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SUMMER READING LOG Color in one square for every 10 minutes that you read this summer! Bring your completed picture back to the Library in August.

2020-2021 LYRC 3-5th Grade Nominated Title List

1. All That Trash: The Story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and Our Problem with Stuff written and illustrated by Meghan McCarthy 2. Art of the Swap, The by Kristine Asselin and Jen Malone 3. Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery by Sandra Neil Wallace, illustrated by Bryan Collier 4. Boo-Boos That Changed the World, The: A True Story About an Accidental Invention (Really!) by Barry Wittenstein, illustrated by Chris Hsu 5. Charlie and Frog Book #1 by Karen Kane 6. Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story by Joseph Bruchac, illustrated by Liz Amini-Holmes 7. Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 by Helaine Becker, illustrated by Tiemdow Phumiruk 8. Dear Sister by Alison McGhee, Illustrated by Joe Bluhm 9. Fly to the Rescue (Tiny Geniuses: Book 1) by Megan E. Bryant 10. Hammering for Freedom by Rita Lorraine Hubbard, illustrated by John Holyfield 11. Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment (Book #1) by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein 12. Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, The by Stacy McAnulty 13. Phantom Tower, The by Keir Graff 14. Saving Fiona: The Story of the World's Most Famous Baby Hippo by Thane Maynard 15. Strongheart: Wonder Dog of the Silver Screen by Candace Fleming, illustrated by Eric Rohmann

These are the 2020-2021 nominated titles for the Louisiana Young Readers’ Choice (LYRC) Awards if you would like to read some of them over the summer. The LYRC Awards are sponsored by the State Library of Louisiana and allow students to vote on their favorite book of the year (from a list of nominated titles selected by Louisiana librarians.)

For several years, ASH students in third and fourth grade have participated in the LYRC voting, and, for the past two years, we have been lucky to have actual voting machines from the Secretary of State for students to use! We will be discussing this in greater detail in the Library next year, and we will also have all of the nominated titles available for check out. PREKINDERGARTEN/ KINDERGARTEN SUMMER READING 2020

Enclosed please find suggested Summer Reading titles to read over the summer break. You may find additional choices from your public library or bookstore. Each page includes optional activities to accompany the reading. These are OPTIONAL, but your daughter is welcome to bring any final artwork or writing to the Library at the beginning of the school year. We strongly encourage FAMILY reading, too! If you have any questions, please feel free to email the Library!

Resources: Audio books are reading, too! You can borrow and read free ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines from your library using your phone or tablet! Free databases are also available. Our library website will also be available over the summer and is accessible 24/7. From the homepage, students and their families have access to our ebook collection as well as to the Gale databases, Capstone databases (PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next), and to World Book Online Encyclopedia. To get to the ASH Library homepage and electronic catalog: 1. Go to http://destiny.arch-no.org/ 2. Click “Archdiocese of New Orleans” 3. Click “Academy of the Sacred Heart” under Elementary Schools

Login for ASH ebooks: Login for World Book Online: Username: first initial, last name, 2 year Username: ash digit of graduation (ex. sholmes19) Password: library Password: lunch/library number

Login for PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next: Login for Gale Databases: Username: ashla Username: ash Password: school Password: library

CONTENTS: □ Summer Reading List □ Postcard Instructions □ Reading Coloring Log □ Postcards NATURE

You Nest Here with Me Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, Illustrated by Melissa Sweet An ode to baby birds everywhere and sleepy children home safe in their own beds as a mother Maple (series) describes to her child how many Lori Nichols species of birds nest, from pigeons A nature-loving little girl's favorite on concrete ledges to owls in oak playmate is her maple tree until the tree boles to swallows above barn day she's surprised with a baby doors. sister.

Flowers Are Calling Rita Gray, Illustrated by Kenard Pak Rhyming text and color illustrations explain how pollination happens, looking at the natural cooperation between plants, animals, and insects.

Finding Wild Megan Wagner Lloyd, Illustrated by Abigail Halpin There are so many places that Run Wild wild can exist, if only you David Covell know where to look! Can you A celebration of the joy of being find it? Two kids set off on an outdoors features a child who adventure away from their abandons his digital device in favor of urban home and discover all joining a friend outside the beauty of the natural world. The children discover that wild exists not just off in some distant place, but right in their own backyard.

Optional Activities: □Take a walk, ride a bike, or garden/play in your own backyard. □When you get home, draw a picture of something you saw outside in nature! Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)

Cy Makes a Friend The Ann Marie Stephens, Adventures of Illustrated by Tracy Subisak Otto: See Pip Cy the Cyclops can make just Flap (series) about anything, except a friend. David Even practicing skills such as Milgrim making eye contact and winking With help doesn't seem to help. Then Cy from his remembers that it's nice to share, 2019 Seuss friend Otto the so he turns his talent for making Geisel Honor Book robot, Pip the things to creating a special some- mouse tries to thing just right for two.

Charlotte the Scientist is Squished (1st in series) Camille Andros, Illustrated by Brianne Farley Charlotte, a serious scientist (and a bunny), uses the scientific method to solve her problem: being squished by her many brothers and sisters. A Trip to the Top of the Volcano with Mouse Frank Viva Love, Z A boy and a mouse trek to Jessie Sima the top of a volcano, taking A little robot named Z finds a message in in soaring trees, lunar a bottle signed, "Love, Beatrice" and, landscapes and snow unable to learn what love is from other capped peaks, then return robots, sets out on a quest to find the to the ancient city at the answer. bottom.

Animal Ark: Celebrating our Wild Rhyme Crime World in Poetry and Jon Burgerman Pictures A thief wreaks havoc by Kwame Alexander, switching things out for Photography by Joel rhyming counterparts, Sartore until he's stumped by an Through the poetry form unrhymable word. of haiku, the animal world is embraced and lovingly examined. I’m Just No Good at Rhyming Lion of the Sky: Haiku for Chris Harris, All Seasons Illustrated by Lane Smith Laura Purdie Salas, An illustrated collection Illustrated by: Mercè Lopez of comically irreverent Haiku meet riddles in this rhyming poems for poetry collection readers of all ages, celebrating the seasons and ranging in topic from describing everything from avocados and anacondas an earthworm to a baseball to to zombies and zebras an apple to snow angels. (dressed like ghosts).

Daniel Finds a Poem Micha Archer Bookjoy Wordjoy A little boy's animal Pat Mora, friends help him discover Illustrated by Raul the poetry to be found in Colón nature. Collection of poems *Ezra Jack Keats Award celebrating words. Winner!

Optional Activities: □Find your own WORDJOY, and write a poem (ex. rhyming, concrete, haiku, free verse). □For added fun, read or recite your poem to a friend or family member. ART

The Book of Mistakes Corinna Luyken An artist learns how her “mistakes” are actually part of her imaginative process.

Drawn Together Minh Lê, Hey, Wall: Illustrated by Dan Santat A Story of Art and Community A boy and his grandfather Susan Verde, cross a language and cultural Illustrated by John Parra barrier using their shared love A creative young man unites his of art, storytelling, and fantasy. community to turn a forgotten wall into a neighborhood mural.

Just Add Glitter Angela DiTerlizzi, Illustrated by Samantha Cotterill A young girl decorates everything with glitter. Can there ever be too much glitter?

Georgia’s Terrific, Colorific Experiment Zoe Persico Masterpiece Mix Georgia wants to become a Roxie Munro famous scientist, but she does not Thirty-seven masterpieces inspire think her family of artists can be an artist who is wondering what to of any help to her. paint. Includes a seek-and-find.

Optional Activities: □Use sidewalk chalk to create your own community mural outside. □Go to the museum (you can do this virtually!), and pick a favorite painting or work of art. What do you like about it? □Draw a picture of something that you saw at the museum. READING AND WRITING

Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian Jacob Sager Weinstein, Illustrated by Vera Brosgol When evil Dr. Glockenspiel threatens all the books in the world, only one person can stop him--a book-wielding, super-secret operative called Lyric McKerrigan.

What If… Samantha Berger, I Can Be Anything: Don’t Tell Me I Illustrated by Mike Curato Can’t A child who likes to draw and Diane Dillon write stories imagines what Zoe is sure that she can be anything she would happen if there were no wants to be, despite a little voice of pencils, paper, or other tools doubt that points out the problems with for being creative her ideas--but first she needs to learn how to read.

Don’t Blink Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Illustrated by David Roberts Here's how it works: if you can avoid getting to the end of this book, you can avoid bedtime, simple as that. (It's a pretty sweet deal, actually.) But each time you blink, you have to turn a page. Those are just the rules. So whatever you do, DON'T BLINK! Bunny’s Book Club Annie Silvestro, Idea Jar Illustrated by Tatjana Mai-Wyss Adam Lehraupt, Bunny loves reading so much that Illustrated by Deb Pilutti he begins sneaking into the library What happens when the story ideas at night to borrow books, and soon --from a bored Viking to a space his friends want to join him. robot--kept in a teacher's special jar escape and get rowdy?

TRAVEL

The Antlered Ship Dashka Slater, Illustrated by The Fan Brothers The Bear and the Piano (series) An inquisitive fox and a flock of pigeons join the crew David Litchfield of deer Captain Sylvia, setting sail in her A bear finds a piano in the woods, learns to play antlered ship in search of a wonderful island and it, and travels to the big city to become rich and finding friendship on the way. famous, but ultimately discovers that his old friends in the forest back home are still the best audience of all.

Wherever You Go Pat Zietlow Miller, Illustrated by Eliza Wheeler Illustrations and rhyming text follow a young Baby Goes to Market rabbit as he leaves home on a journey, Atinuke, Illustrated by Angela Brooksbank discovering the joys of different kinds of Adventures of Baby and Mama who go to the market roads and what they may bring--including a near their home in South West Nigeria. As Mama way back home. shops, Baby samples and collects treats...until Mama's basket begins to grow quite heavy.

A Chip Off the Old Block Jody Jensen Shaffer, Illustrated by Daniel Miyares Rocky, only a pebble, is determined to be as great as his famous relatives, so he travels from one family member to another until he finds the spot where he can make a big difference. Includes facts about types of rocks.

Optional Activities: □Think of a place to which you would like to travel and find a book about it. □After your journey, make your own postcard featuring the destination. □On your postcard, draw what you think was most important or your favorite thing about your destination!! (Feel free to use the included postcard, and mail it back to the Library!)

NEW ORLEANS

Epossumondas (series) The 5’ O’Clock Band Coleen Salley, Illustrated by Janet Stevens Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and Bill Taylor, A retelling of a classic tale in which a well- Illustrated by Bryan Collier intentioned young possum continually takes After missing rehearsal, Shorty questions what it his mother's instructions much too literally. means to be a leader. He hits the streets of New Orleans to find some answers.

A Topsy-Turvy History of New Orleans and Ten Tiny Turtles: 300 Years and Slowly Freedom in Congo Square Counting Carole Boston Weatherford, Tanie Lee and Simone Rathle Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie A brief history of New Orleans as told by the A poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known turtles who live in the fountain at Brennan’s piece of African American history that captures a restaurant. human's capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom's heart .

Optional Activities: □Discover your own city! □Grab an adult, and go somewhere in New Orleans where you have never been. □Listen to Louis Armstrong’s “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?,” and draw a picture of what New Orleans means to you! □Be adventurous! Try a “new” New Orleans food! GRAPHIC NOVELS BIOGRAPHY

Good Night, Planet

Liniers The Flying Girl: How Aida When you go off to sleep, your de Acosta Learned to Soar toys go out to play! After a long Margarita Engle, day of jumping in leaves and

Illustrated by Sara Palacios reading her favorite books, this little girl is worn out, but her favorite stuffed animal, Planet, 2018 Eisner is just getting Award started. Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor: The Woman Who Loved Reptiles Patricia Valdez, Noodleheads (series) Illustrated by Felicita Sala Todd Arnold Inspired by traditional folktales,

follow the adventures of Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther Noodlehead King’s Dream and You Brothers, Mac and Carole Boston Weatherford, Mac. Illustrated by James Ransome

Little Mouse

Gets Ready The Crayon Man: True Story Jeff Smith of the Invention of Crayola Little Mouse Crayons gets dressed so Natascha Biebow, he can go to the Illustrated by Steven Salerno barn with his mother, brothers, and sisters.

Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13 Helaine Becker, Optional Activity: Create your Illustrated by Dow Phumiruk own graphic novel combining pictures and words. For a pre -made layout and ideas to create your comic, go to https:// Optional Activity: images.macmillan.com/media/firstsecond/ Write your own biography! teachers-librarians/ Who and what is important in your life? Adventures_in_Cartooning_Activity_Kit.pdf Include pictures, if you like!

WORDLESS PICTURE BOOKS

Red Wolf in the Snow Jed Alexander Matthew Cordell Red is on her way This wordless story through the woods to visit tells of a girl and a Grandmother when she wolf pup lost in a meets the Big Bad Wolf. snow storm. The girl What are that Wolf and helps the pup find its all of those woodland family and the wolves creatures up to? This 2018 Caldecott Winner return the favor. version of the classic folktale ends a bit

differently.

Blue Rider Another Geraldo Valério Christian Robinson A child finds a book on a A young girl and her crowded city sidewalk cat take an imaginative and is transported beyond journey into another the repetitive sameness of world. an urban skyscape into an untamed natural world.

Pip and Pup Dog on a Digger Eugene Yelchin Kate Prendergast Across the barnyard, A dog comes up Pip the chick spots a with a rescue plan new friend to play that utilizes an with--Pup! But Pup excavator and help isn't sure he likes how from his friends Pip plays--too rough. when his puppy These two friends will friend goes missing. weather the storm though. A bright, fun celebration of spring and friendship!

Optional Activities: Write the text for a wordless book. What do you think the characters would say? What would the narration be? AWARD-WINNING BOOKS

Caldecott Award Sibert Medal

Winner!

CSK Winner! Newbery Honor!

The Undefeated Going Down Home Double Bass Blues Bear Came Along Fry Bread Kwame Alexander with Daddy Andrea J. Loney Richard T. Morris Kevin Noble Maillard, Illustrated by Juana Illustrated by Kadir Kelly Starling Lyons Illustrated by Illustrated by LeUyen Nelson Illustrated by Daniel Minter Rudy Gutierrez Pham Maritnez-Neal Coretta Scott King Award Schneider Family Book Award

Winner! Winner!

What Is Given from The Bell Rang Sulwe Just Ask!: Be Different, A Friend for Henry the Heart James Ransome Lupita Nyong’o, Be Brave, Be You Jenn Bailey, Patricia C. Illustrated by Sonia Sotomayor, Illustrated by Mika McKissack, Vashti Harrison Illustrated by April Illustrated by Rafael Song Harrison Lopez Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Pura Belpré Award

Winner! The Book Hog Flubby Is Not Greg Pizzoli a Good Pet Vamos! Let’s Go to the Dancing Hands Planting Stories Across the Bay J.E. Morris Margarita Engle Anika Denise, Carlos Aponte Market Illustrated by Illustrated by Raul the Third, Chick and Rafael Lopez Paola Escobar Illustrated by Elaine Bay Brain: Smell My Ezra Jack Keats Award Foot Cece Bell Winner!

By: By: By: By: Mariahadessa Matthew Sydney Isabel Ekere Tallie Farina Smith Belpré Honor! Quintero

Optional Activity: Choose your favorite book that you think should win an award! (It does not have to be from this year or have already won an award.) What do you love about this book? FAVORITE SERIES

Penguin Elephant and Piggie Fancy Nancy By: Salina Yoon By: Mo Willems By: Jane O’Connor

Katie Woo Olivia Penny By: Fran Manushkin By: Ian Falconer By: Kevin Henkes

Pete the Cat Snail and Worm Zelda and Ivy By: Eric Litwin By: Tina Kugler Laura McGee Kvasnosky

Optional Activity: Choose a book from a series and decide what happens NEXT…. □Where would you set the next book? □Would you add a new character? □What happens in the next book? FIRST GRADE SUMMER READING 2020 REQUIRED BOOK: Ollie by Olivier Dunrea Every incoming first grader is REQUIRED to read Ollie by Olivier Dunrea. Enclosed please find additional suggested Summer Reading titles to read over the summer break. You may find additional choices from your public library or bookstore. Each page includes optional activities to accompany the reading. These are OPTIONAL, but your daughter is welcome to bring any final artwork or writing to the Library at the beginning of the school year. Please allow your daughter to read as independently as possible, but keep in mind we strongly encourage FAMILY reading, too! If you have any questions, please feel free to email the Library! Resources: Audio books are reading, too! You can borrow and read free ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines from your library using your phone or tablet! Free databases are also available. Our library website will also be available over the summer and is accessible 24/7. From the homepage, students and their families have access to our ebook collection as well as to the Gale databases, Capstone databases (PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next), and to World Book Online Encyclopedia. To get to the ASH Library homepage and electronic catalog: 1. Go to http://destiny.arch-no.org/ 2. Click “Archdiocese of New Orleans” 3. Click “Academy of the Sacred Heart” under Elementary Schools

Login for ASH ebooks: Login for World Book Online: Username: first initial, last name, 2 year Username: ash digit of graduation (ex. sholmes19) Password: library Password: lunch/library number

Login for PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next: Login for Gale Databases: Username: ashla Username: ash Password: school Password: library

CONTENTS: □ Summer Reading List □ Postcard Instructions □ Reading Coloring Log □ Postcards NATURE

Bloom Deborah Diesen, Illustrated by Mary Lundquist A mother and child plant flower bulbs in the fall, wait through the winter, and see them bloom in the spring. You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks We Planted a Tree Evan Turk Diane Muldrow, Showcases the beauty and importance of Illustrated by Bob Staake the National Parks as it takes readers on A family in Brooklyn plants a tree in an amazing tour across the United States their small backyard at the same time from the rugged coast of Maine to the that a family in Kenya plants a tree fiery volcanoes of Hawaii. It reminds us on the bare African savannah. Both that every animal, plant, and person families watch the trees grow and helps make this land a sanctuary of life. witness the importance of planting a single tree.

Hiking Day Anne Rockwell, Illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell A young girl and her family take a hike in the mountains for the first time and see many surprises.

Summer Song Kevin Henkes, The Goose Egg Illustrated by Laura Dronzek Liz Wong Celebrates the sights, sounds, Henrietta the elephant's serene life is and smells of the season. Bees disrupted when a baby goose comes buzz, birds sing, and children to stay, but after Goose finally leaves, roll in the grass and feel the heat Henrietta no longer enjoys the quiet. of the summer sun.

Bears Make the Best Math Buddies Carmen Oliver, Illustrated by Jean Claude Adelaide explains to her teacher why bears make the best math buddies. Doll-E 1.0 Shanda McCloskey Charlotte has a talent for anything technological, so when she receives a Fergus and Zeke at the Science Fair doll as a present, she Kate Messner, upgrades it with a few Illustrated by Heather Ross spare parts and some Fergus and Zeke love being the class pets code to create a new and in Miss Maxwell's classroom, and they do improved friend. everything the students do. But when it's time for the school science fair, the mice aren't sure just how to get involved.

Violet the Pilot Steve Breen Snails Are Just My Speed Young Violet's only friend is her dog, Kevin McCloskey Orville, until one of her homemade Did you know snails build flying machines takes her to rescue a roads like engineers and go Boy Scout troop in trouble. undercover in camouflage like spies? Snail science, art, and hilarity!

Optional Activities: □Find some items around your house,* □Put them together to make your own creation! □Write a few sentences about or draw a picture of what you made. *Ask your parents before using anything of theirs! POETRY A Place to Start a Take Me Out of the Bathtub Family: Poems about and Other Silly Dilly Songs Creatures that Build (series) David L. Harrison, Alan Katz, Illustrated by Illustrated by Giles David Catrow Laroche Well-known songs, Poetry showing twelve including "Oh Susannah" animals and their and "Row, Row, Row Your habitations. Boat," are presented with new words and titles, such as "I'm So Carsick" and "Go, I’m Just No Good at Go, Go to Bed." Rhyming and Other Nonsense for Mischievous Kids and Immature Grown-Ups Hello, I’m Here! Chris Harris, Helen Frost, Illustrated by Lane Smith Photographs by Rick Lieder An illustrated collection of Follow a newborn sandhill comically irreverent crane as it takes its first steps rhyming poems for into the world. readers of all ages, ranging in topic from avocados and anacondas to zombies and zebras (dressed like ghosts). Daniel’s Good Day Micha Archer When his neighbors I Am Loved give a variety of Nikki Giovanni, answers to the Illustrated by Ashley question "What is a Bryan good day?" Daniel Collection of writes a poem about children's poems the everyday activities celebrating the feeling that give them joy. of being loved.

Optional Activities: □Write your own poem (ex. rhyming, concrete, haiku, free verse). □For added fun, read or recite your poem to a friend or family member. ART Isabella, Artist Extraordinaire: Just How Inspired Can a Little Girl Be? Jennifer Fosberry, Illustrated by Mike Litwin Join Isabella as she envisions herself in history's most famous paintings and creates a museum of her own. Melia and Jo Billy Aronson and Maybe Something Beautiful Jennifer Oxley F. Isabel Campoy and Theresa Melia is scientific and loves to Howell, create things in her backyard Illustrated by Rafael López laboratory, but something is Mira lives in a gray and hopeless missing. Her inventions just aren't urban community until a muralist quite right. Enter Jo, her new friend arrives and, along with his paints with an artistic spirit. When you add and brushes, brings color, joy, and the arts to sciences, something togetherness to Mira and her magical happens! neighbors.

Draw! Raúl Colón In this wordless picture book, a boy who is confined to his room fills his sketch pad with lions and elephants, then imagines himself on a safari.

The Day the Crayons Came Home Drew Daywalt, Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos Illustrated by Oliver Jeffers Monica Brown, One day, Duncan is happily coloring with Illustrated by John Parra his crayons when a stack of postcards Chronicles Frida's life--from her arrives in the mail from his former crayons, childhood to her rise as one of each of which has run away or been left the world's most influential behind, and all of which want to painters and the animals that come home. inspired her along the way.

Be Quiet! (Mother Bruce series) Ryan T. Higgins Rupert the mouse wants to star in an artistic, wordless picture book, but his animal friends cause problems by talking too much.

Not Just a Book Jeanne Willis, Illustrated by Tony Ross A book is never just a book. Bears Make the Best Reading This book, for instance, could Buddies be a hat, a building block or Carmen Oliver, even a flower press - the only Illustrated by Jean Claude limit is your imagination. And, Adelaide explains to her teacher of course, there's one magical why bears make the best reading thing all books can do. buddies.

The Lost Book Margarita Surnaite, All rabbits love books, except for Henry--he prefers games and adventures. But then he finds one very special book, and when he reads it, someone very special finds him. Abner & Ian Get Right Side Up A Squiggly Story Dave Eggers, Andrew Larsen, Illustrated by Laura Park Illustrated by Mike Lowery Abner the duck and Ian the A young boy wants to write a story, just prairie dog are stuck sideways like his big sister. But there's a problem— on the book's pages, and they he doesn't know many words. The little boy will need the reader's help to set discovers that all of us, including him, have things right for storytime. what we need to write our own perfect story.

TRAVEL

The Antlered Ship Dashka Slater, Illustrated by The Fan Brothers The Bear and the Piano (1st in series) An inquisitive fox and a flock of pigeons join the David Litchfield crew of deer Captain Sylvia, setting sail in her A bear finds a piano in the woods, learns to play antlered ship in search of a wonderful island and it, and travels to the big city to become rich and finding friendship on the way. famous, but ultimately discovers that his old friends in the forest back home are still the best audience of all.

Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride Joel Christian Gill Have you ever been told that you're not enough? This Lost and Found Cat: book combines an imagined story of Bessie Stringfield The True Story of Kunkush’s Incredible Journey as a young girl with historical facts about the real Bes- Doug Kuntz and Amy Shrodes, sie, a true adventurer and one of the first African- Illustrated by Sue Cornelison American women to travel solo across the United States True story of how a cat was reunited with its on a motorcycle. family after it was lost while its owners were traveling as refugees from Iraq to Greece

Dodsworth in Paris (series) Tim Egan When Dodsworth and the duck vacation in Paris, they have a grand time despite running out of money and accidentally riding their bicycles in the Tour de France.

Optional Activities: □Think of a place to which you would like to travel and find a book about it. □After your journey, make your own postcard featuring the destination. □On your postcard, draw what you think was most important or your favorite thing about your destination! (Feel free to use the included postcard, and mail it back to the Library!)

NEW ORLEANS

Epossumondas (1st in series) Mumbo, Jumbo Stay Out of the Gumbo Coleen Salley, Illustrated by Janet Stevens Johnette Downing; Illustrated by Jennifer Lindsley A retelling of a classic tale in which a well- It's Fat Tuesday, and things are getting hot. This intentioned young possum continually takes Courir de Mardi Gras, one clever rooster vows that he his mother's instructions much too literally. will not end up in the gumbo pot! As masked Carnival revelers travel across Acadiana begging for ingredients for their communal gumbo, the rooster flies ahead to warn the others. How will the Cajuns celebrate Mardi Gras without gumbo?

A Penguin Named Patience: a Hurricane Katrina Rescue Story Suzanne Lewis, Illustrated by Lisa Anchin Patience is a South African penguin living at New Marvelous Cornelius: Hurricane Katrina and Orleans's Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. the Spirit of New Orleans When the Aquarium is severely damaged during Phil Bildner, Illustrated by John Parra Hurricane Katrina, many animals are put in peril, A man known as the "Trashcan Wizard" sings including Patience and the other penguins. They and dances his way through the French Quarter must leave their home, and their penguin keeper, in New Orleans, keeping his beloved city clean, until it is restored. until Hurricane Katrina's devastation nearly causes him to lose his spirit.

Tiger vs. Nightmare Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Emily Tetri Story of Unshakable Tiger has a monster living Mathematician Sophie Germain under her bed. Tiger was too Cheryl Bardoe, cute for Monster to scare! Illustrated by Barbara Now, Tiger and Monster are best friends.

2019 Seuss Geisel Honor Book

Brace Jane Austen: Reader, Writer, Author, Rebel Lisa Pliscou, Illustrated by Jen Corace

Balderdash!: John Newbery and the Boisterous Birth of Children’s Wordplay Books Ivan Brunetti Michelle Markel, A humorous introduction to Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter compound words.

Fox & Chick: The Party & Spring after Spring: How Other Stories Rachel Carson Inspired the Sergio Ruzzier Environmental Movement Fox and Chick don't always Stephanie Roth Sisson agree. But Fox and Chick are always friends.

2019 Seuss Geisel Honor Book A Royal Ride: Catherine the Great’s Great Invention Kristen Fulton, Optional Activity: Create your Illustrated by Lucy Fleming own graphic novel combining pictures and words. For a pre -made layout and ideas to create your comic, go to https:// Optional Activity: images.macmillan.com/media/firstsecond/ Write your own biography! teachers-librarians/ Who and what is important in your life? Adventures_in_Cartooning_Activity_Kit.pdf Include pictures, if you like!

WORDLESS PICTURE BOOKS

Explorers Matthew Cordell I Walk with Vanessa: A When a family goes to a Story about a Simple Act local museum, a boy of Kindness notices a homeless man Kerascoet sitting outside, making An elementary school girl brightly colored origami witnesses the bullying of birds. He convinces his another girl, but she is not dad to buy a bird the man sure how to help. makes just for him. The paper bird brings two families--and two new friends--together.

Red Sled Float Lita Judge Daniel Miyares A host of woodland Follow the creatures take a child's adventures of a boy sled for a nighttime who loses his paper joy ride. boat in the rain.

Found Imagine! Jeff Newman, Raúl Colón Illustrated by When a boy visits an Larry Day art museum and one of While Jenn is seeking the paintings comes to Prudence, her big, life, he has an sleek and shiny, black afternoon of adventure and white dog, she and discovery that meets and falls in love changes how he sees with Roscoe, a scruffy the world forever. little golden dog.

Optional Activity: Write the text for a wordless book. What do you think the characters would say?

What would the narration be? AWARD-WINNING BOOKS

Caldecott Award Sibert Medal

Winner!

CSK Winner! Newbery Honor!

Winner! Winner!

By: By: By: By: Mariahadessa Matthew Sydney Isabel Ekere Tallie Farina Smith Belpré Honor! Quintero

Penguin Elephant and Piggie Fancy Nancy By: Salina Yoon By: Mo Willems By: Jane O’Connor

Katie Woo Olivia Penny By: Fran Manushkin By: Ian Falconer By: Kevin Henkes

Pete the Cat Snail and Worm Zelda and Ivy By: Eric Litwin By: Tina Kugler By: Laura McGee Kvasnosky

Optional Activity: Choose a book from a series and decide what happens NEXT…. □Where would you set the next book? □Would you add a new character? □What happens in the next book? SECOND GRADE SUMMER READING 2020

REQUIRED BOOK: Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant Every incoming second grader is REQUIRED to read Henry and Mudge: The First Book of Their Adventures by Cynthia Rylant. Enclosed please find additional suggested Summer Reading titles to read over the summer break. You may find additional choices from your public library or bookstore. Each page includes optional activities to accompany the reading. These are OPTIONAL, but your daughter is welcome to bring any final artwork or writing to the Library at the beginning of the school year. Please allow your daughter to read as independently as possible, but keep in mind we strongly encourage FAMILY reading, too! If you have any questions, please feel free to email the Library!

Login for ASH ebooks: Login for World Book Online: Username: first initial, last name, 2 year Username: ash digit of graduation (ex. sholmes19) Password: library Password: lunch/library number

Login for PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next: Login for Gale Databases: Username: ashla Username: ash Password: school Password: library

CONTENTS: □ Summer Reading List □ Postcard Instructions

□ Reading Coloring Log □ Postcards NATURE

Little Tree Loren Long Little Tree is very happy in the forest where he is surrounded by other little trees and his leaves keep him cool in the heat of summer, but when autumn comes Hector the Collector and the other trees drop their leaves, Little Emily Beeny, Tree cannot be persuaded to let his go, Illustrated by Stephanie Graegin even after they wither and turn brown. Hector begins collecting acorns of different sizes and shapes and is teased about it when his classmates find out, until their It Starts with a Seed teacher explains about collections Laura Knowles, and asks who else has one. Illustrated by Jennie Webber Journey through the seasons and years as we follow the seed's transformation from a seedling to a sapling, then a young tree, until it becomes a large tree with its branches and roots filling the page. As the tree grows, it is joined by well-loved woodland creatures (squirrels and rabbits, butterflies and owls) who make it their home.

You Are Home: An Ode to the National Parks Bea Garcia: The Tree and Me Evan Turk Series by Deborah Zemke Showcases the beauty and There's a very special 150-year-old importance of the National oak tree outside the window of Bea's Parks as it takes readers on an classroom at Emily Dickinson amazing tour across the United Elementary School. When Bert, Bea's States from the rugged coast of nemesis, climbs the tree, he gets in a Maine to the fiery volcanoes of lot of trouble--and that leads to even Hawaii. It reminds us that more trouble for everyone. every animal, plant, and person helps make this land a sanctuary of life.

Fergus and Zeke at the Science Fair Kate Messner, Illustrated by Heather Ross Fergus and Zeke love being the class pets in Miss Maxwell's classroom, and they do everything the students do. But when it's time for the school science fair, the mice aren't sure just how to get involved.

Cece Loves Science Made by Maxine Kimberly Derting and Ruth Spiro, Illustrated by Holly Hatam Shelli R. Johannes, When Maxine's school puts on a pet Illustrated by parade, she creates a unique contraption Vashti Harrison to allow her very special pet fish, Cece's parents say she Milton, to participate. was born curious. She asks: “Why? How? What if?” When her teacher, Ms. Ada Twist, Scientist Curie, assigns a science Andrea Beaty, project, Cece knows Illustrated by David Roberts just what to ask--”do Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows persever- dogs eat vegetables?” ance by asking questions and She teams up with her performing experiments to find things out and best friend, Isaac, and understand the world. her dog, Einstein, to Iggy Peck, Architect: Ever since he was a baby, Iggy discover the answer. Peck has built towers, bridges, and buildings which They investigate, comes in handy when his second grade class is research, collect data, stranded on an island during a picnic. and analyze, using Rosie Revere, Engineer: A young aspiring engineer Einstein as their case must first conquer her fear of failure. study.

Optional Activities: □Find some items around your house,* □Put them together to make your own creation! □Write a few sentences about or draw a picture of what you made. *Ask your parents before using anything of theirs! POETRY Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs (series) Daniel’s Good Day Alan Katz, Illustrated by Micha Archer David Catrow When his neighbors give Well-known songs, a variety of answers to including "Oh Susannah" the question "What is a and "Row Row Row good day?" Daniel writes Your Boat," are a poem about the presented with new everyday activities that words and titles, such as give them joy. "I'm So Carsick" and "Go Go Go to Bed."

Poetree I’m Just No Good at Shauna LaVoy Reynolds, Rhyming and Other Illustrated by Shahrzad Nonsense for Mischievous Maydani Kids and Immature A shy girl celebrates Grown-Ups winter’s end by writing a Chris Harris, poem to a tree and is Illustrated by Lane Smith surprised when the tree An illustrated collection of writes back. comically irreverent rhyming poems for readers of all ages, ranging in topic from Lion of the Sky: Haiku for avocados and anacondas to All Seasons zombies and zebras Laura Purdie Salas, (dressed like ghosts). Illustrated by Merce Lopez Haiku meet riddles in this Hello, I’m Here! poetry collection Helen Frost, celebrating the seasons and Photographs by Rick describing everything from Lieder an earthworm to a baseball Follow a newborn to an apple to snow angels. sandhill crane as it takes its first steps into the world.

Optional Activities: □Write your own poem (ex. rhyming, concrete, haiku, free verse). □For added fun, read or recite your poem to a friend or family member. ART

Meet Yasmin Saadia Faruqi, Illustrated by Hatem Aly Pakistani American second grader Yasmin learns to cope with the small problems of school and home while gaining confidence in her own skills and creative abilities. Isabella, Artist Extraordinaire: Just How Inspired Can a Little Girl Be? Jennifer Fosberry, Illustrated by Mike Litwin Join Isabella as she envisions Crafty Llama herself in history's most Mike Kerr, famous paintings and creates a Illustrated by Renata Liwska museum of her own. Llama knits while considering what special thing she wants to do, and soon all of her friends have joined her except Beaver, who only likes to make things that are useful.

Painting Pepette Linda Ravin Lodding, Illustrated by Claire Fletcher In 1920s Paris, after Josette and her The Crayon Man: The True stuffed-animal rabbit Pepette encounter Story of the Invention of famous artists who try and paint Pepette's Crayola Crayons (biography) portrait, Josette realizes she is the perfect Natascha Biebow, person to do the painting. Illustrated by Steven Salerno Tells the story of the invention of the Crayola crayon by inventor Edwin Binney.

Optional Activities: □Use sidewalk chalk to create your own community mural outside. Be sure to take a picture of it! □Go to the museum (you can do this virtually!), and pick a favorite painting or work of art. What do you like about it? □Draw a picture of something from the museum. READING AND WRITING Polly Diamond and the Magic Book Alice Kuipers, Illustrated by Diana Toledano Polly loves words, writing, and telling stories, so when she finds a fancy book on her doorstep labeled "Special Delivery from the Writing and Spelling Department for Polly Diamond" she is thrilled; and when she finds that anything she writes in it actually happens she is really excited.

Book of Gold Dear Dragon Bob Staake Josh Funk, Isaac is not interested in much, but when Illustrated by Rodolfo Montalvo a mysterious shopkeeper tells him about a As a school project, George and legendary book that holds the answers to Blaise become pen pals, every question ever asked, he embarks on writing rhyming letters about a lifelong search for the Book of Gold. their favorite things to do, unaware that one is human and the other a dragon.

Chloe and the Lion Mac Barnett, Illustrated by Adam Rex Things go very wrong for adventurous Chloe when the book’s illustrator gets fired mid-story!

Abner & Ian Get Right Side Up Nibbles: the Book Monster Dave Eggers, Emma Yarlett Illustrated by Laura Park Nibbles, the book-eating monster, Abner the duck and Ian the prairie has nibbled his way out of his own dog are stuck sideways on the book's book, and now he's causing pages, and they will need the reader's mischief and mayhem in other help to set things right for storytime. people's stories. Look out!

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Fast Enough: Bessie Stringfield’s First Ride Joel Christian Gill Have you ever been told that you're not enough? This Captain Pug: The Dog Who Sailed the Seas book combines an imagined story of Bessie Stringfield (1st in series) as a young girl with historical facts about the real Laura James, Illustrated by Églantine Ceulemans Bessie, a true adventurer and one of the first African- Pug is going on a seafaring adventure. He's had American women to travel solo across the United jam tarts for breakfast. He's wearing a smart States on a motorcycle. sailor suit. There's just one problem. Pug is afraid of the water.

Dodsworth in Paris (series) Tim Egan Louie Lets Loose! (1st in series) When Dodsworth and the duck vacation in Paris, Rachel Hamilton, Illustrated by Oscar Armelles they have a grand time despite running out of Louie the unicorn has traveled from his home in money and accidentally riding their bicycles in Storyland to New York City to make all his dreams the Tour de France. come true! He's enrolled at an elite performing arts school because he's determined to become a star. Includes singing mermaids and dancing trolls!

The Hen Who Sailed around the World Guirec Soudée Guirec Soudée tells the true story of his sea voyage through the Northwest Passage with his pet hen, Monique.

Optional Activities: □Think of a place to which you would like to travel, and find a book about it. □After your journey, make your own postcard featuring the destination. □On your postcard, draw what you think was most important or your favorite thing about your destination! (Feel free to use the included postcard, and mail it back to the Library!)

NEW ORLEANS

Epossumondas (1st in series) The 5’ O’Clock Band Coleen Salley, Illustrated by Janet Stevens Ruby Head High: Ruby Bridges’ First Day of School A retelling of a classic tale in which a Irène Cohen-Janca, well-intentioned young possum continually takes Illustrated by Marc Daniau his mother's instructions much too literally. Inspired by the iconic Norman Rockwell painting, this tells the true story about the day a little girl held her head high and changed the world.

A Topsy-Turvy History of New Orleans and A Penguin Named Patience: a Hurricane Katrina Ten Tiny Turtles: 300 Years and Slowly Rescue Story Counting Suzanne Lewis, Illustrated by Lisa Anchin Tania Lee and Simone Rathle Patience is a South African penguin living at New A brief history of New Orleans as told by the Orleans' Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. turtles who live in the fountain at Brennan’s When the Aquarium is severely damaged during restaurant. Hurricane Katrina, many animals are put in peril, including Patience and the other penguins. They must leave their home, and their penguin keeper, until it is restored.

Optional Activities: □Discover your own city! □Grab an adult, and go somewhere in New Orleans to which you have never been. □Listen to Louis Armstrong’s “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?,” and draw a picture of what New Orleans means to you! □Be adventurous! Try a “new” New Orleans food! GRAPHIC NOVELS BIOGRAPHY The Misadventures of Just Like Rube Goldberg: The Salem Hyde (1st in series) Incredible True Story of the Frank Cammuso Man behind the Machines She's stubborn and Sarah Aronson, impulsive, and her Illustrated by Robert Neubecker hobbies include making friends, collecting unicorns, and flying. That's right--Salem Hyde is a witch! A Royal Ride: Catherine the Great’s Great Invention Kristen Fulton, Peter & Ernesto: a Tale of Illustrated by Lucy Fleming Two Sloths Graham Annable Peter loves their tree and never wants to leave Lights! Camera! Alice!: while Ernesto loves the The Thrilling True sky and wants to see it Adventures of the First from every place on Woman Filmmaker earth. Mara Rockliff, Illustrated by Simona Ciraolo Narwhal’s Otter Friend (series) Ben Clanton Before She Was Harriet Stories featuring Lisa Cline-Ransome, Narwhal and Jelly, and Illustrated by James Ransome their new friend Otter.

Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity Optional Activity: Create your Sarah J. S. Suzuki, own graphic novel combining Illustrated by Ellen Weinstein pictures and words. For a pre-made layout and ideas to create your comic, Optional Activities: visit: https://images.macmillan.com/ Write your own biography! media/firstsecond/teachers-librarians/ Who and what is important in your life? Adventures_in_Cartooning_Activity_Kit.pdf Include pictures, if you like!

WORDLESS PICTURE BOOKS

Look Up! Little Fox in the Forest Jung Jin Ho Stephanie Graegin When a girl in a Two friends follow a wheelchair calls to young fox deep into the people far below to woods and discover a look up and see her, wondrous and magical one finds a way to world. brighten her day.

Found Jeff Newman, Spot & Dot Illustrated by Henry Cole Larry Day Spot the cat goes out While Jenn is seeking the open window and Prudence, her big, sleek ventures through the and shiny, black and city with Dot the dog, white dog, she meets and seeking her home. falls in love with Roscoe, a scruffy little golden dog.

Explorers Matthew Cordell When a family goes to a local museum, a boy Skunk on a String notices a homeless man Thao Lam sitting outside, making A skunk finds himself brightly colored origami tied to the string of a birds. He convinces his balloon and must find dad to buy a bird the man a way to get safely makes just for him. The back on the ground. paper bird brings two families--and two new friends--together.

Optional Activities: Write the text for a wordless book. What do you think the characters would say? What would the narration be? Draw your own wordless book. AWARD-WINNING BOOKS

Caldecott Award Sibert Medal

Winner!

CSK Winner!

Newbery Honor!

Winner! Winner!

By: By: By: By: Mariahadessa Matthew Sydney Isabel Ekere Tallie Farina Smith Belpré Honor! Quintero

Nate the Great Ivy and Bean Owl Diaries By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat By: Annie Barrows By: Rebecca Elliott

Katie Woo Mercy Watson Buddy and Earl By: Fran Manushkin By: Kate DiCamillo By: Maureen Fergus

A to Z Mysteries Magic Tree House Zelda and Ivy By: Ron Roy By: Mary Pope Osborne By: Laura McGee Kvasnosky

Optional Activity: Choose a book from a series and decide what happens NEXT…. □Where would you set the next book? □Would you add a new character? □What happens in the next book? THIRD GRADE SUMMER READING 2020

REQUIRED BOOK: The Story of Diva and Flea by Mo Willems and Tony DiTerlizzi Every incoming third grader is REQUIRED to read The Story of Diva and Flea by Mo Willems and Tony DiTerlizzi. Enclosed please find additional suggested Summer Reading titles to read over the summer break. You may find additional choices from your public library or bookstore. Each page includes optional activities to accompany the reading. These are OPTIONAL, but your daughter is welcome to bring any final artwork or writing to the Library at the beginning of the school year. Please allow your daughter to read as independently as possible, but keep in mind we strongly encourage FAMILY reading, too! If you have any questions, please feel free to email the Library!

Resources: Audio books are reading, too! You can borrow and read free ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines from your library using your phone or tablet! Free databases are also available. Our library website will also be available over the summer and is accessible 24/7. From the homepage, students and their families have access to our ebook collection as well as to the Gale databases, Capstone databases, PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next, and to World Book Online Encyclopedia. To get to the ASH Library homepage and electronic catalog: 1. Go to http://destiny.arch-no.org/ 2. Click “Archdiocese of New Orleans” 3. Click “Academy of the Sacred Heart” under Elementary Schools

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CONTENTS: □ Summer Reading List □ Postcard Instructions □ Reading Coloring Log □ Postcards NATURE

When Grandma Gives You a Lemon Tree Jamie L.B. Deenihan, Illustrated by Lorraine Rocha When Grandma gives you a lemon tree, definitely don't make a face! Care for the tree, and you might be surprised at how new things, and new ideas, bloom. A young girl is given a lemon tree and River learns to care for it until she can make Elisha Cooper lemonade for a lemonade stand. A woman in a canoe takes the reader on a journey down the Hudson River, from its source, a lake in the Adirondack Mountains, to the point where it flows into the Luna and Me: the True Story of a Girl Atlantic Ocean at New York Who Lived in a Tree to Save a Forest City. (biography) Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw The story of Julia Butterfly Hill and Luna, the thousand-year-old redwood tree whose life she saved.

Nocturnals: The Mysterious Grand Canyon (nonfiction) Abductions (1st in series) Jason Chin Tracey Hecht, Home to an astonishing variety of Illustrated by Kate Liebman plants and animals that have lived and Three unlikely nocturnal animal friends, evolved within its walls for Dawn the fox, Tobin the pangolin, and millennia, the Grand Canyon is much Bismark the sugar glider, form a more than just a hole in the ground. brigade of the night to look into Follow a father and the mysterious disappearance of animals. daughter as they make their way through the cavernous wonder, discovering life both present and past.

Rosie Revere, Engineer (series) Andrea Beaty, Illustrated by David Roberts A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure. Iggy Peck, Architect: Ever since he was a baby, Iggy Peck has built towers, bridges, and buildings, which comes in handy when his second grade class is stranded on an island during a picnic. Ada Twist, Scientist: Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and Ellie Engineer understand the world. (1st in series) Jackson Pearce, Illustrated by Tuesday Howtoons: Tools of Mass Construction! Mourning (graphic novel) When Ellie, who Saul Griffith, Illustrated by Nick Dragotta loves to invent and Lurking in the corners of your garage, on the dusty build things, shelves of hardware stores, and in your own decides to build a trashcan are the tools and ingredients for creating doghouse as a gift, your own adventures. Follow Celine and Tucker as she needs to get they learn through play with over 50 DIY projects! past the boys- Challenged to make something "other than trou- against-the-girls ble," this brother-and-sister pair use everyday neighborhood feud objects to invent toys that readers can build. and ask for help.

Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson’s Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions Chris Barton, Illustrated by Don Tate A biography of Lonnie Johnson, an engineer at NASA who is best know for inventing the Super Soaker water gun.

Optional Activities: □Find some items around your house,* □Put them together to make your own creation! □Write a few sentences about or draw a picture of what you made. *Ask your parents before using anything of theirs! POETRY Love That Dog Lion of the Sky: Haiku for Sharon Creech All Seasons A young student, who comes Laura Purdie Salas, to love poetry through a Illustrated by Merce Lopez personal understanding of Haiku meet riddles in this what different famous poems poetry collection mean to him, surprises celebrating the seasons and himself by writing his own describing everything from inspired poem. an earthworm to a baseball to *Also check out Creech’s an apple to snow angels. Hate That Cat

I’m Just No Good at Rhyming and Other Non- Poetree sense for Mischievous Shauna LaVoy Reynolds, Kids and Immature Illustrated by Grown-Ups Shahrzad Maydani Chris Harris, A shy girl celebrates Illustrated by Lane Smith winter’s end by writing a An illustrated collection poem to a tree and is of comically irreverent surprised when the tree rhyming poems for writes back. readers of all ages, ranging in topic from avocados and anacondas Out of Wonder: Poems to zombies and zebras Celebrating Poets (dressed like ghosts). Kwame Alexander with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, Illustrated by Ekua Holmes Bookjoy Wordjoy Text and illustrations Pat Mora, present twenty poems that Illustrated by look at well-known Raul Colón poets from around the world. Collection of poems celebrating words.

Optional Activities: □Find your own WORDJOY, and write a poem (ex. rhyming, concrete, haiku, free verse). □For added fun, read or recite your poem to a friend or family member. ART Me, Frida, and the Secret of the Peacock Ring (fiction) Angela Cervantes Paloma Marquez is traveling to Mexico City, birthplace of her deceased father, for the very first time. There she finds a mystery involving a room locked for fifty years, a valuable peacock ring, and a Dancing through Fields of Color: mysterious brother-sister duo. The Story of Helen Frankenthaler Elizabeth Brown, Illustrated by Aimee Sicuro They said only men could paint Dorothea Lange: the Photographer Who powerful pictures, but Helen Found the Faces of the Depression Frankenthaler (1928-2011) (biography) splashed her way through the Carole Boston Weatherford, modern art world. Illustrated by Sarah Green Traveling across the United States, with her camera and fieldbook, Dorothea Lange documented those most affected by the stock market crash, portraying the face of the Great Depression.

Danger!: Tiger Crossing (1st in series) Two Brothers, Four Hands: The Artists Lin Oliver, Illustrated by Samantha Alberto and Diego Giacometti Kallis (biography) Tiger and his friend Luna are sucked Jan Greenberg, into a picture of a tiger and have to Illustrated by Hadley Hooper The inspiring true story of the find a way out before they are eaten by Giacometti brothers, one an artist, the the big cat. other a daredevil, both devoted to their craft . . . but even more devoted to each other.

Little Libraries Big Heroes (nonfiction) Miranda Paul, Illustrated by John Parra The story of how the Little Free Library organization brings communities together through books, from founder Todd Bol's first installation to the creation of more than 75,000 mini-libraries around the world.

Polly Diamond and the Little Red Writing Magic Book James Holub, Alice Kuipers, Illustrated by Melissa Sweet Illustrated by Diana Once upon a time, in pencil school, a Toledano brave little red pencil sets out to Polly loves words, write an exciting story with nouns writing, and telling and adverbs and everything, but first stories, so when she finds she has to face the ravenous pencil a fancy book on her sharpener, the Wolf 3000. doorstep labeled "Special Delivery from the Writing Book Scavenger (1st in series) and Spelling Department Jennifer Chambliss Bertman for Polly Diamond" she is Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her thrilled; and when she family move to San Francisco, she teams up with finds that anything she new friend James to follow clues in an odd book writes in it actually they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the happens, she is really men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison excited. Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the two friends.

Dear Sister Alison McGhee, Illustrated by Joe Bluhm A brother chronicles life with his frequently-annoying Sister, from the time she is born until she is ten and he leaves for college, through a series of letters and drawings. *LYRC 2021 nominated title

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Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay Susan Hood, Illustrated by Sally Wern Comport Tells the true tale of an orchestra made up of children playing instruments built from recycled trash called the Princess Pulverizer: Grilled Cheese 'Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay.' and Dragons (1st in series) Nancy Krulik, Illustrated by Ben Balistreri Her Right Foot Princess Serena (or as she Dave Eggers, prefers, Princess Pulverizer) does not Illustrated by Shawn Harris want to be a princess--she wants to be Takes readers on a detailed knight! So, her father, King journey looking at the Alexander of Empiria, presents a significance of the challenge: the princess must first go Statue of Liberty's right foot. on a Quest of Kindness. Along the way, she meets a friendly dragon named Dribble and a perpetually Captain Pug: The Dog Who Sailed The terrified knight-in-training. Seas (1st in series) Laura James, Illustrated by Églantine Ceulemans Pug is going on a seafaring adventure. He's had jam tarts for breakfast. He's wearing a smart sailor suit. There's just one problem: Pug is afraid of the water.

The Hen Who Sailed around the World: A True Story The Stupendously Spectacular Spelling Bee (nonfiction) Deborah Abela Guirec Soudee Terribly shy, India Wimple is brilliant at Guirec Soudee tells the true story spelling, and her loving family will do of his sea voyage through the whatever it takes to help her compete in a Northwest Passage with his pet televised national spelling bee in Sydney, hen, Monique. Australia.

NEW ORLEANS

Jupiter Storm Ruby Head High: Ruby Bridges’ First Day of School Marti Dumas Irène Cohen-Janca, Ten-year-old Jackie, a New Orleans girl, excels Illustrated by Marc Daniau at being in charge. Her skills keep everything Inspired by the iconic Norman Rockwell painting, this from gardens to five unruly brothers in line. So tells the true story about the day a little girl held her when a curious chrysalis appears in Jackie's head high and changed the world. front yard, Jackie naturally decides to take charge of it. The creature that emerges is not like anything she has ever seen, and Jackie soon realizes that she must protect it at all costs, even from her own family.

Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival A Topsy-Turvy History of New Orleans and Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery, Ten Tiny Turtles: 300 Years and Slowly Illustrated by Jean Cassels Counting Tells the true story of Bobbie the dog and Bob Cat, Tania Lee and Simone Rathle two pets who bonded together and were able to A brief history of New Orleans as told by the survive the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. turtles who live in the fountain at Brennan’s restaurant.

BIOGRAPHY GRAPHIC NOVELS Secret Coders (1st in series) Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes and Storyteller Pura Belpré Welcome to Stately Academy, a Anika Aldamuy Denise, school crawling with mysteries to Illustrated by Paola Escobar be solved! The founder of the In 1921, Pura Belpré came to America. school left many clues and A storyteller, puppeteer, and New York puzzles to challenge his students. City’s first Puerto Rican librarian, she Hopper and Eni use their wits and championed bilingual literature. budding coding skills to try to solve the mystery. The Cat Who Lived with Anne Frank Milo’s World: The Land David Lee Miller and under the Lake Steven Jay Rubin, Richard Marazano, Illustrated by Elizabeth Baddeley Illustrated by Mouschi the cat relates the Christophe Ferreira experiences of Anne Frank and After discovering a strange seven other people who hid from glowing goldfish in the lake Nazis in a secret annex over a near his house, latchkey kid factory in Amsterdam during the Milo follows the odd creature. Holocaust.

Cici’s Journal: The Game Changers: The Story of Adventures of a Writer in Venus and Serena Williams Training Lesa Cline-Ransome, Joris Chamblain, Illustrated Illustrated by James E. Ransome by Aurelie Neyret The story of two tennis Cici dreams of being a legends who were fierce novelist. She assembles clues competitors on the courts, but about the odd and wonderful close sisters above all. people she observes. Includes journal notes, scrapbook The Boo-Boos that Changed the pieces, and doodles. World: A True Story about an Accidental Invention (Really!) Barry Wittenstein, Optional Activity: Create your Illustrated by Chris Hsu own graphic novel combining Hilarious (and fascinating) history pictures and words. For a pre of the invention of Band-Aids. -made layout and ideas to create your comic, go to https:// Optional Activity: images.macmillan.com/media/firstsecond/ Write your own biography! teachers-librarians/ Who and what is important in your life? Adventures_in_Cartooning_Activity_Kit.pdf Include pictures, if you like!

WORDLESS PICTURE BOOKS

Stormy: A Story about Little Fox in the Finding a Forever Home Guojing Forest A woman visits a park Stephanie Graegin Two friends follow and discovers a pup hiding under a bench-- a young fox deep scruffy, scared, and alone. into the woods and With gentle coaxing, the discover a wondrous and woman tries to befriend the animal, but the dog is magical world.

scared.

Spot & Dot Look Up! Henry Cole Jung Jin Ho Spot the cat goes out When a girl in a the open window and wheelchair calls to ventures through the people far below to city with Dot the dog, look up and see her, seeking her home. one finds a way to brighten her day.

Explorers Matthew Cordell When a family goes to a local museum, a boy notices a homeless man sitting outside, making brightly colored origami birds. He convinces his dad to buy a bird the man makes Another just for him. The paper bird brings Christian Robinson two families--and two new friends-- A young girl and her cat take together. an imaginative journey into another world.

Optional Activities: Write the text for a wordless book. What do you think the characters would say? AWARD-WINNING BOOKS

Caldecott Award

Winner! CSK Winner! Newbery Honor! Going Down Home with Daddy The Undefeated Bear Came Along Double Bass Blues Kelly Starling Lyons Kwame Alexander Richard T. Morris Andrea J. Loney Illustrated by Daniel Minter Illustrated by Kadir Nelson Illustrated by LeUyen Illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez Coretta Scott King Award Schneider Family Book Award

Winner! Winner!

What Is Given from Tristan Strong The Bell Rang Sulwe Just Ask!: Be A Friend for Henry the Heart Punches a Hole James Ransome Lupita Nyong’o, Different, Be Jenn Bailey, Patricia C. McKissack, in the Sky Illustrated by Brave, Be You Illustrated by Mika Illustrated by April Kwame Mbalia Vashti Harrison Harrison Sonia Sotomayor, Song Illustrated by Pura Belpré Award Rafael Lopez Sibert Medal

Winner! Winner!

Sal & Gabi Break Dancing Hands Lety Out Loud Across the Bay Planting Stories Fry Bread the Universe Margarita Engle Angela Carlos Aponte Anika Denise, Kevin Noble Maillard, Carlos Alberto Illustrated by Cervantes Illustrated by Illustrated by Juana Pablo Rafael Lopez Paola Escobar Maritnez-Neal Hernandez Ezra Jack Keats Award

Winner!

By: By: By: By: Mariahadessa Matthew Isabel Sydney Ekere Tallie Farina Quintero Smith Belpré Honor!

The Bad Guys Shai and Emmie Nancy Clancy By: Aaron Blabey By: Quvenzhané Wallis with Nancy Ohlin By: Jane O’Connor

Who Was?/What Was? Phoebe and Her Unicorn Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew By: Various Authors By: Dana Simpson By: Carolyn Keene

Thea Stilton and Little Goddess Girls (new series) Dog Man Geronimo Stilton By: Joan Holub By: Dav Pilkey

Optional Activity: Choose a book from a series and decide what happens NEXT…. □Where would you set the next book? □Would you add a new character? □What happens in the next book? FOURTH GRADE SUMMER READING 2020

REQUIRED BOOK: Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead Every incoming fourth grader is REQUIRED to read Bob by Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead. Enclosed please find additional suggested Summer Reading titles to read over the summer break. You may find additional choices from your public library or bookstore. Each page includes optional activities to accompany the reading. These are OPTIONAL, but your daughter is welcome to bring any final artwork or writing to the Library at the beginning of the school year. Please allow your daughter to read as independently as possible, but keep in mind we strongly encourage FAMILY reading, too! If you have any questions, please feel free to email the Library!

To get to the ASH Library homepage and electronic catalog: 1. Go to http://destiny.arch-no.org/ 2. Click “Archdiocese of New Orleans” 3. Click “Academy of the Sacred Heart” under Elementary Schools.

Login for ASH ebooks: Login for World Book Online: Username: first initial, last name, 2 year Username: ash digit of graduation (ex. sholmes19) Password: library Password: lunch/library number

Login for PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next: Login for Gale Databases: Username: ashla Username: ash Password: school Password: library

CONTENTS: □ Summer Reading List □ Postcard Instructions □ Reading Coloring Log □ Postcards

NATURE

Charlotte’s Web E.B. White, Illustrated by Garth Williams Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him. Pax Sara Pennypacker, Illustrated by Jon Klassen After being forced to give up his pet fox Pax, a young boy named Peter Wishtree decides to leave home and get his Katherine Applegate, best friend back. Illustrated by Charles Santoso A tree named Red, a red oak who is "two hundred and sixteen rings old,” is the narrator of this story of nature and of a community struggling with issues of bigotry and acceptance. *LYRC 2020 nominated title

If Elephants Disappeared River Lily Williams Elisha Cooper What would happen if elephants A woman in a canoe takes the disappeared? Trace the repercussions of a reader on a journey down the world without elephants in this story about Hudson River, from its source, a the Congolese forest, home to many types lake in the Adirondack Mountains, of animals. Elephants can grow over 10 to the point where it flows into the feet tall and eat up to 300 pounds a day. Atlantic Ocean at New York City. While these giants are beloved figures in Includes a note on the history of movies and zoos, they also play a large the Hudson River. role in keeping the forest ecosystem healthy.

Secret Engineer: How Emily Roebling Built the Brooklyn Bridge (nonfiction) Rachel Dougherty On a warm spring day in 1883, a woman rode across the Brooklyn Bridge with a rooster on her lap. It was the first trip across an engineering marvel that had taken nearly fourteen years to construct.

Wild Robot (sequel: Wild Robot Escapes) Max Einstein: The Genius Experiment Peter Brown (1st in series) Roz the robot discovers James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein, that she is alone on a Illustrated by Beverly Johnson remote, wild island with Max Einstein, an unconventional no memory of where she genius, is recruited by a mysterious is from or why she is organization to solve mysteries using there, and her only hope Einstein’s science. She and a group of of survival is to try to international geniuses use their creativity learn about her new and curiosity to help solve some of the environment from the world's toughest problems with science. island's hostile *LYRC 2021 nominated title inhabitants.

Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters (1st in series) Andrea Beaty, Illustrated by David Roberts When Rosie is unable to invent a contraption to help one of Aunt Rose's Raucous Riveters friends, she calls on classmates Iggy Peck and Ada Twist to help. *Based on the bestselling picture books!

Optional Activities: □Find some items around your house,* □Put them together to make your own creation! □Write a few sentences about or draw a picture of what you made. *Ask your parents before using anything of theirs! POETRY The Proper Way to Meet a Hedgehog and Other How to Poems Selected by Paul B. Janeczko, Illustrated by Richard Jones An illustrated compilation of how-to poems.

Can I Touch Your Hair: Poems of Race, I’m Just No Good at Rhyming and Mistakes, and Friendship Other Nonsense for Mischievous Irene Latham and Charles Waters, Kids and Immature Grown-Ups Illustrated by Sean Qualls and Selina Alko Chris Harris, Using a fictional setup, the authors, one Illustrated by Lane Smith white and one black, through poetry, delve Poems for readers of all ages, into different experiences of race in a ranging in topic from relatable way, exploring such topics as avocados and anacondas to hair, hobbies, and family dinners. zombies and zebras (dressed like ghosts).

Finding Langston Lesa Cline-Ransome Finding the poetry of Langston Hughes in the Chicago Public Library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Illinois, and being bullied. World Make Way: New Poems Inspired by Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Edited by: Lee Bennett Hopkins Moo Eighteen poets wrote new poems inspired Sharon Creech by some of the most popular works in the When Reena, her little brother, Luke, collection of The Metropolitan Museum. and their parents first move to Maine, The collection represents a wide range of Reena doesn't know what to expect. poets and artists, including acclaimed She's ready for beaches, blueberries, children's poets Marilyn Singer, Alma Flor and all the lobster she can eat. Instead, Alda, and Carole Boston Weatherford and her parents "volunteer" Reena and popular artists such as Mary Cassatt, Luke to work for an eccentric neighbor Fernando Botero, Winslow Homer, and named Mrs. Falala, who has a pig, a Utagawa Hiroshige. cat, a snake, and a stubborn cow.

Optional Activities: □Write your own poem (ex. rhyming, concrete, haiku, free verse). □For added fun, read or recite your poem to a friend or family member. ART

Two Brothers, Four Hands: The Artists Alberto and Diego Giacometti (biography) Jan Greenberg, Illustrated by Hadley Hooper The inspiring true story of the Giacometti brothers, one an artist, the The Art of the Swap other a daredevil, both devoted to their Kristine Asselin and Jen Malone craft . . . but even more devoted to each When twelve-year-olds Hannah other. and Maggie switch places, Hannah must prevent a Antsy Ansel: Ansel Adams, a Life famous art theft in 1905, and in Nature (biography) Maggie must cope with modern Cindy Jenson-Elliott, life until they can switch back. Illustrated by Christy Hale *LYRC 2021 nominated title As a child, Ansel Adams just could not sit still. In nature, Ansel felt right at home. He fell in love with the gusting gales of the Golden Gate, the quiet whisper of Lobos Creek, the icy white of Yosemite Valley, and countless other remarkable natural sights to become an iconic nature photographer.

Behind the Canvas Danger!: Tiger Crossing (1st in series) Alexander Vance Lin Oliver, Illustrated by Samantha Kallis Claudia Miravista loves art, but Tiger and his friend Luna are sucked into a socially she is always the odd girl out. picture of a tiger and have to find a way On a trip to the local art museum, she out before they are eaten by the big cat. sees a boy in a painting, who moves from painting to painting, and soon she embarks on an adventure to free the boy from behind the canvas.

Optional Activities: □Use sidewalk chalk to create your own community mural outside. □Go to a museum (you can do this virtually!), and pick a favorite painting or work of art. What do you like about it? □Draw a picture of something that you saw from the museum. READING AND WRITING Carter Reads the Newspaper Deborah Hopkinson, Illustrated by Don Tate A biography of Carter G. Woodson, the son of emancipated slaves, who read the newspaper to his father every day, attended Harvard University, and was one of the first scholars to study African-American history. Book Scavenger (series) Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Jennifer Chambliss Bertman Storyteller Pura Belpré Just after twelve-year-old Emily Anika Denise, Illustrated by Paola Escobar and her family move to San An illustrated biography of the life of Pura Francisco, she teams up with new Belpré the first Puerto Rican librarian in New friend James to follow clues in an York City. odd book they find, hoping to *2020 Pura Belpré Honor Book figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from publisher Garrison Griswold, solve Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for the mystery or come after the two Generations to Come friends. Sue Macy, Illustrated by Stacy Innerst True story of Aaron Lansky who jumped into dumpsters, rummaged around musty basements, and crawled through cramped attics to find treasures...any book written in Yiddish.

The Library of Ever (1st in series) Zeno Alexander Lalani of the Distant Sea Lenora is having a very frustrating summer while Erin Entrada Kelly her parents have adventures around the globe-- 12 year old Lalani takes on the until she discovers a strange doorway in her local impossible task of traveling to the library. It leads to the Library--the legendary Mount Isa, ultimate library, filled with all the knowledge of towering on an island to the north. the universe. Lenora becomes its newest apprentice Can a timid young girl in a tiny librarian, taking her around the globe, to outer boat survive? space, and into the future.

Optional Activities: □Visit your local library’s website, and check out a digital book! □From the catalog, can you find: - a book with a blue cover; - a book with an animal on the cover; and - a nonfiction book. □Write your own book! TRAVEL Inquisitor’s Tale: Or, the Three Magical Children and The Crane Girl: Based on Their Holy Dog Japanese Folktales Adam Gidwitz, Adapted by Curtis Manley, Illustrated by Hatem Aly Illustrated by Lin Wang In 1242 on a dark night, A boy helps an injured travelers from across crane, and the good deed is France cross paths at an inn. rewarded with the arrival of Each narrates parts of an a mysterious guest who adventure of three children weaves beautiful silk for the and their dog. family.

All that Trash: The Story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and Our Problem with Stuff Her Right Foot Meghan McCarthy Dave Eggers, Illustrated by The true story of a garbage Shawn Harris barge that did not have a place Takes readers on a detailed to dock--and was one of the journey looking at the events that led to the significance of the recycling movement. Statue of Liberty's right *LYRC 2021 nominated title foot.

One Crazy Summer (1st in series) Rita Williams-Garcia Louisiana’s Way Home In the summer of 1968, eleven- (sequel to Raymie Nightingale) year-old Delphine and her two Kate DiCamillo younger sisters travel from When Louisiana Elefante's granny Brooklyn, New York to Oakland, wakes her up in the middle of the California, to spend a month night to tell her that the day of with the mother they barely reckoning has arrived and they have know. They arrive to a cold to leave home immediately, welcome to discover that their Louisiana is not overly worried. After mother, a dedicated poet and all, Granny has many middle-of-the- printer, resents the intrusion of night ideas. But this time, things are their visit and wants them to different. Louisiana struggles to find attend a nearby Black Panther a way home. summer camp.

Optional Activities: □Think of a place to which you would like to travel. Find and read a book about it. □After your journey, make your own postcard featuring the destination. □On your postcard, draw what you think was most important or your favorite thing about your destination! (Feel free to use the included postcard, and mail it back to the Library!)

NEW ORLEANS

Ruby Head High: Ruby Bridges’ First Day of School Irène Cohen-Janca, Illustrated by Marc Daniau Inspired by the iconic Norman Rockwell painting, tells the true story about the day a little girl held her head high and Evangeline of the Bayou changed the world. Jan Eldredge, Illustrated by Joseph Kuefler Twelve year-old haunt huntress apprentice Evangeline Clement spends her days and nights studying the ways of folk magic, honing her monster-hunting skills while pursuing local bayou banshees and loup garous. But when Evangeline and her Two Bobbies: A True Story of grandmother are called to New Orleans to resolve an unusual case, she uncovers a Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, secret that will shake her to the soles of her and Survival silver-tipped alligator-skin boots. Kirby Larson and Mary Nethery, Illustrated by Jean Cassels Tells the true story of Bobbie the dog and Bob Cat, two pets who bonded together and were able to survive the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

A Topsy-Turvy History of New Orleans and Ten Tiny Turtles: 300 Years and Slowly Counting Tania Lee and Simone Rathle A brief history of New Orleans as told by the turtles who live in the fountain at Brennan’s restaurant.

Optional Activities: □Discover your own city! □Grab an adult, and safely go somewhere in New Orleans where you have never been. □Listen to Louis Armstrong’s “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?,” and draw a picture of what New Orleans means to you! BIOGRAPHY GRAPHIC NOVELS Soldier for Equality: Jose de la Bolivar Luz Saenz and the Great War Sean Rubin Duncan Tonatiuh Sybil knows that there is Tells the story of Mexican- something off about her next American war hero Jose de la door neighbor, but everyone Luz Saenz (Luz) who believed is so busy going about their in fighting for what was right. days in the busy streets of *2020 Pura Belpré Honor Book New York City, no one but Sybil sees that Bolivar is a dinosaur.

Some Writer!: The Story of My Beijing: Four Stories of E.B. White Everyday Wonder Melissa Sweet Nie Jun A mix of White’s personal Yu'er and her grandpa live in a letters, photos, family small neighborhood in ephemera, and Sweet’s Beijing, and it is full of big artwork tell the story of this personalities. There is a story American literary icon. around every corner, and each day has a hint of magic. Midnight Teacher: Lilly Ann *2019 Batchelder Honor Book Granderson and Her Secret School Fish Girl Janet Halfmann, Donna Jo Napoli, Illustrated by London Ladd Illustrated by David Wiesner The story of Lilly Ann Fish Girl, a young mermaid Granderson, an enslaved teacher living in a boardwalk who strongly believed in the aquarium, has never interacted power of education and risked with anyone beyond the walls her life to teach others during of her tank until a chance slavery. encounter with an ordinary girl. Turning Pages: My Life Story Sonia Sotomayor Illustrated by Lulu Delacre Optional Activity: Create your An autobiographical picture own graphic novel combining book of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. pictures and words. For a pre-made layout and ideas to create your comic, go Optional Activities: to https://images.macmillan.com/media/ Write your own biography! firstsecond/teachers-librarians/ Who and what is important in your life? Adventures_in_Cartooning_Activity_Kit.pdf Include pictures, if you like!

WORDLESS PICTURE BOOKS

Stormy: A Story about Little Fox in the Forest Finding a Forever Home Guojing Stephanie Graegin A woman visits a park Two friends follow a young fox deep into the and discovers a pup hiding under a bench-- woods and discover a scruffy, scared, and alone. wondrous and magical With gentle coaxing, the world. woman tries to befriend the animal, but the dog is

scared.

Spot & Dot Henry Cole Look Up! Spot the cat goes out Jung Jin Ho the open window and When a girl in a ventures through the wheelchair calls to city with Dot the dog, people far below to seeking her home. look up and see her, one finds a way to brighten her day.

Optional Activities: Write the text for a wordless book. What do you think the characters would say?

What would the narration be? AWARD-WINNING BOOKS

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Winner!

What Is Given from Other Words Scary Stories for Tristan Strong The Bell Rang Sulwe the Heart Punches a Hole James Ransome Lupita Nyong’o, for Home Young Foxes Patricia C. McKissack, in the Sky Illustrated by Jasmine Warga Christian McKay Illustrated by April Kwame Mbalia Vashti Harrison Heidicker Harrison Schneider Family Book Award Pura Belpré Award

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Just Ask!: Be Different, A Friend for Henry Sal & Gabi Break Dancing Hands Lety Out Loud Across the Bay Be Brave, Be You the Universe Margarita Engle Angela Carlos Aponte Jenn Bailey, Sonia Sotomayor, Illustrated by Mika Carlos Alberto Illustrated by Cervantes Illustrated by Rafael Pablo Rafael Lopez Song Ezra Jack Keats Award Lopez Hernandez Winner!

By: By: By: By: Mariahadessa Matthew Isabel Sydney Ekere Tallie Farina Quintero Smith Belpré Honor!

The Bad Guys Shai and Emmie Nancy Clancy By: Aaron Blabey By: Quvenzhané Wallis with Nancy Ohlin By: Jane O’Connor

Land of Stories Who Was?/What Was?/Where Is? Phoebe and Her Unicorn By: Chris Colfer By: Various Authors By: Dana Simpson

Wings of Fire Kingdom of Wrenly The Unwanteds By: Tui T. Sutherland By: Jordan Quinn By: Lisa McMann

Optional Activities: Choose a book from a series and decide what happens NEXT…. □Where would you set the next book? □Would you add a new character? □What happens in/what is the plot of the next book?