Pace Academy Lower School Summer Reading List – 2018 For Students Entering 5th Grade Assignment: Each student should read at least three books, including From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, which is required reading. A record of the books should be given to your homeroom teacher, during the first week of school. A blank Summer Reading Record can be printed from the L.S. Library Web site. Consider the books on this list as suggestions for summer reading. Students may read any age appropriate book, even if it is not on the list.
Due to their use during the school year, please exclude from your summer reading the following: • The Fighting Ground, by Avi • Bull Run, by Paul Fleischman • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis • Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O’Brien • The Bridge to Teribithia, by Katherine Paterson • Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls • Crash and Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli • The Cay, by Theodore Taylor
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Cobb County Public Library Dekalb County Library John David Anderson Everyone knows there are different kinds of teachers. The boring ones, the mean ones, the This list and all links may also be found on ones who try too hard, the ones who stopped the Lower School Library Web page. trying long ago. Ms. Bixby is none of these. What Ms. Bixby is, is one of a kind. Topher, What Color Is My World?: The Lost History Brand, and Steve know this better than anyone. of African-American Inventors And so when Ms. Bixby unexpectedly Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem announces that she won't be able to finish the While twins Ella and Herbie help Mr. Midal school year, they come up with a risky plan— work on their new home, he tells them about more of a quest, really—to give Ms. Bixby the such inventors as Granville Woods, Dr. Henry last day she deserves. T. Sampson, and James West, giving them a new view of their heritage as African- Beware The Power of the Dark Side Americans. Angleberger, Tom Mr. Lincoln's High-Tech War: An original retelling of Star Wars: Return of the How the North Used the Telegraph, Jedi. Luke Skywalker and his friends in the Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Iron-clads, Rebel Alliance formulate a daring plan to battle with the Empire and its evil leaders, Darth High-powered Weapons, and More to Win Vader and the Emperor. the Civil War Fuzzy Allen, Thomas B. Angleberger, Tom & Dellinger, Paul Examines how Abraham Lincoln's interest in When Max (Maxine Zealster) befriends her technology played a role in the outcome of the new robot classmate Fuzzy, she helps him Civil War; and explains how the telegraph, navigate Vanguard Middle School and together railroads, surveillance balloons, and other they reveal the truth behind the Robot inventions helped the North win the war and Integration Program. rebuild the economy. Whales on Stilts Return to Sender Pals in Peril Series, Book 1 Alvarez, Julia After his family hires migrant Mexican Anderson, M.T. workers to help save their Vermont farm from Racing against the clock, shy middle-school foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the student Lily and her best friends, Katie and oldest daughter, but when he discovers they Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's may not be in the country legally, he realizes conniving boss to conquer the world using an that real friendship knows no borders. army of whales. Fever, 1793 Murder at Midnight Avi Anderson, Laurie Halse Sixteen-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King her sick mother, learns about perseverance and Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along self-reliance when she is forced to cope with with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face the horrors of the yellow fever epidemic in deadly consequences unless they can track Philadelphia in 1793. down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight. Ms. Bixby’s Last Day Seer of Shadows Avi Going to school and making new friends can Photographer Horace Carpetine is be tough. But going to school and making new commissioned to do a portrait for society friends while wearing a bulky hearing aid matron Mrs. Frederick Von Macht; however, strapped to your chest? That requires the photos evoke both the image and the ghost superpowers! In this funny, poignant graphic of the Von Macht's dead daughter, Eleanora, novel memoir, author/illustrator Cece Bell who has returned to seek vengeance on those chronicles her hearing loss at a young age and who killed her. her subsequent experiences with the Phonic The Calder Game Ear, a very powerful--and very awkward-- hearing aid. Balliett, Blue Seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from The Penderwicks on Gardam Street a remote English village--along with an Sequel to The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale Alexander Calder sculpture. of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Peter and the Starcatchers Interesting Boy Barry, Dave Birdsall, Jeanne Peter, an orphan boy, and his friend Molly fight The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the off thieves and pirates in order to keep the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father secret safe away from the diabolical Black dating. Stache and his evil associate Mister Grin. Earth's Climate Change: Carbon Dioxide Overload Bow, James We live in an energy-rich age, in which we can turn on a light with the flick of a switch or Soar drive anywhere by turning a key. But, our vehicles, factories, and power stations, which Bauer, Joan Jeremiah is the world's biggest baseball fan. create the electricity needed to light and heat He really loves baseball and he knows just our buildings, pump carbon dioxide into about everything there is to know about his Earths atmosphere. Carbon dioxide overload favorite sport. So when he's told he can't play from these human activities is causing the baseball following an operation on his heart, Earth's climate to change. Find out what Jeremiah decides he'll do the next best thing scientists are doing to find sustainable new and become a coach. forms of energy that will secure our planets future. Circus Mirandus Cosmic Beasley, Cassie When he realizes that his grandfather's stories Boyce, Frank Cottrell of an enchanted circus are true, Micah Tuttle Twelve-year-old Liam, who looks like he is sets out to find the mysterious Circus thirty and is tired of being treated like he is Mirandus--and to use its magic to save his older than he actually is, decides he is going to grandfather's life. Fans of The Magician's pose as the adult chaperone on the first Elephant, Savvy, and Roald Dahl will fall in love spaceship to take civilians into space with Circus Mirandus, which celebrates the The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm power of seeing magic in the world. Boy El Deafo Bracken, Alexandra Bell, Cece An original retelling of Star Wars: A new hope. Presents an illustrated retelling of the first Star Wars film in which the galaxy's fate lies in the In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he hands of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and comes to terms with his parents' divorce, Han Solo. acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, The Wild Robot and joins the track team at school. Brown, Peter Extra Credit Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a Clements, Andrew remote, wild island with no memory of where Three young middle-school-age children, she is from or why she is there, and her only Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters hope of survival is to try to learn about her back and forth between the prairies of Illinois new environment from the island's hostile and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to inhabitants. bridge a gap across cultural and religious Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their divides. Lives and Dreams Brought to Life Counter Clockwise Ashley Bryan Cockcroft, Jason Using original slave auction and plantation When a bus in London hits Nathan’s mother, estate documents, Ashley Bryan offers a his father struggles with the tragedy and moving and powerful picture book that disappears through the bathroom wall to travel contrasts the monetary value of a slave with back in time and prevent her death; Nathan, the priceless value of life experiences and with help from a Beefeater named Bartelby, dreams that a slave owner could never take tries to prevent his father from changing the away. future. Blood on the River: James Town 1607 The Dog, Ray Carbone, Elisa Lynn Coggin, Linda Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page Daisy, age twelve, has died ... in a car accident. to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan She finds herself in the afterworld, which Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of resembles nothing more than a job center. Her James Town, where he must quickly learn to soul is being returned to Earth, but not as a distinguish between friend and foe. human being-she's returning as a dog. A dog Al Capone Shines My Shoes who is determined to get back to her parents and to get back home Sequel to Al Capone Does My Shirts Choldenko, Gennifer Gregor the Overlander Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along The Underland Chronicles, Book 1 with his family and the families of the other Collins, Suzanne prison guards, is frightened when he discovers When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two- that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner year-old sister are pulled into a strange there, wants a favor in return for the help that underground world, they trigger an epic battle he secretly gave Moose. involving humans, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. Crow Smarts: Inside the Brain of the World’s Brightest Bird Strider Comins, Andy One of the biggest differences between humans Sequel to Dear Mr. Henshaw and animals is the ability to understand the Cleary, Beverly idea of "If I do X, Y might happen." New Caledonian crows seem to possess the he pursues his dream of transforming base intelligence to understand this "causal" metal into gold, Meggy undergoes a concept. What does the crow know and what transformation herself. does it tell us about brain size, the evolution of Raymie Nightingale intelligence, and just who is the smartest DiCamillo, Kate creature on the planet? Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant Hate That Cat her father will come home, Raymie practices Sequel to Love That Dog twirling a baton and performing good deeds as Creech, Sharon she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a Jack continues to write poems reflecting his drama queen and a saboteur. understanding of famous poems and how they relate to his life. The Drawing Lesson: A Graphic Novel That Teaches You How to Draw Crilley, Mark The London Eye Mystery For the first time ever, drawing instructor and Dowd, Siobhan graphic novelist Mark Crilley brings his easy- When Ted and Kat’s cousin Salim disappears to-follow artistic instruction to aspiring artists from the London Eye Ferris wheel, the two in the form of a comic book, providing you siblings must work together--Ted with his with a one-of-a-kind how-to experience. brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Elijah of Buxton Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what Curtis, Christopher Paul happened to Salim. Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free- Anybody Shining born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven Dowell, Frances O’Roark for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, Can one mistake destroy the chance of a uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice lifetime? A girl discovers there are many ways the lying preacher who has stolen money that of being true in this magnificent ode to was to be used to buy a family's freedom. handwritten letters and the shining power of The Madman of Piney Woods friendship, set in the Appalachian mountains Companion book to: Elijah of Buxton of 1920s North Carolina. Curtis, Christopher Paul Out of My Mind Benji and Red couldn't be more different. They Draper, Sharon M. aren't friends. They don't even live in the same Melody is not like most people. She cannot town. But their fates are entwined. A chance walk or talk, but she has a photographic meeting leads the boys to discover that they memory; she can remember every detail of have more in common than meets the eye. Both everything she has ever experienced. She is of them have encountered a strange presence smarter than most of the adults who try to in the forest, watching them, tracking them. diagnose her and smarter than her classmates Could the Madman of Piney Woods be real? in her integrated classroom—the very same Alchemy and Meggy Swann classmates who dismiss her as mentally Cushman, Karen challenged, because she cannot tell them Meggy Swann, a girl who walks with the aid of otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by two sticks, arrives in Elizabethan London, cerebral palsy. And she's determined to let along with her goose Louise, to stay with her everyone know it…somehow. father who really does not want her, and while Stella By Starlight Draper, Sharon M. A biography of Benjamin Franklin that follows When a burning cross set by the Klan causes him from his childhood in Boston, where he panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North was the son of a poor soap and candle maker Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice with seventeen children, to his death, and find the strength to demand change in her describing how Franklin became a self-made segregated town. man who died a renowned statesman, scientist, The Dagger Quick printer, author, and inventor. Eames, Brian Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of Twelve-year-old Christopher "Kitto" Wheale, a War clubfooted boy seemingly doomed to follow in Frost, Helen the boring footsteps of his father as a cooper in Twelve-year-olds Anikwa, of the Miami village seventeenth-century England, finds himself on of Kekionga, and James, of the trading post a dangerous seafaring adventure with his outside Fort Wayne, find their friendship newly discovered uncle, the infamous pirate threatened by the rising fear and tension William Quick. brought by the War of 1812. The Ruins of Gorlan Coraline Book 1 of The Ranger’s Apprentice Series Gaiman, Neil Flanagan, John Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures When battle school rejects fifteen-year-old Will, through a mysterious door into a world that is he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the similar, yet disturbingly different from her mysterious Ranger, Halt, and winds up own, where she must challenge a gruesome protecting the kingdom from danger. entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. The Trouble Begins at 8: The Graveyard Book A Life of Mark Twain in the Wild, Wild Gaiman, Neil The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in West by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of Fleischman, Sid eighteen months and raised lovingly and “Mark Twain was born fully grown with a carefully to the age of eighteen years by the cheap cigar clamped between his teeth.” This community of ghosts and otherworldly quote is from chapter one. creatures. Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart Dead End in Norvelt Fleming, Candace Gantos, Jack Traces the life of female aviator Amelia Earhart In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, from her childhood to her final flight. In twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses readers back and forth between Amelia's life until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor (from childhood up until her last flight) and with a most unusual chore involving the newly the exhaustive search for her and her missing dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout plane. cookies, underage driving and history lessons. Becoming Ben Franklin: How a Candle- The Grimm Conclusion Maker’s Son Helped Light the Flame of A Companion to A Tale Dark & Grimm Liberty Gidwitz, Adam Freedman, Russell Inspired by creations of the Brothers Grimm. When an alternate 1875 steam-driven America Sister and brother Jorinda and Joringel fight to rediscovers electricity, the lifeblood of the keep their promise to stay together throughout Mangleborn monsters, and the secret society to a new series of gruesome, twisted, Grimm- protect humanity from the Mangleborn is inspired stories. compromised, twelve-year-old Archie must So You Want to Be a Jedi? assemble a team of seven young heroes to save Gidwitz, Adam the world. An original retelling of Star Wars: The Empire Home Run strikes back. The further adventures of Luke A Baseball Great Novel Skywalker and his friends in their continuing Book Four battle against Darth Vader and the evil side of Green, Tim the Force. Josh's life has just fallen apart. His father will Jubilee no longer be coaching the travel baseball team Giff, Patricia Reilly and is moving to Florida, forcing his mom and Judith lives with her beloved aunt Cora and little sister to move into a small apartment on her faithful Dog on a beautiful island. Years the wrong side of town. To make matters ago, when her mother left, Judith stopped worse, the new coach of the travel team is an talking. Now she communicates entirely unforgiving drill sergeant. through gestures and taps, and by drawing Football Champ cartoons, speaking only when she's alone--or Sequel to Football Genius with Dog. Green, Tim Pictures of Hollis Woods Twelve-year-old Troy's uncanny gift for Giff, Patricia Reilly predicting football plays proves a powerful A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying secret weapon for the Atlanta Falcons, but a with an elderly artist who needs her, seedy reporter with a vendetta suspects remembers the only other time she was happy something is going on and sets out to shred the in a foster home, with a family that truly reputations of Troy and star linebacker Seth seemed to care about her. Halloway. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello’s Library Earth: Feeling the Heat Grabenstein, Chris Guiberson, Brenda Z. Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in Describes the effects of global warming on the new town library, designed by his hero (the animals and habitats around the world, and famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with reinforces the fact that people can help. other students but finds that come morning he Ted and Me must work with friends to solve puzzles in A Baseball Card Adventure order to escape. Gutman, Dan Joe "Stosh" Stoshack has an incredible ability. He can travel through time using baseball cards. But the FBI has learned of his talent, and now they have a mission for him: go back to 1941 and warn President Roosevelt about the The League of Seven, Book One attack on Pearl Harbor! Stosh is reluctant, until he finds out that his "ticket" to 1941 is a Ted Gratz, Alan Williams card. Chomp Hiaasen, Carl The difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears on location in the Florida Everglades, where they were filming animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, and Wahoo and Among the Hidden classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him, but Book 1 of the Shadow Children Series they must avoid Tuna's gun-happy father. Haddix, Margaret Peterson In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. Found Full of Beans Book 1 of the Missing Series Holm, Jennifer L. Haddix, Margaret Peterson Grown-ups lie. That's one truth Beans knows When thirteen-year-olds Jonah and Chip, who for sure. 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Monsters and Mutants of Mythology Kelly, Sophia Einstein, whose contributions to the field An illustrated introduction to monsters and earned his a Nobel Prize. beasts from Greek mythology that provides Inside Out & Back Again profiles, family histories, facts, and more on Lai, Thanhha minotaur, Cyclopes,Hydra, and others. Through a series of poems, a young girl Amina’s Voice chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when Khan, Hena she, her mother, and her brothers leave Amina has never been comfortable in the Vietnam and resettle in Alabama. spotlight. She is happy just hanging out with The Capture her best friend, Soojin. Except now that she's in Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 1 middle school everything feels different. Soojin Law, Ingrid is suddenly hanging out with Emily, one of the Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger band together to "cool" girls in the class, and even talking about seek the truth and protect the owl world from changing her name to something more unimaginable danger. "American." Does Amina need to start Savvy changing too? Or hiding who she is to fit in? Law, Ingrid Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy," a unique magical power. Waiting for Augusta Lawson, Jessica In early 1960s Alabama, eleven-year-old Ben, carrying an urn with his father's ashes, sets out The Medusa Plot on an eventful journey to the Augusta 39 Clues series, Cahills vs. Vespers, Book 1 National, "the Sistine Chapel of golf courses," to make peace with his father. Korman, Gordon Thirteen-year-old Dan Cahill and his older sister, Amy, thought the search for the thirty- nine clues leading to the source of their family's power was over, but when Cahills are kidnapped by the Vespers, Amy and Dan find themselves with only a few day to fulfill a bizarre ransom request before their friends A Tale of Two Castles start dying. Levine, Gail Carson The Dragon of Trelian Newly arrived in the town of Two Castles, Knudsen, Michelle Elodie unexpectedly becomes the assistant to a A magi's apprentice, a princess, and a dragon brilliant dragon named Meenore, and together combine their strength and magic to bring they solve mysteries. Their most important down a traitor and restore peace to the case concerns the town's shape-shifting ogre, kingdom of Trelian. Count Jonty Um: Someone is plotting against Albert Einstein him. Elodie must disguise herself to discover Krull, Kathleen the source of the threat amid a cast of An exploration of the life and times of characters that includes a greedy king, a giddy German-born theoretical physicist Albert princess, and a handsome cat trainer. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon After celebrating their first nine same-day Lin, Grace birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life things begin to happen as the day of their to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade birthday begins to repeat itself over and over River. again. Heavy Hitters Baseball Crazy: Ten Stories that Cover All Game Changers, Book 3 the Bases Lupica, Mike Mercado, Nancy E. 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J. powerful moment in Black history. Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not Rain Reign expected to survive, goes from being home- Martin, Ann M. schooled to entering fifth grade at a private Rose Howard is obsessed with homonyms. middle school in Manhattan, which entails She's thrilled that her own name is a enduring the taunts and fear of his classmates homonym, and she purposely gave her dog as he struggles to be seen as just another Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, student. Rein), which, according to Rose's rules of Eragon homonyms, is very special. Not everyone understands Rose's obsessions, her rules, and Inheritance Series, Book 1 the other things that make her different - not Paolini, Christopher her teachers, not other kids, and not her single In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown father. Hearts will break and spirits will soar lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone for this powerful story, brilliantly told from that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of Rose's point of view. destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters. A Single Shard 11 Birthdays Park, Linda Sue Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in Mass, Wendy medieval Korea, lives under a bridge near a potters' village, and longs to learn how to A Long Way from Chicago: A Novel in throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself. Stories Peck, Richard A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life Bread and Roses, Too grandmother. Paterson, Katherine A Season of Gifts Twelve-year-old Rosa and thirteen-year-old Peck, Richard Jake form an unlikely friendship as they try to A companion novel to: A Long Way from survive and understand the 1912 Bread and Chicago and A Year Down Yonder. Relates the Roses strike of mill workers in Lawrence, surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Massachusetts. Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently The Higher Power of Lucky moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel. Patron, Susan Fearing that her legal guardian plans to Pax abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old Pennypacker, Sarah aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a run away while also continuing to seek the young boy named Peter decides to leave home Higher Power that will bring stability to her and get his best friend back. life. The Storm in the Barn Guts Phelan, Matt Paulsen, Gary Eleven-year-old Jack Clark struggles with The author relates incidents in his life and how everyday obstacles while his family and they inspired parts of his books about the community contend with the challenges character, Brian Robeson. brought on by the Dust Bowl in 1937 Kansas. Harris and Me The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Paulsen, Gary Figg Sent to live with relatives on their farm because Philbrick, W. Rodman of his unhappy home life, an eleven-year-old Homer P. Figg escapes from his wretched foster city boy meets his distant cousin Harris and is home in Pine Swamp, Maine, and sets out to given an introduction to a whole new world. find his beloved older brother, Harold, who “… includes laugh-out-loud passages as well has been illegally sold into the Union Army. as heaps of nostalgia.” Horn Book 3-94 The Young Man and the Sea How Angel Peterson Got His Name: And Philbrick, W. Rodman Other Outrageous Tales About Extreme After his mother's death, twelve-year-old Skiff Sports Beaman decides that it is up to him to earn Paulsen, Gary money to take care of himself and his father, so Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his he undertakes a dangerous trip alone out on youth in a small town in northwestern the ocean off the coast of Maine to try to catch Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, a huge blue fin tuna. such as skiing behind a souped-up car and Hand in Hand: Ten Black men Who Changed imitating daredevil Evel Knievel. America Pinkney, Andrea Davis This book offers insight into the lives of ten Reynolds, Jason influential African American men from Winner of the Coretta Scott King–John different times in the history of the United Steptoe Award. States. Genie's summer is full of surprises. The first is Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women that he and his big brother, Ernie, are leaving Freedom Fighters Brooklyn for the very first time to spend the Pinkney, Andrea Davis summer with their grandparents all the way in Presents profiles of ten African-American Virginia… in the COUNTRY! The second women whose efforts on behalf of racial justice surprise comes when Genie figures out that and freedom have influenced the course of their grandfather is blind. Thunderstruck and, history. being a curious kid, Genie peppers Grandpop Bystander with questions about how he covers it so well Preller, James (besides wearing way cool Ray-Bans). Thirteen-year-old Eric discovers there are The Red Pyramid consequences to not standing by and watching Kane Chronicles, Book 1 as the bully at his new school hurts people, Riordan, Rick although school officials are aware of the Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane problem. Nonetheless, Eric may be the one accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, with a solution. who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
The Magic Thief Magic Thief, Book 1 Prineas, Sarah Conn's life is forever changed when he tries to pick the pocket of the wizard Nevery and instead gets a strong jolt of magic, but, instead of punishing the boy, Nevery takes Conn under his wing, teaches him magic, and enlists his help in finding the person responsible for The Sword of Summer stealing the city's dwindling magic supply. Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard, Larklight, or, The Revenge of the White Book 1 Spiders!, or, To Saturn's Rings and Back!: A Riordan, Rick Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Farthest Reaches of Space Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived Reeve, Philip alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his In an alternate Victorian England, young wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of the truant officers. One day, he's tracked down Larklight, a floating house in one of Her by an uncle he barely knows-a man his mother Majesty's outer space territories, uncover a claimed was dangerous. Uncle Randolph tells spidery plot to destroy the solar system. him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of As Brave as You a Norse god. The Tales of Beedle the Bard leaves her extremely restricted life in California Translated from the ancient runes by to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of Hermione Granger; commentary by Albus horses and encounters Artemisia, a wild mare Dumbledore; introduction, notes, and that her mother once rode. illustrations by J.K. Rowling. Fuzzy Mud Contains five illustrated moral tales for children from the world of Harry Potter, Sachar, Louis reportedly discovered and translated by young Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home witch Hermione Granger, with an introduction from school and discover what looks like fuzzy and commentary from Albus Dumbledore, mud but is actually a substance with the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft potential to wreak havoc on the entire world. and Wizardry. Winner 2017 Georgia Book Award Grades 4-8 Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms Holes Rundell, Katherine Sachar, Louis Wilhelmina Silver's world is golden. Living As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, half-wild on an African farm with her horse, which they attribute to a curse on a distant her monkey, and her best friend, every day is relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish beautiful. But when her home is sold and Will correctional camp in the Texas desert where he is sent away to boarding school in England, the finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new world becomes impossibly difficult. sense of himself. The Dreamer Lincoln Through the Lens: How Photography Ryan, Pam Munoz Revealed and Shaped an Extraordinary Life A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize- Sandler, Martin W. winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew Contains over one hundred images of the life up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his of Abraham Lincoln that provide a portrait of overbearing father, but who became one of the his presidency and the events surrounding it. most widely-read poets in the world. Drawing From Memory Esperanza Rising Say, Allen Ryan, Pam Munoz This stunning graphic novel is Allen Say's own Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave story of his path to becoming the renowned their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to artist he is today. Shunned by his father, who go work in the labor camps of Southern didn't understand his son's artistic leanings, California, where they must adapt to the harsh Allen was embraced by Noro Shinpei, Japan's circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on leading cartoonist and the man he came to love the eve of the Great Depression. as his "spiritual father." As World War II raged, Allen was further inspired to consider questions of his own heritage and the motivations of those around him. He worked hard in rigorous drawing classes, studied; trained and ultimately came to understand who he really is. Paint the Wind The Inker’s Shadow Ryan, Pam Munoz Say, Allen After her overprotective grandmother has a In this graphic novel companion to Drawing stroke, eleven-year-old Maya, an orphan, from Memory, Caldecott medalist Allen Say chronicles his experiences of being the first the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town Japanese student at a military academy in called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps South California eight years after World War investigate the theft of a statue. Two. Loser Knucklehead: Tall Tales & Mostly True Spinelli, Jerry Stories About Growing Up Scieszka Even though his classmates from first grade on Scieszka, Jon have considered him strange and a loser, Presents a memoir of what it was like to grow Donald Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance up in the 1950s and other almost true stories by and the support of his loving family do not American children's author Jon Scieszka. allow him to feel that way about himself. The Marvels Selznick, Brian The journey begins at sea in 1766, with a boy Bella at Midnight named Billy Marvel. After surviving a Stanley, Diane shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. Bella's peasant life is changed when her real There, his family flourishes for generations as father, a knight who abandoned her when she brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes was a baby, comes and reclaims her, moving Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a her to his home where she lives with a century later, runaway Joseph Jervis seeks resentful stepmother and two horrible refuge with an uncle in London. Albert stepsisters and learns about a plot to kill her Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its friend, Prince Julian. mysterious portraits and ghostly presences, The Emerald Atlas captivates Joseph and leads him on a search for Stephens, John clues about the house, his family, and the past. Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal the one orphanage to another in the ten years since World’s Most Dangerous Weapon their parents disappeared to protect them, but Sheinkin, Steve now they learn that they have special powers-- Examines the history of the atomic bomb, and a fearsome enemy--and embark on a discussing the discovery of the behavior of prophesied quest to find a magical book. uranium when placed next to radioactive The Mysterious Benedict Society and the material, the race to build a bomb, and the Perilous Journey impact of the weapon on societies around the Sequel to The Mysterious Benedict Society world. Stewart, Trenton Lee Falling Up: Poems and Drawings Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all Silverstein, Shel graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very A collection of poems by American poet and Enlightened and members of the Benedict humorist, Shel Silverstein including the poems Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns My Nose Garden, Little Hoarse, Strange into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Restaurant, Sharing, Noise Day, and many Benedict. more. Courage Has No Color: The True story of Who Could That Be at This Hour? the Triple Nickels: America’s First Black All the Wrong Questions, Book 1 Paratroopers Snicket, Lemony Stone, Tanya Lee Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of Tanya Lee Stone examines the little-known On a cold day in eighteenth-century England, a history of the Triple Nickles, America's first poor young boy agrees to watch a stranger's black paratroopers, who fought in an attack on horse for a golden guinea and quickly finds the American West by the Japanese. The 555th himself in a difficult situation when the king's Parachute Infantry Battalion, in the words of guard appears and wants to use him as bait in First Sergeant Walter Morris, "proved that the their pursuit of a notorious highwayman. color of a man had nothing to do with his The Dragon’s Egg ability." Thomson, Sarah L. Spellbinder Mella, a young girl trained as a dragon keeper, Stringer, Helen learns that the legends of old are true when she Twelve-year-old Belladonna Johnson, who is entrusted with carrying a dragon's egg to the lives with the ghosts of her parents in the north fabled Hatching Grounds, a dangerous journey of England, teams up with an always-in- on which she is assisted by a knight's squire. trouble classmate to investigate why all of the Three Times Lucky ghosts in the world have suddenly Turnage, Sheila disappeared. Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder. The Real Boy The Dragonet Prophecy Ursu, Anne A shy boy named Oscar who works as the Wings of Fire, Book 1 hand to a powerful magic worker becomes the Sutherland, Tui only person who can save his village from an Clay and the other four MudWing dragonets evil monster. were stolen from their homes while they were Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things still in their eggs and hidden for years in order to fulfill a prophecy claiming that the Van Draanen, Wendelin dragonets would end the war between the While on her first hiking and camping trip, dragon tribes, but not all of the dragonets want thirteen-year-old Sammy tries to solve a their destiny. mystery involving endangered condors while avoiding scorpions, ticks, and embarrassment. The Arrival Save Me a Seat Tan, Shaun In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan his homeland and sets off for a new country, Ravi has just moved to the United States from where he must build a new life. India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole Tales from Outer Suburbia life and has learning problems--but when their Tan, Shaun lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade Contains fifteen illustrated short stories, some they are brought together by a common enemy humorous and some haunting, set in the (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to Australian suburbs. take control of their lives.
Highway Robbery Countdown, Sixties Trilogy, Book 1 Thompson, Kate Wiles, Deborah As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals founder of the school left many clues and with drama at home and with her best friend puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. in 1962, she tries to understand the larger Using their wits and their growing prowess problems in the world after President Kennedy with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are announces that Russia is sending nuclear going to solve the mystery of Stately Academy missiles to Cuba. This book features historic no matter what it takes! quotations and photographs. Millicent Min, Girl Genius One Crazy Summer Yee, Lisa Williams-Gracia, Rita In a series of journal entries, eleven-year-old In the summer of 1968, after traveling from child prodigy Millicent Min records her Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a struggles to learn to play volleyball, tutor her month with the mother they barely know, enemy, deal with her grandmother's departure, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger and make friends over the course of a sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they tumultuous summer. discover that their mother, a dedicated poet Stanford Wong Flunks Big-time and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their Companion to Millicent Min, Girl Genius visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Yee, Lisa
Panther summer camp. This moving, funny After flunking sixth-grade English, basketball novel won the Scott O'Dell Award for prodigy Stanford Wong must struggle to pass Historical Fiction and the Coretta Scott King his summer-school class, keep his failure a Award and was a National Book Award secret from his friends, and satisfy his Finalist. Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern's story academically demanding father. continues in P.S. Be Eleven and Gone Crazy in Trash Mountain Alabama. Yolen, Jane Brown Girl Dreaming Nutley is a young red squirrel who finds Woodson, Jacqueline himself alone after his parents are killed. He The author shares her childhood memories and flees his familiar tree for the shelter of the local reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing landfill, where he must take on the powerful career in free-verse poems about growing up in grays. the North and South. The Garden of My Imaan The Dollhouse Murders Zia, Farhana Wright, Betty Ren The arrival of new student Marwa, a fellow A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the sixth-grader who is a strict Muslim, helps Aliya middle of the night, and dolls that have moved come to terms with her own lukewarm practice from where she last left them, lead Amy and of the faith and her embarrassment over others' her mentally handicapped sister to unravel the reactions to their beliefs. mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago. Below is a selection of books that have stood the test of time, having been published at least twenty years ago. They are listed alphabetically, by Secret Coders Yang, Gene Luen author. Book one of the series ~The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken Welcome to Stately Academy, a school that is ~The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander (five just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The volume series) ~Sounder by William Howard Armstrong ~The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving ~The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi ~Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving ~Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt ~The Redwall series by Brian Jacques ~Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M. Barrie ~The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (ISBN-13: 978-1-40272-868-6) ~The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling ~On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer ~Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling ~The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum ~The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (The ~Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) ~The Wish Giver: Three Tales of Coven Tree by Bill ~A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Brittain ~Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis (seven book ~The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett series) Please exclude The Lion, The Witch and the ~The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford Wardrobe. (Will be read in 5th Grade.) ~Behind the Attic Wall by Sylvia Cassedy ~The Call of the Wild by Jack London ~Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ~In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette ~The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper (five Lord volumes) ~Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry (Book 1, The ~The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Anastasia Series) Curtis ~The Giver by Lois Lowry ~Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman ~Number the Stars by Lois Lowry ~The BFG by Roald Dahl ~Homer Price by Robert McCloskey ~Matlilda by Roald Dahl ~The Pushcart War by Jean Merrill ~The Witches by Roald Dahl ~Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery ~Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek ~Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire ~The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit ~The Wheel on the School by Meindert De Jong ~Rascal by Sterling North ~The 21 Balloons by William Penne du Bios ~The Pearl by Scott O’Dell ~Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright ~My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara ~The Moffat Series by Eleanor Estes ~The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson ~The Black Stallion by Walter Farley ~Hatchet by Gary Paulsen ~The Whipping Boy by Sid Fleischman ~Tom’s Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce ~Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh ~The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin ~Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes ~The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ~Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George ~The Henry Reed series by Keith Robertson ~My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George ~Black Beauty by Anna Sewell ~Old Yeller by Fred Gipson ~Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein ~The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales by ~Baseball in April and Other Stories by Gary Soto Virginia Hamilton ~The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George ~Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush by Virginia Hamilton Speare ~King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry ~The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare ~Abel’s Island by William Steig ~Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson ~Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ~The Friendship By Mildred Taylor ~The Gold Cadillac by Mildred Taylor ~Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor ~The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien ~The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain ~Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain ~A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne ~Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne ~Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt (The Tillerman Cycle, Book 1) ~Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter ~The Sword in the Stone T. H. White ~Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin ~Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss ~Dragonwings by Laurence Yep
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