Rochelle’s Summer Reading Challenge ‘14
Open to ALL Marlboro Elementary School students, since they can listen OR read themselves.
Check the back for some of Rochelle’s recommended titles.
List the titles below each item
when you finish them. Some
books will match more than
one category! (Use another sheet
Read at least 6 books to meet the
challenge. The more books you
read, the more (small) rewards
you get!
to list any titles that don’t fit
here.)
❏ Listen to the audio version of a book you have never read before. Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read a book that is easy (for you). Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read an award-winning book (Red Clover, DCF, Caldecott, Newbery, etc.). Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read a science fiction book. Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read a book suggested by an adult you know: a teacher, librarian, parent, aunt, uncle, friend, etc. Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read a book about a character who is different than you. Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read a book about a character that is similar to you. Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read a book that is challenging (for you). Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read an historical fiction book/novel. Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read a book suggested by a friend. Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read a book and then watch the movie. (It’s okay if you’ve already seen the movie, just read the book before you watch it again.) Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read a non-fiction (true) book: biography/memoir, how-to, historical, etc. Title/Author _______________________________________________ ❏ Read a graphic novel, comic book or wordless book. Title/Author _______________________________________________ Name:__________________________ Total # of books I read this summer: ________
Some recommended titles for your summer reading.
PARENTS: Find book and movie reviews on www.commonsensemedia.org
to help you decide if a title is right for your own children.
GRADES K-3
The Year of Billy Miller by
Kevin Henkes
● Third Grade Angels by Jerry
Spinelli
● Fortunately, the Milk by Neil
Gaiman
Non-fiction: ● Anything by Steve Jenkins
Good read-alouds that are also movies: ● The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (watch both the old
and the new movies!)
● Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard Atwater
Wordless/Graphic Novels: Mr. Wuffles by David Wiesner
Owly by Andy Runton (any volume)
Chalk by Bill Thomson
Historical Fiction: ● Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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GRADES 4-6 (all of the K-3, plus…)
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville
Wonder by R.J. Palacio (won DCF this year)
Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E.
Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg
Books made into movies: ● Holes by Louis Sachar
● Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
● Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
● The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by
C.S. Lewis
Wordless/Graphic Novels: ● The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Historical Fiction: ● Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by
Gary Schmidt
● Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Non-fiction (see 7-8 titles below)
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GRADES 7-8 and beyond!
All of the above, plus…
● Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
● Speak (and anything else written by) Laurie Halse Anderson
● The Misfits by James Howe
● Bluefish by Pat Schmatz
● Scrawl by Mark Shulman
● The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
● Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld
● The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch
Books made into movies: ● Divergent by Veronica Roth
● The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
● The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman (excellent audio version AND
movie)
● The Giver by Lois Lowry (coming out in August)
● The Fault in our Stars by John Green (just out now!)
Historical Fiction: ● The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (also a movie)
Non-Fiction: ● Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town by Warren St.
John
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ER Vets: Life in an Animal Emergency Room by Donna M. Jackson
Made You Look: How Advertising Works and Why You Should Know by Shari Graydon
Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing by Paul B. Janeczko