Books for 3rd - 5th graders
Slacker
By Gordon Korman J F Korm
230 pages Humorous Fiction
Cameron Boxer has the perfect
lifestyle figured out; video gaming
with his friends and preparing for the
biggest gaming competition ever.
When he gets in trouble with his
parents and they give him the
ultimatum of finding an after-school
activity or losing his gaming console,
he knows he has to do something - but joining a real club will
cut into his gaming time! He comes up with a brilliant plan:
make a fake club that sounds like it does wonderful things.
His plan seems perfect, until other people at school find the
website for the club, and they want to join! Will he find a way
to keep his lifestyle and maintain the charade of a fake club,
or will he find out that real life activities might be better than
gaming after all?
Wolf Hollow
By Lauren Wolk
J F Wolk 291 pages
Historical Fiction
Life was peaceful for Annabelle in
her little farm community until Betty
Glengarry, a manipulative bully, moved
to town. Now Annabelle’s walk to
school through “Wolf Hollow” each day
is filled with Betty’s subtle bullying.
Things get worse, and the truth gets to
be harder and harder to detect.
How bad will it all get before Annabelle attempts to right the
wrong happening all around her?
Come to Heads in Books,
the book club for Grades 3-5, meeting
Thursday, July 28, 7-8 PM at Centerville Library.
For this month, read Sisters by Raina Telgemeier.
Pick up a copy at either Children’s Desk,
while supplies last.
Mouse Scouts
By Sarah Dillard J F Dill
110 pages Humorous Fiction
This beginning chapter book tells the
story of two young mice who have just
become Mouse Scouts and can’t wait
to get started! But their new Scout
Leader is mean and scary, and she has
so many rules! When she tells them
that their first project as scouts will be
to build and maintain a garden, they’re
not sure if they will remember all of the
rules involved, but are determined to make their vegetables
grow, and to make themselves the best scouts they can be!
Raymie Nightingale
By Kate DiCamillo J F Dica
263 pages Realistic Fiction
Raymie Clarke is confident that if
she can just win the Little Miss
Central Florida Tire competition,
her dad will see her in the newspaper
and come back home. At her
preparatory baton lessons, Raymie
meets Beverly and Louisiana, two
girls with problems of their own.
Together, the three pals embark on a summer of adventure,
loss, and true friendship.
Pink is for Blobfish:
Discovering the World’s
Perfectly Pink Animals
By Jess Keating J 591.472 Keat
Unpaged Nonfiction
Discover the weird world of
creatures who all have one thing
in common – they’re pink! Not
often in nature do you come across an all-pink animal or
Insect, but this book is full of them. Find out which insect is
virtually indistinguishable from a flower, which rodent is
ruled by a queen and whether or not the blobfish really is a
blob! This is a collection of the delightfully unusual and
perfectly pink!