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Elementary School Summer Reading List ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SUMMER READING LIST STUDENTS ENTERING GRADE 5 A Horse Called Hero by Sam Angus El Deafo by Cece Bell Forced to leave London for a new home in the country after their father refuses The author recounts in graphic novel format her experiences with hearing loss to join the military during World War II, Wolfie and his brother, Dodo, bond at a young age, including using a bulky hearing aid, learning how to lip read, with an orphaned foal that they risk their lives to rescue. Fiction; Lexile 880 and determining her "superpower." Graphic Novel; Lexile: 420 The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate Batsuits and Capes: The Science Behind Batman’s Body Armor by Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, Agnieszka Biskup he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of Look inside to explore the real-world science and enginee ring that has his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever inspired the Dark Knight's batsuit. Nonfiction; Lexile 900L thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he’s seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan Batarangs and Grapnels: The Science Behind Batman’s Utility Belt by thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or the sound of leaves Agnieszka Biskup with color and a well-placed line. Then he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken Look inside to explore the real-world science and engineering tha has inspired from her family, and she makes Ivan see their home – and his own art – the gadgets on the Dark Knight's utility belt. Nonfiction; Lexile: 860 through new eyes. When Ruby arrives, change comes with her, and it’s up to The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Ivan to make it a change for the better. 2016 Nutmeg Nominee; Lexile 570 A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a house on the Yorkshire moors where Joshua Dread by Lee Bacon she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden. Favorites Besides being bullied, Joshua faces one more obstacle in middle school, trying & Classics; Lexile: 970 to hide his identity as the son of supervillains, the Dread Duo. Fiction; Lexile: 700 The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau A Siamese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a together 250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family. Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even Favorites & Classics; Lexile: 1320 to glimpse Unknown Regions. Mystery; Lexile: 680 Extra Credit by Andrew Clements Batplanes and Batcopters: The Engineering Behind Batman’s Wings by As letters flow back and forth – between the prairies of Illinois and the Tammy Enz mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides – sixth-grader Explores the real-world science and engineering connections to the features in Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and Batman's aircraft. Nonfiction; Lexile 880 listen to each other. Favorites & Classics; Lexile 830L Batmobiles and Batcycles: The Engineering Behind Batman’s Vehicles by Powerless by Matthew Cody Tammy Enz Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel Explores the real-world science and engineering connections to the features in learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they Batman's road vehicles. Nonfiction;; Lexile 890 turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them. Fantasy; Lexile: 800 The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on a island in Lake The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African Superior in 1847. Favorites & Classics; Lexile: 970 American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. Favorites & Classics; The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer Lexile: 1000 In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika’s three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine, while three mutant detectives use their special The Illuminated Adventures of Flora and Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo and powers to search for them. Favorites & Classics; Lexile: 660 K.G. Campbell Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic- Sidekicks by Jack D. Ferraiolo reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, Scott Hutchinson, aka Bright Boy, the sidekick of Phantom Justice, begins to demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived. question how long he can remain in the shadow of the superhero after 2016 Nutmeg Nominee; Lexile 520 discovering that his nemesis, supervillain sidekick Monkeywrench, might be one of the most popular kids at his school. Fantasy; Lexile 620 The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out Eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy and plans to be an author, keeps a secret on a journey to find others like her. Features “augmented reality” pages, in notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva observes on her afterschool spy route, but when some of her classmates read Nine’s world. Fiction; Lexile 760 the notebook, they seek revenge. Favorites & Classics; Lexile: 760 Coraline by Neil Gaiman Hero on a Bicycle by Shirley Hughes Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a When their mother reluctantly joins the Italian Resistance against occupying world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must Nazi forces in World War II Florence, young Paolo and his sister, Costanza, challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls devise a way to use their bicycle to assist the movement. Historical Fiction; of three others. Favorites & Classics; Lexile 740L Lexile 880 Maximilian & the Mystery of the Guardian Angel: A Bilingual Lucha Libre One Dog and His Boy by Eva Ibbotson Thriller by Xavier Garza When lonely, ten-year-old Hal learns that his wealthy but neglectful parents A young fan of lucha libre Mexican wrestling makes a connection to his battling only rented Fleck, the dog he always wanted, he and new friend Pippa take hero, the Angel de la Guarda (the Guardian Angel). Humorous; Lexile 820 Fleck and four other dogs from the rental agency on a trek from London to Scotland, where Hal’s grandparents live. 2016 Nutmeg Nominee; Lexile 910L The Adventures of Beanboy by Lisa Harkrader Wheaton, Kansas, seventh-grader Tucker MacBean loves comic books, so when No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman his favorite comic has a contest to create a sidekick, he is hopeful that he can Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending win, thereby fixing his struggling family. Fiction; Lexile 670 rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the The Hero’s Guide to Saving your Kingdom by Christopher Healy play but his life as well. Favorites & Classics; Lexile 610L The four princes erroneously dubbed Prince Charming and rudely marginalized in their respective fairy tales form an unlikely team when a witch Elvis and the Underdogs by Jenny Lee and Kelly Light threatens the whole kingdom. Humorous All his life Benji, now ten, has been sickly and he has long been targeted by the school bully, but after a seizure Benji gets a therapy dog that is not only big Portraits of Hispanic American Heroes by Juan Felipe Herrera enough to protect him, it can also talk. 2016 Nutmeg Nominee Twenty Hispanic American artists, scientists, athletes, activists, and political leaders are profiled in this stunning picture book, complete with inspirational The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis quotes and distinctive expressionist portraits. Nonfiction Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. Favorites & Classics; Eel by Deborah Hopkinson Lexile: 940 Eel has troubles of his own: As an orphan and a “mudlark,” he spends his days in the filthy River Thames, searching for bits of things to sell. He’s being Heroes and She-roes by Patrick J. Lewis hunted by Fisheye Bill Tyler, and a nastier man never walked the streets of Twenty-one poems celebrate and chronicle the actions of real-life persons (and London. And he’s got a secret that costs him four precious shillings a week to one dog) who have performed heroic acts in service of others. Poetry keep safe. But even for Eel, things aren’t so bad until that fateful August day in 1854 – the day the deadly cholera (“blue death”) comes to Broad Street.
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