Recommended Summer Reading List

(Mrs. Schreiber's favorites are highlighted)

Babymouse, Vol. 1: Queen of the World!           By: Jennifer Holm

An imaginative mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for
an invitation to the most popular girl's slumber party.

BFG        By: Roald Dahl

Sophie and the BFG cook up an ingenious plan to rid the world of
trogglehumping, bogthumping giants forever.

Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain                   By: Verna Aardema 

A cumulative rhyme relating how Ki-pat brought rain to the drought-stricken
Kapiti Plain.

Bunnicula Strikes Again!                   By: James Howe 

When Bunnicula the rabbit starts acting strangely, the Monroe dogs and cat
renew their suspicions that he is a vampire.

Chameleon Wore Chartreuse            By: Bruce Hale 

A young detective searches for a missing pet.

Fergus Crane          By: Paul Stewart

The first book in a new series from the Edge Chronicles creators, Fergus Crane is the first in the Far-Flung Adventures. Fergus has an almost ordinary life until a mysterious flying box appears at his window. The box is followed by a winged mechanical hor

Freaky Facts about Natural Disasters           By: Sarah Fecher

This book, featuring eye-popping photos, wacky cartoon, and an inviting design, dares you to discover wild winds that suck trains into the air, and giant earthquakes that can really shake people up.

Frindle                  By: Andrew Clements

Nick's new invention seems suspiciously like a pen as his fifth-grade teacher points out.

Hank Zipzer: My Dog's a Scaredy Cat            By: Henry Winkler 

On Halloween day, Hank comes to school dressed as a table in an Italian restaurant. A bully thinks his costume is wimpy, so Hank plans a super scary haunted house that scares his fraidy dog!

How to Eat Fried Worms               By: Thomas Rockwell

Ivy and Bean Book 1                      By: Annie Barrows 

Vibrant characters and lots of humor make this a charming--and addictive--introduction to Ivy and Bean, two girls who knew they wouldn't be friends the moment they saw each other.

Let's Talk about Race                   By: Julius Lester 

Award winners Lester and Barbour offer an original, boldly painted, provocative exploration of what we all share in common and the details that make each of us unique.

Love, Ruby Lavender                   By: Deborah Wiles 

The winner of numerous awards and included on 17 state reading lists, "Love, Ruby Lavender" is now reissued in paperback with the original cover art by Marla Frazee.

Malcolm X: A Fire Burning Brightly                  By: Walter Dean Myers

Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane               By: DiCamillo, Kate

Once upon a time there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane who had a good home with a girl named Abilene who cared for him and adored him.  And then one day, he was lost. This book follows him on his extraordinary journey.

My Teacher is an Alien            By: Bruce Coville

Susan Simmons knows that her new teacher is really weird, but she doesn't
realize how weird.

Myths and Monsters: Secrets Revealed          By: Katie Edwards

People Could Fly: American Black Folktales      By: Virginia  Hamilton

Retold African-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural and the desire for freedom.

Please Bury Me in the Library                          By: Patrick Lewis 

A collection of original poems, inspired by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, about books and reading that range from silly to sweet to laugh-out-loud funny.

Rough-Face Girl           By: Rafe Martin 

In an Algonquin village, a girl scarred by fire tries to win the affection of a great spirit.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes        By: Eleanor Coerr 

Hospitalized with leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.

Safe at Home               By: Sharon Robinson 

After the death of his father, Elijah Breeze, a ten-year-old African American boy, moves back to New York City with his mother and attends a summer baseball camp as he tries to make new friends and adapt to urban ways.

Sarah, Plain and Tall               By: Patricia MacLachlan 

The winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal and the 1986 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction for Children tells the story of a Midwestern family whose lives are changed by a mail-order wife/mother from the Northeast.

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing                     By: Judy Blume

Two is a crowd when Peter and his four-year-old brother, Fudge, are in the same room. Grown-ups think Fudge is absolutely adorable, but Peter and his pet turtle, Dribble, know the truth. Fudge is actually a tiny terror in disguise, causing mischief everywhere.

Tippy Lemmey McKissack                     By: Leandra Patricia 

Paul, and Jeannie keep trying to avoid a dog named Tippy Lemmey until they discover that he is not really their enemy.

When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson        By: Pam Munoz  Ryan

An introduction to the life of Marian Anderson, extraordinary singer and the first African American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera, whose life and career encouraged social change.

You Wouldn't Want to Be a Pirate's Prisoner!                   By: John Malam

Set in the Golden Age of piracy, a victim, the captain of a Spanish treasure ship, is subjected to various kinds of torture--starvation, dehydration, flogging, and more.