Poetry DELAWARE COUNTY CHRI S TIA N Recommended Burleigh, Robert - Hoops LOWER SCHOOL Brooks, Lou - Twimericks: The Book of Tongue-Twisting Reading 2020 Limericks Gottfried - Good Dog DELAWARE COUNTY Lower Campus (Grades PreK-5) C H R I S T I A N Greenfield, Eloise - When the Horses Ride By— 905 South Waterloo Road LOWER SCHOOL Children in the Times of War Devon, PA 19333 For Students Entering 484-654-2400 Grimes, Nikki - Any title Fourth and Fifth Grade Prelutsky, Jack - Any title Raczka, Bob – Lemonade and other poems squeezed from a single word Salas – Bookspeak! Students and parents, Silverstein, Shel - Everything on It! DCCS recommended reading lists Wardlaw, Lee -Won Ton:A Cat Tale Told in Haiku will guide you as you make appropri- ate book selections. It is just a start- ing point. The librarian at your local public library may recommend other Biography excellent resources as well. The summer is the perfect time to Benge, Janet & Geoff - Amy Carmichael (and others) simply enjoy reading while maintain- Carson, Ben and Murphey, Cecil - Ben Carson ing the skills you developed during Fradin, Dennis and Judith - Who Was Sacagawea? the school year. Try reading several George, Jean Craighead - The Tarantula in My Purse different genres to increase your com- Gormley, Beatrice - C.S. Lewis Christian and Storyteller prehension skills. Howat, Irene - Ten Boys Who Made History and Ten All recommended reading lists Girls Who Used Their Talents (and others) can be accessed through the school O’Grady, Scott with French, Michael - Basher Five- website at: Two: The True Story of F-16 Fighter Pilot Captain Scott O’Grady www.dccs.org/backtoschool Pascal, Janet B. - Who Was Dr. Seuss? Happy Reading! Fiction - Chapter Books Non– Fiction Alexander, Lloyd - Chronicles of Prydain #1 : The Book of Three Leppard, Lois Gladys - Mandie and the Secret Tunnel Levine, Gail Carson - Ella Enchanted Atwater, Richard - Mr. Popper’s Penguins Lewis, C.S. - Chronicles of Narnia Avi - Poppy and The Fighting Ground Barretta, Gene - Now & Ben: The Modern Babbitt, Natalie - Tuck Everlasting Lord, Bette Bao - In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson Inventions of Benjamin Franklin Birdsall, Jeanne - The Penderwicks McCloskey, Robert - Homer Price D'Aulaire, Ingri - D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths Birney - Humphrey stories Milne, A. A. - Winnie the Pooh Black, Chuck - Kingdom’s Dawn Mowat, Farley - Owls in the Family Fleming, Candace - Amelia Lost Bosch, P. - The Name of This Book is Secret Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds - Shiloh Marshall & Manuel - The Light and the Glory for Children Nixon, Joan Lowery - John’s Story (Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans Series) Brink, Carol Ryrie - Caddie Woodlawn Mayer, Lynne - Newton and Me Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden Norton, Mary - The Borrowers McHugh, Erin - National Parks: A Kid’s Guide to America’s O’Dell, Scott - Island of the Blue Dolphins Byars, Betsy - The Not-Just-Anybody Family Parks, Monuments and Landmarks Catling, Patrick Skene - The Chocolate Touch Palacio, R. J. - Wonder Noble, Trinka Hakes - One for All – A Pennsylvania Number Peck, Richard - Secrets at Sea Christopher, Matt - Soccer Halfback and others Book Cleary, Beverly - The Mouse and the Motorcycle and Ramona Pennypacker - Clementine Ringgold, Faith - If a Bus Could Talk: the Story of Rosa Parks Clements, Andrew - Frindle and Lost and Found Raskin, Ellen - The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon St. George, Judith - Teddy Roosevelt Coerr, Eleanor - Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes Richardson, Arleta - In Grandma’s Attic Tang, Greg - Math for All Seasons and The Grapes of Math Conkling, Winifred - Sylvia and Aki Sachar, Louis - Sideways Stories from Wayside School Dahl, Roald - The BFG and Danny the Champion of the World Schmidt, Gary - The Wednesday Wars Watts - You wouldn’t want to be… series DeJong, Meindert - The Wheel on the School Scieszka, Jon - Knights of the Kitchen Table Bishop, Nic - Forest Explorer: A Life-Size Field Guide Selden, G. - Cricket in Times Square DiCamillo, Kate - Because of Winn Dixie , The Tale of Desperaux , and Herzog, Brad - G is for Gold Medal: An Olympic Alphabet The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabaret and Wonderstruck Draper, Sharon - Out of My Mind Lewin, Ted and Betsy - Gorilla Walk Snicket, L. - A Series of Unfortunate Events Enright, Elizabeth - Gone-Away Lake Stahl, Hilda - Elizabeth Gail and the Mystery at Johnson Farm Maynard, Christopher - The History News Estes, Elenor - The Moffats and Ginger Pye Streatfield, Noel - Ballet Shoes Miller, Debbie - The Great Serum Race Fitzgerald, John D. - The Great Brain Tarshis, Lauren - I Survived . Nilsen, Anna - Art Auction Mystery Fleischman, Sid - Jim Ugly Taylor, Theodore - The Cay Weitzman, David - Pharaoh's Boat Funke, Cornelia - Dragon Rider Travers, P.L. - Mary Poppins Gannett, Ruth Stiles - My Father’s Dragon Voit, Cynthia - Young Fredle Gutman, Dan - Babe and Me and Jackie and Me Weeks, Sarah - So B. It and Pie Henry, Marguerite - Misty of Chincoteague White, E.B. - Trumpet of the Swan and Stuart Little Hesse, Karen - Out of the Dust White, John - The Sword Bearer Konigsburg , E.L - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frenkweiler and Wilder - Little House on the Prairie series The View From Saturday .