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Summer Reading List
Entering Grades 3-5
BIOGRAPHY
How Ben Franklin Stole Lightening by Rosalyn Schanzer
My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
Lou Gehrig:the Luckiest Man by David A. Adler
Odd Boy Out by Don Brown
Jump! From the Life of Michael Jordan by Floyd Cooper
Dizzy by Jonah Winter
By My brother's Side by Ronde and Tiki Barber
Glorious Flight by the Provensens
Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq by Mark Alan Stamaty
Abe's Honest Words by Doreen Rappaport
Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Pinkney Davis
Talkin' about Bessie:the Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman by Nikki Grimes
How They Got Over: African Americans and the Call of the Sea
by Eloise Greenfield
Barack Obama: Working to Make a Difference by Marlene Targ Brill.
Heroine of the Titanic: the Real Unsinkable Molly Brown by Elaine Landau
My heroes, My People: African Americans and Native Americans in the West: Portraits by Morgan Monceaux
Coretta Scott King by Ntozake Shange
FOLK TALES/FAIRY TALES/LEGENDS/MYTHS
Iktomi and the Berries :Plains Indian Story /retold and illustrated
by Paul Goble.
Best Loved Folk Tales of the World selected by Joanna Cole
Her Stories :African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales-
told by Virginia Hamilton
That Awful Cinderella, by Alvin Granowsky
Various Cinderella stories
The Boy Who Lived with the Bears: and Other Iroquois stories
told by Joseph Bruchac
Aesop's Fables
The McElderry Book of Greek Myths by Eric Kimmel
D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by Ingri D'Aulaire
Sister Tricksters: Rollicking Tales of Clever Females by Robert San Souci
MYSTERY
Bunnicula:a Rabbit-tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe
Ghost Children by Eve Bunting
The Wolf Girls:an Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer
The Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
The Sisters Grimm Mysteries by Michael Buckley
The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Sammy Keyes Mysteries by Wendelin VanDraanen
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick by Chris Van Allsburg
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Room One by Andrew Clements
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi
GRAPHIC NOVELS
The Race to the South Pole by Jim Pipe
Miyazaki's Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki
Bone (series) by Jeff Smith
Gulliver's Travels by Jun Wang
Baby Mouse (series) by Jennifer Holm
African Mythology: Anansi by Glenn Herdling
My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki
Owly by Andy Runton
Babysitter's Club by Raina Telgemeier
Nightmare on Joe's Street by Zachary Rau
SERIES
Picture Book Biographies by David Adler
Shredder Man by Wendelin VanDraanen
A to Z Mysteries by Ron Roy
Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi
Amber Brown by Paula Danzinger
Rotten School by R.L. Stine
Encyclopedia Brown by Donald Sobol
My Weird School by Dan Gutman
Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka
Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor
Baseball Card Adventures by Dan Gutman
Boxcar Children by Gertrude Warner
Franny K. Stein by Jim Benton
Tales of the Frog Princess by E. D. Baker
"DON'T MISS" FICTION
Homework Machine by Dan Gutman
Joey Pigza by Jack Gantos
Marvin Redpost Alone in His Teacher's House by Louis Sachar
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Stink by Megan MacDonald
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Sahara Special by Esme Codell
Love That Dog by Sharon Creech
Judy Moody by Megan MacDonald
Philip Hall likes me, I Reckon Maybe by Bette Greene
Gollywhopper Games by Jody Feldman
The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in Words and Pictures by Brian Selznick
Brian Buckley's Universe and Everything in it by Sundee T. Frazier
The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread by Kate DiCamillo
Made You Look by Diane Roberts
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Aliens Ate My Homework by Bruce Coville
May Bird Among the Stars by Jodi Lynn Anderson
AUTHORS
Avi
Gary Paulsen
Judy Blume
Jerry Spinelli
Beverly Cleary
Lois Lowry
Roald Dahl
Dan Gutman
HISTORICAL FICTION
Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
The Babe & I by David A. Adler
The King of Mulberry Street by Donna Jo Napoli
House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton
Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm by Carla Stevens
Caleb's Story by Patricia MacLachlan
The Amazing Air Balloon by Jean Van Leeuwen
Crazy Horse's Vision by Joseph Bruchac
Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Adventures of Marco Polo by Russell Freedman
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
The Harmonica by Tony Johnston
Time Spies by Candice Ransome
Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings by Deborah Hopkinson
The Mary Celeste:An Unsolved Mystery from History by Jane Yolen
and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple
NONFICTION
Marley: A dog Like No Other by John Grogin
Living Color by Steve Jenkins
Shark Encounters by Michael Patrick O'Neill
Go, Go America by Dan Yaccarino
It's Disgusting and We Ate It! by James Solheim
Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee
Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming by Lauie David
Scrambled States of America by Laurie Keller
Shelter Dogs: Amazing Stories of Adopted Strays by Peg Kehret
Eats, Shoots and Leaves: Why, commas do make a difference! by Lynne Truss
The American Story: 100 True Tales from American History by Jennifer Armstrong
POETRY
Night on Neighborhood Street by Eloise Greenfield
Science Verse by Jon Scieszka
A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky
Nonsense! by Edward lear
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex
Flicker Flash by Joan Bransfield Graham
Falling Up: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
Meet Danitra Brown by Nikki Grimes
Fold Me a Poem by Kristine O'Connell George
A Bad Case of the Giggles: Kids Favorite Funny Poems selected by Bruce Lansky
