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GRADES 4-5 CLINTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
2009 SUMMER READING LIST
Students in grades four and five are required to read ONE book from either the 2010 Nutmeg Book list or the Books Recommended by Abraham Pierson Students list. By Wednesday, September 9th, each student should bring in the completed Governor’s Summer Reading form and a SELL IT Poster advertising the required book that he/she has read. Both the Governor’s Summer Reading form and the SELL IT poster guidelines are part of this packet. The poster WILL BE GRADED.
The Governor’s Summer Reading form will be noted and the children will be eligible for prizes given as part of our Summer Reading Celebration. Please remember as books are selected that each child’s reading ability varies. A selected book may be one that can be read by the child, with the child or to the child. Students may choose to select summer reading books from our suggested Summer Reading List. These books are of various difficulty, genre and subjects.
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George, Jean Craighead
My Side of the Mountain
Gardner, John
Stone Fox
Hobbs, Will
Wild Man’s Island
Korman, Gordon
ANYTHING..
Orr, Wendy
Nim’s Island
Fiction – Animals
Armstrong, Alan
Whittington
Bauer, Marion Dane
A Bear Named Trouble
Jacques, Brian
Redwall Series
Kehret, Peg
Saving Lilly
Lauber, Patricia
Purrfectly Perfect
Smith-King, Dick
Babe
Wallace, Bill
Goosed
White, E.B.
Charlotte’s Web
Anderson, Karen Halse
Fever 1793
Blos, Joan W.
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal 1830-1832
Collier, Christopher
My Brother Sam is Dead
War Comes to Willie Freeman
Crisp, Marty
White Star: A Dog on the Titanic
Fleischman, Paul
Bull Run
Fritz, Jean
The Cabin Faced West
What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?
Giovanni, Nikki
Rosa
Giff, Patricia
A House of Tailors
Henry, Marguerite
Justin Morgan Had a Horse
Karr, Kathleen
The Great Turkey Walk
Kimmel, Elizabeth
Balto and the Great Race
Kudlinski, Kathleen
Pearl Harbor, 1941
Lester, Julius
Day of Tears
MacLachlan, Patricia
Sarah, Plain and Tall
Park, Linda Sue
Keeping Score
Pearsall, Shelly
Trouble Don’t Last
Polacco, Patricia
Pink and Say
Skolsky, Mindy
Love From Your Friend, Hannah
Taylor, Mildred D.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Woodruff, Elvira
The Ravenmaster’s Secret
Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Little House on the Prairie Series
Bellairs, John
The Ghost in the Mirror
Bruchac, Joseph
Skeleton Man
Cooper, Susan
Greenwitch
The Boggart
Coville, Bruce
Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher
Monsters of Morley Manner
DeFelice, Cynthia
The Ghost of Fossil Glen
The Ghost and Mrs. Hobbs
Ibbotson, Eva
The Great Ghost Rescue
San Souci, Robert
Short and Shivery
More Short and Shivery
Sis, Peter
13th Floor
Spinelli, Jerry
The Library Card
Stanley, Diane
The Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stine, R.L.
Goosebumps Series
Catling, Patrick
Chocolate Touch
Choldenko, Gennifer
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Gorman, Carol
Dork on the Run
Klise, Kate
Trial by (Jury) Journal
McMillan, Kate
Have A Hot Time, Hades!
Manes, Stephen
How to be a Perfect Person in 3 Days
Paulsen, Gary
Molly McGinty Had A Really Good Day
Potter, Ellen
Olivia Kidney
Roberts, Diane
Made You Look
Sachar, Louis
Sideways Stories from Sideways School
Smith, Robert Kimmel
Chocolate Fever
Fiction – Contemporary
Blume, Judy
Fudge-a-Mania
Birdsall, Jeanne
Penderwicks of Gardem Street
Bunting, Eve
Nasty, Stinky Sneakers
Chambers, Veronica
Marisol and Magdalena
Cleary, Beverly
Ribsy Stories
Clements, Andrew
Frindle
The Report Card
The Janitor’s Boy
Codell, Esme Raji
Sahara Special
Creech, Sharon
Granny Torelli Makes Soup
Bloomability
Walk Two Moons
Danziger, Paula
P.S. Longer Letter Later
Snail Mail, No More
Delaney, Michael
Deep Doo Doo
DiCamillo, Kate
Because of Winn Dixie
Dower, Laura
Madison Finn Series
Estes, Eleanor
Pinky-Pye
Ginger Pye
The Moffats
Fleischmann, Sid
Fig Pudding
Fletcher, Ralph
Flying Solo
Giff, Patricia
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Henkes, Kevin
Sun and Spoon
Hiaason, Carl
Hoot
Hobbs, Will
Jackie’s Wild Seattle
Holmes, Barbara
Following Fake Man
Howe, James
The Misfits
Bunnicula
Johnston, Tony
Any Small Goodness
Kehret, Peg
Saving Lilly
Escaping the Giant Wave
Mead, Alice
Junebug
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
Shiloh
Park, Barbara
Mick Harte was Here
The Graduation of Jake Moon
Park, Linda Sue
Project Mulberry
Paterson, Katherine
Great Gilly Hopkins
Peck, Richard
A Long Way from Chicago
Fair Weather
Perkins, Lynn Rae
Criss Cross
Ryan, Pam Munoz
Becoming Naomi Leon
Rylant, Cynthia
Missing May
Spinelli, Jerry
Maniac Magee
Fourth Grade Rats
Van Draanen, Wendelin
Flipped
Shredderman: Secret Identity
Wiles, Deborah
Love, Ruby Lavender
Adler, David
Cam Jansen series
Dixon, Frank
The Hardy Boys Series
Holmes, Barbara Ware
Following Fake Man
Keene, Carolyn
Nancy Drew series
Sharmat, Marjorie
Nate the Great Series
Van Draanen, Wendy
Sammy Keyes, Detective series
Fiction – Sports
Christopher, Matt
Baseball Fever
Sport series
Soccer Cats series
Gutman, Dan
Babe and Me
Jackie and Me
Million Dollar Kick
Holland, Robert
Harry the Hook
Footballs Never Bounce True
Mad Max Murphy
Lupica, Mike
Heat
Summer Ball
Park, Barbara
Skinnybones
Preller, James
6 Innings: A Game in the Life
Abbott, Tony
Secrets of Droon Series
Colfer, Eoin
Artemis Fowl series
Collins, Suzanne
Gregor the Overlander series
Dahl, Roald
James and the Giant Peach
BFG
DiCamillo, Kate
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
The Tale of Despereaux
Downer, Ann
Hatching Magic
Duane, Diane
So You Want to be a Wizard (series)
DuPrau, Jeanne
The City of Ember series
Fardell, John
The Seven Professors of the Far North
Ferris, Jean
Once Upon a Marigold
Funke, Cornelia
The Thief Lord
Dragon Rider
Inkheart
Griffin, Adele
The Witch Twin
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Among the Hidden series
Hale, Shannon
Princess Academy
Kessler, Liz
Emily Windsnap series
L’Engle, Madeline
A Wrinkle in Time
Levine, Gail Carson
Ella Enchanted
Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg
Lewis, C.S.
The Chronicles of Narnia Series
McMullen, K.H.
Dragon Slayers Academy
Paolini, Christopher
Eragon
Riordan, Rick
The Lightning Thief
Rodda, Emily
Deltora Quest series
Rowling, J.K
Harry Potter series
Sterman, Betsy
Backyard Dragon
Amara, Philip
So, You Want to be a Comic Book Artist
Bortz, Pred
Catastrophe! Great Engineering Failures and Success
Campbell, Ann-Jeanette
Amazing Space: A Book of Answers
Fleischman, John
Phineus Gage: A Gruesome but True Story about Brain Science
George, Jean Craighead
Animals Who Have Won Our Hearts
Jackson, Donna M.
ER Vets: Life in an Animal Emergency Room
Kamen, Gloria
Heading Out: The Start of Some Splendid Careers
Kenda, Margaret
Math Wizardry for Kids
Nye, Bill
Bill Nye, The Science Guy
Osborne, Mary Pope
The One-Eyed Giant
Siegal, Mordecai
I Just got a Puppy: What Do I Do?
Ride, Sally
To Space and Back
Ritter, John
The Story of Baseball
Timmesh, Catherine
Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women
Tomecek, Stephen M.
What a Great Idea! : Inventions That Changed the World
Wick, Walter
A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
Wiese, Jim
Spy-Catching Activities for Kids
Adler, David
My Writing Day
Bridges, Ruby
Through My Eyes
Coles, Robert
The Story of Ruby Bridges
Farris, Christine King
My Brother Martin
Fox, Mem
Feathers and Fools
Fritz, Jean
Surprising Myself
Kerley, Barbara
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
Kunhardt, Edith
Honest Abe
Lasky, Kathryn
The Librarian who Measured the Earth
Nelson, Kadir
Salt in His Shoes (Michael Jordan)
We are the Ship
Paulsen, Gary
Dog Song
Pinkney, Andrea Davis
Dear Benjamin Banneker
Polacco, Patricia
Firetalking
Rappaport, Doreen
Martin’s Big Words
Spinelli, Jerry
Knots in My Yo-Yo String
Yolen, Jane
A Letter from Phoenix
Burleigh, Robert
Hoops!
Chaikin, Mariam
Don't Step on the Sky, A Handful of Haikus
Creech, Sharon
Love that Dog
Dickinson, Emily
Poetry for Young People
Eliot, T.S.
Ol' Possums Book of Cats
George, Kristine O.
Swimming Upstream in a Middle School
Glaser, Isabel J.
Dreams of Glory: Poems Starring Girls
Graham, Joan B.
Flicker Flash
Grimes, Nikki
Pocketful of Poems
Lewis, Patrick J.
Please Bury Me in the Library
Doodle Dandies
Prelutsky, Jack
Something BIG has Been Here
New Kid on the Block
Silverstein, Shel
Light in the Attic
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Viorst, Judith
If I Were in Charge of the World
Yolen, Jane
Dinosaur Dances
2010 Nutmeg Nominations
Carlson, Drew
Attack of the Turtle
Gorman, Carol & Findley, Ron
The Stumptown Kid
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Double Identity
Martin, Ann M.
A Dog’s Life: the Autobiography of a Stray
Kehret, Peg
The Ghost’s Grave
Lin, Grace
The Year of the Dog
Lombard, Jenny
Drita, My Homegirl
Lord, Cynthia
Rules
Park, Linda Sue
Archer’s Quest
Ryan, Pam Muñoz
Paint the Wind
· American Girl
· BMX Plus
· Discovery Girls
· Horse & Rider
· Kids Discover
· National Geographic for Kids
· Sports Illustrated for Kids
· Zoo Books
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Avi
Blume, Judy
Christopher, Matt
Cleary, Beverly
Clements, Andrew
Coville, Bruce
Creech, Sharon
Danzinger, Paula
Haddix, Margaret P.
Harlow, Joan H.
Jacques, Brian
Lewis, C.S.
Martin Ann
Osborne, Mary Pope
Paulsen, Gary
Peck, Richard
Sachar, Louis
Spinelli, Jerry
Stine, R.L.
GRADE 4
Mrs. Skidmore’s Class: Swindle by: Gordon Korman
Mr. Olson’s Class: Gregor the Overlander by: Suzanne Collins
Mr. Hansen’s Class: A Cricket in Times Square by: EB White
Mrs. Wilson’s Class: Because of Winn Dixie by: Kate DiCamillo
Mrs. Pepe’s Class: Diary of a Wimpy Kid By: Jeff Kinney
Mrs. Martino’s Class: Golden and Grey by: Louise Arnold
INTEGRATED DAY:
Mrs. Sobalsky’s Class: Flush by: Carl Hiaasen
Mrs. McIntyre’s Class: Escaping the Giant Wave by: Peg Kehret
Ms. Fitzgerald’s Class: Archer’s Quest by: Linda Sue Park
GRADE 5:
Ms. Bondonna’s Class: The 39 Clues: Maze of Bones by: Rick Riordan
Mr. McConville’s Class: Lost on a Mountain in Maine by: Fendler, Don
Mrs. Duphily’s Class: The Lightning Thief By: Rick Riordan
Mrs. Madura’s Class: Joey Pigza Swallowed a Key by: Jack Gantos
Mrs. Yahwak’s Class: The City of Ember by: Jeanne DuPrau
Ms. Davidson’s Class:
Wait Till Helen Comes by: Mary Downing Hahn
Abraham Pierson School Summer Reading Project
Sell It!
Create an Advertise - a- Book Poster
Task: Create a poster that will make other students want to read your book.
1. Read a book from the 2010 Nutmeg Book list or Abraham Pierson Students Recommended list.
2. Create a poster to advertise your book.
a. Try to convince your audience that they MUST read this book.
b. Illustrate/Write 3 or 4 interesting parts/events of the story.
c. Introduce your characters.
d. Include where the story takes place.
e. Be sure the title of the book, the genre and the author are on the poster.
f. Preplan your ideas on a sheet of paper.
g. Make revisions.
h. Draw, create, or paste your information on a poster board or construction paper.
i. The size of your poster should be 12” x 18” or larger.
j. Your name must be on the BACK of the poster.
3. Your poster must be given to your teacher by Wednesday, September 9th.
The Governor's Summer Reading Challenge 2009
