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Summer Reading Suggestions entering Grade 5

S Suggested Authors: Kid’s Favorites: U Avi M Alex Rider Series (Horowitz) M Andrew Clements Among the Hidden (Haddix) E Sharon Creech Artemis Fowl (Colfer) R Jeanne DuPrau Babe & Me, Mickey & Me (Gutman) Peg Kehret Eragon (Paolini) R E Patricia Mac Lachlan Fever (Anderson) A Walter Dan Myers Harry Potter (Rowling) D Gary Paulsen Gregor the Overlander (Collins) I Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Guardians of Ga’Hoole (Lasky) N G Jerry Spinelli Lemony Snicket Series Molly Moon (Byng) Louis Sachar () L E.B. White Sports Series Books ( M. Christopher) O

Laura Ingalls Wilder G

S H E Newbery Award Books (Grade 3-4 reading level) E 2013 Nutmeg Book Award Nominees T 2012 - by Jack Gantos 2011 - by Clare Vanderpool, Baseball Great by Tim Green 2010 - When Your Reach Me by Rebecca Stead Because of Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea A 2009 - by Neil Gaiman Born to Fly by Michael Ferrari T 2008 - Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices From The Mostly True Adventure of Homer P. Figg T a Medieval Village by Laura A. Schlitz by Rodman Philbrick A 2007 - Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata My Life As a Book by Janet Tashjian 2006 - Carry on Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham C The Potato Chip Puzzles by Eric Berlin 2005 - Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan H Powerless by Matthew Cody 2004 - by Meindert DeJong E 2003 - M. C. Higgins the Great by Virginia Hamilton A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz D 2002 - by Jerry Spinelli Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by GraceLin 2001 - by Virginia Sorenson The Wonder of Charlie Anne by Kimberly Fusco 2000 - by Joseph Krumgold

Building Community Through Shared Reading—Principal Trudie Roberts suggests: LMNO Peas by Keith Baker One by Kathryn Otoshi Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal The Gift of Nothing by Parick McDonnell Kindness Is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler! By Margery Cuyler Carrot Seed by Ruth Kraus Rain Stomper by Addie Boswell Stuck by Oliver Jeffers Lucy and the Bully by Claire Alexander

Fiction

Keeper by Kathi Appelt by Madeleine L’Engle Dave At Night by Gail Carson Levine A Tale Dark & Grimm by Adam Gidwitz Gossamer by Lois Lowry Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan The Same Stuff by Katherine Patterson Jimmy’s Stars by Mary Ann Rodman Night of the Howling Dogs by Graham Salisbury Moon Over Manifest by Clare Vanderpool Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith Non-Fiction

How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery All Stations! Destress! by Don Brown Afghan Dreams by Tony O’Brien Arctic Lights, Artic Nights by Debbie S. Miller All Asleep From A to Z by Elaine Scott Saving the Ghost of the Mountain River of Dreams by Hudson Talbott by Sy Montgomery Life on Earth – And Beyond by Pamela Turner

Biography

Leonardo, Beautiful Dreamer by Robert Byrd

Graphic Novel

Robot Dreams by Sara Varon

*Most books listed were selected as exemplary books by one or more of the following organizations: the American Library Asso- ciation (ALA), the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), the Na-tional Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the National Science Teachers Assocation (NSTA) or the United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY).

STUDENT NAME: Entering Grade:

Ellington Center School /Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge

“Dream Big: READ”

Connecticut Reads 2012 Log Sheet

*Return all reading logs to your new classroom teacher during the first week of the new school year.*

Number of Book Title / Author Pages Read

*Return all reading logs to your new classroom teacher during the first week of the new school year.* STUDENT NAME: Entering Grade:

Ellington Center School /Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge

“Dream Big: READ” Connecticut Reads 2012 Log Sheet

*Return all reading logs to your new classroom teacher during the first week of the new school year.* Number of Book Title / Author Pages Read

Ellington Center School / Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge: Connecticut Reads 2012: “Dream Big: READ”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ~ Sir Richard Steele

Summer is a great time for youngsters to read. Studies have shown that children who read during their summer vacation retain more of what they have learned throughout the school year and are better pre- pared for that first day of school in the fall.

You can encourage your youngster to become an avid summer reader by giving him/her lots of reading choices. In addition to books, provide magazines and newspapers. Attached are some suggested book titles you may want your child to choose to read over the summer. The Hall Memorial Library staff will be available for suggestions as well.

Along with the summer reading program at Hall Memorial Library we would also like to encourage you to participate in the Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge: Connecticut Reads 2011. Information about the Governor’s Summer Reading Challenge and library summer reading programs can be found at: http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2683&Q=320322

Summer reading can be fun and easy with the attached Reading Log. Youngsters may read a book to an adult or sibling, have books read to them, or youngsters may read books silently. Either way, please “log” every time your youngster has read or has had a book read to them on the Reading Log.

As 5th Graders at Windermere School return your reading logs to your classroom teacher during the first week of the new school year 2012-2013. Youngsters who have participated in the Summer Reading Program will be acknowledged by the Windermere Media Center. If the reading logs are mis- placed just keep a record of book titles that have been read and return that list to your classroom teacher. Our overall objective is to encourage and recognize those students who have practiced their reading skills over the summer months.

All that is really needed for the Summer Reading Program is parental/adult encouragement and perhaps a few trips to the Library. Please help us make this a worthwhile summer of reading fun for your young- ster.

Sincerely, Trudie Luck Roberts Principal, Center School

Hall Memorial Library Summer Hours: Monday- Thursday > 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. Friday > 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Saturdays > 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.