score ...... Park Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Dolores Huerta The Strange Case of Origami Yoda (series)...... Angleberger Trouble Don’t Last ...... Pearsall and César Chávez/La Historia de Dolores Huerta Because of Mr. Terupt ...... Buyea Sugar ...... Rhodes y César Chávez...... Brown Room One: A Mystery or Two ...... Clements Riding Freedom ...... Ryan Barnum’s Bones: How Barnum Brown Discovered the Hate that Cat: A Novel...... Creech Dear America (series) [includes My Name is America Most Famous Dinosaur in the World...... Fern The Lemonade War (series)...... Davies and Royal Diaries series] ...... Scholastic (many authors) Jimi: Sounds Like a Rainbow: A Story of the Salsa Stories ...... Delacre Countdown...... Wiles Young Jimi Hendrix ...... Golio The Magician’s Elephant ...... DiCamillo One Crazy Summer ...... Williams-Garcia Dave the Potter: Artist, Poet, Slave...... Hill The Spiderwick Chronicles (series)...... DiTerlizzi Breaking Stalin’s Nose...... Yelchin When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Brendan Buckley’s Universe and Everything in It ...... Frazier The Dragon’s Child: A Story of Angel Island...... Yep Creation of Hip Hop ...... Hill Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key...... Gantos Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table ...... Martin The Road to Paris ...... Grimes Fantasy/Science Fiction Daredevil: The Daring Life of Betty Skelton...... McCarthy The Homework Machine ...... Gutman Temple Grandin: How the Girl who Loved Cows Secrets of Droon (series)...... Abbott When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street ...... Johnson Embraced Autism and Changed the World...... Whales on Stilts!...... Anderson Montgomery Diary of a Wimpy Kid (series)...... Kinney Electrical Wizard: How Nikola Tesla Lit Up the World ...... Dragon Castle ...... Bruchac Rusch Inside Out and Back Again ...... Lai Becoming Babe Ruth ...... The Sisters Grimm (series)...... Buckley Tavares Alvin Ho (series) ...... Look Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (series) ...... Cowell Ruby Lu (series) ...... Look Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade ...... Sweet The Dream Stealer ...... Fleischman Julia Gillian (And the Art of Knowing) ...... McGee Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx ...... Tuesdays at the Castle...... George Winter Junebug (series) ...... Mead Sardines in Outer Space (series) ...... Guibert Next to Mexico...... Nails Boom! ...... Haddon Shiloh...... Naylor Folktales, Fairy Tales & Legends Warrior (series)...... Hunter The Small Adventure of Popeye and Elvis ...... O’Connor A Wrinkle in Time...... L’Engle Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Wonder ...... Palacio Where the Mountain Meets the Moon...... Lin Collection ...... Campoy and Ada Big Nate (series) ...... Peirce Charlie Bone (series)...... Nimmo Persephone ...... Clayton 39 Clues (series) ...... Scholastic (many authors) The Magic Thief (series) ...... Prineas Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella...... Fleischman Smells Like Treasure...... Selfors Harry Potter (series) ...... Rowling Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, Younguncle Comes to Town...... Singh A The Night Fairy ...... Schlitz and True Tales ...... Hamilton Series of Unfortunate Events (series) ...... Snicket No Alien Feast...... Simmons The Wise Fool: Fables from the Islamic World ...... Husain Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay) ...... Trueit The Books of Elsewhere (series) ...... West The Magical Monkey King: Mischief in Heaven ...... Jiang Peace, Locomotion...... Woodson City of Fire/City of Ice ...... Yep The Blue Fairy Book (series) ...... Lang The Boy from the Dragon Palace ...... MacDonald Historical Fiction Free Online Reading Incentive Programs & Pig-Boy: A Trickster Tale from Hawaii...... McDermott Resources Genies, Meanies, and Magic Rings: Three Tales from History Mysteries (series)...... American Girl  http://www.gadoe.org/Curriculum-Instruction-and- the Arabian Nights ...... Mitchell Sophia’s War: A Tale of the Revolution...... Avi Assessment/Curriculum-and- More Bones: Scary Stories from Around the World...... Olson Jefferson’s Sons...... Bradley Instruction/Pages/Georgia-Summer-Reading- The Beautiful Stories of Life: Six Greek Myths, Retold...... Rylant Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes ...... Coerr Challenge.aspx Can You Guess My Name?: Traditional Tales Elijah of Buxton ...... Curtis  https://fab.lexile.com/fab/ga/ Around the World...... Sierra The Mighty Miss Malone...... Curtis  https://www.scholastic.com/summer/home/ Tops and Bottoms ...... Stevens A The Giant Rat of Sumatra: Or Pirates Galore...... Fleischman  http://www.abookandahug.com/ Pride of African Tales ...... Washington Number the Stars ...... Lowry  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/h/summer- reading Newton County Library Informational Books Summer Reading Millions, Billions, & Trillions: Understanding Big Numbers ...... Adler Newton County Library’s 2019 summer programs feature books Shimmer & Splash: The Sparkling World of Sea Life ...... Arnosky and activities. For more information, contact or visit Grades 3-5 Dinosaurs in Your Backyard ...... Brewster any NCL location: Summer Reading List Citizen Scientists: Be a Part of Scientific Discovery from COV - Covington - 770-787-3231 Your Own Backyard...... Burns POR - Porter Memorial - 678-729-1388 Bat Scientists ...... Carson NWB - Newborn Library - 770-787-1126 Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth...... Davies Haunted Histories: Creepy Castles, Dark Dungeons, www.newtonlibrary.org and Powerful Palaces ...... Everett Locomotive ...... Floca The Wolves Are Back ...... George Galaxies, Galaxies! ...... Gibbons The Reasons for Seasons ...... Gibbons Bones: Skeletons and How They Work...... Jenkins Boston Tea Party ...... Kroll Through a partnership between Get The Tarantula Scientist...... Montgomery Georgia Reading – Campaign for Grade- Dear Parent/Guardian, Remember: The Journey to School Integration ...... Morrison Level Reading and myON, all educators, Polar Bears ...... Newman librarians, students and parents in Georgia The summer months are a wonderful time for you to help your child We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball ...... Nelson have free access to thousands of enhanced develop a love for books and reading. The Newton County School How to Clean A Hippopotamus ...... Page System and Newton County Library look forward to helping you plan digital books available in myON through Volcano Rising ...... Rusch a reading program for your child to last the whole summer. Discovering Black America ...... Tarrant-Reid August 31, 2019. Insect Detective ...... Voake 1. Go to www.myON.com and click the Research shows that children who do not read in the summer lose two myON Login button. to three months of reading development. The Newton County School Poetry 2. Enter the following login information: System is working hard to help every student achieve at high a. School Name: Get Georgia levels, and literacy is a top priority in every school. We need your Animal Poems of the Iguazu ...... Alarcon Reading (Type the first few support in ensuring that your child meets these expectations. Sol a Sol: Original and Selected Bilingual Poems ...... Carlson letters and select from the drop- Your example and encouragement will go a long way toward Outside Your Window ...... Davies down menu.) helping us reach the goal of every student becoming an In the Wild...... Elliot b. Username: newtoncounty excellent reader. Messing Around on the Monkey Bars: And Other c. Password: read School Poems for Two Voices ...... Franco 3. Click on the Sign In button, select a This summer book list will help you assure that your child is Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry book and start reading! reading high quality literature. Your local librarian can suggest with a Beat ...... Giovanni additional titles. Happy reading! The Great Migration : Journey to the North ...... Greenfield Love to Langston...... Medina Tap Dancing on the Roof: Sijo (Poems)...... Park Dr. Penny Mosley The 20th Century Children’s Poetry Treasury...... Prelutsky Director of Elementary Education Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys ...... Raczka The Newton County Book Bus will be in The Hound Dog’s Haiku: And Other Poems for Dog Lovers...... Rosen route May 28-29, 2019. For more information Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night...... Sidman Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku ...... Wardlaw about the locations and times, visit Adapted Reading List from Boston Public Schools www.newtoncountyschools.org.