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Summary Reading and Advanced Reading Booklist by Grade Span WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options TITLE AUTHOR LENGTH GENRE TOPIC/THEME LEXIL INTEREST SUMMARY E LEVEL 11 Birthdays Mass, Wendy 267 p. Fiction Birthdays, Friends 650 3-5 After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays Comedy and and friendship together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on Humor their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again. 39 Clues: The Maze of the Riordan, Rick 220 p. Fiction 610 3-6 When their beloved Aunt Grace dies, Dan, 11, and Bones Adventure, Amy, 14-along with other Cahill descendants-are Mystery and faced with an unusual choice: inherit one million Suspense dollars or participate in a perilous treasure hunt. As the siblings work together to solve puzzles and survive dangers, they develop into well-drawn individuals with their own strengths and personalities. Supporting Cahill cast members come across as intentionally exaggerated caricatures, adding to the tale's breathless fun. Abel's Island Steig, William 117 p. Fiction Animals 920 3-6 Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very Language Arts civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home. Adam of the Road Gray, Elizabeth 317 p. Historical Middle ages, Life 1030 4-6 The adventures of an eleven-year-old boy in 13th Janet Fiction experiences, century England as he searches for his father and his Relationships dog. Adventurous Deeds of Hemphill, Helen 192 p. Fiction Travel and places 720 5-8 Thirteen-year-old Prometheus Jones and his eleven- Deadwood Jones year-old cousin Omer flee Tennessee and join a cattle drive that will eventually take them to Texas, where Prometheus hopes his father lives, and they find adventure and face challenges as African- Americans in a land still recovering from the Civil War Aesop's Fables McGovern, Ann 78 p. Classics Animals, Character 780 4-6 67 fables, with a short profile of Aesop Fables and values Folk Tales and Myths 1 WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options Afternoon of the Elves Lisle, Janet Taylor 122 p. Fantasy Cleaverness, 82 3-5 As Hillary works in the miniature village, allegedly Creativity and built by elves, in Sara-Kate's backyard, she becomes imagination, more and more curious about Sra-Kate's real life Families and social inside her big, gloomy house with your mysterious, structures, Friends silent mother. Deals with poverty, neglect, and and friendship, prejudice. Teacher discussion needed. Disease and illness Akhenaten adventure, Kerr, P.B. 355 p. Adventure Cleaverness, 900 6-8 John & Phillipa, twelve-year old twins discover they The: Children of the lamp Series Creativity and are djinn, they go to live with their uncle in Fantasy imagination, England, where takes them to Egypt to learn about Courage and honor, their extraordinary powers. Families and social structures, Magic Alice in Wonderland Carrol, Lewis 159 p. Classics Manners and 860 3-6 A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a Fantasy conduct world of nonsensical and amusing characters. Magic and Supernatural Cleverness Creativity and imagination Alida's Song Paulsen, Gary 88 p. Realistic Changes and new 1460 6-8 A fourteen-year-old boy who has been neglected by Fiction esperiences irresponsible parents spends a wonderful summer Farma dn ranch life on a farm where his grandmother cooks for two Extended family elderly brothers. Among the Hidden Haddix, Margaret 153 p. Science fiction Civics and 800 6-8 In a future where the Population Police enforce the Peterson and fantasy government law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has Series Courage and honor lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his Families and social family's farm, until another "third" convinces him structures that the government is wrong. World governments, Friends and 5th & 6th grades. friendship Amos Fortune, Free Man Yates, Elizabeth 181 p. Historical Social studies 1090 6-8 The life of an eighteenth-century African prince who Fiction African Americans after being captured by slave traders, was brought to World history Massachusetts where he was a slave until he was Character and able to buy his freedom at the age of sixty. values 2 WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options Anastasia Krupnik Lowry, Lois 113 p. Fiction Families and social 700 5-8 Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like Comedy and structure falling in love and really getting to know her humor Childhhod and grandmother and some good things like finding out education about an impending baby brother. And Now Miguel Krumgold, Joseph 245 p. Classics Hispanic 780 6-8 Miguel lives with his family on a sheep ranch in Fiction New Mexico. More than anything else, he longs to go with the men to the Sangre de Christo Mountains. More for boys, role of females is superficial. Angel on the Square Whelan, Gloria 293 p. Hisorical Social studies 820 5-8 In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly fiction World history anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though Character and not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a values lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, Friends and but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, friendship and undreamed of changes to her life. Anna All Year Round Hahn, Mary 133 p. Fiction Culture and 610 3-5 Eight year old Anna experiences a series of Downing diversity episodes, some funny others sad, involving family Character and and friends during a year in Baltimore just before values World War One. Friends and friendshop Anne of Green Gables Montgomery, L.M. 304 p. Classics Determination and 990 5-8 Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake Realistic perserverence to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister fiction Adoption and foster on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to care make an indelible impression on everyone around Changes and new her. experiences Friends and friendship School life Art of Keeping Cool, The Lisle, Janet Taylor 250 p. Historical American history 730 5-8 In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long- Fiction hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspect of being a spy. Graphic persecution scenes, suicide, shooting.Grades5&6 Attaboy, Sam Lowry, Lois 116 p. Fiction Culture and 740 3-5 Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the diversity poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous. 3 WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options Babe: the Gallant Pig King-Smith, Dick 118 p. Animal Stories Animals 1040 3-5 A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at Character and the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and values discovers a special secret to success. Baby MacLachlan, 132 p. Fiction Culture and 670 3-5 Taking care of a baby left with them at the end of Patricia diversity the tourist season helps a family come to terms with Character and the death of their own infant son. 5th & 6th grade, values gifted Babymouse 2, Our Hero Holm, Jennifer 91 p. Fantasy 3-5 An imaginative young mouse is terrified to face her enemy in dodge ball, but with the help of her best friend and support from her mother, she not only plays the game, she proves herself a hero. Graphic novel Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Cushman, Karen 218 p. Historical American history, 1030 7-12 In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning The Fiction Westward Whipple, who renames herself Lucy, is distraught expansion, Changes when her mother moves the family from and new Massachusetts to a rough California mining town. experiences Blunt terms Bandit's Moon Fleischman, Sid 136 p. Historical social studeies, 690 3-5 Twelve-year-old Annyrose, left behind when her Fiction culture and brother joins the Gold Rush, escapes the diversity, Character unscrupulous woman with whom she is staying and and values, Friends sets out on a grand adventure with the notorious and Friendship bandit Joaquin Murieta and his band of outlaws. Banner in the Sky Ullman, James 285 p. Adventure Character and 680 6-8 Sixteen-year-old Rudi dreams of being the first to Ramsey values, Friends and climb the highest mountain in Switzerland. friendship Bat 6: a novel Wolff, Virginia 230 p. Historical World War II, Pride 930 6-8 In a small town, in post-Word War II Oregon, Euwer Fiction and self-esteem, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an Prejudice and annual softball game, during which one girl's racism, softball, bigotry comes to the surface. 5th & 6th grade. Japanese and References to religion and an illegitimate baby. Japanese American Battle for the Castle, The Winthrop, 211 p. Fiction, Animals, culture 700 3-5 Twelve-year-old William uses the magic token to Elizabeth Adventure, and diversity, return, through the toy castle in his attic, to the Science fiction Middle ages, medieval land of Sir Simon, which is now menaced and fantasy Character and by a skeleton ship bearing a plague of ravenous rats. values, Friends and friendship 4 WS/FCS 4th through grade 6th Grade AG/HAG Summer and Supplemental Reading List Options Be a Perfect Person in Just Manes, Stephen 76 p.
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