| SUMMER READING LIST
FOR PINEWOOD
STUDENTS Students will be
responsible for reading 2 books and completing 2 activities
for their
upcoming grade level prior to the first day of school.
Students should
read one book from the lists and one book of their own choice.
 Have
an exciting summer as you escape on adventures
to faraway lands WHILE
READING in your
books!
Third
Grade List | Fourth
Grade List | Fifth
Grade List
Third Grade Reports |
Fourth Grade Reports |
Fifth Grade
Reports
RISING THIRD GRADE SUMMER READING LIST
2007 Reading List
Students should read 1 of the following:
BOOKS BY TITLE
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AUTHOR
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TITLE
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SUBJECTS
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SUMMARY NOTES
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Blume,
Judy
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Superfudge
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Fiction,
Humorous Stories, Brothers, Family Life
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Coville,
Bruce
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My
Teacher is an Alien
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Fiction,
Extraterrestrial Beings, Schools
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Dalgleish,
Alice
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The
Courage of Sarah Noble
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Fiction,
Frontier and Pioneer Life, Indians of North America, Fear
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Micucci,
Charles
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The
Life and Times of the Honeybee
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Nonfiction
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Otto,
Carolyn
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What
Color is Camouflage?
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Nonfiction
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Schwartz,
David
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If
You Made a Million
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Nonfiction
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BOOKS BY SERIES OR AUTHOR
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AUTHOR
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TITLE
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SUBJECTS
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SUMMARY NOTES
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Adler,
David A.
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Nonfiction,
Picture Book Biographies
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A
wonderful introduction to biography.
Adler has written several titles of interest to young
people, including A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson; A
Picture Book of Sacagawea; A Picture Book of Thomas Alva Edison.
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Cameron,
Ann
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Julian
Series
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Fiction,
Series about an African-American boy named Julian
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Popular
series includes titles such as Julian, Secret Agent; Julian,
Dream Doctor; Julian’s Glorious Summer
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Cleary,
Beverly
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Cleary
has written several books that appeal to young people, including
Beezus and Ramona, Muggie Maggie, Ralph S. Mouse, Ramona the
Pest, and Ramona Quimby, Age 8.
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Danziger,
Paula
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Amber
Brown Series
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Chapter
books dealing with real life problems communicated through
interesting characters with humor.
Includes Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit; Amber Brown
Goes Fourth; You Can’t Eat Your Chicken Pox; Amber Brown;
Amber Brown Is Not a Crayon.
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Kudlinski,
Kathleen V
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Popcorn
Plants
Venus
Flytraps
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Nonfiction
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Recommended
for use with Third Grade Science Plant Growth and Development study.
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THIRD
GRADE BOOK REPORTS
Students should choose a different activity for
each book:
1.
Draw 3 pictures that show events from the beginning, middle, and end of
the story. Write a
sentence that describes each picture.
(Fiction)
2.
Make a new book jacket. Write
a summary of the story for inside the flap of your book jacket. (Fiction
or Nonfiction)
3.
Make a shoe box diorama to show an interesting part of the book..
(Fiction or Nonfiction)
4.
Make 3 bookmarks about the book. Show a main character, an important scene, and the main idea
of the book.. (Fiction)
5.
Make a crossword puzzle using important words from the book..
(Nonfiction)
6.
If your book is a biography of a famous person, write about that person.
Tell why he or she is famous, and three or more things you
learned about the person. (Nonfiction)
FOURTH GRADE SUMMER READING LIST
2007 Reading
List
Students should read 1 of the following:
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Fiction Titles |
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AUTHOR |
TITLE |
SUBJECTS |
SUMMARY NOTES |
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Blume, Judy |
Tales of a
Fourth Grade
Nothing |
Humorous Stories,
Brothers, Family Life |
Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an
ever-increasing problem. |
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Byars, Betsy |
The Midnight
Fox |
Foxes, Farm Life |
A young boy saves the life of a fox that has been raiding his
uncle’s farm. |
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Cleary, Beverly |
Henry Huggins |
Dogs, Humorous Stories |
Dust Jacket. When Henry adopts Ribsy, a dog of no particular
breed, humorous adventures follow. |
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Conford, Ellen |
A Job for Jenny Archer |
Wealth, Moneymaking Projects, Humorous Stories |
Convinced that her family is poor because her parents refuse to
get her a horse or a swimming pool, nine-year-old Jenny Archer
follows her own path to making money, including a plunge into real
estate that puts her house on the market. McGraw-Hill © 2001
Suggested Reading – Grade 4. |
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Dahl, Roald |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Humorous Stories, Behavior |
Recommended for use in character education: caring. Each of
five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr.
Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of
the situation in his own way. |
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Gardiner, John Reynolds |
Stone Fox |
Sled Dog Racing |
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather’s
farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters. McGraw-Hill©
2001 Suggested Reading – Grade 4. |
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Hurwitz, Johanna |
Class President |
Schools, Elections, Hispanic Americans |
Julio hides his own leadership ambitions to help another
candidate win the nomination for class president. McGraw-Hill©
2001 Suggested Reading – Grade 4. |
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Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds |
Shiloh |
Dogs, Animal Treatment, West Virginia |
1992 Newbery Medal. Recommended for use in character education:
honesty. When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West
Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog’s
real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season
and to mistreat his dogs. McGraw-Hill© 2001 Suggested Reading –
Grades 3, 4, and 6. |
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Slote, Alfred |
Finding Buck McHenry |
Baseball, African Americans |
Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack
Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro
League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team
by revealing his identity to the world. |
FOURTH
GRADE BOOK REPORTS
Students should choose a different activity for
each book.
1.
Draw 3 pictures that show events from the beginning, middle, and end of
the story. Write a
sentence that describes each picture.
(Fiction)
2.
Make a new book jacket. Write
a summary of the story for inside the flap of your book jacket. (Fiction
or Nonfiction)
3.
Make a shoe box diorama to show an interesting part of the book..
(Fiction or Nonfiction)
4.
Make 3 bookmarks about the book. Show a main character, an important scene, and the main idea
of the book.. (Fiction)
5.
Make a crossword puzzle using important words from the book..
(Nonfiction)
6.
If your book is a biography of a famous person, write about that person.
Tell why he or she is famous, and three or more things you
learned about the person. (Nonfiction)
FIFTH GRADE SUMMER
READING LIST
2007 Reading
List
Students should read 1 of the
following:
Chocolate Touch- by
Catling
Stonewords: A Ghost
Story- by Courad
Nothing's Fair in Fifth
Grade- by DeClements
Jacob's Rescue: A
Holocaust Story- by Drucker
Harriet the Spy- by
Fitzhugh
Whipping Boy- by
Fleischman
My Side of the Mountain-
by George
Number the Stars- by
Lowry
Beetles Lightly Toasted-
by Naylor
The Borrowers- by Norton
Hatchet- by Paulsen
Scared Stiff- by Roberts
The Cricket in Times'
Square- by Selden
Chocolate Fever- by Smith
FIFTH
GRADE BOOK REPORTS
Students should choose a different
activity for each book.
1. Make a poster to
advertise your book.
2. Design a t-shirt for
your character.
3. Make a crossword
puzzle using vocabulary words from the book and write clues.
4. Make a new book
jacket, including an attractive cover design, a summary of the book, and
information about the author.
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Book Selection Guidelines For Summer Reading 2007
Parents should sign the reading form, provided
at the bottom of this page, for the second book read.
Title: _______________________________________________________
Author: _____________________________________________________
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