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Summer Reading

 
 
A  total of 450 pages should be read this summer before you enter 5th grade.  Number the Stars is mandatory reading.  The other pages may come from any books on this list or any other of 5th grade and above reading level.  Try to read a variety of genre and not just one type of literature.  Please go to the Reading Log/Parent Signature page, print and complete.  You will be required to turn this form in to Ms. Costa the first week of school.

Lowry, Lois - Number the Stars

Armstrong, William H. – Sounder

Baker, E.D.- The Frog Princess

Byolick, Marcia - Quit It!

Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden

Byars, Betsy - Summer of the Swans

Creech, Sharon - Walk Two Moons, Bloomability

Choldenko, Gennifer - Al Capone Does My Shirts

Dahl, Roald - Matilda or Danny the Champion of the World

Hapka, Catherine - National Treasure Series

Konigsberg, E.L - From the Mixed up Files of
Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Laurie, Victoria - Oracles of Delphi Keep

Levine, Gail - The Wish

Mass, Wendy - Every Soul a Star

Naylor, Phyllis - Shiloh

Sachar, Louis - Holes

Patterson, Kathatherine - The Great Gilly Hopkins

Selznick, Brian - The Invention of Hugo Cabret

 

Soto, Gary - Baseball in April

Spinelli, Jerry - Maniac Magee

Taylor, Theordore - The Cay

Willis, Patricia - Danger Along the Ohio

Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows

L.M. Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

Yee, Lisa-Millicent Min - Girl Genius